1. Future Shock for Libraries: The Re-emergence of Orality Ruth Ann Jones, Special Collections Cataloger Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian for Electronic Resources Michigan State University Libraries
20. “ It is generally acknowledged that written and oral communication involve very different kinds of strategies: what works orally does not work in print, and vice versa.” and vice versa.” and vice versa.” and vice versa.” and vice versa.”
21. “ In the past several hundred years… we have been in the thrall of an assumption that written communication is primary and preferable.” primary and preferable.” primary and preferable.” primary and preferable.” primary and preferable.”
22. “ For various reasons, some social, some technological, we are at present in the process of shifting...” in the process of shifting...” in the process of shifting...”
23. “ ...so that we prefer and respond most appropriately to communication s in any mode couched in an oral framework.” an oral framework.” an oral framework.” an oral framework.”
24. Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. “Some of My Favorite Writers are Literate: The Mingling of Oral and Literate Strategies in Written Communication.” In Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy. Deborah Tannen, ed. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex, 1982 Deborah Tannen, ed. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex, 1982 Deborah Tannen, ed. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex, 1982
25. How do linguists understand the difference between printed communication and oral communication?
26. Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content Purpose: building connections Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous, less organized. Spontaneity valued as marker of emotional authencity. “ Autonomous” Writing carries entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels: gesture, expression, tone. Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
27. Do new forms of communication follow the oral model?
28. Blogs Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content. Purpose: building connections. Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous and less organized. “ Autonomous” Writing carries the entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels. Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
29. Listservs (also chat, Usenet, texting) Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content. Purpose: building connections. Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous and less organized. “ Autonomous” Writing carries the entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels: :-) Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
30. Some modes of oral communication have traditionally imitated print , but are evolving more purely oral forms. forms. forms.
31. The traditional conference: an oral communicative form that follows the written model Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content. Purpose: building connections. Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous and less organized. “ Autonomous” Writing carries the entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels. Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
32. The unconference: re-designing the traditional conference to follow an oral model Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content. Purpose: building connections. Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous and less organized. “ Autonomous” Writing carries the entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels. Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
34. Poetry readings vs. Poetry slams Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content. Purpose: building connections. Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous and less organized. “ Autonomous” Writing carries the entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels. Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
36. Books with QR codes Written model Oral model Purpose: transmission of content. Purpose: building connections. Planned in advance; well organized. Spontaneous but less organized. “ Autonomous” Writing carries the entire message. “ Non-autonomous” Supplemented by paralinguistic channels. Message goes one way: from writer to readers. Message goes two ways: between conversation participants.
37. the rise of oral history: evidence of a growing awareness that people who don’t write their stories still have something valuable to share evidence of a growing awareness that people who don’t write their stories still have something valuable to share
38. one last look at the oral model... much of the information we will have to preserve and organize in the future will have these characteristics purpose: building connections spontaneous and less organized supplemented by paralinguistic channels conversations going in all directions
67. We are experiencing a shift from preferring written communication styles to preferring oral communication styles. to preferring oral communication styles. to preferring oral communication styles.
http://www.civilwardata150.net/ CWD150 “is a collaborative project to share and connect civil war related data” “… uses Linked Data to enable the public to help make connections between disparate sets of data publicly available on the web.” Read the article from RWW on this project http://www.readwriteweb.com/arc hives/lookbackmaps_-_building_a_location-based_time_mach.php Also the blog from LookBackMap s http://lookbackmaps.net/blog/2010/09/01/announcing-new-website-for-civil-war-data-150-project/
Linked Data: These are the databases that are feeding each other. http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.html Definition of linked data ( http://linkeddata.org ): It is “about using the Web to connect related data that wasn’t previousl y linked”
Article citation is an example of linking with a context. It’s not exactly a linked data, but shows how one article relates to the other in a semi structured way. Each article has its own URI; each citation has its own URI as well, which then used as a link. This particular image is created by CiteSeer, an autonomous citation indexing. See http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu for more info.
Content creation and sharing made easy by social media application.
See http://www.intersectionconsulting.com/blog/?p=735
Wiki tend to be de facto of creating documents as well as collecting links.
Curated.by ( http://www.curated.by/ ) allows users to “collect and organize tweets into topic based streams that can be shared or embedded anywhere” This is sort of the “delicious” service ( http://www.delicious.c om ) for twitter.
BagTheWeb ( http://bagtheweb.com ) allows users to “ collect, publish, and share curated Web content in a simple and exciting way. Web content forms content networks, users form social networks, and content and social networks further connect.”
Keepstream ( http://keepstream.com/ ) allows one to curate content from social media (twitter, facebook) and other link of interest, and embed it to one’s website or blog.
Story telling Storify ( http://storify.com/ ) allows you to pull content streams from social web like twitter, flickr, and youtube video and create a strory. See the FAQ ( http://storify.com/ faq ) for more info.
See another example at http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer.aspx#2402354 Also, read article by Monica Sharma “ Unraveling the Dynamics of Digital Library Community: A Social Network Analysis Approach”, http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/Sharma/sharma.html