Library 2.0 Workshop

1. Library 2.0 Workshop Elaine Chen Rod Library May 14, 2009

2. More Web 2.0 tools • Wikis • Tagging • Social Bookmarking • Digg • Twitter • Technorati • Aggregators • Mashups

3. Wikis • A wiki is a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. • Wikis in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=fvst http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

4. Examples of Wiki uses for libraries • Library website-http://library.usca.edu/Main/HomePage • Conference site-http://meredith.wolfwater.com/ala2006/index.php?title=Main_Page • Staff page (intranet)-https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/ • Subject guides-http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page • Research help-http://blogsandwikis.bentley.edu/library/researchhelp/index.php/Main_Page • Digital Outreach-University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections Project • Collaborative tool-http://libraryoutreach.pbworks.com/ • Project management-http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/b-team/ • Staff training & support-http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/antioch_university_new_england_library_staff_training_and_support_wiki/ • Library experience-http://libfye.wetpaint.com/?t=anon • Learn more-http://libraryvoice.com/presentations/ http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

5. Tagging • A tag is keyword used to describe a bookmark. • You can assign as many tags to an item as you like and rename or delete the tags later. • You can then find your bookmarks by clicking on the tag. • Tagging in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42sSTPU5M-Y (http://www.lib.umich.edu/mtagger/items/view/373)

6. Examples of Tagging uses • University of Iowa Libraries http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/ (click on Smart Search > Tags) • (click on tags) • Iowa State University Library http://www.lib.iastate.edu/ (click on tags) • University of Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/mtagger/tags • University of Mexico Library http://tags.library.upenn.edu/

7. Social Bookmarking • Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. • Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content" • Social Bookmarking in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU&feature=channel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

8. Examples of Social Bookmarking • University of Iowa Libraries • Indiana University Libraries http://www.libraries.iub.edu/ • Penn State University Libraries http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul.html Button created from: http://www.addthis.com/

9. Digg [Social Bookmarking] • Digg is a place to discover and share content from around the Web, from the smallest blog to major news outlets. • Everything is submitted and voted on by people like you. • Get latest content about a subject- http://es.truveo.com/How-To-Use-Digg-To-Get-the-Latest-Content-About-a/id/3291103210 http://digg.com/

10. Twitter [Social Bookmarking] • Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? • Twitter in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o http://twitter.com/

11. Examples of Twitter uses • UIUC Undergraduate Library- http://twitter.com/askundergrad • UW Madison Library http://twitter.com/UWMadisonNews • Cleveland Public Library- http://twitter.com/Cleveland_PL • Young Adult Library Services Association http://twitter.com/yalsa http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/a-guide-to-twitter-in-libraries/

12. Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Goolge and Yahoo. • As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. • The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals. • Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry. • Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. • http://technorati.com/ (search Rod Library) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati

13. Aggregators • In computing, a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is a client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated Web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing. • Google Reader in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y&feature=related • Show Netvibe

14. Types of Aggregators • Client software • AOL Explorer http://www.aol.com/ • Blogbridge http://www.blogbridge.com/ • Cooliris http://www.cooliris.com/ • Feedreader http://www.feedreader.com/ • IBM Lotus Notes http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/ • iCab http://www.icab.de/ • Kmeleon http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ • Media aggregators • Canola http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/ • Flock http://www.flock.com/ • iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/ • Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ • Knotact http://kontact.org/ • Miro http://getmiro.com/ • Web-based services • Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com/ • Web-based software • Drupal aggreator module http://drupal.org/ • Worldpress http://wordpress.org/ • Planet http://www.planetplanet.org/ • Tiny Tiny RSS http://tt-rss.org/trac/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feed_aggregators

15. Mashups • In Web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data from one or more sources into a single integrated tool. • The term Mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open Application programming interface (API) and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. • An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct Web service that was not originally provided by either source. • What are Mashups? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9sENSA_sjI&feature=PlayList&p=684093C1BFEB930F&index=0 • Library Mashups- http://www.slideshare.net/nengard/library-mashups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

16. Mashup examples • LibraryThing API • http://www.programmableweb.com/api/librarything • Library Mahups- Exploring new ways to deliver library data • http://pipes.yahoo.com/liblime/news • http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=NlG6cYgE3BG6qtZJmLokhQ • http://pipes.yahoo.com/seeminglee/metasearchalerts • http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=1d7b02f7ad9694679a14b2791ebdaa9f • Learn more: http://mashups.web2learning.net/toc • Read more: http://www.slideshare.net/sibam/library-mashups-web-20-tool-for-integrating-contents-and-services-of-libraries http://mashups.web2learning.net/toc/chapter-7

17. Mashups Demo • Rod Library Display • http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=SCoZ9B5A3hGWC8PirLQIDg • Embed pipes in a webpage or a blog http://www.library.uni.edu/news/exhibits.html

18. Quiz • What is Digg? • What is Pipes? • What is Twitter? • What is Technorati? Congratulations!