Monday 13 April 2009

Definition of Web/Library 2.0

According to Tim O'Reilly "Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Wen 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of the platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an 'architecture of participation', and going beyond the page metaphor of the Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences" (O'Reilly, T., 2005-2009).

From this definition it is clear that the web 2.0 is a platform of networking between one individual with another individual or may be the community as whole where the information or data could be transparent to others. Basically the Library 2.0 is application of interactive and multi-media web-based technologies as to web-based library services and collections. These really suite the libraries aim as to provide information or data that valuable to the users as not only within the libraries building but across the wider scope with the use of technologies where it could reach the whole world. These is a clear cut definition about the technologies Web/Library 2.0 could change the environment of Libraries in providing useful, quality and valuable information to the users need and satisfaction.

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