Lambert Heller told me that the FRBR Blog discussed my older post “Warum del.icio.us für Bibliothekskataloge untauglich ist“. Because the google translation is bad, i translate it in English, i hope i did it better than google I did only a few changes :

How i have write on the Mailinglist INETBIB, i think that the project to which Wilfred Drew of the Morrisville State College Library of the point at the mailinglist web4lib is not a good idea. He wrote that in his catalog it is possible to publish the findings with “post to del.icio.us” and addtoany could indexed at del.icio (Jakob Voss reports on it).

In my opinion this no equitable way to tag library collections, but a meander. Why that?

Objects that are indexed by del.icio.us are websites. This means if 1000 libraries index their holding by del.icio.us, there would be for every identical book up to 1000 entries, because the websites are always different. Users that search now at del.icio.us will find up to 1000 entries to the same resource that will not contain much more information. Additional it is not possible for libraries to get a benefit from the work in other library catalogs.

So what should be a alternative? The right way would be using a system that does not index websites but media. Examples for that are CiteUlike, Bibsonomy (the literature part) and LibraryThing [and very new the open library project]. Libraries should think about methods, how additional information about the media can added i this systems. It is certainly illusionary to expect, that there will be only one entry per media, but it would be more easy through editing of the entires to get further to this goal.

Del.icio.us is excellently suited to replace present link lists and index internet sources. Libraries who are doing this you will find at the mélange blog.

[Some improvements by Frank Wiederhold. Thanks for that]

The World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) of IFLA starts soon and this year library 2.0 will be a theme in different panels. If you are in Durban and interested in library 2.0, here is a guide where it would properly interesting to go. (And also there is a good chance to meet met me there.)

It’s start on Sunday afternoon (13.45-15.45) in the panel about “Quality Issues in Libraries” with the theme “The new entrance to the library: effectiveness and use of the library web-site” where Peter Giger and Eva Norling (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden) speak about “Library participation cultures”.

On Tuesday morning (10.45 - 12.45) you can meet me at the common panel of the sections National Libraries , ICABS and Information Technology with my presentation “Libraries 2.0 and user-generated content: what can the users do for us?”.
Later at the day (16:00-18.00) Stephen Abraham, President-Elect of the SLA and from SirsiDynix will talk about “The Social Library: The 2.0 Phenomenon and KM - Collaboration, Cooperation, Sharing, Storytelling, Networking.” The last talk about library 2.0 on this day will come from Mary M. Somerville about “Participatory Co-Design: A Relationship Building. Approach for Co-Creating Libraries of the Future”.

On Wednesday the interesting part starts early (08.30-10.30) in the panel of Academic and Research Libraries about “Information Literacy” with the talk from Betty Braaksma, Kathy Drewes, George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) about “Building a Virtual Learning Commons: What do YOU want to do? ” and after that a speech about “Second Life Machinima for Libraries: the intersection of instruction, outreach and marketing in a virtual world” from Bernadette Daly Swanson (University of California, Davis, USA). The second part of the panel is in the second slot of the day (10.45-12.45) and will contain the talk “Podcasting for Information Literacy” from Regina Lee Roberts (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)

The big finish of the day(16.00-18.00) will be the panel of the Information Technology Section with the theme “Second Life for libraries: Let’s give users what they want: user driven library services” I’m looking forward to the talks of David K. Karnes, Francis Lajba and Stephen R. Shorb (University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA) about “Technology for providing materials in 94 world languages: a partnership for user-driven learning, and improved awareness of the people and events that shape our world” and Heila Pienaar and Ina Smith (University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa) about “Development of a Library 2.0 service model for an African library“. Also Catherine Lupovici (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France) about “Gallica 2.0: a second life for the BnF digital library”.

At Thursday morning (08.30-10.30) will be the session of the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) with the theme that direct points to the web 2.0:”Libraries contributing to web 2.0″: Renate Gömpel (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) held a talk with the title “Don’t turn off the lights, yet!” and Barbara B. Tillett and Corey Harper (Library of Congress, Washington, USA) talk about VIAF in” Library of Congress controlled vocabularies, the Virtual International Authority File, and their application to the Semantic Web”. I really hope they present an open API for VIAF :-).

Also in the morning (08.30-10.30) in the session of Reference and Information Services about
Getting and keeping ahead: educating for reference and information services for the future” will be a talk from Grace Saw and Heather Todd (University of Queensland Library, Brisbane, Australia) about “Library 3.0: where art our skills?”.

After that (10.45-12.45) Social tagging is also a theme at WLIC in the session of Classification and Indexing which have the motto “Partners for subject access to bring libraries and users together”. Jonathan Furner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) talks about “User tagging of library resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation” and Sarah Hayman (education.au, Adelaide, Australia) and Nick Lothian (education.au, Adelaide, Australia) about “Taxonomy Directed Folksonomy: integrating user tagging and controlled vocabularies for Australian education networks“.

Also there will be two interesting poster presentations “Libraries and the Social Web: Using Web 2.0 Applications to Deliver Information in the 21st Century” from Jennifer Lang and my poster “The German-Languages Wikisource Project: Digitalisation 2.0″.

Now I know for sure, that W-LAN access is at the conference is , I will blog from some panels and I will try to use the tips of Ethan Zuckerman about Conference blogging. (Thank you to Ben for hint.)

So if you are there, I realy hope we will meet.

Today i started official the library 2.0 bibliography. Its realized with the software WIKINDX (spoken Wiki Index) Everyone who likes can enrich the bibliography. Just register under the point Wikindex and i will moderate your account as soon as possible. WIKINDX supports BibTeX import and export so that resources from other services (CiteULike, Connotea and Bibsonomy) can be easy reused. Also the resources from bibliography can be reused.

In German i have already written about Zotero. Now where i have my own Wordpress Blog i just installed few plugins that improve the compatibility with Zotero. But maybe i should start at the beginning.

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a Plugin for Firefox up version 2.0, that it makes possible to save citations during surfing for later use.

Support Zotero social bookmarking, too?

Not until now because the data is saved on your own computer. But in one of he next versions should there be a server based solution and an integration in social bookmarking services (exspecial for citations).

How works Zotero?

Zotero supports different metadata standards. Which Metadata Zotero can extract from a page depends on the quality of the metadata that is offered. Two interesting standards are unAPI and COinS.

And what has wordpress to do with that?

Also for Wordpress blogs can enhaced by plugins, so it is possible that every blogpost gets direct metadate that is reconiced by Zotero and can be saved inkluding Autorname, Blogname and Abstract.

Sounds good to me, so what I have to do?

It‘s very simple You just have to install two plugins nothing more:

The COinS plungin://dev.zotero.org/download/coins-metadata.zip

for the metadata

and://www.lackoftalent.org/michael/blog/wp-content/uploads/unapi-wordpress.zip

The unAPI plugin, thats allows Zotero to save the abstract (or the first 500 of a blog entry)

That‘s all?

Yes so easy it it. But it would be nice if you also use the badge with a hint for others with a link to this post. This is the code for that:

<a href="http://www.bibliothek2null.de/?p=189" title="Support Zotero with Wordpress"><img src="http://www.bibliothek2null.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/support-z.png" alt="Support Zotero with Wordpress" /></a>

The Goal is that blogposts can bet better and more easy cited and when more people uses this format other tools will support this standards. And if you want you can also left an link to your blog in the comments.

Lets join!