I gave this talk at the 2009 Association of Subscription Agents. It describes the concept of technology waves, and how we are at the start of the semantic web waves. The presentation describes two projects Talis is undertaking with scholarly content around the semantic web - a society social networking prototype called Xiphos Network and a product called Talis Aspire to deliver eContent to end users via scholarly resource lists.
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2. shared innovation ™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/143438318/sizes/l/ Technology ANY INDUSTRY comes in waves PRINTING PRESS Industrial revolution Mechanisation of industry Electricity
3. shared innovation ™ last 30 years in computing industry... In publishing, printing press, move to online - all waves
4. shared innovation ™ Recent Junction between publishing and computing - web 1.0 Lets talk about the web
5. the web circa 1991 shared innovation ™ <a href=” http://example.org ”>
30. shared innovation ™ Next wave needs new technology - lets take a look at it (we are at start of 10 year wave)
31. shared innovation ™ Concept: World wide web has bibliography World-Wide Web Bibliography Evolution of the web - based on creating machine readable facts example of links as facts
44. shared innovation ™ Talked a lot about technology - now Talis Talis background, 40 years, seen lots of waves
45. shared innovation ™ http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikvanhannen/2234603554/sizes/l/ Talis from the library world, began in the “print wave” became good at managing metadata
46. shared innovation ™ today we’re looking at how facts can be published on the semantic web
72. shared innovation ™ http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200844.htm http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_student_survey.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/observatory/ Half the academic libraries surveyed indicated that their use of eBooks was to support their core reading lists 57% of those not using eBooks did not do so because they don’t know where to find them Only 1.3% surveyed perceived easy to locate as an advantage the eBook