Web 3.0 and Library 3.0

 

Mr. Rajesh Sahadeo Lokhande

Librarian, Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur.

 *Corresponding Author E-mail: rajeshlokhande.2010@rediffmail.com

Abstract:

Now a days  all our College students and researcher are born into a digital era that is significantly changing their literacy and information encounters and the ways they can learn. The reform of the early 21 th century was based on a set of values, where the patron should have the best possible access to and the possible benefit from library resources, all built on democratic values. The phrase "Web 2.0" was coined in 2003 by Dale Dougherty, a vice-president at O'Reilly Media, and the phrase became popular in 2004. The term ‘Web 3.0’ was first coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, and first appeared significantly in early 2006 in a Blog article “Critical of Web 2.0 and associated technologies such as Ajax” written by Jeffrey Zeldman. Now a days, Academic Library, as we still know it, could be called library 3.0. Library 3.0 is still under development, but Academic library services throughout the world are developing ways to integrate it into their services through methods such as RDA tags, metadata and other semantic web developments. In this paper discuss  aboutwhat is Web 3.0? and its impact on the Academic  libraries.

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

In recent years, many of the universities and educationalinstitutions world wide offer online services such as foradmissions, virtual (online) learning environments in order tofacilitate the lifelong learning and to make this compatible withother educational management activities.The reform of the early 20 th century was based on a set of values, where the patron should have the best possible access to and the best possible benefit from library resources, all built on democratic values. In respect of different versions of web, the Wikipedia states, “Web 1.0 is Read Only, static data with simple markup forreading. Web 2.0 is Read/ Write dynamic data through webservices customize websites and manage items. Web 3.0 is Read/ Write/ Execute."

 

Now a days  all our College students and researcher are born into a digital erathat is significantly changing theirliteracy and information encountersand the ways they can learn.Library and information science professionals around the world are deep in the midst ofimplementing user-generated content and social Web applications.Teacher librarians are always enthusiasticabout ways to revolutionizeknowledge discovery.According to Ohler, Imagine receiving an information report that uses the semantic web to draw together many sources, including websites, articles, scientific repositories, chapters in textbooks, blog dialogue, YouTube content, information stored on mobile phones, modelling in virtual environments, and in fact, relevant material from any source that is accessible via semantic techniques.

 

WEB 1.0, WEB 2.0:

The first implementation of the web represents the web 1.0, which, according to Berners-Lee, couldbe considered the “read-only web.”In web 1.0, a small number of writers created web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source. The WWW or Web 1.0 is a system ofinterlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

 

 

 

The phrase "Web 2.0" was coined in 2003 by Dale Dougherty, a vice-president at O'Reilly Media, and the phrase became popular in 2004.Web 2.0 technologies as outlined in are exemplified by blogs, namely easy to update websites abouta particular subject where entries are written in chronological order, picture sharing environments such as Flickr or Photobucket,social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio.us, video sharing suchas YouTube or music preferences such as Last FM.Web 2.0 transferred into the library world as library 2.0 can be seen as a loosely defined model for a modernized form of library services that reflects a transition in the way that services are delivered to users.

 

What is web 3.0:

The term ‘Web 3.0’ was first coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, and first appeared significantly in early 2006 in a Blog article “Critical of Web 2.0 and associated technologies such as Ajax” written by Jeffrey Zeldman. Major IT experts and researchers support different approaches to the future Web. There is complete agreement among the experts about how Web 3.0 will evolve. Below we discuss the opinions of pioneers in the field in this respect. Tim Berners-Lee, coined the term Semantic Web, and promotes the concept of conversion of Web into a big collection of databases [2].

 

Importantly, Web 3.0 is much more. It refers to a third generation of internetbased services that collectively will allow the emergence of the intelligent web – otherwise known as the semantic web.The specialist terminology of the semantic web has created a barrier to most people engaging with the topic.The semantic webrefers to the extension of the WorldWide Web through the embedding ofadditional semantic metadata, usingsemantic data modelling techniquessuch as RDF and OWL.The semantic web allows a person,or a computer, to start off in onedatabase, and then move throughan unending set of databases whichare connected, not by wires, but bybeing about the same thing.According to Ohler, underWeb 3.0 the web becomes ourpersonal learning agent, identifyingrelevant information from any sourcethat is semantically accessible, andproviding an information synthesistailored to our personal learningobjective.

 

 

Web 1.0/2.0/3.0 Summary :

 

Source: http://docsflippedclassroom.weebly.com/web-30---semantic-web-interactivity.html

 

FEATURES  OF WEB 3.0:

Through Web 3.0 applications, theuse of the internet will become more pervasive in the regular, day-to-day activities ofthe population.

 

The Web 3.0 Semantic Web.

The term ‘semantic web’ refers to the world of linked data. There is already a lot of work going into the idea of a semantic web, which is a web where all information is categorized and stored in such a way that a computer can understand it as well as a human.Part of the strength of the semantic web for academic libraries is that it allows library users to become resources themselves, and to make contributions towards managing information in a straightforward way, such as uncontrolled vocabularies that make search functions and information organisation seem more instinctive.

 

The World Wide Virtual Web 3.0.

This is a bit more of a far-fetched idea, but some have speculated that the popularity of virtual worlds and massively online games like World of Warcraft might lead to a web based on a virtual world.

 

The Ever-Present Web 3.0.

Not so much a prediction of what the Web 3.0 future holds so much as the catalyst that will bring it about, the ever-present Web 3.0 has to do with the increasing popularity of mobile Internet devices and the merger of entertainment systems and the Web.

 

Mobile library catalogues:

This is an area of informationaccess that academic  libraries need to support and engage in more fully.The use of mobile phones and mobile applications has increased dramatically overthe past 10 years.All libraries should cater to users who access their library through their phones orother mobile devices.Websites and OPACs – our virtual branches – need to be mobile devicecompliant and embracing user-generated content/capabilities.

 

WEB 3.0  AND LIBRARY 3.0:

Academic Libraries  must be ableto pay attention to upcoming trends enough that we appear to future-cast, taking ininformation about coming changes and sorting through the chaff of what is unlikely tocome to fruition, or what is unlikely to be relevant to our goals and activities.Now a days, Academic Library, as we still know it, could be called library 3.0. The reform of the early 21 th century was based on a set of values, where the patron should have the best possible access to and the possible benefit from library resources, all built on democratic values. Exploring Library3.0andBeyondhas been developed to help bring together someinformation about technological changes that are likely to impact Academic libraries inthe next decade.The web is an increasingly importantresource in many aspects of life: education, employment, government, commerce, health care,recreation, and more.Library 3.0 is still under development, but Academic library services throughoutthe world are developing ways to integrate it into their services through methods suchas RDA tags, metadata and other semantic web developments.

 

Library 3.0 and the technological changes that will follow it will be a vital and excitingpart of how libraries develop and extend their formal and informal learning programs. The Academic libraries improve our online resources, which will ensure that ourservices remain relevant to the communities we serve, and improve access toinformal self-education and lifelong learning opportunities. Libraries will continue to strategically assess and implement emergingtechnologies in order to service patrons accessing digital resources.

 

CONCLUSION:

Information andcontent has always been king. Web 3.0 and the semantic web heralda new era of information behaviorsand knowledge discovery.Through this discussion we can begin to understand both the traditional librarian and the untraditional librarian within Library  3.0.The 3D web, the semantic web, and the real world web, will all have a role to play in the future provision of library and information services. However, it is the real world web that is most likely to change the way users see the web – thus, this is the one most worthy of the 3.0 moniker.Web 3.0 may be the greatest challenge to the existinglibrary infrastructure because it promises to make vast amounts of machine-readabledata easily digestible in informal settings on cheap devices.Many people ponder the use of advanced artificial intelligence as the next big breakthrough on the web. One of the chief advantages of social media is that it factors in human intelligence.  In 21 th Century libraries did manage to get out of that meteor crater, we did get that stardust out of our eyes and we did manage to reform the public library services in accordance with the shift of paradigm that period procured.

 

SUGGESTION:

Academic Libraries to further develop Staff Training Strategies in order to meet anticipated demand by the community for assistance in accessing new technologies; include development of technology tool kits, web application programs. Consortia collaboration for e-resource purchasing such as e-books, e-journals and Next Generation Searching software.Librarians  must engage with technological advances and be unafraid to try new ways of doing what we do in the new electronic frontier.

 

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Received on 01.12.2015          Modified on 12.01.2016

Accepted on 15.03.2016         © A&V Publication all right reserved