Elaine Alligood, MLS Informationista VA TAP And the walls came tumbling down: Librarians & Social Yes-Working Boston KM Forum Nov 20, 2008 Elaine Alligood, MLS Informationista VA TAP

What Do we Do - Anyway? Find Stuff - Make Tools Collaborate & Teach Disseminate, Manage, & Publish Knowledge 1984: Naisbitt Wrote about High Tech needing High Touch - that’s an Informationista 10/6/2019

Librarians Rule the Net ! 2.0 - 3.0 - Semantic Web - Social Nets: We’re Super Librarians Librarians have been creating tools for users since the tablets in the library at Alexandria and the chains on the medieval incunabula to prevent theft! The web is just another tool; okay a big huge fabulous tool! Librarians have been online since the 70’s! 10/6/2019

Find Stuff 24/7/365 Total Access = No Walls + Killer Ref Tools Virtual Reference 24/7 VALNET Librarians on Call Portals & Mashups Ray Yee Mashup Maven HealthMap 99 Resources for Searching the Deep Web Woods Hole MBL Library Created UBio Names Portal Wikis Biz Wiki Doucette Teaching Custom Search Engines Netting the Evidence IMPROVE HTAi Vortal & New HTAi Vortal 10/6/2019

Do It Yourself: Search Engines Swicki Erecter ROLLYO Gigablast Custom Topic Search MS Live Search Custom Search Engine Do It Yourself: Teaching Users BU Med Library: Forming Clinical Questions Duke & UNC Libraries: Intro to E-B-Medicine 10/6/2019

Cool Web 2.0 Medical Wikis & Blogs Wiki Surgery Radiation Oncology Wiki National Library of Medicine Drug Info Portal Clinical Cases & Images Blog Clinical Cases Blog Science Roll - Hungarian Med Student Blog Relemed askMEDLINE 10/6/2019

More Cool Tools by Librarians Marketing & Training via YouTube: Help Desk Cornell's Teaser Faculty 1000 Super Librarian Aarhus Looks to the Future The Early Adopters & Cool Tools Librarians Greg Notess – Search Engines & Way More Gary Price - Resource Shelf - DocuTicker Chris Sherman – Search Engine Land Mary Ellen Bates – Applied Info Research Google Librarian Tools Mapping Anthro at UC Berkeley Google Labs Develop custom Widgets 10/6/2019

Fun Web 2.0 Tools LivePlasma Music, Movies & More Whonu Search Engine innovations Corkd Everything wine Plazes people places & more 10/6/2019

Semantic Web – What Up? “The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila The Semantic Web is about two things: Common formats for integration/combination of data drawn from diverse sources Language & Connections & Collaboration recording how the data relates to real world objects 10/6/2019

Teach & Disseminate - Semantic Blogs Builds upon traditional Blogging Combines Blogging & Semantic Web Blogging: easy publishing Semantic Web: std structured formats, interoperability Adds semantic structure to blog items Adds metadata to blog items Semantic blogging enables structured bibliographic information sharing between different systems; de-centralized, collaborative 10/6/2019

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Find Teach & Collaborate Create Knowledge Disseminate Using Semantic Web: Killer Apps W3C Semantic Web Health Care & Life Sciences Interest Group Prototype Knowledge Base for Life Sciences http://www.pharmasurveyor.com/ RxNav Semantic Navigation Tool Clinical Drugs Univ Texas Public Health Situation Awareness SweetWiki 10/6/2019

Thank You Elaine.Alligood@va.gov Informationista http://www.va.gov/vatap Best Librarian Movie Ever: Party Girl 10/6/2019