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Page 1: Emerging Technologies and Wikis for Libraries

Emerging Technologies and Library Wikis

Your Guide to Building a Wiki for Reference Services

Carissa Tomlinson, MLISMarch 28, 2008

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What Does “Emerging Technologies” Really Mean?

• Specific to library and information science, emerging technologies refers to any new technology that can help support user services, instruction, library management, and technical services.

• Currently often used interchangeably with Web 2.0, but is a much broader term.

• Important that we think outside of the Web 2.0 concepts and keep our eyes open for the next things on the horizon.

• Web 3.0 already in “beta”

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Key Emerging Technologies

• As Identified by the Horizon Report– Grassroots videos

• Utilizing video sharing such as YouTube

– Collaboration webs• Such as wikis integrated with other social

technologies

– Mobile broadband• Content aimed at mobile access to Internet

– Data mashups• Hybridization of multiple technologies

– Collective intelligence• Social bookmarking, wikipedia, etc.

– Social operating systems• Systems set up to interpret and predict what

information users will need/ want based on relationships. Yahoo Life! Example (web 2.5 concept)

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Additional Emerging Technologies

• Blogs• Instant Messaging• Social Networking Tools• Wikis• Web-based collaborative software

– Microsoft Office-like Software– Web Conferencing Software– Bibliographic Management Software

• Folksonomy (tags)• RSS technology/Podcasts/Vidcast• Screen Capture Technology

– Camtasia– Captivate– Freeware

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Web 3.0

• Semantic Web - computer can understand meaning behind words in order to predict what users will do with the information or need next– An email with a date in it will

automatically load onto an online calendar

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Trends in Current Emerging Technologies

• Collaboration• Communication• Creativity• Predictability• Accessibility

But…always something new around thecorner which could be better or worse to support the library, so…

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New Emerging Technologies

• We must be constantly evaluating our services– Everything is always in “Beta”

• We must encourage constant and purposeful change

• We must be always be on the look out for new technology that can improve our services

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Wikis for Academic Libraries

• A particularly useful emerging technology is the wiki

• Collaboratively develop a website with other librarians or faculty

• Easy interaction between developers and users

• Hawaiian for quick– Also easy!– Usually no need to know HTML or FTP programs

• Great tool for many different library applications

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Wiki Basics

• Wikis start off as a single blank page• Pages are created and connected by

hyperlinks like webpages• Determine who can edit the wiki easily• Discussion areas generally included

on each page• Depending on wiki- WYSIWYG or wiki

editing (easy, but different than HTML)

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Wiki Uses- Basic Library Information

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Wiki Uses- Staff Training

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Wiki Uses- Staff Training

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Wiki Uses- Collaborative Document Editing

• Instead of emailing documents back and forth creating many duplicates, use a wiki and collaboratively edit one document located in a centralized place

• Could be used externally with student or faculty collaboration or could be used for internal project/ paper collaboration

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Wiki Uses- Staff Intranet

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Wiki Uses- Subject Guides

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Wiki Uses- Liaison Site

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Wikis- Things to Consider

• Wikis can be either hosted on the library or university server or can be hosted by “wiki farms” online.

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Things to Consider- Library Server Wikis

• Pros• Much more control

over content• Can be easier to

manipulate for specific purposes– Design– Access / Security

• No ads

• Cons• Requires server

access• Implementation

requires additional technological expertise

• Does not always use easy WSYWIG editing

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Things to Consider- Web Hosted Wiki

Pros• Requires little

technological knowledge

• WSYWIG (easy to edit by all staff/ students)

• No server access required

• Many do not have ads if wiki is used for educational purposes

Cons• No control of what

happens to the content (wiki farm shuts down, wiki could be gone forever)

• Not always as flexible

• Additional flexibility can cost $$

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Wiki Software

Server Based• Mediawiki• PmWiki• Twiki• MoinMoin• XWiki

Web Based• WetPaint• PBWiki• SeedWiki

Wiki Matrix:

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Let’s Make a Wiki!

• We will be using WetPaint to make a Wiki as a resource for Nursing students and faculty. We will use the BizWiki as a guide for ideas, but the layout will be different.– http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizw

iki/index.php/Main_Page

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Nursing Resources Page

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Consider a WetPaint Wiki

• Web based wiki• Easy to create and update pages• Use your own logo• Use your own domain• Variety of permissions settings- possible to

assign roles to each user/ creator• Ability to back up wiki by exporting content to

html document• Easy to navigate design• Ads will be removed when wikis are used for

educational purposes

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Let’s Make a Wiki!

• I’ll show you how to get the wiki started and then together we’ll collaborate and create the Towson Nursing Resources Wiki.

• http://towsonnursingresources.wetpaint.com/