Really just pointing to other places on the web regarding Talis’ recent talk and paper on the idea of library 2.0, based on the ideas behind 2.0. I found most of these after doing a search on Technorati.
ALA techsource: Do Libraries Matter: On Library & Librarian 2.0
‘Infomation takes over’: Library 2.0 at Talis Insight 2005
The shifted librarian: Prepare Yourself for Library 2.0
Library Crunch: who controls it?
The original paper can be found here.
I don’t have much to say on it, it certainly seems like the right direction (though it is so hard to know what is the right direction). My main complaint about Talis is that for the last year or so they have made lots of noise about rss/blogs/cool web things, but their flagship web product, Prism (web interface to library catalogue) has been sitting there with no new releases. I want to see some of these ideas in to Prism asap.
One response to “Library 2.0, web 2.0 and Talis”
Hello Chris,
A quick introduction – my name is Simon Coffey and I’m the Products Group Manager here at Talis. At the Talis Insight 2005 Conference on 15th/16th November we introduced our thinking on the subject of Library 2.0 and set out our technical vision for this domain based on the Talis Platform.
As part of this, we demonstrated a new version of Prism, version 3.0, that is built using the Talis Platform and includes support for CSS, Google-like search and suggest and display of Rich Data from the Talis Demeter service.
We’ll be continuing to work on this new product, which is in production, over the next months in addition to further development for the Prism 2.0 product. If you want to find out more, drop me a mail and I’ll happily arrange to show you what we’re doing right now.
Oh, and by the way, as a past-resident of Brighton for 15 years and student at Sussex University – how is the new Library in the City Centre? I can’t wait to visit.
Regards,
Simon Coffey.