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Nurturing the Virtual Community

Michael Ridley Chief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian University of Guelph. Digital Library Collections. Nurturing the Virtual Community . NELINET Annual Collections Services Conference Collections as Services Mount Wachusett Community College March 18, 2008.

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Nurturing the Virtual Community

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  1. Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief LibrarianUniversity of Guelph Digital Library Collections Nurturing the Virtual Community NELINET Annual Collections Services Conference Collections as Services Mount Wachusett Community College March 18, 2008

  2. Understanding Canadians • Why did the chicken cross the road? Canadian

  3. Understanding Canadians • If a Canadian had written Gone With the Wind, what would Rhett Butler have said to Scarlett O’Hara?

  4. Disclaimer… • I’m an academic librarian. I feel your pain. • I’m also a CIO and a university administrator. • So, I come to you from the dark side.

  5. Street Cred

  6. “When simple change becomes transformational change, the desire for continuity becomes a dysfunctional mirage.” The Mirage of Continuity (1999) Hawkins & Battin

  7. “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said afaster horse.” • Henry Ford

  8. Libraries are …. Arbitrators or Gatekeepers

  9. Paul SaffoInstitute for the Future • “The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but to those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.” filtering, searching and sense-making tools

  10. Libraries are …. Sense Makers & Coherence Engines

  11. What Has Happened? • Collections: digital, collective, ubiquitous, shared • Services: collaborative, integrated, networked • Staff: specialized, diverse, team-based, learners • Users: nomadic, cross institutional, global, expanded • Space: shared, diverse, multipurpose, community • Massive interdependence

  12. Collaboration

  13. Collaboration

  14. Information Ecology

  15. Two Major Transformations 1. From database & repository to Environment Towards the Information Ecology 2. From people finding information to Information Finding People

  16. In an age of abundance, current libraries are still designed for scarcity.

  17. The Digital Tsunami • Exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes • Amount of digital information created, captured or replicated in 2006: 161 exabytes • All spoken human language since the beginning of time: 5 exabytes • Email traffic in 2006: 6 exabytes

  18. Flickr Google RSS Kartoo MySpace Twitter API Boing Boing Mashups Facebook Grokker DiggSecond Life Wiki Podcasts Del.icio.us YouTube JumpTV BitTorrent BloglinesuPortal WordPress Miro Netflix Yahoo!Ruby on Rails PHP

  19. Key Issues Interoperability Smart Content Digital Preservation

  20. Small changes Big impacts

  21. What are “Digital Collections?” • not really about format • more conceptual than physical • local and widely distributed • not “selected” or “built” • something grown or allowed to emerge

  22. Interoperability

  23. Encapsulated Content Constrains or limitations imposed by: • technology • laws and/or contracts • financial implications

  24. Smart Content

  25. Information Finding People Information (content) needs new qualities and characteristics • content as transceivers • beyond “deep linking” to “self aware” data • the semantic web ….. on steroids • metadata + web services + info agents

  26. Digital Preservation

  27. Migration with Integrity Digital collections are extraordinarily fragile • significant technology challenge • greater cultural challenge • more than just backups and dark archives • “ecological sustainability”

  28. Corollary #1 & #2 Permanent beta. Ignorance is bliss.

  29. “Fail.Fail Again. Fail Better.” Samuel Beckett

  30. Northern Examples Canadian Research Knowledge Network Scholars Portal

  31. Canadian Research Knowledge Network

  32. Ontario Council of University Libraries

  33. Reality Check • “Culture eats strategy for lunch every day of the week.” • Elson Floyd, PresidentWashington State University

  34. Your Moment of Zen... . . . if it does not change, it will not remain what it is.” “To remain what it is, the library must change . . . DavidPennimanExecutive Director Nylink

  35. A Cautionary Tale... In the final analysis the Titanic was not sunk by an iceberg. The demise of the Titanic was brought about by the rise of commercial air travel. As we invent the future of digital collections, are we thinking about airplanes oricebergs?

  36. Michael RidleyChief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief LibrarianUniversity of Guelph Digital Library Collections Nurturing the Virtual Community NELINET Annual Collections Services Conference Collections as Services Mount Wachusett Community College March 18, 2008

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