The Web, The User and The Library :

Presentation & Discussionwith focus on ZB MED Strategic plans

December 8th 2010Guus van den Brekel (@digicmb)Central Medical Library, UMCG

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Me, My Work and the UMCGMe, My Work and the UMCG

Library Disconnects

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Bypassing the Library

libraryConsumer environmentsManagement environment

Licensed

Bought

Faculty&students

Digitized AggregationsResource sharing

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Institutional WorkflowPortals, CMS, IR, …

PersonalWorkflowRSS, toolbars, ..

Network level workflowGoogle, …

Integratedlocal consumer environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …

Integratedlocal consumer environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …

Source: Lorcan Dempsey, CIC 2007

The Global Environment Changed …The web has become a

global laboratory for communication and sharing

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Diversity | Choice

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Diversity | Choice

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• Unified Resource Discovery Tools

• Linked data : Collections will be networked, interlinked and virtual

• i.e. Europeana

• Service Oriented architecture SOA

DISCOVERY

• Applications and software

• From monopoly to multiple

• Embed, integrate, interoperable

• openID

• Library software?

• Library as intermediate for local focus

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Scientists are certainly looking for it…

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Tools for collaboration out there

• Planning & Admin • Workflow• Data management • Communication • Sharing• Analysis, statistical• Publishing, (peer) reviewing• Preservation, archiving

Unlimited …

OPENSCIENCETOOLS

SOCIAL

http://www.go2web20.net/http://www.go2web20.net/

What are Researchers looking for on the Web?

• Tools for improving their workflow, to gain efficiency

• Communication, sharing, collaboration, dissemination research ideas and output

• to possibly get bigger recognition and reward of their research output

OPENSCIENCETOOLS

General Social Software

• Blogs, Wiki’s, Social Networks i.g.Facebook

• Web-based office tools, Google Docs

• Sharing data, references, pictures, videos

• Communication, in all sorts

• Twitter? PloS

• Virtual worlds, Second Life

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OpenWetWare

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By Scientists, for Scientists

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Proteopedia

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NeuroCommons

http://scivee.tv

SciVee

But we also see others offering services…

All kinds of parties explore, using web 2.0 and other new technologies

to connect and integrate into the workflow of scientist and researchers.

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OPENSCIENCE

Commercially, focus on Scientists

http://openresearch.org

OpenResearch

NaturePrecedings

http://precedings.nature.com/

http://ww

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endeley.com

Mendeley

Biomedexperts

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http://www.geozon.info/2010/04/15/comparison-chart-of-scientific-networks/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=ping.fm

http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/24/community-sites-for-scientists-and-physicians-the-list/

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OPENSCIENCE SOCIAL

TOOLS

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“Community is the new content”

PERSONAL

• my web & my library (User-generated content)

• personal startpages (Netvibes, iGoogle)

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• mobile devices

• Apps

• Optimized websites

• innovation in layout and functionality

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•Scientific ranking, Impact & citations

•Scholar Charts

•Social media & Web Monitoring

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'What is happening in the world is bypassing university libraries’

Professor Peter Murray-Rust

Corporate Web Presence ScanCorporate Web Presence Scan

VLEs for Students & Teachers

VREs for Researchers

VRE’s

“Scratch Where It Itches”“Scratch Where It Itches”

• Bottom-up &

• focus on researchers needs and specific research communities

• Community building projects rather than technology project

• Creating a VRE is a SOCIAL as much as a technical achievement

• Broad Research community effort

• Including managers, librarians, champions, promoters

• Sustainability

• Key role for libraries

• Preference for a Web 2.0 style of development and implementation(lightwight, customisable solutions)

• Needs to be driven by researchers, rather than being imposed by institution

Key findings

• Providing general VRE Frameworks• One-size-fits-all will not work• Awareness raising is desirable• UK seen as international leader in VRE

development• External (web) applications still important• Integration semantic web technology useful• On-location support

FOR LIBRARIES

• VREs are seen are good way to feature library resources

• Be involved in the creating of digital research output from the start

Summary (more key points for Libraries)

• Communication between researchers and librarians

• Play a role in the exchange and sharing of research-based information in social network technologies

• Re-define the library, services, it’s systems, to reach: Visibility, Findability, Searchability and Accessibility

• Branding and marketing the library: embed & integrate

• Libraries should collaborate, communicate, cooperate, facilitate, support learning & research

Strategical Implications

• Developing the supporting infrastructure for – Creation– Data management– Communication

• Re-focus policyStaff development & expertiseSoft-, hardware choice

• By collaboration and partnership with other organizational parties, but also externally

• Collaborative libraries

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VRE’s

• The Browser, the User & the Library– Add-ons, Plugins, Toolbars, Sidebars, Apps &

widgets, Accelerators

SEARCH TOOLS

Summary

• Cloud computing• OpenSource software• Linked and enhanced data• Web tools for communication, collaboration,

interaction• Output Monitoring (scientific & social)• Mobile• Networks (social, virtual, research)• Virtual Research Environments• “Embedded library”

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The Web, The User and The Library :

Presentation & Discussionwith focus on ZB MED Strategic plans

Cologne, December 8th 2010Guus van den Brekel (@digicmb)Central Medical Library, UMCG

Thank you for you attention & the discussion!