The "Libraries Empowerment Manifesto"

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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/