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Using Web 2.0 for health libraries – an update . Paula Younger 12 June 2013 . A rose by any other name. The Participatory Web The Social Web Web 3.0 (well, almost) Web 3D? (Mainly engineering focused at present) Printing slow & clunky now – likely to revolutionise many aspects of our lives - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Using Web 2.0 for health libraries – an update
Paula Younger12 June 2013
A rose by any other name..
The Participatory Web The Social Web Web 3.0 (well, almost) Web 3D? (Mainly engineering focused at
present) Printing slow & clunky now – likely to revolutionise many aspects of our lives
The Semantic Web –way beyond hyperlinks: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Progress since 2010...
Much more participatory Twitter has really taken off Facebook & Amazon are now terrifyingly
targeted (Minority Report, anyone?!) The rise and rise of the iPad, iPhone and Ice
Cream Sandwiches
Convergence
Smartphones and other tablet devices much more widespread than they were
Texting and mobile phone technology now embedded in daily life
Even the BNF has its own mobile app now and there are many others
“Always on” – users need to learn to be more selective. Which is where libraries and information management units come in.
The Lego approach
Just because you bought the box that makes the Egyptian Temple with the mummies doesn’t mean you can’t make other things out of it too....– (After a concept from Paul Miller,
Technology Evangelist, http://www.connex-network.org/?p=102)
Synergy - the sum is greater than the total of the parts
What’s everybody else doing?
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/administration/library/newssummary/news_9-5-2013-9-52-15
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/web20_resources.html
Our particular problem: Web 2.0 for Current Awareness
How it began – current awareness issue in the south west. Not enough library staff/time – lots of users interested in current awareness
Looked at lots of other examples, e.g. Netvibes (Shrewsbury and other Trusts)
Set up task and finish group Looked into possibility of Yahoo Pipes
Getting off the ground
Traditional method, trawling through sources & abstracting is very time consuming
Increasing pressure on staffing/budgets– Why not use technology?– Web 2.0 technologies? – RSS feeds– Looked at several options including Netvibes
Piping Hot
Yahoo Pipes – what it is Quick demonstration of how we’re using it in
a subsection of the south west (Avon/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire)
The “Master Pipe” concept “Quick & dirty” approach – very collaborative Each library “owns” a particular subject area
Not reinventing the wheel Borrowing other people’s pipes..”cloning”
RSS Aggregators
Great. All aggregated. Now, what do we do for those who don’t/can’t have RSS readers?
Lots of RSS aggregators out there that will deliver content direct to a mailbox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators lists some
One colleague wanted daily, weekly or monthly updates rather than daily only
Enter......The Chimp!
MailChimp
Very customisable - you can include images, weblinks, Twitter links, Facebook links and much more
Free (within limits) – 12,000 messages per month to 2,000 subscribers
“Push” technology approach rather than “pull” – great for time-pressed medics and managers!
Tips, tricks and pitfalls
The importance of keywords/word stems cannot be over-emphasised – mental health posed a particular problem here e.g. “mentalization”
Keep an eagle eye on RSS feeds on journal pages/government website pages in particular – as they change frequently– http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/02/08/1
0-free-ways-to-keep-track-of-changes-to-any-website-without-rss/
Back to the Future
Although it’s possible, we haven’t yet managed to incorporate– Turning any page into an RSS feed– Finding anything that will work on RCN/Nursing
Standard journals!– We can use TicTocs and similar but it’s a little hit
and miss– It doesn’t appear to be possible currently to easily
incorporate feeds from e.g. CINAHL although Pubmed, for instance, works just fine
Particular NHS challenges
Low levels of ICT literacy, in general Lack of WiFi capability NHS IT departments HATE cloud computing They REALLY hate social media – yet NHS
Mail allows you to send text messages directly and some Trusts even send out their own Tweets
(They’d hate PortableApps even more – introduced to these at UWE Gadget Day)
How will it affect us library-type people?
As deliverers and facilitators of information, we’re going to have to get used to competing with users incapable of switching off their smartphones – multitasking comes of age
Much shorter attention spans – use of tools like Prezi may be more useful in future
“Bite size” chunks User expectations – everything constantly at
“beta” (Google Scholar, anyone?!)
Completely miscellaneous Web 2.0/3.0 developments
Haptic arms Pinterest; Storify IFTT (“If This, Then That”
– Find many more at: www.go2web20.net– Webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com– C4lpt.co.uk/top100tools
http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2013 - future conference
Questions and contact details
Paula Younger, North Somerset Healthcare Library Weston General Hospital, Weston-super-
Mare BS23 4TQ [email protected] after 22 July
2013