Libraries + Web 2.0 =?

1. Libraries + Web 2.0 =? Ken ChadExecutive Director ken.chad@talis.com

2. The debate • Something’s up • Innovation: technology & business models • There is opportunity for us to grasp • But libraries are a small domain • So let’s work together • Shared Innovation

4. “The software industry is in the midst of a quiet but dramatic revolution. The implications of this revolution – increased innovation, new business models, technology discontinuities, and global capability shifts – could be even more profound than previous industry transitions”.

5. “Many innovations, collectively termed Web 2.0, will fully reach the enterprise – as in previous cycles, innovation developed for individual users will translate into substantial enterprise opportunities”.

6. So what has this to do with libraries?

7. People visit libraries

8. Nice buildings!

9. 97% had visited a public library 59% were registered library users Source: Perceptions of Libraries & Information Resources, 2005

10. People use the online catalogue

11. Nice OPACs?

12. 17% had used the online catalogue at least once a month Source: Perceptions of Libraries & Information Resources, 2005

13. “The OPAC sucks”

14. Top Tech Trends June 27th, 2005 • Andrew Pace, Head, Information Technology, NCSU Libraries • The OPAC sucks • Dis-integration of library systems • Roy Tennant, User Services Architect California Digital Library • Mix of technologies: what’s being called "Web 2.0" • Silo systems suck

15. The “Competition”

17. “How do people find stuff?”

18. “..organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful..”

19. Do these “OPACs” suck?

20. Who wrote the tender/RFP for Google or Amazon ?

21. So what went wrong with libraries’ online presence?

22. Relevant Innovative Cool Nimble Participative Small pieces, loosely coupled User centric Responsive

23. So how can we make the user’s online experience of libraries better?

24. www.oreilly.com/go/web2 Relevant Innovative Participative Cool Nimble Web 2.0 ! Small pieces, loosely coupled User centric Responsive

25. Library 2.0 - we can do ittoo/better (?)

26. Library 2.0 • the pervasive library • liberate your data • Let users add and edit data • disaggregate library systems... • ...and bring them together • shared innovation.

27. talk.talis.com/

28. It needs a “Platform”...Why? • A common set of sub systems • Takes away the complexity • Does the “heavy lifting” • Focus development on more value add • Reduces costs.

29. Platform Sharing a Platform

30. Nurture a community • Liberate (and aggregate) data • Develop common standards • Unleash innovation • Reduce costs

31. A platform for “loosely coupled components”

32. Talis Whisper--a proof of concept. Think of it as a “container” for platform “components”

33. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

34. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

35. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

36. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

37. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

38. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

39. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

40. research.talis.com/2005/whisper/

41. Inter Library Loans Maybe like this? ……….a platform on which others can build applications.

42. ………. And can enrich existing applications.

43. Much is possible...and we have started

44. www.redlightgreen.com/

45. www.redlightgreen.com/

46. www.redlightgreen.com/ Live link to the local OPAC via the Talis Directory

47. Putting the library in the portal

48. Resource discovery is now free !

49. “The National Library of Wales has taken the decision to co-operate in this ventureby contributing data to make its holdings available within Talis Source. Weclearly see the benefits of providing our data to a platform on which others canbuild applications."Andrew Green, the Librarian at the National Library of Wales,

50. Free makes business sense