Libraries on the move: shifting barriers, going places, sharing spaces

Content• What is social software?• Emerging technologies (Horizon report) & the

role of libraries:• Grassroots video• Collaboration webs• Mobile broadband• Data mashups• Collective intelligence• Social operating systems• Horizon report 5 year meta trend: Games as

pedagogical platforms

• Conclusion

What is social software?

Social software encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data. (This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with social sites like MySpace and Facebook, media sites like Flickr and YouTube, and commercial sites like Amazon.com and eBay.) Many of these applications share characteristics like open APIs, service oriented design, and the ability to upload data and media. The terms Web 2.0 and (for large-business applications) Enterprise 2.0 are also used to describe this style of software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software

The HORIZON REPORT 2008

Emergent technologies and their relevance to teaching,

learning and creative expression

http://www.slideshare.net/bochamberlain/the-horizon-report-2008-presentation/

The 6 Emergent Technologies

•Grassroots Video•Collaboration Webs•Mobile Broadband•Data Mashups•Collective Intelligence•Social Operating Systems

Emergent Technology

The main sections of the report describe six emergent technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.

Grassroots video

• Tools for assembling and editing clips are free or extremely low cost e.g. FixMyMovie (www.fixmymovie.com) enhances the quality of digital video & optimizes it for online distribution

• There are dozens of web communities that offer easy-to-access outlets for distribution and richly featured search and tagging functions

Video Contest Submission Allen County Public Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxp3E3YUdQ

YouTube channel for UP Libraryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy0f-qHSHM4

Video clips on the Library’s FBhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretoria-South-Africa/UP-Library-Services/34563526704

Collaboration webs

• To manage the creation and workflow of rich media projects (see www.splashup.com for photos and www.jumpcut.com for videos, to name just two examples); capture a sketch with audio narration (www.sketchcast.com); or publish presentations and slideshows (www.slideshare.net; www.slide.com ).

• Online collaborative workspaces: do-it-yourself social networks like Ning (www.ning.com); sharable personalized start pages that are “pagecast”—shared, in other words—from services like Netvibes (www.netvibes.com) or Pageflakes (www.pageflakes.com ); and social networks like Facebook (www.facebook.com).

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

Facebook: Information specialists available in the student environment

Business Facebook for UP Libraryhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretoria-South-Africa/UP-Library-Services/34563526704

I think this is the best library I've been in so far... I really don't mind the fact that some of the computers don't have editing capabilities on some levels because I the end of the day, most students are registered for at least 2 other computer labs plus the library... Anyway, I like the fact that they have the reserved collection. Some of us don't have the budget for expensive textbooks... I just enjoy the humanities level because they have a collection of French books that I always wanted to read when I was a kid back in DRC…

Embedded slideshare on Special Collections

Mobile broadband

• There are more than a billion new mobile / cell phones produced every year - one for every six people on the planet

• Mobiles are increasingly about networking on the go. Better displays and new interfaces make it easier to interact with an ever expanding variety of content

• Mobiles now keep us in touch in almost all the ways that laptops used to; with email, web browsing, photos and videos, documents and shopping- all available without the need for a hotspot or a power outlet.

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

Download our blog on your phone http://merensky1.mofuse.mobi/

Data mashups

• Mashup - a web application that combines data from more than one source via a single unified tool. i.e.- data visualization.

• Tools like Google’s Mashup Editor http://

code.google.com/gme/ and Yahoo Pipes http://

pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ both make it relatively easy to create applications that grab online data organize it and display it the way the author wants.

Integrating MeeboMe (a chat function) with the University of Calgary catalogue

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

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Collective intelligence

• The knowledge imbedded within societies or large groups.

• Explicit: knowledge gathered and recorded by large groups.

• Implicit: intelligence that is distilled from data generated by the activities of people over time.

• Examples: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com), Cellphedia and other self-correcting, social encyclopedias provide opportunities for research and self-study, giving students the chance to practice the construction of knowledge, as well as consuming it.

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

Social operating systems• The main idea is to place people and

relationships at the center of informational space• Paradigm shift from the web as an application

and file sharing platform to the view that the real value of the network lies in the way it helps us create, identify and sustain relationships

• Analysis of data mined from all available data i.e.- cc fields of email, attendee lists from conferences, tagged Flickr photos, comments in blogs, co-authored presentations and papers and so on…

• Collaborative research

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7503

Yahoo Life! concept

… a service the integrates email, structured data, social context, tags and a variety of other applications.

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

Consolidated SAMI VRE components

Project management

Project management system

Proposal writing

Document management system

Generic software e.g. MS / Open Office

Real time communication

Skype, smart board, video conferences

Training / mentoring etcE-learning

system for researchers

Identification of funding sources

Identification of research area

Literature review & indexing

Identification of collaborators

Internal shared database of indexed articles

Dissemination & artifacts

Web/wiki/blog: search engines, databases; researchers & topics; funders, portals, communication, projects

Repositories: research results; experiments; literature & documents

Red: noneOrange: someYellow: all

Scientific workflow

(Collaborative) Electronic Lab book

Sophisticated instruments that generate digital information and data

Servers with data files

(Free) Data analysis software

Integrated data management system

Access to research networks & super computers; access to labs with in silico screening +

Mathematical modelling tools; numerical algorithm tools; simulation software; in silico experiments

VRE demonstrator

Access and authentication

Alerts and RSS feeds – may help with info overload

Library resourcesInternet resources

Horizon report 5 year meta trend: Games as pedagogical platforms

Games developed for information literacy: general & catalogue

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp

http://web.up.ac.za/index.asp