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.

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

Scriptorium

Media Evolution

Toward Web 2.0

Media Evolution

Printing Press

Toward Web 2.0

Media Evolution

Computer

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

The Digital Incunabular Period

• New genres• New roles &

relationships• New conventions

Toward Web 2.0

PDF Documents

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

The Digital Incunabular Period

• New genres• New roles &

relationships• New conventions

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

New Relationships

Scholars

LibrariansAcademic Presses

& Journals

Toward Web 2.0

Overlapping Roles

Organizing Knowledge

PublishingArchiving

Toward Web 2.0

The Digital Incunabular Period

• New genres• New roles &

relationships• New conventions

Toward Web 2.0

The Digital Incunabular Period

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)

The Internet is Evolving

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.

Toward Web 2.0

Blogs

Toward Web 2.0

Podcasts

Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web

2.0Gideon Burton

Asst. Prof. of EnglishAssoc. Editor, BYU [email protected]

Presentation to the Harold B. Lee LibraryTown Meeting, March 13, 2007