After the Dinosaur Killer: Adaptation and Survival
Michael Pelikan – Information Sciences and Technology Librarian, Penn University
This is a Recap of a talk from 3 years ago
Standards
Elements
Vocabulary
DRM-predicted that it would be solved at network level
10 years ago there was a forecast by F.W. Lancaster that
Libraries will be seen as a drain on the academic community
Who is the dinosaur?
Unintended consequences – king kong vs dino (world view of both similar)
Universities will bypass traditional publishing model.
Business model gives publishers money to print
Patron’s worldview
World is in their hand=ambient findability
Searchable information where they need it
Problem-you can only search for words/not ideas
Academon – pays for student papers and sells them, giving royalties back to the author.
CiteSeer- (experimental project)
Google Scholar inspired by citeseer
Their acquisition of jotspot (wiki hosting) building of communties shows beginning of business model totally supported by advertising.
Most valuable information on the web today=your clicks (click forensics—traffic)
Click throughs and web logs gives you 100% sample rate that is accessible through machine analysis.
Nemesis (book) describes the problem with inherited knowledge, and not creating new ideas (instead just re-harvesting previously created ideas.)
