Massive Scale Librarianship
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The document discusses the overwhelming scale of data generated from various sources, predicting substantial growth in data collection and its implications for librarianship. It emphasizes the need for libraries to adapt and embrace massive-scale computing to enhance their mission and remain relevant in the information field. The document also highlights ethical considerations and the responsibility of libraries in managing and leveraging this data effectively.
Massive Scale Librarianship
- 1. Massive Scale Librarianship R. David Lankes and IST 676 http://drew.syr.edu/MSL http://www.DavidLankes.org
- 2. Soon Every Mile of Road will Generate a Gigabyte of data a day Road Sensors, Real-Time Traffic Data, Weather Information, Toll Data, Car Black Boxes It is assumed that this will become a gigabyte an hour. As there are 3.5 million miles of highways in the U.S. that would be 3.3 petabytes of data per hour, or 28 exabytes per year. Gigabyte per Mile
- 3. Exabyte?! http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/datapowers.html Byte 1 byte: a single character; Kilobyte 2 Kilobytes: A typewritten page; Megabyte 2 Megabytes: A high resolution photograph; Gigabyte 2 Gigabytes: 20 meters of shelved books Terabyte 2 Terabytes: An academic research library Petabyte 2 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries; Exabyte 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by humans. Zettabyte Yottabyte
- 4. Imagine I Give you a Large Piece of Paper (.01” thick) You Fold It And Fold It Again...50 Times How Tall Would It Be? Approximately the Distance Between the Earth and the Sun Paper Experiment -Gladwell Tipping Point
- 5. Predictable Change Unlike the Web, Massive Scale Computing is “Foreseeable” Moore’s LAW Storage is Exceeding Moore’s Law
- 6. Issues Privacy Total Information Awareness (DARPA) Ethics of Involvement Unintended Censorship Commercialization and Scarcity Radar Data Unintended Consequences AOL Search Logs Security eVoting and Diebold Preservation: Migration and Emulation The Abandoned Grad Student at DRI Culture and Control Google goes to China Cognition and Perceptual Scarcity A weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000. (Wurman) Scalability and Sustainability Ask.com operations VP Dayne Sampson estimates that the five leading search companies together have some 2 million servers, each shedding 300 watts of heat annually, a total of 600 megawatts. These are linked to hard drives that dissipate perhaps another gigawatt. Fifty percent again as much power is required to cool this searing heat, for a total of 2.4 gigawatts. With a third of the incoming power already lost to the grid's inefficiencies, and half of what's left lost to power supplies, transformers, and converters, the total of electricity consumed by major search engines in 2006 approaches 5 gigawatts...almost enough to power the Las Vegas metropolitan area – with all its hotels, casinos, restaurants, and convention centers – on the hottest day of the year.
- 7. Options? Catalog it All Tried It Ignore It Commercialization of Data Stewardship Dissolution of the Library as Institution? Continued Reduction to a Niche Player Limit the Library Selection versus Intellectual Freedom Embrace It The Ethical Responsibility of LIS Education
- 8. Knowledge is Created through Conversation Conversation Theory Scalable Intra-individual, Inter-personal. Organizational Artifacts are Simply By-Products Participatory Librarianship http://iis.syr.edu /
- 9. Mission of the Participatory Library To facilitate the knowledge creation of its community through conversation
- 10. Socratic Method Book Groups Programs Speaker Series Story Time Reference Collection Development Preservation Not Really New
- 11. The Hidden Item Focus LIS Theory Development Evaluation Difficulty Incorporating All Library Functions CORC, LII Bibliofundamentalism An Extreme that Sees the Role of the Library as a Haven of Order and Quality Ultimate Focus on Collection NOT SCALABLE! not so
- 12. Did it Rain June 18th in Yellowstone? How Sure Are You? Yes
- 14. Example Library
- 15. CONVERSATIONS Library Lib.Local PEOPLE, Reference Transactions, blog posts, wikis, events, annotations, books, articles, digital images.... Lib.Network PEOPLE, Reference Transactions, blog posts, wikis, events, annotations, books, articles, digital images.... Institutions Governments, Humanities Massive Data Research results, sensor data, imagery, interaction data Web Resources Commerce, videos, search engines, general web available information
- 16. CONVERSATIONS Library Lib.Local PEOPLE, Reference Transactions, blog posts, wikis, events, annotations, books, articles, digital images.... Lib.Network PEOPLE, Reference Transactions, blog posts, wikis, events, annotations, books, articles, digital images.... Web Resources Commerce, videos, search engines, general web available information Institutions Governments, Humanities Massive Data Research results, sensor data, imagery, interaction data
- 17. To Ignore the Implications of Massive Scale Computing is Dangerous. It Abdicates Serious Decisions and Consequences to Others Massive Scale Librarianship is an Opportunity to Not Only Enhance the Mission of the Library, but Proactively Position Librarians at the Forefront of the Information Field...Where they Belong Engage!