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New technologies: Web 2.0 for libraries

New technologies: Web 2.0 for libraries. Karen Johanne Buset NTNU Library, Trondheim, Norway karen.buset@ub.ntnu.no. Objectives. Explore and learn about the new 2.0 technologies and social software Be able to use some of these technologies in daily work Agenda: About Web 2.0-concept

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New technologies: Web 2.0 for libraries

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  1. New technologies: Web 2.0 for libraries Karen Johanne Buset NTNU Library, Trondheim, Norway karen.buset@ub.ntnu.no

  2. Objectives • Explore and learn about the new 2.0 technologies and social software • Be able to use some of these technologies in daily work • Agenda: • About Web 2.0-concept • Workshop (”10 Things about 2.0”)

  3. Web 2.0 • A term that refers to the next generation of the Internet, which is more social and participatory. • With Web 1.0 we used the Internet to read information • With 2.0 we can also use it to • interact with others • create and share content Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us

  4. Web 2.0 criteria • The web as platform • all you need is on the web • Collective intelligence • ”the wisdom of the crowd” • Wikipedia • Beta = the unfinished test version • Not bug-free • Improvement or changes • ”good enough” vs perfect • Technical issues • AJAX, mashup, API

  5. Web 2.0 Web 1.0 Open access, data liberation Proprietary, closed access Yahoo, Google, MSN Social search i.e. Google health Static websites; hierarchies Participative, no hierarchicy Standalone, firewalls Syndication, RSS “push” Information comes to you Blog posts, RSS readers E-mail alerts, listservs Social tagging i.e. del.icio.us Bookmarks, favorite sites

  6. Web 2.0 technologies • Blogging • RSS and Atom • Personal home page • Social Networks • Social bookmarking • Photos - Discover Flickr • Video – YouTube • Instant messaging • Online applications

  7. Blog • A frequent, chronological, and personalized publication of web content • Advantage of blogs • No need to know html coding • No need to find server space • Usually free • Allow interactivity and sharing • Disadvantage of blogs • Too many – hard to select • It takes time to read

  8. Searching blogs • Technorati http://technorati.com/ • Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing. Indexes over 112 million weblogs (2007) • Google blog search http://blogsearch.google.com/ • “Find blogs on your favorite topics”

  9. Blogs in health and medicine • Bloggers in health & medicine • http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Bloggers_in_health_%26_medicine • a selective list of blogs and bloggers (physicians, health libraries, librarians). • Top 100 Health and Medical blogs • Global Ranking of Top English-language Healthcare Blogs • http://www.edrugsearch.com/top100/

  10. RSS • RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is an XML file format for delivering content on the web. • Pushed vs. pulled content from blogs and websites • Subscribe to the RSS feed and wait for that fresh content to come to you! • Instead of you going to check for new info – the info comes to you

  11. Where are the RSS-feeds? • Blogs • RSS feeds let readers know when a blog has been updated • Newspapers and journals • New articles and research are published, and users are alerted via the feed. • Press releases and announcements • News from your organization http://eahil2008.blogspot.com/ • Current awareness • News and article updates from databases and journals • MedWorm http://www.medworm.com/ • ”read the latest medical news and get RSS feeds by category”

  12. Reading RSS • Desktop • Software applications that required downloading and installation on a computer. • Web-based • online aggregators • require users to set up a username and password to access them • Bloglines and Google Reader. • Browser- and email client-based browsers • subscribe to and read RSS feeds right in the browser • Firefox and Internet Explorer 7

  13. Personal home page • By using a personal home page you can collect useful information on your own page. • Examples of content: • Email • news from journals and blogs • news feeds from database searches • Providers • iGoogle, Netvibes

  14. Social networks • ” a social utility that connects you with the people around you” • Popular Online Social Networks: • Facebook • most popular with college and university students • MySpace • most popular online social network in the English-speaking world • LinkedIn • business-oriented social networking site, mainly used for and by professionals.

  15. Social networks in health • Sermo • American Medical Association (AMA) social network. • http://www.sermo.com • Nurse LinkUp • online nursing community for nursing professionals. • http://nurselinkup.com • Tiromed • professional knowledge network exclusively for students of medicine and physicians. • http://www.tiromed.com

  16. Social bookmarking • Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content • Internet users can store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. • Examples: • Del.icio.us • Flickr • LibraryThing

  17. Photos and Videos • Photo sharing on the web • social network for sharing photos • Flickr • use keyword tags • Upload and share videos on the web • YouTube • social network for sharing videos • upload your own video content • embed clips into your own sites

  18. Instant messaging (IM) • Instant messaging provides users the ability to communicate quickly in real time. • One of the advantages of using IM instead of email is that you know if the person you want to talk with is available. • To use IM you must have an account. • Google Talk • MSN

  19. Web 2.0 for libraries • Library 2.0 is a term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services. • Encourage user participation and feedback in the development and maintaining of library services • Use the new technologies • To save time • To share knowledge and experience • To create knowledge • To collaborate with others • To communicate more efficiently • To participate actively

  20. Workshop • Take a closer look at some of the new technologies • Explanation of web 2.0 topics • Exercises to help to understand the tools • “New Technologies - Web 2.0 for Libraries, Kaunas 2008” • http://kaunasweb20.blogspot.com/ • Examples and ppt • http://folk.ntnu.no/karenjoh/Kaunas mai 2008/web_20.ppt

  21. Use Web 2.0! • Use your blog as a diary, write about your discoveries and experiences with web 2.0-tools • Subscribe to RSS from each others blogs, to share knowledge • Use social networks like Facebook to keep in touch • We must be familiar with the new technologies so that we can offer our users a better library

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