The "Libraries Empowerment Manifesto"

Lightning talk given by Adrian Pohl at #swib13

Transcript

1. The “Libraries Empowerment Manifesto” Adrian Pohl Lightning Talk @SWIB13, 2013-11-27
2. Goal the formation and development of an international library ecosystem that  is future-proof  empowers libraries to easily adapt their workflows & services as needed
3. Obstacles  standards that may be open but opaque and domain-specific  dependance on products few vendors  closed interfaces  little web integration  desired adaptations may take time (if they are implemented at all)
4. What is helpful: openness on different levels
5. in the last years, libraries began sharing data and software for creating, storing, manipulating & presenting this data
6. Source: https://www.kuali.org/ole/partners
7. Source: https://github.com/libris/librisxl/issues
8. Source: https://github.com/culturegraph/
9. 9 Sources: https://www.finna.fi/ & https://github.com/KDK-Alli
10. Source: https://www.kuali.org/ole/partners
11. Source: http://librecat.org/
12. 12 Source: https://github.com/gbv
13. Source: https://github.com/lobid/lodmill
14. and many more...
15. How to achieve wide adoption of this model on an international scale?
16. 1st step: bringing together people and institutions that are already moving in this direction
17. ? man·i·fes·to: a written statement that describes the policies, goals, and opinions of a person or group
18. a manifesto? man·i·fes·to: a written statement that describes the policies, goals, and opinions of a person or group Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto
19. Introducing „Libraries Empowerment Manifesto“
20. or:
21. „fundamental aspects of the way to communicate and get stuff done in an open, collaborative distributed environment“
22.  Openness  Transparency  Inclusion  Meritocracy  Reuse  Credit
23. Interested? - Get involved (version 1.0 has still to be finalized) ➔ Discuss ➔ Comment ➔ Improve ➔ Endorse (not possible yet)
24. Living document: http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/LEM
25. Thanks. Contact: pohl@hbz-nrw.de or @acka47 25
26. License 26 Pohl: Libraries Empowerment Manifesto These slides are published under the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/