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Ken ChadDirectorKen Chad Consulting [email protected]: +44 (0)7788 727 845www.kenchadconsulting.com
The Impact of 2.0Internet Librarian International 8th October 2007
Session A102
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‘Enabled by technological change, we are beginning to see a series of economic, social and cultural adaptations that make possible a radical transformation of how we make the
information environment….’
Impact on the economy and
culture:The wider context
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One of the aspects of this new economy is the rise of a new ‘mode of production’ --
‘social production’.
Enabled by cheap computing and fast pervasive networks people are giving their
time individually or in collaboration with others to produce goods for free.
The Networked Information Economy
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Removing the barriers to production
‘The technology is unleashing a capacity for speaking that before was suppressed by
economic constraint. Now people can speak in lots of ways they never before could have,
because the economic opportunity was denied to them’
Mother Jones Magazine (website)
Interview with Lawrence Lessig: Stanford Law School Professor, Creative Commons Chair
June 29, 2007
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2007/07/lawrence_lessig.html
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The rise of the ‘Pro-Am’
Charles LeadbeaterThink tank Demos
Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products
and paradigms that companies can't.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/63
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The rise of the ‘Pro-Am’
Creativity is not about ‘special people’
Most creativity is collaborative
Create a platform for people to share
Big new ideas don’t generally come from big organisations. Their culture has an inbuilt tendency to
try to re-inforce past success
Intelligent closed organisations will move toward being open
Complete corruption of the ideas of patent and copyright
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/63
But not everyone agrees it’s all good news……
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2.0 is killing our culture?
The Cult of the Amateur. How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. By Andrew Keen
‘We’re diving headlong into an age of mass mediocrity in which the mob replaces experts
and we become collectively dumber’
Andrew Keen. The cult of the amateur-- interview in Wired
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2.0 is killing our culture?
‘I don’t want the crowd to tell me what’s worth watching. I want a movie critic to tell me that. I don’t want the
crowd to tell me where to eat, because I don’t trust them to know. Give me the
old gatekeepers any day’Andrew Keen. The cult of the amateur-- in interview in Wired
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A Siren Song?
‘often-anarchic world of the Internet’‘tide of credulity and misinformation" eroding
traditional ‘respect for authenticity and expertise in all scholarly, research, and
educational endeavors’‘a world in which everyone is an expert in a
world devoid of expertise’
Michael Gorman - June 18th, 2007 - (Web 2.0 Forum)
http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2007/06/the-siren-song-of-the-internet-part-i/
Impact on Government
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Government 2.0?
‘Whitehall has taken a first step towards a Government 2.0 with a report that urges a
greater official involvement with the grassroots web’
Thursday June 14, 2007Michael Cross. Open the gates of information The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,,2102100,00.html
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Government 2.0?
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Government should take on three main challenges:
• engaging in partnership with user-led online communities
• ensuring that it fully understands and responds appropriately to changes in the information market; and
• advising civil servants on how best to participate in new media.
Hilary Armstrong (outgoing) Cabinet Minister
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Imagine Government 2.0. Wisdom no longer flows from officialdom to the population, but is
co-created with citizens. Civil servants contribute openly to Facebook groups on
controversies of the day. Government websites have wiki areas where people can exchange
tips about filing tax returns or claiming benefits. Databases of restaurant inspections, tide tables and postcodes are available for all to see and re-use in mashups of geography,
time or events. Before launching a new online public service, the government checks to see whether a user community is already doing it better. In short, government learns to let go of
the web.
Thursday June 14, 2007Michael Cross. Open the gates of information The Guardianhttp://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,,2102100,00.html
Lessons for libraries?
Wisdom no longer flows from officialdom [libraries] to the population, but is co-created
with citizens.
Civil servants [Librarians] contribute openly to Facebook groups on controversies of the day.
Government [Library] websites have wiki areas where people can exchange tips about filing tax returns or claiming benefits [information about
print and electronic content]
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The …. challenge is for the government to get used to giving information away freely.
Last year the government received £590m in revenue from public-sector information; but
the potential public value of making information free could be even more, says the
report
Thursday June 14, 2007Michael Cross. Open the gates of information The Guardianhttp://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,,2102100,00.html
Lesson for libraries?
Give away your metadata freely for re-use?
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‘Where businesses have built on revenue models [by] charging for access to metadata, communities are
bypassing them and building their own repositories: FreeDB, Open Street Map, ISBNdb.’
‘That means that if you have a pile of metadata you might want to think about
how you can give it away rather than how you can keep it locked away’.
Liberating library metadata
Data, Metadata and ContentPosted by Rob Styles 3rd May 2007
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Stephen Bury, head of European and American Collections at the British Library in London, has some reservations about contributing to the Open Library project. "In the short term, I don't think we will send them a copy of our catalogue. We only have limited resources and we need them to concentrate their efforts on our own digitisation projects," he says.
Mr Bury was not keen on the idea of allowing ordinary people to edit library catalogues themselves. "I think there's a need for balance and some degree of control. You might get people maliciously changing things."
A library bigger than any building By Giles Turnbull Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/magazine/6924022.stm
Published: 2007/07/31 11:52:05 GMT
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Impact on biz models
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Digital content presents new issues over copyright and intellectual property
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“Patents and copyrights, ……. have always been aimed at finding a balance - as the Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig puts it -
"between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs".
That's why terms of copyright eventually elapse; in the original US Constitution, they elapsed after just 17 years. Under Thomas
Jefferson's original standard, it would no longer be illegal to download, for example, Madonna's
1986 album True Blue.”
Wednesday June 29, 2005
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‘Copyright blocks access to the inputs into information production that
are copyrighted’.
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‘the primary role of law has been reactive and reactionary. It has
functioned as a point of resistance to the emergence of the networked
information environment’.
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‘The institutions of higher education, which have found themselves under attack for not policing their students’
use of peer-to-peer networks have been entirely ineffective at presenting their cultural and economic value and the
importance of open Internet access to higher education, as compared to the
hypothetical losses of Hollywood and the recording industry’.
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‘Convinced that changes in the industry and the spread of digital piracy have made it ever more
difficult to make money from selling records, the Crimea plan to turn the economics on
their head by giving away downloads of their self-financed second album, Secret of the
Witching Hour’.
Davey MacManus of the Crimea. Photograph: Gareth Davies/Getty
Owen Gibson, media correspondentMonday April 30, 2007
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Impact of 2.0 on you and your library?
Are you being collaborative [with your users--with others?]
Do you participate?
Do you enable sharing? ‘create a platform for people to share’
Do you have a ‘big organisation culture’?
Are you moving to be more open?
Are you liberating metadata and content? How open and flexible are your IT systems?
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Ken ChadDirectorKen Chad Consulting [email protected]: +44 (0)7788 727 845www.kenchadconsulting.com
The Impact of 2.0Internet Librarian International 8th October 2007
Session A102
