P 143/08: Nye spilleregler

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LITA – det vil si Library Information and Technology Association – følger godt med. I forkant av ALA-møtet i Anaheim, California, har Eric Lease Morgan laget en liste over aktuelle trender.

Disneyland ligger i Anaheim – og Pocahontas hilser velkommen.

Vi kan like gjerne si spilleregler. Nye trender møter motstand. Folk er vant med tradisjonelle måter å jobbe på, og liker ikke at reglene forandrer seg – midt i spillet. Da må de legge om rutinene og lære nye ferdigheter.

Overgangen fra papir til data forandrer spillets regler. Nedenfor har jeg satt opp de gamle og nye reglene ved siden av hverandre

Mobile devices

• Telefoner er telefoner
• Telefoner er bærbare datamaskiner

“Bling” in your website.

• Nettet er for nerder – det er papiret som er viktig
• Nettsteder krever bevisst faglig innsats

Data sets

• Biblioteket jobber med publikasjoner – ikke med data
• Fagbibliotekene må utvikle seg til profesjonelle dataarkiver

Institutional repositories

• Forskere må forpliktes til å lagre sine artikler i institusjonelle arkiver
• Forskere må lokkes til å lagre sine artikler i institusjonelle arkiver

Next generation” library catalogs

• Brukerne må lære seg å bruke våre kataloger
• Bibliotekene må lage kataloger som dekker brukernes behov – i forkant

Web Services-based APIs

• De som vil bruke våre data, må be pent om lov
• Vi gjør våre egne data lett tilgjengelige for alle som har lyst til å bruke dem

Social networking

• Sosiale nettsteder er en tilfeldig bølge
• Sosiale nettsteder er en del av havet

Open Access Publishing

• Vi venter på ledelsen
• Vi tar ledelsen

Alle båter stiger når tidevannet strømmer inn. Hvis de altså er sjøsatt.

Ressurser

• Network level image collections. Lorcan Dempsey.
• Connecting the dots of the wseb revolution. Scott Karp.
• Bling-bling. Wikipedia.
• SIM card as platform. espen Andersen.

Plinius

• Tid for læring

Sitater

«An approach which relied exclusively on professionally produced metadata would not scale as we look at the volume of materials being created across institutions».

Network level image collections. Dempsey.

Nobody has really been able to conceptualize yet just how dramatic the change is in our traditional systems of information, media, publishing, reading, writing, relating ideas, and thinking itself.

Nick Carr has come close with his recent writing, and he’s brave enough to try, but he gets too distracted by his nostalgia for a simpler age.

We don’t “get it” yet — none of us do. We’re starting to connect the dots, slowly but surely, but we’re looking through a glass darkly at the change we’re immersed in.

Connecting the dots of the web revolution. Scott Karp.

It is sobering when not even the smartest guys in the room have any plausible answers. But then, no one has the answers.

Jon Fine, The writing on the wall (and the web)

VEDLEGG

“Bling” in your website. … While librarians are great at organizing information bibliographically, we stink when it comes to organizing things visually. Think graphic design. Break down and hire a graphic designer, and temper their output with usability tests.

Data sets – Increasingly it is not enough for the scholar or researcher to evaluate old texts or do experiments and then write an article accordingly. Instead it is becoming increasingly important to distribute the data and information the scholar or researcher used to come to their conclusions.

Institutional repositories – In order to be compelling, institutional repositories need to solve the problems of depositors, not the librarians. … If they supported version control, collaboration, commenting, tagging, better syndication and possibilities for content reuse — in other words, services against the content — then institutional repositories might prove to be more popular.

Mobile devices – The iPhone represents a trend in mobile computing. … Apple Computer got it right. Other companies will follow suit.

“Next generation” library catalogs – Our integrated library systems don’t solve the problems of our users. … Google make it easy to find. Really easy. We are unable to compete in that arena. … Instead, think about ways to enable the patron to use the content they find. Put the content into context. … Such things are exemplified by action verbs. Tag. Share. Review. Add. Read. Save. Delete. Annotate. Index. Syndicate. Cite. Compare forward and backward in time. Compare and contrast with other documents. Transform into other formats. Distill. Purchase. Sell. Recommend. Rate. Create flip book. Create tag cloud. Find email address of author. Discuss with colleagues.

Open Access Publishing – … open access content combined with content from things like the Open Content Alliance and Project Gutenburg can be freely collected, indexed, searched, and then put into the context of the patron. Create bibliography. Trace citation. Find similar words and phrases between articles and books. Take an active role in making open access publishing more of a reality. Don’t wait for the other guy. You are a part of the solution.

Social networking – Social networking is beyond a trend. It is all but a fact of the Internet. … [The sites] have very little content of their own. Instead, they provide a platform for others to provide content — and then services against that content. … A rising tide floats all boats. Put your boat into the water.

Web Services-based APIs – xISBN and thingISBN. The Open Library API. The DLF ILS-DI Technical Recommendation. SRU and OpenSearch. OAI-PMH and now OAI-ORE. RSS and ATOM. All of these things are computing techniques called Web Services Application Programmer Interfaces (API). … Make a request. Wait. Get a response. Do something with the content — make it useful. Moreover, the returned content is devoid of display characteristics. It is just data. It is your responsibility to turn it into information.

Eric Lease Morgan : aktuelle trender.