Library Web Chic

code4lib Day 3 - Jon Udell’s Keynote

Mar 3rd, 2008 by Karen

Guild Navigators for infospace - Jon Udell

Understand connection in information space and bring things together

LibraryLookup - about making connections between Amazon and books in libraries

xISBN - Books with multiple ISBNs finding all equivalents

Equivalence services

Importance of letting people describe things in their own vocabularies and having the tools to mashup and combine those vocabularies

Tools build off of LibraryLookup

From Amazon Wishlist to RSS feed
- has anything in my wishlist showed up at my local library
Bookmarklet generator
- conversations with librarians about how to get LibraryLookup to work with different ILSs

Library systems not allowing libraries and patrons to do what they want

Non-techie librarians understand this issue but in a different way from technical librarians
Patrons also understand this too!
That is fruit for collaboration

Finding and consuming things is something librarians are good at

What is the libraries role in a world where users are producers? How can libraries help people curate the stuff that users create and publish?

Curation, providence and authority needs to be brought together with information being published on the web.

What would it be like if librarians federated their knowledge?

Flood of data being published to the net

example - Fluxnet
data itself needs to becoming a publishable artifact
- role of librarians and libraries in helping people publish and curating data
There doesn’t have to be a single repository
Loosely coupled architectures are better
- but people need to be educated on how this works and how they can use this
Local government data - is anyone paying attention to curating this data?
- EveryBlock - get city data out to the people. Questions of provenence and curation