1. Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web 2.0 Gideon Burton Asst. Prof. of English Assoc. Editor, BYU Studies Presentation to the Harold B. Lee Library Town Meeting, March 13, 2007

2. Toward Web 2.0 Scriptorium Media Evolution

3. Toward Web 2.0 Media Evolution Printing Press

4. Toward Web 2.0 Media Evolution Computer

5. Toward Web 2.0 A Need for Change “As with individuals, universities also quickly face obsolescence when they fail to continue to change, grow, and adapt to their new and often rapidly different environments.” –Pres. Cecil Samuelson (“A More Excellent Way: A Changing BYU in a Changing World” 8/24/04)

6. Toward Web 2.0 The Digital Incunabular Period New genres New roles & relationships New conventions

7. Toward Web 2.0 PDF Documents

8. Toward Web 2.0 Beyond the book format… …and the physical library Image Source: WikiMedia

9. Toward Web 2.0 “And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.” –Mark 2:22

10. Toward Web 2.0 Emerging Digital Genres E-book Collections Digital Scholarly Editions Subject Gateways / Thematic Research Collections Databases “Born Digital” and “Social Media” genres: –Wiki –Weblog –Podcast

11. Toward Web 2.0 The Digital Incunabular Period New genres New roles & relationships New conventions

12. Toward Web 2.0 New Roles for Academic Libraries Brokers of digital knowledge, not just curators of the printed scholarly record Archiving as publishing Digital collaboration with faculty, consortia Keepers of the “Institutional Repository” Metadata and markup, not just cataloging

13. Toward Web 2.0 New Relationships Scholars Librarians Academic Presses & Journals

14. Toward Web 2.0 Overlapping Roles Organizing Knowledge PublishingArchiving

15. Toward Web 2.0 The Digital Incunabular Period New genres New roles & relationships New conventions

16. Toward Web 2.0 The Digital Incunabular Period

17. Toward Web 2.0 Digital Conventions PDF (Portable Document Format) HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) XML (Extensible Markup Language) RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

18. Toward Web 2.0 Digital Conventions Web 1.0 PDF (Portable Document Format) HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) Web 2.0 XML (Extensible Markup Language) RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

19. The Internet is Evolving

20. Toward Web 2.0 Web 1.0 / Web 2.0 Web 1.0 Static and passive Web as delivery medium Monologue Limited feedback (email comments passively allowed) Searching Web 2.0 Dynamic and active Web builds and sustains communities Dialogue Content co- developed with online community Syndicating

21. Toward Web 2.0 Web 1.0 / Web 2.0 Web 1.0 Taxonomy / Set categories Websites and databases as “information silos” (isolated, restricted to original presentation form and location) Web 2.0 Folksonomy (“tagging”) Websites and databases marked with metadata and structured with XML (available for intelligent repurposing, reformatting, or combining with other digital resources)

22. Toward Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Dynamic web resources –Push/broadcast content via RSS feeds –Readers as authors, reviewers, collaborators –Social software enabled Wikis Blogs and Comments Shared Feeds

23. Toward Web 2.0 Wikis A website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove, or otherwise edit content, quickly and easily. Wiki software catalogs all prior versions, and are sometimes moderated. Wikis are tools for pooling knowledge and for collaborative writing.

24. Toward Web 2.0 Blogs

25. Toward Web 2.0 Podcasts

26. Beyond the Digital Incunabular Period: Toward Web 2.0 Gideon Burton Asst. Prof. of English Assoc. Editor, BYU Studies Gideon_Burton@byu.edu Presentation to the Harold B. Lee Library Town Meeting, March 13, 2007