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ILS Disruption AI, VR and the Blockchain M Ryan Hess
Senior Librarian for IT & Collections Palo Alto City Library
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Poll Have you tried AI? Have you tried VR? Have you tried Bitcoin?
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Takeaways New technologies are disrupting our relationship to knowledge and information. Libraries have new threats to our business Libraries have amazing opportunities The future ILS can either suffer those threats, or embrace those opportunities
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Full Disclosure “We can’t predict the future, but we can certainly explore it.” - Dylan Hendricks, Institute for the Future
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Context Stubbornly siloed library data Emerging library linked data
Dying publishing industry Changing information usage patterns Increasing technological churn
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Prepare for Takeoff
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Trends3 AI taking off UI becoming UX
Digital currency: ready when you are
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ILS Components Metadata OPAC Transactions
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ILS Components AI VR Blockchain
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ILS Components Metadata OPAC Transactions
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“.003 percent of content searches originate on library websites and catalogs.” -Eric Keith, SirsiDynix
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Data Darwinism The walled garden is not an ecosystem
Linked data demands diversity People will migrate have migrated A new niche for libraries : link accelaration
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Catalog Data Library Data Web Data Marc record Star Wars DVD
Star Wars eBook Web image sw.jpg Marc record IMDB: George Lucas Star Wars DVD Hero’s Journey
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Linked Data Library Data Web Data BIBFRAME Record Star Wars DVD
Star Wars eBook Web image sw.jpg BIBFRAME Record IMDB: George Lucas Star Wars DVD Hero’s Journey
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Platform matters not Wikipedia Forbes List Your library here IMDB
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AI – Don’t Sweat the Details
“People are racing against the machine, and many of them are losing that race…Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.” – Erik Brynjolfsson, Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
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There’s an upcoming talk on the Hero’s Journey at your library!
AI There’s an upcoming talk on the Hero’s Journey at your library! Star Wars eBook Web image sw.jpg I like SW AI BIBFRAME Record IMDB: George Lucas Star Wars DVD Hero’s Journey
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The Guided Web Experience
Today IBM Watson Siri, Cortana Tomorrow The Library as a set of APIs Library as linked data contributor Personalized AI (not search boxes)
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The Ubiquitous Web A Definition:
The overlay of data upon every person, every object and every place at all times.
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The Ubiquitous Web UW – A Definition:
The overlay of data upon every person, every object and every place at all times... …managed and edited for humans by machines.
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“The Internet will disappear”
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Alphabet
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ILS Components Metadata OPAC Transactions
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VR – the Ultimate UI “I think we are talking about stories where you are the character and the stories are happening to you.” -Chris Milk, videographer and CEO of Within
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Definitions Augmented Reality Virtual Reality
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VR - Status Report Full sensory experience Direct neural integration
Contact lens VR Consumer AR released Pokemon Go Consumer VR released You are here
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We’ve seen this movie before…
Human computer interaction Browsers User tasks User expectations Access modes Adoption rates
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VR + AI + OPAC Searching becomes a dialogue New data visualizations Time-space distortions Serendipity as library’s killer app Social aspects become central
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ILS Components Metadata OPAC Transactions
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Blockchain = Transactions
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Blockchain = Transactions
Bitcoin Other Cryptocurrencies Contracts Escrow Accounts Any P2P transaction
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Key Benefits “Private” No middleman Distributed verification
Micro-transaction-friendly Programmable
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Blockchain = Transactions
Books are… Published Reviewed Purchased Made available Loaned Returned
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IPFS – A Blockchian Case Study
Web + Blockchain + Git + BitTorrent
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Inter-planetary File System (IPFS)
“IPFS is a distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files… …it could complement or replace HTTP… ...It sounds crazy. It is crazy.” -IPFS README
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Back to the Future Paul Baran, 1964: “On Distributed Communications Networks”
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IPFS Benefits Potentially more private Decentralized P2P distribution
Back-ups, versioning built-in Faster Cheaper
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Chains Required Publisher Repository Copyright-clearing Authority data
Loaner Linked Data node Distributor Reviewer
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Protocol {IPFS-Blockchain}
Where is the ILS? Repository Protocol {IPFS-Blockchain} Linked Data AI
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Questions M Ryan Hess Senior Librarian for IT & Collections
Palo Alto City Library
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