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It’s not filter failure
It’s a discovery deficit
RLUK 11 November 2010, Edinburgh
or
Thankyou Clay Shirkey.
Now where’s my **** filter?
Some of the people
who contributed to
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Plausible Accuracy
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Dupuis
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Clay Shirky
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  Willighagen
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  Stodden
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Paul Walk
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Waldrop
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It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
Back to them later...
Me: A brief history
Finished highschool 1990...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/105716382 CC-BY
Undergrad 1991-94
First email addresss -1991
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/3046589822 CC-BY-SA
“You need to spend half a
day a week in the library
reading the new journals”
My project supervisor, 1994
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486261295 CC-BY-SA
PhD 1995-99
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990421174831/www.sciencemag.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/19990208214440/http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
Over the course of my PhD...
...day to day search went from...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/486261295 CC-BY-SA
...to...
http://web.archive.org/web/19990208214440/http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
The last generation to
remember “the library”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhoweaa/436923541 CC-BY
Who are you?
“RLUK's vision is that the UK
should have the best research
library support in the world”
...the people who have to deliver
US Defence Department: 090807-N-5749W-394.jpg
...with limited resources
http://www.flickr.com/photos/picsbycam/3564466980 CC-BY
So where is the most value?
We share a problem
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532 CC-BY-SA
Too much stuff...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miczanin/4726970804 CC-BY-SA
Too little resource
For me the resource is...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbie73/3387189144 CC-BY-SA
...for you it is...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukumbura/4052671706 CC-BY-SA
Information overload...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylanroscover/3450505729 CC-BY-SA
Filter failure?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyll/332723930
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biscuitsmlp/2247299538 CC-BY
A discovery deficit.
Filters block.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emperley3/4705354106 CC-BY-SA
The right filter for you?
Right filter for now?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotzman/3595748169 CC-BY
Filters makes sense
in a broadcast world
http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0dlx/506786451 CC-BY-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baccharus/4473818003 CC-BY
Someone had to choose...
...you had to choose
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notramstolimestreet/4089688772 CC-BY
Centralised filters were required.
But today looks
more like this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraz5356/4754482759 CC-BY
Floods of information...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/4289349768 CC-BY
...content from all directions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/4418399902 CC-BY
This is a good thing...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62337512@N00/3958637561 CC-BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flavinsky/3410980137 CC-BY
Every reader their book....
...for every moment,
and every problem
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/290711738 CC-BY-SA
Every book its reader...
Every book its reader...
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
All we need to do
is connect them...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrian_s/8271860 CC-BY
Save the time of the reader.
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Average Capacity of Human Librarian
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicjeep/2065043917 CC-BY
One person is not enough...
...but neither is a
gated community
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/3759152528
“Skulls don’t scale”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolune/5117452872 CC-BY-SA
David Weinberger
Networks scale
Discovery deficit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/4078337883 Public Domain
Is search the answer?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezioman/2095747903 CC-BY
A blunt instrument...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemay/1430449350 CC-BY
...not every problem is a nail
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bb_matt/207102083 CC-BY
Social networks scale
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
Social aggregation...
...but still too much content
It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.
Social annotation
Each interaction adds value...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr/1263648697 CC-BY-SA
...and each
interaction
measures
value...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3209939998 CC-BY
...adding to my collection...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klmircea/3210506796 CC-BY-SA
...indexing and curating
http://www.flickr.com/photos/koalazymonkey/3650487959 CC-BY
My collection.
My collection.
Not your collection.
My professional mission as a librarian is this:
Help people build their own libraries.
That's it. That's all I care about.
Daniel Chudnov, Library of Congress
http://onebiglibrary.net/story/because-this-is-the-business-weve-chosen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackplastic/1433817953 CC-BY-SA
Democratization?
You need us...
...alll of us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmoross/3947406286 CC-BY
But we also need you.
Whither “the library”?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhoweaa/436923541 CC-BY
Books are for use.
Every reader their book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
The library is a growing organism.
Simply connect.
People with content...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7/2382514343 CC-BY
...content with content...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nufkin/243437309 CC-BY
...but above all...
Connect people with people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622
The library as the
engine of discovery.
Through open
frameworks. Open data.
Open communities.
You provide the framework...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/300325809 CC-BY-SA
We’ll provide the people
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA
Don’t think about filtering.
Don’t think about control.
Enable discovery.
cn@cameronneylon.net
http://cameronneylon.net
http://slideshare.net/cameronneylon
Twitter: @cameronneylon
Friendfeed: cameronneylon
Thanks to:
Sciencetwists, Friendfeeders, and the wider online
community for ideas, criticism, and conversations.
Deepak Singh, Larry Lessig, Andy Powell, and
John Wilbanks for presentation inspiration.
Flickr for images

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It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.