Masters of the Bibliographic Universe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe Masters of the Bibliographic Universe? The Promises and Pitfalls of Digital Scholarship in the Age of Googlepedia

Where we’re headed… • Digital scholarship • Bibliographic universe • Googlepedia • Demo of Zotero etc. • The promises and pitfalls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe

For example… • Claim: Bibliographic practices are being transformed through the convergence of specific socio-technical factors, e.g. ‘Googlepedia’ • Reason: Scholarship now takes place in print and digital media, but is increasingly disseminated through the Web. Therefore scholarly citation and hyperlinking are co-evolving practices/technologies… • Evidence: Watch this space…

RDIF Radio Frequency Identification

The Evidence

“It is immediately clear that Wikipedia is very popular with usage ranging between 70 and 84 percentacross all age groups. This is mainly individuals reading content rather than contributing, although the ratio of contribution to lurking across all collaborative authoring tools is 1 to 4. Around 50 percent of Wikipedia use is for study, which represents a huge amount of students and researchers who probably use Wikipedia as there first (and possibly only) source of reference.” David White, ‘Results and analysis of the Web 2.0 services survey undertaken by the SPIRE project’, JISC 2007. http://spire.conted.ox.ac.uk/trac_images/spire/SPIRESurvey.pdf

Figure: Wikipedia referrals to UW Libraries Digital Collections, October 2005 - September 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Willis_Sayre Ann M. Lally and Carolyn E. Dunford. ‘Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections’, D-Lib Magazine, Volume 13, Number 5/6, May/June 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growthhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth

Demo: Bibliography 1.0 Microsoft Word and Endnote

Bib 1.0: the scholars perspective… Desktop publishing OPAC Word- processor WEB z39.50 Database Bibliographic Softwaree.g. Endnote Text file

Demo: Bibliography 2.0 Firefox and Zotero

Bib 2.0: the scholars perspective… Worldcat Libraries Australia GoogleDocs Open Office Google SRW/U RSS OpenURL OpenSearch Wikipedia Blogs/wiki Zotero Endnote Carmun

Cohen, Daniel. 2007. History and Technology - Zotero: Social and Semantic Computing for Historical Scholarship. Perspectives: Newsletter of the American Historical Association. 45, no. 5: 13. Rosenzweig, Roy. 2006. Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. The Journal of American History 93, no. 1: 117.

ContextObjects in Spans (COinS)http://ocoins.info/ Embedded RDF Dublin Core XML MARC Voyager (WebVoyage) InnoPAC SIRSI Aleph Dynix VTLS DRA … Compatible standards and software for Zotero Software Standards

Conclusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe

Promises of Googlepedia • Scholarly information any time and any where: ambient library made good… • Complex knowledge organization: Semantic Web made good… • Complex searches: FRBR made good… • Permanent: digital repositories made good…

Pitfalls of Googlepedia • Accuracy and reliability of Wikipedia an ongoing issue • Googlepedia hyperlinks lack durability and persistence • Information overload: trusted information filtering and recommendation services are needed • Skills and knowledge gaps of students and academic staff

Bibliography 2.0, maybe… • Scholarly communications is becoming dependent upon ‘free’ Bib 2.0 services offered by the big info utilities i.e. Google, Amazon.com, OCLC • Growing gap between local campus-based Bib 1.0 and global Bib 2.0 practices

Masters of the Bibliographic Universe?