Social Discovery, Social Access

Stephen FrancoeurBaruch College (New York, NY)

NFAIS Humanities Roundtable

New York, NY

20 October 2008

Image: Von Tatanes

Web 2.0 is about sharing

Image: furiousgeorge81

Web 2.0 is about reusing

Image: find eric

“The growing use of Web 2.0 and social networking—combined with collective intelligence and mass amateurization—is gradually but inexorably changing the practice of scholarship.”

2008 Horizon Report

The URL is the coin of the realm.

Image: seychelles88

What Users Do with URLs

• Bookmark

• Email

• Cite

• Save

• Link

So what kind of URLsdo we give our users?

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=33662654&site=ehost-live

ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest)

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1341182471&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=8851&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Library Literature (Wilson)

http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e053375cd87049c520439b56e070d4b24c6d890d7046ab8b7952ac6d75f93dfd1&fmt=H Naylor, S., et. al., Why Isn't Our Chat Reference Used More? Finding of Focus Group Discussions with Undergraduate Students. Reference & User Services Quarterly v. 47 no. 4 (Summer 2008) p. 342-54

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2649282

JSTOR

The Last Mile Problem

Image: Ewing Galloway

Launches link resolver

Article found via WorldCat.org

Find this at my library.

Object-Oriented Social Networks

Users who bookmarked the same article.

Profile of one user who bookmarked the article in Connotea.

“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”

Clay Shirky

ZDNet

Digg

NYTimes

Dell IdeaStorm

Amazon

User profile in Bibliocommons catalog

Widgetmania!

Search Widgets from the Library

Federated search tool.

Search Widgets from Vendors

ProQuest search box in my Facebook profile page.

JSTOR search box in my Facebook profile page.

Recommendations

• Better URLs for web 2.0 uses

• Expose content to the web

• Help searchers make content social

• Embrace widgets

Image Credits

Slide 2: Tatanes, Von. http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/baruch-colleges-newman-library.html

Slide 5: furiousgeorge81. http://flickr.com/photos/furiousgeorge81/177926979/

Slide 6: find eric. http://flickr.com/photos/phonescoop/1940736498/

Slide 8: seychelles88. http://flickr.com/photos/seychelles88/362428141/

Slide 15: Galloway, Ewing. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?731081F

Sources

Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. 2008 Horizon Report.Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf>. link

Schmidt, Aaron. “NFAIS: social database mockup.” Walking Paper. 1 March 2008. 16 October 2008. <http://www.walkingpaper.org/569>. link

Shirky, Clay. “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.” Web 2.0 Expo, New York, NY. 18 September 2008. 16 October 2008 <http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/detail/4817>. link