Computers in Libraries 2005, Day 1, Afternoon Sessions
Posted on March 16, 2005
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1:45pm - Stephen Abrams: Technologies and innovations related to the future of library services
Next massive wave of innovation and demand for it will start in 2005/2006, similar to what happened at the turn of the last century (cars, phones, tv, electricity, etc)
Things to watch for in the next few years:
- secure broadband wireless will be huge
- low-power batteries on many things
- real-time infrastructure… emerging
- service-oriented architecture - perfect compliment for how libraries actually run
Hardware innovations in the next decade:
- “Living in a video game” - life might seem like this
- A bridge for physical and electronic worlds
- Smart pills, nanotechnology, etc.
- RFID - interesting challenge
- Trusted computing
Mobile and wireless in the next decade:
- continued integration between phones and PDAs
- mesh network - your wireless thing will know where you are
- mobile commerce - being able to buy articles online
computer human interactionin the next decade:
- biometrics, speech, handwriting, eye position
- head-mounted displays
- natural language, taxonomies, etc - search logic
- GIS - so your device can tell you where something is
Data Analytics in the next decade:
- advanced functionality
- comment - librarians are text based learners. That’s why only 20% of the population uses libraries. It’s a design thing…
- libraries need to figure out streaming media (CDs and DVDs will go away soon)
- sending a picture of someone to Google to find information about them… wow!
System development in the next decade:
- XML will get big
- Integration with other systems will become more commonplace
Other things mentioned:
- People will spend more time interacting with people in the electronic world
- 93% of kids 19 or younger currently have at least two IM addresses…
- Connected society - wearable tech. smart phones - outsell laptops, phones, PDA, etc.
- Location-based services - like wireless grabs your screen and puts you on a hotel’s webpage - libraries should be able to do that, too.
- Handsets will get huge - focus on applications
- e-learning and distance education will get huge… some usiversities already have 60% of students as distance students
- every university will have federated search and open url technology within 2 years, public libs within 4 years - they’ll need to have them to survive.
- shared ideas (intranets) shared creation - workflow content management, web conferencing shared presence - IM, video conferencing
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3:15pm - Institutional Digital Repositories, Frank Cervone
It’s changing the nature of scholarly communication
5 aims of a repository:
1. research - self archiving research output
2. management
3. preservation
4. teaching - even online teaching materials… (syllabi)
5. electronic publishing
Local history collections are a type of repository
Commercial vs Open Source - there are both
Open Source:
- EPrints - focuses on traditional text-based scholarship - pre-and post-prints
- DSpace - created as a general - purpose repository to hold more than just text.
- Fedora - doesn’t come with a ready-to-use user interface out of the box!!! Allows for a wide range of material types.
- Greenstone - suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections.
Commercial:
- CONTENTdm
- DigitoolEncompass
- Hyperion (SIRSI)
And the Dead Technologies session in the evening was hilarious, as usual!
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