Tag: cil2006

I’ve been reticent about posting my reaction to this late night session. It’s usually lots of fun and you can get a good sense of library technology trends on the bleeding edge. More of the same this year. The theme was library 1.0 versus Library 2.0. It’s all fair game, but I have to agree that some of this 2.0 stuff is pretty familiar. I’ll let you be the judge. Read on for commentary after the brain dump… Michael Stephens Provided a quick look at current 2.0 trends Gamers are entering our workspace Remix Culture – Remixing library data 37% of library have blogs – “Our work is not done.” Dream, plan for your users and have fun. Amanda Etches-Johnson Presented a survey of old library technology plans; a fun juxtapostion because the old stuff reads like the new library 2.0 evangelism “It’s nothing new; it’s an evolution – new…

Lorcan Dempsey Second day of the conference and my first post… It’s been busy, but exhilirating. This was a good session that really worked to bring together the possibilities of web 2.0 for libraries. Lorcan began by emphasizing the need to make bib data work harder; of releasing the value from Library Marc and IsO markup. Lorcan framed the conversation by using the definition of web 2.0 from Tim O’Reilly. Web 2.0 is: flat applications – apis and mashups, rss, web services; lightweight service composition rich interaction – AJAX, smooth applications within browser data is new functionality – collection, exploitation of metadata and bib data participation – social networking, social tagging Lorcan walked through how these web2.o features are appearing in OCLC research applications. Lightweight Service Composition Example audience level grease monkey script – algorithm ranks book according to worldcat holdings (library holdings indicate type of audience – children, adolescent,…