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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ili-2009/
Top Technology Trends for Libraries
& Information Professionals
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath, UK
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Introduction
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About Me
Brian Kelly:
• UK Web Focus: a national advisory post
• Long-standing Web evangelist (since Jan
1993)
• Based at UKOLN, University of Bath, with
remit to advise HE/FE and cultural
heritage sectors
• Blog at http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Speculations
Social Aspect of Resource Discovery
Awareness of the social aspect of resource
discovery
• “You should go to the “Ye Olde Pubbe”
Brian, you’ll love it”
• “Sharing link love” – Josie Fraser on RT
• My evidence
• Techcrunch’s evidence and speculations
Speculations
Only Geeks Use RSS Readers
In the past:
• We knew RSS was a great lightweight format
• We encouraged users to subscribe to blogs via
their RSS reader (Bloglines, Google Reader,
Netvibes, PageFlakes, …)
But:
• They didn’t - they still visit Web sites
• They don’t understand RSS icons, dynamic
bookmark tools, …
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Speculations
But Geeks Love RSS Data
But:
• RSS isn’t dead!
• Geeks love to reuse data using RSS, …
• See Tony Hirst’s blog and numerous examples
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Speculations
Crowd-sourcing
Capcha screens, MP’s receipts, galaxies, …
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In Perspective
?
The Web Is In Reverse!
Today:
• Importance of centralised services:
 “There’ll be 6 mainframes: Google, Yahoo, Amazon, …”
 “Let’s use Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, …”
• A simple world: importance of RSS, “lightweight
software development”, …
• Our friends tell us about stuff we’ll find interesting
• ‘Crowd-sourcing exploits cheap labour and idle
time (growth in unemployment)
• 80-90% of Web visits to University Web sites
from MS Windows PC
• Worrying times politically and economically
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In Perspective
?
The Web Is In Reverse!
In the future (~1993-2000) Web will be:
• Distributed and devolved
• We’ll set up our own services using sophisticated
CMSs (jargon alert!)
• Based on exciting new standards (SMIL, SVG,
RDF, …)
• Promise of Dublin Core &‘metadata’
• Computers will remove the need for human effort
– ‘crowd-sourcing’ term will disappear
• The ‘Open Source’ movement appears promising
to replace proprietary applications in 5 years!
• People will be optimistic about the political and
economic outlook
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50% of our Predictions are wrong!
LibTech 1999
But nobody knows which
50% will be wrong!
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Questions
Questions are welcome
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