Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist, Talis
3:15-4:00pm
3:15-4:00pm
- Topics
- libraries – trusted but bypassed online
- reaching out from the library
- a library 2.0 platform
- shared innovation
- The reality gap
- how do people find stuff?
- How else do people find stuff?
- Google toolbar
- Google desktop
- Google embedded in Web sites
- Some library background
- Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (OCLC)
- Understanding the Audience (UK)
- Basic Library Statistics (CLIFA)
- Active borrowers going down since 1999
- but people visit libraries
- 96% of people asked had been to a library in some point in their life
- Visits to libraries are up
- Visits per borrower are up
- people gon online in libraries
- 21% local library for Net access, 80% at home (UK)
- but 46% know they can go to the library for Net access
- 5% perfer the library, 3% on a mobile device
- 19% would use library if they decided to go online
- “Build it an they will come” myth
- Do people trust libraries? (UK)
- 89% trust libraries
- 84% BBC
- So, what went wrong online?
- 27% said visited public library Web site
- Long list of databases, pick one…
- The “competition”
- Web 2.0 logo graphic
- Innovative
- relevant
- cool
- nimble
- participatice
- user centric
- responsive
- The Web 2.0 Companies
- Library 2.0 – Talis white paper in conference package
- Library 2.0
- open the library
- push the library everywhere
- engage with actual and potential user communities
- disaggregate library systems…
- …and bring them together
- shared innovation
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“The library system should be like Lego”
- Talking With Talis podcast
- Library 2.0 Gang
- Doing it on their own…
- WPopac
- Greasemonkey – Amazon.com checking your local library (University of Huttersfield)
- Jacket images
- Card Catalog
- Doing it together…
- share a platform
- nurture a community
- Introducing the Platform
- Why a platform
- most effecient use of development copabilities
- lowers barrier to entry
- offers evolutionary path
- crosses vendor divides
- exposes libraries to wider world, significantly increasing visibility
- Characteristics of the platform
- consistent exposure of data
- consistent access to data
- consistent exposure of function
- consistent access to functionality
- shared components, shared esperiences
- shared innovation
- open
- collaborative
- standards and specs
- functionality and data
- hides complexty
- reduced cost and risk
- Image of Talis platform (whitepapers available)
- Leveraging the Platform
- Amazon example showing box that shows multiple libraries that have the book, linking through to the correct catalog
- A platform of loosely coupled components
- Talis Base (example)
- Web services
- Book jackets from Amazon
- Amazon prices
- library holdings
- links to library catalogs
- A Public view?
- Whisper (proof of concept)
- research.talis.com/2005/whisper/
- library info, Google, Amazon
- Much is possible…
- UCD Connect
- Libraries on a map a la Google maps
- My Amazon widget
- Talis Whisper widget for library holdings
- Stepping back…
- Fuzzing out congress on Google Maps
- National libraries in the world (Talis Whisper)
- Working together
- Talis: Shared Innovation
- Creative Commons licence
- DIscussion threads
- Documentation
- Contribute code
- Share ideas, experiences, code
- make it your own
- share innovation
- Conclustions
- the librray deservice to reach beyond its walls
- vendor- and library-initated silos just don’t make sense
- current business models? (“because that’s the way it’s always been done”)
- challenge all assumptions
- share innovation
