Keeping Up With Technology

Internet Resources

Web 2.0

• Term coined in 2004 by Tim O’Reilly

• Meaningless buzzword?

• Definition: “Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 ).”

Web 2.0 : 7 Principles

1 The Web as Platform2 Harnessing Collective Intelligence3 Data is the next Intel Inside4 End of the Software Release Cycle5 Lightweight Programming Models6 Software Above the Level of a Single Device7 Rich User Experiences

O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.” June 30, 2005. Accessed 11/25/06: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

Web 2.0 Technologies

• RSS• Blogs• Wikis• Personalization • Podcasting / MP3

files• IM • Folksonomies /

Tagging

• Reviews and ratings by users

• Personalized alerts• Social bookmarking• Open Access / Open

Content• Streaming Media • Photos via Flickr

Abram, Stephen. “Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing

for the 2.0 World.”

Librarian 2.0

• Delivers content to laptops, iPods, and other devices

• Considers non-traditional forms of cataloging, such as folksonomies and tagging

• Utilizes new communication tools such as Skype; delivers information via the patrons communication tool of choice (IM, Skype, phone, email, virtual reference)

Librarian 2.0 cont’d

• Understands and uses the OpenURL standard; develops federated searching

• Utilize the social networks to advance the role of the library

• Understands the impact of the user in the world of blogs and wikis

Abram, Stephen. “Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World. December 21, 2005. Accessed 11/25/06: http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000505688.cfm

Library Blogs

• Librarian.net : Putting the rarin’ back in librarian (www.librarian.net)

• The Shifted Librarian: Shifting Libraries at the speed of byte! (www.theshiftedlibrarian.com)

• LISNews (http://lisnews.org)

• Library Stuff (www.librarystuff.net)

Wikis

• LIS Wiki (www.liswiki.org)

• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki (www.libsuccess.org)

• LIS 609 Wiki (www.lis609.wikispaces.org)

Electronic Discussion Lists

• Web4Lib (http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/)

• XML4Lib (http://lists.webjunction.org/xml4lib/)

• Professional Association Discussion Lists

Other Sources

• Library Technology Guide www.librarytechnology.org

• Educause’s 7 Things You Should Know About series. http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495

• Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Website http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup/

Web 3.0

• “Web 3.0 is about making all this technology and content smarter (using the Semantic Web and microformats, etc.) and by adding more smarts to applications so they can do a better job of helping humans (natural language search, semantic search, recommendation agents, etc.)”

~Dan Farber

References• Abram, Stephen. “Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World.

December 21, 2005. Accessed 11/25/06: http://www.imakenews.com/sirsi/e_article000505688.cfm

• Farber, Dan. “Does the Semantic Web = Web 3.0?” http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/6802390

• O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.” June 30, 2005. Accessed 11/25/06: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

• Stone-Logan, Gem. “Keeping Up With Technology.” Colorado Libraries, v.32, no.3, Summer 2006, p. 24-25.