Library 2.1: It’s All About the Future

Cliff Landis

GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference

August 3, 2007

Where’s all this “2.0” stuff going?

Just a little theory…

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1.0 2.0

3.0 4.0

1.0

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• Connects Information– Web sites– Databases– FTP– Search Engines

2.0• Connects People

– Email– Social

networking sites– Gaming– IM– RSS– Wikis

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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

3.0• Connects

Information• Reannotation

of the Web• Top-Down

– Agents

• Bottom-Up– Subjects– Tagging

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Order + Chaos =

• A place for everything, and everything in its place

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Moving Beyond Text

• Looks Like:– Etsy

– Like

– Riya

• Sounds Like:– Pandora

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4.0• Connects

Knowledge

• Group/Enterprise minds (tribes)

• Information + people = knowledge

• Automated Serendipity

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Thinking ahead

• Identity

• Privacy

• Information quality

• Interoperability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jess2712/348750790/

The Future of Resource Sharinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gracewong/312922826/

Each user is a unique snowflake

(in a crowd of billions)

• Privacy options

• Connections with other users

• Less clicks

• Better access

• Invisible resource sharing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kymai100/50747791/

Keeping Your Perspectivehttp://flickr.com/photos/ms_cwang/178594018/

Where I learned about this stuff…

• Ambient Findability – Peter Morville

• Do We Need Library 3.0? – Barbara Fister

• EPIC 2014 - Robin Sloan

• Web 3.0 – Cade Metz

• Web4 – Seth Godin

• What is Web 2.0? – Tim O’Reilly

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