1. Library 2.0
The Convergence of Tradition and Technology
LIS 653-02 Spring 2013
Knowledge Organization
Professor Pattuelli
Source: ALA State of America's Libraries Report 2012
Source: Dan Zambonini, “Why You Should Let Web 2.0 Into Your Hearts”
What Is Library
2.0?- 24/7 access
- Participatory, collaborative innovations in
library services and procedures
- User-centered library philosophy
- Cultural and technological paradigm shift
- Information flowing in many directions
- Reaching and interacting with patrons using
Web 2.0 applications
- Increased access points to information
- Tools to facilitate librarian’s service-
oriented goals
- Enhancement of traditional library
resources and services
Library 2.0 is paving the way for the next generation of
technological change affecting libraries: Web 3.0, which
incorporates the semantic web, linked open data, and other
innovations in library and information science. Library 2.0
is adaptable to this progress.
Elizabeth Feldbauer
Jacqueline Schector
Library 2.0 in Action
- Social Media
- RSS
- Wikis
- Blogs
- Twitter
- Social Bookmarking
- Tagging and Folksonomies
- Mobile Technologies
- Catalog Enrichment and Enhanced OPACs
- Bibliocommons
- LibraryThing for Libraries
- Social cataloging
- Good Reads
- Shelfari
- Facebook
- Podcasts
- IM/Chat
- Pintrest
- Bibster
- CiteULikeThe term “Library 2.0” was coined by Michael Casey in
September 2005 on his blog LibraryCrunch to begin a
discussion on new technologies and services in libraries.
The term is a spinoff of “Web 2.0” and “Business 2.0.”

2. Personal Information Management (PIM) is about keeping
information and organizing it in such a way that we can find
it when we need it. The process of obtaining, storing, and
retrieving information is visualized in the graphic below. In
the age of information overload, with an ever-increasing
number of available platforms and formats, this practice is
more important than ever. With the increasing importance of
PIM practice comes a corresponding increase in the
importance of studying that practice, and PIM as a field of
study has grown enormously since the first use of the term in
the 1980s. At its heart PIM is about, as William Jones
phrases it, “keeping found things found.”
The practice of PIM involves interacting with information
items in your personal space of information (or PSI), which
is made up of personal information collections (PICs). Each
person’s PSI overlaps with the PSIs of other people as well
as organizations. At its center, the PSI consists of
information under the control of the individual, such as
personal documents and photographs. At its edges, the PSI
also includes information about that person but not under
their control as well as information directed at the person
such as emails, notifications, and phone calls.
Storing Personal Information
The User Subjective
Approach
Personal Information Management
Diana Bowers, Janet Burka, & Caitlin Harrington
LIS653, Professor Pattuelli, Spring 2013
As the graphic above illustrates, our capacity to store data is increasing every day. The 2007 article in which the graphic originally
appeared noted that at that time, a 1TB hard drive cost $650, but postulated that in 20 years, $650 would buy 250TB. Five years later, 1TB
can be had for about $75, so we are already well on our way to the fulfillment of that prediction. As our ability to store vast amounts of
information increases, however, so too does our need for storage space. As we grow accustomed to digital formats, we will desire records
that are more extensive and of higher resolution. A number of projects are currently exploring “integrative organization” (Jones &Teevan,
12) by attempting to capture, store, and retrieve every information item in a person’s life. Though such projects are obviously very
complex and have a long way to go, they represent some of the biggest challenges we will face in PIM practice in the years to come.
With the widespread availability of digital information and popularity of online
research it has become increasingly important for PIM to be addressed in the LIS
context. Since users can now retrieve large amounts of information with a single
keyword search it has become essential to organize citations effectively.
Currently the most popular reference management tools organize citations
semantically and are not conducive to the associative processes of the brain. Ina
Fourie recommends for consideration the potential of integrating reference
management tools with mind mapping strategies. Mind mapping has been popular in
education practices but little work has been done to incorporate mind mapping with
PIM and reference management. An application of PIM that combines mind mapping
with reference management has the potential to improve users’ ability to re-find
their retrieved information.
The User Subjective Approach calls for PIM systems to be
designed for individual use. It acknowledges the unique
nature of each person's organizational strategy, and advocates
the creation of environments that highlight a document's
attributes like project, importance and context. These three
attributes have been identified as central to the process of
recall, an important underlying function of the field of
Personal Information Management.
In a 2003 paper, Bergman, et. al. defined three principles of a
user subjective approach to Personal Information
Management. These principles show three important ways in
which users contextualize their documents, and Bergman
ultimately calls for PIM systems to be designed around these
attributes to facilitate better recall and an overall higher
degree of usability. In layman's terms, these three principles
can be thought of as dealing with the category to which the
item belongs (subjective classification), its importance
(subjective importance), and the context in which it was
previously processed (subjective context).
Three Principles of User Subjective PIM Design
1. Subjective Classification
Posits that all information items related to the same
subjective topic should be classified together regardless of
technological format. In other words, this attempts to combat
the fragmentation that occurs when users store information
in multiple formats across different devices.
2. Subjective Importance
States that the importance of each document's information
should determine visual prominence and accessibility in the
classification system. This is a value judgement made by the
user, and would let items with low subjective importance be
less eye-catching, which would ultimately render them less
distracting.
3. Subjective Context
Acknowledges that ideally, information should be retrieved
and viewed by a user in the same context in which it was
previously used, since information is better recalled when it
is stored in the context in which it was learned.
Keeping, Organizing, & Re-finding
Implications for
Libraries
Source: http://www.algosystems.gr/en/internet/products/dms.html
What is Personal
Information?
Personal information can encompass a wide
range of materials and formats, including:
•Emails
•Photographs
•Webpages
•Browser History
•Calendars
•Address Books
•RSS feed
•Phone Calls
•Music
•Social Media
•Data from mobile apps
•Books
•Video
•Handwritten Notes and Letters
•Health records
•& more…
Source: Bell &Gemmell, 2007.

3. Folksonomies
J.D. Arden, Kate Asmus, Megan Koontz
Narrow Folksonomies
The creator of the object or a small group of people create a standardized tag
vocabulary. This limited vocabulary is then used to describe or find the object
and helps in creating uniformity when searching.
LIS 653-02
Knowledge Organization
Broad Folksonomies
Involve multiple people tagging the same object. Each user has the
ability to create their own tags based on their individual vocabularies. This
allows for the expansion of vocabulary pertaining to the object through tag
exploration.
Dual Folksonomy Triad
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References
Folksonomy :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net.
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numerical order.
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A folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything
with a URL) for one’s own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (shared
and open to others). The act of tagging is done by the person consuming the information.
-Thomas Van DerWal

4. LINKED OPEN DATA
LINKED DATA“RULES” RDFTRIPLES
subject predicate object
OPPORTUNITIESWITH LINKED OPEN DATA
CHALLENGESOFLINKED OPEN DATA
LINKED OPEN DATA HISTORY
THELINKED DATACLOUD
bibo:Book
The Di erence Engine
bibo:Bookfoaf:Person
William Gibson
Steampunk
skos:Concept foaf:Organization
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