Library mashups
Mashups zijn webapplicaties die de inhoud van twee of meer bronnen samenbrengen tot één nieuwe, originele toepassing. Slim gebruikt kunnen ze bibliotheekwebsites en -catalogi meer dynamiek, een grotere zichtbaarheid en betere functionaliteit geven. Populaire mashups maken gebruik van kaarten – denk aan Google Maps – of remixen foto’s, video’s, RSS feeds, enz.
In Library mashups laat Nicole C. Engard een schare gerenommeerde early adopters aan het woord. Jenny Levine, Darlene Fichter, Tim Spalding, John blyberg, Karen A. Coombs, Joshua Ferraro en vele anderen implementeerden voor hun bibliotheken ...
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Commissaresse 2.0 - July 28, 2010 Author: de Commissaresse Tags: bronnenonderzoek
Sopac 2.0 and the Future of Social OPACS
sopac 2.0 and the Future of Social OPACSView more presentations from John blyberg.
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viva biblioteca viva - June 4, 2010 Author: Luísa Alvim
Organization 2.0: Building the Participatory Library with John Blyberg and Meredith Farkas
As anyone who had a Friendster account knows, Web 2.0 technologies are often a short spark rather than a slow burn. The same is true of institutions like libraries when they take the initiative in implementing these technologies are part of their online presence. While there are certainly libraries that have been successful in implementing blogs or a presence on Facebook, the web is littered with inactive library blogs, lifeless virtual library community and Facebook pages that are out-of-date.ALA TechSource is happy to announce the next in our series of Webinars, Organization 2.0: Building the Participatory Library with M...
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ALA TechSource Blog - April 26, 2010 Author: Daniel A. Freeman
Darien Library and Sopac
At Computers in Libraries 2010, John blyberg discussed the shareware software he created that he calls sopac, which is based on Drupal. The sopac is designed around the concept of a social online catalog. The library's collection is presented online and built around the community, which includes patrons and library staff. John's library site, http://www.darienlibrary.org/, for Darien Library, is a wonderful example of sopac. Some of the features I enjoy the most are the excellent use of community tags and the community created reviews. Library Staff periodically tag books they like with "staff favorites" and the reade...
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The Centered Librarian - April 14, 2010 Author: John Sandstrum
CIL2010: Sopac 2.1: Digital Strategy for the New Library
CIL2010: sopac 2.1: Digital Strategy for the New Library
This was a presentation from John blyberg from Darien Library in Connecticut. What is sopac? It’s a social OPAC built on the Drupal content management system. The impetus behind sopac was to take a best of breed content management system that was open source and merge it with the catalog.
John says: “You may have the best website in the world, but when your user click on Catalog–BOOM, they’re in the ghetto.”
Ann Arbor wanted to create an online persona and identity connected with the library.
Three libraries currently running sopac are Darien Libr...
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LibrarianInBlack - April 13, 2010 Author: Sarah Tags: Uncategorized
Darien Library, One Year Later
Darien Library has long been known for its “extreme customer service” and for making every Darien experience the best that it can be. When the proposal to expand the old library building fell through, administrators Louise Berry and Alan Kirk Gray applied these same principles to dreaming Darien Library all up again. The resulting new building opened in January 2009 to much fanfare and many awards, including being featured on the cover of Library Journal's Design Issue. I spoke recently with Darien’s John blyberg and Gretchen Caserotti and asked them to reflect on the past year and on what lies ahead for this C...
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ALA TechSource Blog - February 3, 2010 Author: Cindi Trainor
Library Mashups 1 – Sopac 2.0: the trashable, mashable catalog
Per far conoscere Library mashups: exploring new ways to deliver library data, ho pensato di inaugurare una serie di post dedicati ai vari capitoli. Affinché l’impostazione non sia troppo burocratica, non procederò proprio in sequenza. Comincerò la serie con una delle puntate più avvincenti: quella sul capitolo 12, sopac 2.0: The Trashable, Mashable Catalog, scritto da John blyberg e dedicato a sopac (Social OPAC), l’interfaccia web per i cataloghi di biblioteca creata da blyberg medesimo, bravissimo programmatore e appassionato di open source e biblioteche.
sopac nasce nel 2005 come un progetto open so...
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The Geek Librarian - November 8, 2009 Author: bonaria Tags: Cult Library Library 2.0 Library Tools Opac Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy Web Web 2.0 Web Tools library mashups social opac sopac
Sopac 2.0 Libraries
The Ann Arbor District Library is now live with sopac 2.0 (a librarian-created open source next-generation web catalog system, a.k.a. a catalog overlay system). Two other libraries are live as well if you’re looking for sample implementations: Darien Library and Palos Verdes Library District. John blyberg is a genius, and I’m glad that more libraries are profiting from his genius by using sopac.
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LibrarianInBlack - September 29, 2009 Author: Sarah Tags: Uncategorized
Library 2.0 Gang 08/09: Social OPACs
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There is more to the term Social OPAC than meets the eye, as we found out when we brought together this month’s guest Beth Jefferson from Bibliocommons with Gang regular John blyberg.
Bibliocommons has spent the last couple of years realising their ambition of delivering a social OPAC service for Canadian libraries. This centrally hosted service, although architected differently, shares the same motivations as John’s sopac project to add value to the OPAC user’s experience with social features.
Following an overview of each, gang regulars Nicole Engard, and Marshall Breeding joined in the conversation to...
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ALA TechSource Blog - August 7, 2009 Author: Richard Wallis Tags: Library 2.0 Gang
Upcoming book: Library Mashups
If you're interested in Library 2.0 and library technology generally, you might want to pre-order Library mashups : exploring new ways to deliver library data (website), a collection of articles on innovative ways to use (and abuse) library data. I haven't read it yet, except for the chapter I wrote, "Breaking into the OPAC." I'm looking forward to many, including one on John blyberg/Darien Library's sopac and something on "Zack Bookmaps," an effort to show local library copies of a book, without using OCLC. There's also a chapter on the LibraryThing API and libraries, written by Robin Hastings. Nicole Engard (a LibraryThi...
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Thing-ology (LibraryThing's ideas blog) - July 20, 2009 Tags: books
Een sociale catalogus in de praktijk: Palos Verdes Library
John blyberg meldde woensdag op zijn weblog dat de Palos Verdes Library in Californië sopac 2 in gebruik heeft genomen.sopac 2 staat voor 'Versie twee van the Social Opac', een vrij beschikbare, open source catalogus met 'sociale features'. Deze door blyberg gebouwde catalogus won in maart een prijs.Ik heb inmiddels niet meer de illusie dat open systemen als sopac op de korte termijn een kans maken in het door geld en macht verziekte cataloguslandschap van Nederland of Europa. Daar wil ik dan ook geen woorden meer aan vuil maken.Ik heb nog wel de hoop dat bibliotheken dezelfde doelen nastreven als Darien Library en alleen...
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Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek - July 17, 2009 Tags: sopac 2.0 Palos Verdes Library digitale diensten biblitoheken Open Source Catalogi John blyberg bibliotheekcatalogi sociale catalogi
Congrats to John Blyberg
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John accepts his award, originally uploaded by louise.berry.
John blyberg is the 2009 recipient of the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award for his development of the Social OPAC application suite (http://thesocialopac.net), also known as sopac (for Social Online Public Access Catalog). sopac is a suite of open source software (OSS) tools that brings the power of social computing and Web 2.0 to the library catalog. The current version of...
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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology - July 15, 2009 Author: Michael Tags: Library 2.0/Web 2.0
PVLD Goes Live with Sopac
I knew it was coming, but it wasn’t until I got back from ALA that I was able to head over to pvld.org and see for myself that sopac2 was live on the Palos Verdes Library District web site.
Palos Verdes, working with Crafty Space, has moved to sopac2 and in the process contributed back to the project some much-needed multi-branch support which will be included in the forthcoming 2.1 release, later this summer.
This launch comes right on the heels of receiving the 2009 LITA Brett Butler Award for the sopac project. So I’m feeling really good about sopac right now and especially about the community that is begi...
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blyberg.net - July 15, 2009 Author: john
Koha & Sopac
A few months ago, I was excited to read that the amazing developers at Biblibre were working on integrating Koha into John blyberg’s sopac. Well, Biblibre has announced a demo of their sopac/Koha installation on their blog. The post was in French, so I’ll summarize for you.
You can access their very awesome demo online at: http://demo.sopac.biblibre.com/. It is important to remember this is just a test install for us to test and for them to play with – so if you have comments as you poke around, be sure to contact them and let them know what you learned.
Technorati Tags: sopac, koha
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What I Learned Today... - July 9, 2009 Author: Nicole Tags: Open Source sopac koha
Framtid, samsökning, knutpunkter och veckans tips
Oj, det var en stund sedan jag skrev något. Det beror nog mest på att jag gjort saker. Jag är kluven till sammanfattningar och “klumpinlägg”. Men jag orkar nog inte skriva flera inlägg om saker som jag sett eller gjort det sista.
I veckan som gick var jag och Cecilia Petersson från Uppsala UB och arbetsgruppade med Örebro UB. Efter att SUHF:s arbetsgrupp för framtida biblioteksfrågor avslutat sitt arbete har vi fått en del förfrågningar om att komma och prata. Jag och Cecilia förberedde ett litet seminarium för Örebro UB som vi senare planerar att upprepa med några andra. Upplägget är att vi p...
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betabib - June 18, 2009 Author: daniel.forsman Tags: Gjort Konferenser Njutbart veckans tips API JULIA LIBRIS opac Samsök SUHF xerxes
Breaking the Open Source Barriers 2009
I seem to be spending lots of time on trains recently. This time I’m on my way back from the OpenLibraries Open Source Breaking the Barriers 2009 conference held at RIBA in London.
Jointly organised by Ken Chad Consulting and PTFS Europe, this was an interesting day, although I think it would have been better titled the Open Source in Libraries Conference, but that’s probably just me.
The UK library world hasn’t really stepped on the Open Source ILS/LMS band-wagon yet. At most, interest so far has been of the ‘watching developments across the Atlantic’ type. So for many, today was the first chan...
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panlibus - May 18, 2009 Author: Richard Wallis Tags: Jangle Juice Libraries Open Source Talis Open Source'); oslibeu09'); Juce'); Jangle'); Ex Libris'); Evergreen'); Koha');
Ten Ways to Encourage the Tribe*
Download the Virginia Beach Version of the Slides here.
The good folks at Virginia Beach Public Libraries asked me back this year to talk about building community with social tools. This was perfect timing because I had just read Peter Block’s Community: The Structure of Belonging and I’ve been working on an article and interview about/with Seth Godin for Digital Bibliotek magazine. His book Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us has figured prominently into my thinking and teaching so far this year.
I always appreciate this type of synchronicity. Jenny Levine introduced me to Peter Block’s book - a fascinating look a...
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Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology - May 17, 2009 Author: Michael Tags: Conferences & Presentations Librarians, Libraries & the Profession Library 2.0/Web 2.0 Library Innovators Library Technology Micro-Content: Twitter & More Teens & Libraries
ALA awards
ALA is announcing Clara Nalli Bohrer, director, West Bloomfield Township Public Library, as the 2009 winner of the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children Award.John blyberg is the 2009 recipient of the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award for his development of the Social OPAC application suite, also known as sopac (for Social Online Public Access Catalog).The Library & Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association, has announced the 2009 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The winner...
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - March 15, 2009
Congrats John Blyberg!
Just received word of this announcement: 2009 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award winner announcedJohn blyberg is the 2009 recipient of the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award for his development of the Social OPAC application suite (http://thesocialopac.net), also known as sopac (for Social Online Public Access Catalog). sopac is a suite of open source software (OSS) tools that brings the power of social computing and Web 2.0 to the library catalog. The current version of sopac (2.0) was developed and implemented by blyberg at the Darien Library in Connecticut. sopac has also successfully been implemented on ...
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LibraryBytes - March 10, 2009
Can library techies rock Drupal?
The Internet has leveled the publishing playing field, according to common wisdom. No need to maneuver your way past print’s gatekeepers, just learn a little HTML and you’re off! No wait, that’s not quite it...not everyone wanted to devote time and energy to learning HTML. The level playing field had a few bumps. Blogs were supposed to solve that problem, so that if you felt compelled to share your thoughts with the world, you get yourself a blog.Content Management Systems may have provided that level playing field for organizations. A CMS distributes the work of website updates and maintenance to many em...
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ALA TechSource Blog - January 5, 2009 Author: Kate Sheehan
ground breaking news
I was so incredibly pleased to read this. really makes my monday.my webmaster has been getting his feet wet with drupal, and I have been encouraging him to get involved at drupalforliband I really really hope he does so we can explore a move towards sopac more to come (fingers crossed)technorati tags:library-20, library2.0, library 2.0, libraries, sirsidynix, drupal, sopac, blyberg
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rambleonsylvie - November 17, 2008 Tags: library-20 library2.0 library 2.0 libraries sirsidynix drupal sopac blyberg
Sopac for Sirsi? Yes we can.
Sean Robinson from Allen County Public Library has just posted a HOWTO on getting sopac to work with Sirsi. This makes them the first to write a Locum connector for another ILS. This means that sopac can now be used with Innovative’s Millennium and Sirsi.
Anyone else? Koha? Evergreen?
Announcement on TheSocialOPAC.net
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blyberg.net - November 14, 2008 Author: john
AADL planning Sopac 2 release in early 2009
One reason that you should send in comments through the library comment form: you get heads up on new development. From Eli Neiburger in mail:Hey, Ed, thanks for passing this along. The III catalog does not handle unicode very well as you can see; this should be resolved with sopac 2 which we plan to roll out in early 2009. We won't be using III's catalog results anymore; results will come from a Sphinx search of harvested bib records. Stay tuned!Eli notes that there is a working version of the new catalog (very rough) available for preview, but the way the network address for it is routed it's only available in the buil...
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Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net - November 11, 2008 Author: Ed
Craftyspace now supports Sopac
Great news if you’re thinking about sopac but don’t have the expertise in-house to pull it off: Craftyspace has announced that they are now offering sopac integration with their YourLibrarySite product. Their first client? Palos Verdes Library District.
Read more at thesocialopac.net.
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blyberg.net - November 6, 2008 Author: john
Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference, Part 4: John Blyberg - Public Library 2.0: making it happen
[From Part 3]John blyberg (tall, lanky and soft-spoken) spoke about User Experience (UX).“Public Library 2.0: Making it Happen”View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: worlds bridging)"UX allows us to pursue X-treme User Experience".His library carried through this conviction by setting up a team to look into user experiences on and offline."We must present it in a way to have consistency in communication". What John suggests is, in my view, for librarians to be brand savvy. Starting by being brand conscious.John explained the key values of UX:SimplicityImagination - exploring the limits of technology, a...
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Rambling Librarian :: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian - October 22, 2008 Author: Ivan Chew
Solving the OPAC Problem
John blyberg & Chris Barr
http://thesocialopac.net
Can you customize your opac NO
No personalization
Horrible logins!!
aadl.org sopac 1.0
Internet portal for online library experience
Not enough customizations
Drupal, tagging, reviews, ratings, comments
Issues with critical mass
Tags reviews not representative
Social data not searchable
sopac 2.0
Locum - discovery layer
Write an ILS connector for your ILS
Abstractions of connectors
Social data engine for libraries - Insurge
Shared social data between libraries much richer data set
Everything is done within the drupal framework
Search tags in the catalog and tags are p...
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Library Web Chic - October 21, 2008 Author: Karen Tags: Notes from the Field nexgen catalog
Internet Librarian 2008: Solving the OPAC Problem
Internet Librarian 2008: Solving the OPAC Problem
John blyberg & Chris Barr
John blyberg started with his presentation: sopac2, the Social OPAC. John started by saying "OPACS fail." OPACS do not allow for enough personalization or customization because of the way the vendors have locked down the product. As a patron you can't go in and make it feel like it is yours. And most importantly, while the rest of the world seems to understand the idea that you create a web presence and unify all of your services into one place with a single log-in that doesn't involve a 14-digit barcode log...
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LibrarianInBlack - October 21, 2008
Audio Interview With John Blyberg Creator Of Sopac The Social OPAC
If you don't know about the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data, you're really missing out. sopac (Social Online Public Access Catalog) is a Drupal module that provides true integration of your library catalog system with the power of the Drupal content management system while allowing users to tag, rate, and review your holdings. User input is then incorporated into the discovery index so that sopac becomes a truly community-driven catalog system.
I Talked With John about sopac, and how it's used. (note: the recording got a bit messy, our voices end up overlapping...
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LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News - October 19, 2008 Author: Blake Tags: Cataloging Internet Interviews Technology
Audio Interview With John Blyberg Creator Of Sopac The Social OPAC
If you don't know about the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data, you're really missing out. sopac (Social Online Public Access Catalog) is a Drupal module that provides true integration of your library catalog system with the power of the Drupal content management system while allowing users to tag, rate, and review your holdings. User input is then incorporated into the discovery index so that sopac becomes a truly community-driven catalog system.
I Talked With John about sopac, and how it's used. (note: the recording got a bit messy, our voices end up overlapping...
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LISNews.org - October 19, 2008 Author: Blake Tags: Cataloging Internet Interviews Technology
John Blyberg Talks with Talis about Sopac 2.0Panlibus » Podcast
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Talking with Talis - October 8, 2008 Author: Richard Wallis
