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June 09, 2007
MLibrary2.0 Kickoff, Part 1: Peter Morville via Twitter
Remember, read this post from the bottom up.
PM The values of librarianship are very important, and we need to find a way to ensure those are incorporated into the new environment.
PM People exaggerate the way web20 / library20 obviate the need for the old
PLEASE NOTE: These events will be podcasts at the site http://www.lib.umich.edu/lib20
PM: embedded information dense spaces - walking becomes a new form of query
PM: Trends: push for local information / yellow pages will disappear
Q&A - location, location, location = Google rank and what else?
PM: Libraries as cathedrals of knowledge
PM: Story of the 3 Stone Cutters: 1. making a living; 2. the best stonecutting job in the county; 3. building a cathedral
http://tinyurl.com/2gjzwr
PM: Shaping Things / Everyware
PM: Julian Bleecker - blogjects and pigeons / manifesto for networked objects
http://www.delicious-monste...
PM - delicious library scans barcodes and ISBNs for personal libraries / neighborhoods / etc.
PM http://semapedia.org -- tagging RL objects and spaces
PM: Google Book Search / podzinger -- expanding what we consider the web
PM: flickr successful with clustering tags that often appear together
PM - hybrid solution - clustering driven by human selected taxonomy
PM: Clusty & Automated categorization http://clusty.com
PM: NCSU Libraries using guided navigation for site / flamingo project
PM - http://buzzilions.com - guided navigation / search
PM: Search is one of the most important ways we learn.
PM: Marcia Bates - Berrypicking, 1989
PM: Interfaces - one size does not fit all.
PM: John Battelle "search has become the new interface of commerce."
PM - http://etsy.com taxonomic shopping, vendor driven w/ tags ad feedback loops
PM: Stewart Brand - how buildings learn - pace layering (important concepts evolve slowly, less critical concepts quickly - fashion)
PM: Leaves become food for trees.
PM: David Weinberger - Everything is miscellaneous "The old way creates a tree. The new rakes leaves together."
PM: "This is not your mother's metadata."
PM: Who can help? :) Revenge of the Librarians
PM: http://map.net --- interesting products that are fun but not useful
PM: How do we create bigger needles for our haystacks?
PM: David Brin's Transparent Society -- YAYYYY!!!! David! :) http://www.davidbrin.com/ts...
PM - Google StreetView
PM: http://amal.net/rfid
PM: Bruce Sterling - the internet of things / the internet of objects
PM - Apple iPhone - web in your pocket, full featured
PM: Control granularity of information and location, and who sees it.
PM - Privacy concerns of ubiquitous geo-info for real people
PM: device to scare people about the future - wristwatch to track your child's location.
Sorry - http://neighbor.com
PM: neighbor.com beta - mashup of political affiliations
PM: http://microsoft.com/surface
PM: All sort of alternate interfaces -- it won't just be about PDAs and smartphones and ...
PM: highlighting David Rose - http://AmbientDevices.com
PM: Wealth of information creates poverty of attention. Shift from push to pull. What happens to how we make decisions?
PM: The good old days when librarians had *real* power. (Library thieves in middle ages were cursed forever)
PM: Perfect findability is impossible.
@GardnerCampbell -- Listening to Peter Morville at http://www.lib.umich.edu/lib20
PM: We can talk about findability at the object and system levels. We need to think across channels, in transmedia terms.
PM: Every architect needs to have one foot in the past and one foot in the present. We also need to design for the future.
PM: NCI portal. Findability example. Search broad (ie "cancer") NCI comes up; search narrow (ie "ovarian cancer"), they don't.
PM: Trust is associated with high Google results - findability and credibility are interrelated
PM: Credibility audit.
PM: Ask 3 qs: Can users find our site / find their way around our site / can they find our services in spite of our site
PM: Strive for desirability ... Attractive things work better.
PM: "What does usability really mean?"
PM: I tell my mom I organize web sites so people can find things.
Peter Morville - "I'm one of those librarians who fell in love with the Internet."
"Rather than going to someplace on the web, the library comes to you. That's what it means to me." Eric Frierson
"Library 2.0? Sounds like a buzzword to me."
Library Revolution highlighted http://libraryrevolution.com/
John Seeley Brown - Learning Reconceived for the Networked Age http://tinyurl.com/detxs
MLibrary 2.0 begins -- http://www.lib.umich.edu/lib20/
Posted by pfa at June 9, 2007 11:59 AM