My Discoveries

Product Spotlight: My Discoveries
Monday, June 25, 2007
Washington Convention Center

Taco Ekkel
Director of Development
taco@medialab.nl

© 2007 Medialab Solutions, The Netherlands

Medialab in 30 seconds

a short (30 seconds) intro
to medialab, in pictures.

medialab is an energetic
small company coming from
a research background. we
love libraries.


‣ Visual Information Discovery & Search
‣ Installed at over 200 libraries worldwide


Visual Search and Information
AquaBrowser is a lot
Discovery for Libraries
more than a visual
interface. It can connect
to anything!
Smart Context
Powerful
This diagram explains the
Relevancy Sensitive
various components.
Faceted
Ranked Information
Reﬁne
Search Discovery

Search Engine

Federated Engine
Indexing Engine Web Crawler

SQL
ILS(es) OAI XML Websites Intranet Z39.50 SRU/SRW
databases

Repositories & Event Full Text Question Ofﬁce
HTML Webfeat ABN
Archives Calendars Articles Point Docs


This is what it
looks like.


And this is who we do it for.

ILS Vendors are good at internal
processes and professionals. We on the
other hand have focused on end users
from day one. It’s a different ball game.
Everyone works for the user in the end,
but we actually start with the end user
in mind. And that makes for quite a
different interface.


ancient stuff

©2004 O’Reilly Media


Library 2.0: Ideologies

‣ Focus on patrons
‣ Connect communities
‣ Radical trust
‣ Open everything
‣ Constant change, emergent behavior


Library 2.0 in real life

‣ Community Contributed Content
‣ Focus on User & Usability
‣ Open APIs & Easy integration

AB is already pretty
2.0...


How Library 2.0 is AquaBrowser?

‣ Community Contributed Content
‣ Focus on User & Usability
‣ Open APIs & Easy integration


But still:

Library User


= Community Contributed Content


+ Improved search and discovery


a short intermezzo
on product design


What people think of AquaBrowser


From Kathy Sierra’s Blog Image © Kathy Sierra
‘creating passionate
users’.


Simple
Intuitive and understandable
not powerless and dumb


Effective
Build a workﬂow, not a feature list


Attractive
Make something people want to return to

Style
Fun
Excitement
Visual appeal

+ Simple, effective, attractive


A Fact About Web 2.0

Personal value precedes network value

source: http://bokardo.com/archives/the-delicious-lesson/


Here, the value is clear:
delicious acts as a
memory and storage
container for me

Personal value

Personal value

Listmania! is a good
example of personal
value morphing into
net work value

Network value

+ Add value for community and individual


Another fact about Web 2.0

‣ Your library:
1 million users per year
1 million titles
1% of users tags something
this spells: ‘no critical
mass’. Or: there’s simply
not enough creators in
your community to
support all those
resources


Critical mass is needed

+

AquaBrowser is installed at
over 200 libraries worldwide

=

Connect the dots


Connecting AquaBrowsers Globally

so, look at things
interconnectedly, not
just in the context of
isolated islands.


+ Add value for community and individual
+ Connect AquaBrowsers globally


The Concept

‣ Connect all AquaBrowsers
‣ Everyone is a user
‣ Everything can be tagged
‣ Everything can be put in public or private lists
‣ Use CCC for search, reﬁne, and discovery


Demo


‣ Social AquaBrowser, connects people
‣ Globally shared lists, tags, and reviews
‣ Introduced ALA 2007
‣ Subscription-based, Pricing TBD
‣ Roll-out late 2007


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