social discovery, social access
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Presentation by Stephen Francoeur at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, New York, NY, on October 20, 2008.TRANSCRIPT
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Social Discovery, Social Access
Stephen FrancoeurBaruch College (New York, NY)
NFAIS Humanities Roundtable
New York, NY
20 October 2008
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Image: Von Tatanes
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Web 2.0 is about sharing
Image: furiousgeorge81
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Web 2.0 is about reusing
Image: find eric
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“The growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking—combined with collective intelligence and mass amateurization—is gradually but inexorably changing the practice of scholarship.”
2008 Horizon Report
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The URL is the coin of the realm.
Image: seychelles88
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What Users Do with URLs
• Bookmark
• Cite
• Save
• Link
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So what kind of URLsdo we give our users?
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=33662654&site=ehost-live
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest)
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1341182471&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=8851&RQT=309&VName=PQD
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Library Literature (Wilson)
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e053375cd87049c520439b56e070d4b24c6d890d7046ab8b7952ac6d75f93dfd1&fmt=H Naylor, S., et. al., Why Isn't Our Chat Reference Used More? Finding of Focus Group Discussions with Undergraduate Students. Reference & User Services Quarterly v. 47 no. 4 (Summer 2008) p. 342-54
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649282
JSTOR
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The Last Mile Problem
Image: Ewing Galloway
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Launches link resolver
Article found via WorldCat.org
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Find this at my library.
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Object-Oriented Social Networks
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Users who bookmarked the same article.
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Profile of one user who bookmarked the article in Connotea.
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“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”
Clay Shirky
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ZDNet
Digg
NYTimes
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Dell IdeaStorm
Amazon
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User profile in Bibliocommons catalog
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Widgetmania!
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Search Widgets from the Library
Federated search tool.
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Search Widgets from Vendors
ProQuest search box in my Facebook profile page.
JSTOR search box in my Facebook profile page.
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Recommendations
• Better URLs for web 2.0 uses
• Expose content to the web
• Help searchers make content social
• Embrace widgets
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Image Credits
Slide 2: Tatanes, Von. http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/baruch-colleges-newman-library.html
Slide 5: furiousgeorge81. http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/
Slide 6: find eric. http://flickr.com/photos/phonescoop/1940736498/
Slide 8: seychelles88. http://flickr.com/photos/seychelles88/362428141/
Slide 15: Galloway, Ewing. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?731081F
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Sources
Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. 2008 Horizon Report.Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf>. link
Schmidt, Aaron. “NFAIS: social database mockup.” Walking Paper. 1 March 2008. 16 October 2008. <http://www.walkingpaper.org/569>. link
Shirky, Clay. “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.” Web 2.0 Expo, New York, NY. 18 September 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/detail/4817>. link