Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web 2.0 Gideon Burton Asst. Prof. of English Assoc. Editor, BYU Studies Presentation to the Harold B. Lee.
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Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web
2.0Gideon Burton
Asst. Prof. of EnglishAssoc. Editor, BYU Studies
Presentation to the Harold B. Lee LibraryTown Meeting, March 13, 2007
Toward Web 2.0
A Need for Change
“As with individuals, universities also quickly face obsolescence when they fail to continue to change, grow, and adapt to their new and often rapidly different environments.”
–Pres. Cecil Samuelson
(“A More Excellent Way: A Changing BYU in a Changing World” 8/24/04)
Toward Web 2.0
Beyond the book format…
…and the physical library
Image Source: WikiMedia
Toward Web 2.0
“And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst
the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine
must be put into new bottles.” –Mark 2:22
Toward Web 2.0
Emerging Digital Genres
• E-book Collections • Digital Scholarly Editions• Subject Gateways / Thematic Research
Collections• Databases• “Born Digital” and “Social Media” genres:
– Wiki– Weblog – Podcast
Toward Web 2.0
New Roles for Academic Libraries
• Brokers of digital knowledge, not just curators of the printed scholarly record
• Archiving as publishing• Digital collaboration with faculty, consortia• Keepers of the “Institutional Repository”• Metadata and markup, not just cataloging
Toward Web 2.0
Digital Conventions
• PDF (Portable Document Format)• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• XML (Extensible Markup Language)• RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Toward Web 2.0
Digital Conventions
Web 1.0• PDF (Portable Document Format)• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)Web 2.0• XML (Extensible Markup Language)• RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Toward Web 2.0
Web 1.0 / Web 2.0
Web 1.0• Static and passive• Web as delivery
medium • Monologue• Limited feedback
(email comments passively allowed)
• Searching
Web 2.0• Dynamic and active• Web builds and
sustains communities• Dialogue• Content co-
developed with online community
• Syndicating
Toward Web 2.0
Web 1.0 / Web 2.0
Web 1.0• Taxonomy /
Set categories• Websites and
databases as “information silos” (isolated, restricted to original presentation form and location)
Web 2.0• Folksonomy (“tagging”)
• Websites and databases marked with metadata and structured with XML (available for intelligent repurposing, reformatting, or combining with other digital resources)
Toward Web 2.0
Web 2.0
• Dynamic web resources – Push/broadcast content via RSS feeds– Readers as authors, reviewers,
collaborators – Social software enabled
• Wikis• Blogs and Comments• Shared Feeds
Toward Web 2.0
WikisA website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise edit content, quickly and easily. Wiki software catalogs all prior versions, and are sometimes moderated. Wikis are tools for pooling knowledge and for collaborative writing.
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