Karen Coombs, University of Houston
Jason Clark, Montana State University
Karen: Incorporating Web 2.0 into Library Web Sites
- What is Web 2.0
- Services to collaborate & share
- movement toward more dynamic & interactice web
- examples
- social software
- blogs
- del.icio.is
- wikis
- folksonomies
- rss
- APIs
- AJAX
- Radical Decentralization
- Web site updated and created by many different people
- wikis & blogs
- librariy web site allows any staff to update any content
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined
- Combination of different technologies
- wikis
- blogs
- CMS
- Library’s CMS made up of modules for different content types
- content is resuable throughout the site
- any piece of the CMS can be replaced as needed
- Perpetual Beta
- deploy systems early and make constant improvements
- users are part of the development process
- deploy new systems to a small group of staff to test and help us refine
- gather constant input and make continuous improvements
- Remixable Content
- APIs allow content to be incorporated into other systems
- library web site can incorporate content from external sources
- content which is part of the library’s site can be used on multiple pages
- AJAX to add database link to any page, blog, wiki
- User as contributor
- allows users to add and update content
- class wikis
- wiki model for CMS
- instutitional repositories for scholarly content from faculty, students and staff
- library hosts blogs
- user tagging and review content in catalog
- Rich User Experience
- multimedia, interactivity, GUI-style application experience
- video
- sound
- screencasts
- personalization and customization
- space for collaboration and interaction
- chat
- VoIP
- Demo of UofH’s CMS
Jason: Social Tagging and Folksonomies in Practice
- Agenda
- examples
- define
- suggest applications
- pros & cons
- where can you learn more
- Examples
- del.icio.is
- amazon
- flickr
- technorati
- Definitions
- Tagging
- assigning descriptive metadata
- Tag
- The descriptive metadata
- Folksonomies
- taxonomy created by folks
- Library use cases
- find additional access points in library catalogs
- assign friendly terms to indexes and databases
- create communities of practice around library articles
- organize a series of web pahes for a library guide
- give users opportunities to label library web pages
- Library applications
- tags.library.upenn.edu
- WPOPAC
- Social Tagging: Why does it work?
- embracessocal nature of the web
- curency
- scales to large datasets
- offers a broader discovery model
- adaptable
- maps and displays simple relationships between items
- What’s the Hitch?
- lack of precision
- lack of true hierarchy
- vulnerable to “gaming” of the system
- lack of a controlled vocabulary
- users can be wrong
- When to use it?
- establish an architecture of participation
- organize resources for a company intranet
- allow a class to collaborate and buils a reference guide
- build and refine library controlled vocabulary
- anytime there is a browse or search function
- Reference list…
- ZoomCloud
- TagCloud
- tagsonomy.com (blog)
- FreeTag
- unalog
- Final thoughts
- design matters
- scale matters
- a new source of data
