Ready for Web 3.0? ALPSP Seminar July 2010 David R Worlock The tower as an image of change … The step as an image of progress… The Logic of Change • Keyword searching in 1979 • Thesaurus to taxonomy • Algorithms and Inference Rules Information Services and Solutions Value Model User Desktop High Level Analytics Decision Support Integrated Content Solutions Mapping and Visualization Abstracting and Indexing Secondary Content - review articles, encyclopaedias, textbooks, monographs, conference proceedings Primary Research - journal articles, report, published correspondence, market research, statistical reporting, ‘grey’ literature Workflow in Research • Researchers seek solutions • Search must be cross-media • Mark-up and metadata must respond to the demands of the user • Data mining , searching unstructured data and data integration are vital to researcher solutions Where are we now – in the aftermath of Web 2.0 ? • Community – in full flood • Workflow – proving more difficult than we thought ? • Vertical Search – vital , but did we fully understand the implications ? • Somewhere we forgot the drivers – productivity , improved decision-making , cheaper costs of compliance , better risk management – but our users did NOT Web 3.0 : death by numbers • • • • Commoditization of content Democratization of creation Information overload New publishing forms – from 3D to mobile • BUT where is the MEANING in all of this ? What do we need next ? • improved search dynamics , better taxonomy , more semantic recognition ? • OR RDF , Triples , effective taxonomic and inference rule environments ? • And is there a gradual , step-by-step approach – or a Big Bang ? • It is not the strongest of the species that survive , nor the most intelligent , but the one most responsive to change Charles Darwin Who is Davd Worlock ? • David R Worlock blogs at • www.davidworlock.com and can be contacted at • david@davidworlock.com