Discussing the Scottish Information environment and ways to open access within social networking platforms, by K. Menzies, CDLR, given at Metadata issues and Web 2.0 services CIGS seminar, Fri 30 Jan, 2009. http://scone.strath.ac.uk/scie/index.cfm

1. Metadata and Scotland’s Information Environment: potential benefits of Web 2.0 Metadata issues and Web 2.0 services. CIGS Seminar January 30 th 2009 Kathleen Menzies with Dennis Nicholson Centre for Digital Library Research

3. Web 2.0 and Scotland's Information Landscape An overview of definitions and trends

7. Information Environment To quote JISC: “ An Information Environment can be characterised as the set of network or online services that support publishing and use of information and learning resources… The Information Environment as it is proposed here aims to offer the user a more seamless and less complex journey to relevant information and learning resources. It is important that this activity is aligned where possible with other developments, nationally and internationally, and that it makes a leading contribution to the enhanced information use and a true democracy of learning opportunity…” - Information Environment Development Strategy (2001-2005)

8. A Scottish approach “ The common information environment must encompass resources and services from all domains and for physical and digital formats if it is to appeal to the widest range of users. It is likely to be developed faster for digital formats…” – Dunsire, 2005, The Centre for Digital Library Research and the Common Information Environment

9. How could Web 2/3 help? User contributions influencing development Open Source Interesting, visual presentations of content (e.g. tag clouds) Mapping and matching of similar resources and subjects Matching ‘organic’ search terms to controlled vocabularies Encoding concepts, terms, relationships through consistent, interoperable metadata notations (e.g. RDF/XML) Dynamic environments and first-class, well organised information

11. What are other folk doing? New browsers and OPACs Open Source Visual information Tagging Different ways to search New technologies Interoperability

12. What does it look like? OCLC Dewey Browser, http://deweybrowser.oclc.org/ddcbrowser2/

13. An implementation of the OS OPAC ‘Blacklight’, which uses Ruby On Rails and Solr http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu/

14. BUBL - a Directory of internet resources Maintained jointly by the CDLR and SLIC

15. BUBL and BUBL Community Web 2

16. Developing BUBL 1990 BUBL begins life as Bulletin Board for Libraries 1991-4 BUBL run by UK-wide volunteers co-ordinated by Strathclyde University, first at Glasgow, then at UKOLN 1994 JISC begins funding it to provide a selective all-subjects directory of quality internet resources 2007- It is now developed jointly by SLIC, CILIPS and CDLR 2009 We need to explore new ways of making BUBL into an up-to-date resource for librarians to point their users towards, and kick-start community involvement again

18. What it looks like - phpBB

19. Up to community how deep we delve into the hierarchy...

20. First post

21. Some other SIL possibilities Research Collections Online Could adapt the CONSPECTUS collection level/depth indicator system to map high/low points of an 'information landscape' linked to a researcher's profile, which the system could remember when they visit the site. Scotland's Culture website/OPAC This could be improved on by adding some Web 2 OPAC functionalities to move from a static list to comments, tags, Amazon front-cover image retrieval etc. A variety of ‘next generation’ OPACS/Webpacs are out there already (e.g. Keystone, Arena, WebPAC Pro, Koha, NewGenLib, Blacklight). Scottish Distributed Digital Library Open onto listed sites within SDDL navigation pane, so that users are not forced to leave site. Enable comments, ratings/reviews and tagging of resources.

22. HILT and Folksonomies