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Widgets & Bundles &Web Apps – Oh My!
Allan R Barclay, Rebecca J. Holz, Christopher Hooper-Lane, Stephen M. Johnson, Rhonda Sager, Ryan
Schriver, Erika SevetsonEbling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Midwest Chapter MLA/MHSLA 2008 Conference Troy, Michigan October 20, 2008
Current Awareness – Not JustTables of Contents Anymore
Journal literature is nice but slow, limited
Its only what gets published or vetted
What about all the stuff before and after publication?
Its only a small part of what goes on in a field
Its what controls tenure, hence controls faculty
Its largely controlled by content publishers, not content creators
Oh yeah, now there’s audio, video, notebooks, etc
Range of Information Available
“Fixed” Knowledge
Practice Guidelines
Systematic Reviews
Continuing Education
Moves slowly
Formative Knowledge
Clinical or bench research
Case studies
Synthesis of existing info
Moves faster
More scattershot
Knowledge Discussion & Sharing
Editorials
Blog posts
Information Sharing
Moves faster still
Even more scattershot
Can encompass other forms of information
A Brief Historical Digression…
The current publishing and distribution model is a historical aberration from the Industrial Age
The facilitators are often now the bottlenecks
Their business model and your awareness model are largely incompatible (scarcity vs. plenty)
Passive consumption of your own creative works is perverse (and copyright law keeps getting worse)
Performance is the new eminence - reputations need to be retooled regularly & anyone can be a star
Read Glut, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Cathedral and the Bazaar for more
Levels of Engagement with Information
Awareness (“its out there, it exists”)
Acquisition (document delivery, bookmarking, easy retrieval)
Assimilation (reading, watching, listening to the damn thing)
Assessment (was that a valuable use of my time?)
Sharing and synthesis
Librarians can help with some of this, individuals must do the rest for themselves (as always)
Are you an information consumer, producer or both?
Information 2.0 – Shared Knowledge “Canonical” information on level playing field with
everything else
Can be infinitely flexible in distribution, arrangement
Signals intelligence, “big data” metaphors
If this info-singularity gives you heartburn check out the Long Now Foundation for some perspective
Plays on existing strength of social networks (i.e. “one’s colleagues”, “peer pressure”, “keeping up with the Jones’”)
Can also be very iconoclastic
Group and individual tools work together
Have I mentioned lately how tired I am of “2.0”?
Does Current AwarenessNeed to Look Like This?
No, it doesn’t have to bethat bad!
What We Did (and why)
We started with our existing Online Journals list
What We Did (and why)
We divided the feeds by subject/discipline
What We Did (and why)
We created OPML bundles and working links for “top” journals in a
field/discipline
What We Did (and why)
The really sexy part – custom processing of the feeds to add formatting and social tools using
SimplePie
Why OPML Bundles?
Use them wherever you prefer – Google Reader, Bloglines, Thunderbird, etc.
No product or site lock-in here!
But Wait, There’s More!
While we’re at it why not add news feeds?
But Wait, There’s More!
And perhaps some podcasts while we’re here?
What about non-text content?
The UW School of Medicine & Public Health providesaccess to many videos for free
What about non-text content?
You can subscribe to those too!
Where We’re Going Next
Custom bundles, maybe a shopping cart
Smart feeds using Yahoo Pipes
Feeds are fine but gadgets make us giddy
Toolbars are a great community tool
Scripts can add functionality even to other people’s sites
Mobile makes sense for many types of content and communication tools
Creation of group tools, individual tools and hybrids
Avoiding the “Epic 2014 trap”
Gadgets!
We provide a selection of gadgets we’ve createdand other select health gadgets (NLM, CDC, etc)
Gadgets!
Create your own portal, and let your contentmix and mingle with other people’s
Toolbars!
Organize your most popular resources for a specific audienceand pull together disparate things in one tidy package
EBM Toolbar
General Library Toolbar
Levels of Evidence 2.0 Have I mentioned lately how tired I am of “2.0” lately?
Fixed knowledge, formative knowledge & knowledge discussion/sharing have different speeds, bandwidths and usefulness
They all contribute to awareness and tools can let you mix and match them, allowing for constant re-evaluation and assessment
Let’s work on redefining what it means to be “on top of” or “ready for” a field and let individuals decide how much, how little and what’s best for them
Let’s work with vendors and each other to make more, better tools – for individuals and groups
Small nimble tools and über-portals of death can complement each other nicely
Don’t isolate your evidence – give us feeds and APIs!
That’s all - thanks!
[email protected] (me)
http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/rss/ (feeds page)
http://projects.hsl.wisc.edu/rss/ (feeds project)
http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/toolbars-extensions.cfm (toolbars, gadgets, plugins)
http://www.longnow.org/ (Long Now Foundation)
Images courtesy of:
PBS (Clockwork Orange - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/clockworkorange_big.html)