Library Web Chic

Library 2.0

• open the library
• push the library everywhere
• engage with actual potential user communities
• disaggregate library systems… and bring them together
• shared innovation

Want to know more about Library 2.0? 

• Library 2.0 Wiki
• Google Library 2.0

Talis is trying to nurture the discussion. Mashing up the Library Competition
John Blyberg - Go-Go-Google-Gadget (Library Catalog information into Google personal homepage)

Second Life Library 2.0 - Library services in an online "world"

Gathering examples of Library Innovations - http://www.talis.com/tdn/innovationdir

Library 2.0 podcasts - http://talk.talis.com

What Makes Library 2.0 possible?

• Falling cost of storage
• Falling cost of computer power
• Growing connectivity
• Commoditization of the above
• The three "O"s

• open source
• open data
• open APIs

• WPOPAC - Plymouth State
• Ann Arbor District Library "Card Catalog"

Do Library vendors have an architecture of participation?

A Platform for Participation

• Open Source

• Evergreen ILS
• Talis work with Keystone

• Current module fundamentally flawed

• pay to contribute
• limited data mobility
• lipstick on a silo

• shared data whould be mobile and accesible, whilst adequately protected

• Silkworm Directory (directory.talis.com)
• Bigfoot Data Stores - api.talis.com/bf/stores/ukbib/items
• LibraryThing - www.talis.com/tdn/greasemonkey/librarythingthing
• Talis Whisper

Talis has formed a partnership with Aquabrower

Project Cenote - End user interface (desktop application?)

Any library can contribute its holdings

Conclusions

• Liberate the data (and some more systems)
• Get the data to the user, not the user to the data
• Open, Open, Open
• Shared Innovation