1. American Library Association Online Resource Center
Web Trends and Tools
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2. What is the Online Resource Center?
Web-based professional development space
Help librarians find resources for cultural programming
Train librarians using a variety of online methods
Involve library schools in examining the need for courses in cultural programming
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3. Cultural programming includes humanities and arts programs in various formats
Book and film discussions
Author readings and presentations
Exhibits
Lectures by scholars
Music and dance performances
Drama
Living history presentations, etc.
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4. How can the Web help increase cultural programming?
Combine interactive learning with expanded technologies - Web 2.0
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5. What is Web 2.0? Uses the Web as a platform
User controls their own data
Harnesses collective intelligence
Software that gets better the more people use it – continuous improvement
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6. Successful Web 2.0 sites Google Yahoo Amazon You Tube Wikipedia eBay
MySpace
Google – ranks search engine results based on traffic, popularity
Amazon – suggests items based on purchasing history, people who bought this also bought this
You Tube – ranks videos based on popularity, suggests videos you may like
eBay – collection of items to purchase, ranks vendors and customers
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7. Much of the infrastructure of the Web relies on the peer-production methods of open source – collective intelligence
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8. Available Options for ALA ORC
Podcasts
Video/Photos
Webinars
Blogs/Social networking
Wikis
RSS feeds - Really Simple Syndication
Folksonomy
Podcasts – digital media file played over the internet for playback on portable media players or computers
Video/photo – sites like You Tube, Flickr where you can view and share photos and videos
Webinars – conferencing via the web
Blogs/Social Networking - TypePad, MySpace, Facebook – participation not publishing, builds on tagging
Wikis – online encyclopedia – entries can be added by any web user and edited by another
RSS feeds – continuous updating of files
Folksonomy – collaborative tagging using freely chosen keywords or a way to categorize sites using freely chosen keywords or tags.
Much of the infrastructure of the web relies on the peer-production methods of open source – collective intelligence
User behavior is not predetermined
User contributions
Collective power
Examples include
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9. Examples Podcasts – lectures by scholars
Video/Photos – exhibits, performances
Blogs/Social networking – book and film discussions
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10. What is the future of the Web?
Web 3.0 – Knowledge Networking Connects people with each other “for a purpose”. Not based on socializing but to share and organize data you are interested in.
Often coined as the semantic web. Controlled vocabulary for tagging so it can be machine read.
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