Transcript Norske lysark 2001

New technologies:
Web 2.0 for libraries
Karen Johanne Buset
NTNU Library, Trondheim, Norway
[email protected]
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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”)
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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
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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
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Web 2.0
Web 1.0
Proprietary, closed access
Open access, data liberation
Yahoo, Google, MSN
Social search i.e. Google
health
Static websites; hierarchies
Participative, no hierarchicy
Standalone, firewalls
Syndication, RSS “push”
Information comes to you
E-mail alerts, listservs
Blog posts, RSS readers
Bookmarks, favorite sites
Social tagging
i.e. del.icio.us
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Web 2.0 technologies
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Blogging
RSS and Atom
Personal home page
Social Networks
Social bookmarking
Photos - Discover Flickr
Video – YouTube
Instant messaging
Online applications
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Blog
• A frequent, chronological, and personalized publication of
web content
• Advantage of blogs
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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
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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”
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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/
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Photos and Videos
• Photo sharing on the web
– social network for sharing photos
– Flickr
– use keyword tags
• Upload and share videos on the web
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YouTube
social network for sharing videos
upload your own video content
embed clips into your own sites
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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
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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
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To save time
To share knowledge and experience
To create knowledge
To collaborate with others
To communicate more efficiently
To participate actively
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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
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Use Web 2.0!
1. Use your blog as a diary, write about your
discoveries and experiences with web 2.0-tools
2. Subscribe to RSS from each others blogs, to share
knowledge
3. Use social networks like Facebook to keep in touch
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We must be familiar with the new technologies so
that we can offer our users a better library
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