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Forget the Lipstick, Fabien Tiburce, Peter Giansante, Beth Jefferson
28 Feb 07
Forget the Lipstick: This Pig Just Needs Social Skills
Fabien Tiburce, Peter Giansante, and Beth Jefferson
BiblioCommons
Beth Jefferson
extensive user research
BC, AB, ON provided proof of concept funding
today’s focus is on architecture and user experience
OPAC user’s not complaining, just going elsewhere
nextgen catalogue more than tech
social search is key
– discovery, relevance, connections to community and other users
Fabien Tiburce
tech – ajax widgets, rdbms mixed with xml repository
– object factories to aggregae representations of data
– decouple data in transit from data in storage
– rdbms to preserve most important data
Peter Giansante
data model
Beth Jefferson
personalized relevance (ratings, reviews, demographic filtering)
building trust in the social environment, adding other users to a network optionally based on a domain of expertise
Fabien Tiburce
social data coupled with the user
– user preference subsystem
– user generated data associated with bib record and other users
Peter Giansante
user prefs as part of data model
Beth Jefferson
thinking outside the box of the library
want to get away from “sorry, no match”
– opportunities to use ILL in local interface
– suggest to purchase
– suggest share from other user’s personal collection
– refer to community generated interests (groups, discussions, etc.)
engaging users to take us halfway
– use library metadata to structure discussions
– can then put community resources, events, etc. on the right pages
when a question is asked, discover who is likely to have the answer and present it to them
finally, offer an online answer service
– people in the OPAC
– users connecting with other users realtime in OPAC
Peter Giansante
more data model
Beth Jefferson
need critical mass of users
data must tie back to them
must engage a significant percentage of users
maximize breadth of implementation
– in the flow of existing activity
– approaching costless
– provide motivations to contribute
Fabien Tiburce
ILS integration with low footprint web services
will be open source
data flow diagram!
whew!
Posted by pzed on February 28, 2007 at 2.25pm
Categories: code4lib 2007, conferences, libraries
