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ng many references for an item linked via sameas relationships can help get past the prejudice that can manifest itself when there s a single canonical reference link but mainly i mean that because linked data doesn t have a single record for each item new relationships can be added relatively easily q how do business and industry influence libraries e g google has images for every place in the world they have scanned books i can see a triangulation happening virtual libraries virtual spaces andromeda 1 virtual tech is written outside of libraries almost entirely so it depends on what libraries are able to demand and influence 2 commercial tech sets expectations for what users experiences should be like which libraries may not be able to support 3 people say why do we need libraries it s all online and i can pay for it no it s not and no not everyone can people say why do we need libraries it s all online and i can pay for it no it s not and no not everyone can libraries should up their tech game but there s an existential threat jeffrey people use other spaces to connect to knowledge e g coffee houses which are now being incorporated into libraries some people are anxious about that loss of boundary being able to eat drink and talk is a strong vision statement but for some it breaks down the world of contemplative knowledge they want from a library q the national science and technology library in china last week said they have the right to preserve all electronic resources how can we do that dan libraries have long been sites for preservation in the 21st century we re so focused on getting access now now now we lose sight that we may be buying into commercial systems that may not be able to preserve this this is the main problem with drm libraries are in the forever business but we don t know where amazon will be we don t know if we ll be able to read today s books on tomorrow devices e g i had a subscription to oyster ebook service but they just went out of business there go all my books i had a subscription to oyster ebook service but they just went out of business there go all my books open access advocacy is going to play a critical role sure google is a 300b business and they ll stick around but they drop services they don t have a commitment like libraries and nonprofits and universities do to being in the forever business jeff it s a huge question it s really important to remember that the oldest digital documents we have are 50 yrs old which isn t even a drop in the bucket there s far from universal agreement about the preservation formats old web sites old projects chunks of knowledge of mine have disappeared what does it mean to preserve a virtual world we need open standards and practices missed the word digital stuff is inherently fragile andromeda there are some good things going on in this space the rapid response social media project is archiving e g ferguson preserving software is hard you need the software system the hardware etc q distintermediation has stripped out too much value what are your thoughts on the future of curation jeffrey there s a high level of anxiety in the librarian community about their future roles but i think their role comes away as reinforced it requires new skills though andromeda in one pottery class the assignment was to make one pot in another it was to make 50 pots the best pots came out of the latter when lots of people can author lots of stuff it s great that makes curation all the more critical dan the dpla has a curation core librarians helping us organize our ebook collection for kids which we re about to launch with president obama also given the growth in authorship yes a lot of it is sexy vampires but even with that aside we ll need librarians to sort through that q how will digital rights management and copyright issues affect ebooks and libraries how do you negotiate that or reform that dan it s hard to accession a lot of things now for many ebooks there s no way to extract them from their drm and they won t move into the public domain for well over 100 years to preserve things like that you have to break the law some scholars have asked the library of congress for exemptions to the dmca to archive films before they decay q lightning round how do you get people and the culture engaged with public libraries andromeda ask yourself who s not here jeffrey politicians dan evangelism comments off on liveblog the future of libraries it s good to have hoder hossein derakhshan back after spending six years in an iranian jail his voice is stronger than ever the changes he sees in the web he loves are distressingly real hoder was in the cohort of early bloggers who believed that blogs were how people were going to find their voices and themselves on the web i tried to capture some of that feeling in a post a year and a half ago instead in his great piece in medium he describes what the web looks like to someone extremely off line for six years endless streams of commercial content some of the decline of blogging was inevitable this was made apparent by clay shirky s seminal post that showed that the scaling of blogs was causing them to follow a power law distribution a small head followed by a very long tail blogs could never do what i and others hoped they would when the web started to become a thing it was generally assumed that everyone would have a home page that would be their virtual presence on the internet but home pages were hard to create back then you had to know html you had to find a host you had to be so comfortable with ftp that you d use it as a verb blogs on the other hand were incredibly easy you went to one of the blogging platforms got yourself a free blog site and typed into a box in fact blogging was so easy that you were expected to do it every day and there s the rub the early blogging enthusiasts were people who had the time skill and desire to write every day for most people that hurdle is higher than learning how to ftp so blogging did not become everyone s virtual presence on the web facebook did facebook isn t for writers facebook is for people who have friends that was a better idea but bloggers still exist some of the early cohort have stopped or blog infrequently or have moved to other platforms many blogs now exist as part of broader sites the term itself is frequently applied to professionals writing what we used to call columns which is a shame since part of the importance of blogging was that it was a way for amateurs to have a voice that last value is worth preserving it d be good to boost the presence of local individual independent bloggers so support your local independent blogger read what she writes link to it blog in response to it but i wonder if a little social tech might also help what follows is a half baked idea i think of it as boab blogger of a blogger yeah it s a dumb name and i m not seriously proposing it it s an homage to libby miller twitter libbymiller and dan brickley s twitter danbri foaf friend of a friend idea which was both brilliant and well named while social networking sites like facebook maintain a centralized closed network of people foaf enables open decentralized social networks to emerge anyone who wants to participate creates a foaf file and hosts it on her site your foaf file lists who you consider to be in your social network your friends family colleagues acquaintances etc it can also contain other information such as your interests because foaf files are typically open they can be read by any application that wants to provide social networking services for example an app could see that libby s foaf file lists dan as a friend and that dan s lists libby carla and pete and now we re off and running in building a social network in which each person owns her own information in a literal and straightforward sense i know i haven t done justice to foaf but i hope i haven t been inaccurate in describing it boab would do the same except it would declare which bloggers i read and recommend just as the old blogrolls did this would make it easier for blogging aggregators to gather and present networks of bloggers add in some tags and now we can browse networks based on topics in the modern age we d probably want to embed boab information in the html of a blog rather than in a separate file hidden from human view although i don t know what the best practice would be maybe both anyway i presume that the information embedded in html would be similar to what schema org does information about what a page talks about is inserted into the html tags using a specified vocabulary the great advantage of schema org is that the major search engines recognize and understand its markup which means the search engines would be in a position to construct discover the initial blog networks in fact schema org has a blog specification already i don t see anything like markup for a blogroll but i m not very good a reading specifications in any case how hard could it be to extend that specification mark a link as being to a blogroll pal and optionally supply some topics dan brickley works on schema org so imagine a boab widget that any blogger can easily populate with links to her favorite blog sites the widget can then be easily inserted into her blog hidden from the users in this widget is the appropriate schema org markup not only could the search engines then see the blogger network so could anyone who wanted to write an app or a service i have 0 02 confidence that i m getting the tech right here but enhancing blogrolls so that they are programmatically accessible seems to me to be a good idea so good that i have 0 98 confidence that it s already been done probably 10 years ago and probably by dave winer ironically i cannot find hoder s personal site www hoder com is down at least at the moment more shamefully than ironically i haven t updated this blog s blogroll in many years my recent piece in the atlantic about whether the web has been irremediably paved touches on some of the same issues as hoder s piece comments off on restoring the network of bloggers misc liveblog alex wright the secret history of hypertext june 1st 2015 i m in oslo for kunnskapsorganisasjonsdagene which my dear friend google translate tells me is knowledge organization days i have been in oslo a few times before yes once in winter which was as cold as boston but far more usable and am always re delighted by it alex wright is keynoting this morning the last time i saw him was in oslo so apparently fate has chosen this city as our kismet also coincidence nevertheless i always enjoy talking with alex as we did last night because he is always thinking about and doing interesting things he s currently at etsy which is a fascinating and inspiring place to work and is a professor interaction design he continues to think about the possibilities for design and organization that led him to write about paul otlet who created what alex has called an analog search engine a catalog of facts expressed in millions of index cards note live blogging getting things wrong missing points omitting key information introducing artificial choppiness over emphasizing small matters paraphrasing badly not running a spellpchecker mangling other people s ideas and words you are warned people alex begins by telling us that he began as a librarian working as a cataloguer for six years he has a library degree as he works in the net he finds himself always drawn back to libraries the net s fascination with the new brings technologists to look into the future rather than to history alex asks how do we understand the evolution of the web and the net in an historical context we tend to think of the history of the net in terms of computer science but that s only part of the story a big part of the story takes us into the history of libraries especially in europe he begins his history of hypertext with the 16th century swiss naturalist conrad gessner who created a universal bibliography by writing each entry on a slip of paper leibniz used the same technique writing notes on slips of paper and putting them in an index cabinet he had built to order in the 18th century the french started using playing cards to record information at the beginning of the 19th the jacquard loom used cards to guide weaving patterns inspiring charles babbage to create what many but not me consider to be the first computer in 1836 isaac adams created the steam powered printing press this along with economic and social changes enabled the mass production of books newspapers and magazines this is when the information explosion truly started to make sense of this cataloging systems were invented they were viewed as regimented systems that could bring efficiencies a very industrial concept alex says the mid 19th century was also a period of networking telegraph systems telephones internationally integrated postal systems goods people and ideas were flowing across national borders in a way they never had before international journals international political movements such as marxism international congresses conferences people were optimistic about new political structures emerging alex lists tech from the time that spread information a daily reading of the news over copper wires pneumatic tubes under cities he references molly wright steenson s great work on this etc alex now tells us about paul otlet a belgian who at the age of 15 started designing his own cataloging system he and a partner henri la fontaine started creating bibliographies of disciplines starting with the law then they began a project to create a universal bibliography otlet thought libraries were focused on the wrong problem getting readers to the right book isn t enough people also need access to the information in the books at the 1900 world s fair in paris otlet and la fontaine demonstrated their new system they wanted to provide a universal language for expressing the connections among topics it was not a top down system like dewey s within a few years with a small staff mainly women they had 15 million cards in their catalog you could buy a copy of the catalog you could send a query by telegraphy and get a response telegraphed back to you for a fee otlet saw this in a bigger context he and la fontaine created the union of international associations an association of associations as the governing body for the universal classification system the various associations would be responsible for their discpline s information otlet met a scotsman named patrick geddes who worked against specialization and the fracturing of academic disciplines he created a camera obscura in edinburgh so that people could see all of the city from the royal areas and the slums all at once he wanted to stitch all this information together in a way that would have a social effect i ve been there as a tourist and had no idea he also used visual forms to show the connection...