Creating a 1-Click Digital Library Mash-up Maggie Verster ICT4Champions Schoolnetsa11 Conference Digital library mashups

Digital library?  Electronic resources  A type of information retrieval system  Targeted search engines  Directories  A collection of literature and metadata stored electronically  Databases  E-books, PDF’s  Web pages  Videos  Graphics (photos)  Audio (recordings and podcasts)  Animations  Simulations  Other information artefacts  In the field of digital libraries, the Internet is the library (Arms, 2001)

Source: Courosa.Courosa. Teacher 1.0

Adapted Teacher 2.0

Finding stuff?

I am desperately looking for my glasses. Finding stuff?

Sharing stuff? Very Messy Very Old Mostly inconsiderate Dangerous

Storing stuff? Can disappear…. Dangerous Very Old Very Messy

Tools? My DL wish list  Relevant  Easy to use  Searchable  Portable  Scalable  Tagable  Collaboration and discussion  Aggregation (RSS)  Embeddable  Annotation  Citation  Personal /Professional organiser  Free Social Bookmarking

Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed Digital libraries: Project Gutenberg Google Scholar No physical boundary. The user of a digital library need not to go to the library physically; people from all over the world can gain access to the same information, as long as an Internet connection is available. Round the clock availability. A major advantage of digital libraries is that people can gain access to the information at any time, night or day. Multiple access. The same resources can be used simultaneously by a number of institutions and patrons. This may not be the case for copyrighted material: a library may have a license for "lending out" only one copy at a time; this is achieved with a system of digital rights management where a resource can become inaccessible after expiration of the lending period or after the lender chooses to make it inaccessible (equivalent to returning the resource).digital rights management Information retrieval. The user is able to use any search term (word, phrase, title, name, subject) to search the entire collection. Digital libraries can provide very user-friendly interfaces, giving clickable access to its resources. Preservation and conservation. Digitization is not a long-term preservation solution for physical collections, but does succeed in providing access copies for materials that would otherwise fall to degradation from repeated use. Digitized collections and born-digital objects pose many preservation and conservation concerns that analog materials do not. Please see the following "Problems" section of this page for examples. Space. Whereas traditional libraries are limited by storage space, digital libraries have the potential to store much more information, simply because digital information requires very little physical space to contain them and media storage technologies are more affordable than ever before. Added value. Social bookmarking? Social bookmarking:  Finding resources  Metadata  Saving  Database  Search & Sharing  Discussion One click

How?

Auto-insert the Url and Title Auto-insert a description or insert your own Add the relevant tags Send to group /list Tweet!!! One click

Resource Diigo Bookmarking database Auto Blog Post newsletter Tag cloud widget Tweet Discussions Annotations Metadata Groups Lists RSS Feed Widget Networks Social network LMS CMS Blog Wiki Website DL Framework Resource One click

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Case study 2 The context and the learning goals must dictate the tool and how it is used Case study Maths literacy teachers community of practice Maths lit blog Digital library database Twitter

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Tools? My DL mash-up wish list For a list of citation tools click here  Relevant  Easy to use  Searchable  Portable  Scalable  Tagable  Collaboration and discussion  Aggregation (RSS)  Embeddable  Annotation  Citation  Personal /Professional organiser  Free

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