Status of Library 2.0 Model in Cape Town Public Libraries

Mousaion ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baganda Herman Muhambe ◽  
Gavin Davis
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Social Bookmarking ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The Library 2.0 model is one of many library service models. It has its origin in and has borrowed concepts from Web 2.0, which is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information-sharing, interoperability, user-centred design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The focus of Library 2.0 is on user-centred change and participation in the creation of content. The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of Library 2.0 in the libraries of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality (hereafter City of Cape Town) and the challenges they encountered in using Library 2.0 technologies to deliver services. The website of the City of Cape Town Library and Information Services Department was visited to explore the implementation and usage of Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, really simple syndication (RSS), wikis, social networking, and social bookmarking. In addition, data were obtained from an interview conducted with the manager at the said department in charge of technical services, which included the implementation of new technologies. It was found that City of Cape Town libraries were slow in adopting Library 2.0 technologies in their services—there was no evidence on the website of the use of popular Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing/-streaming, RSS, social bookmarking, and mash-ups. The research shed some light on the Web 2.0 tools used by public libraries other than those in Cape Town and it also highlighted how they were used and what their benefits were. More importantly, the research demonstrated the need for public libraries to embed Web 2.0 tools in their services and to keep abreast with and embrace emerging technologies.

scholarly journals PHP modernization approach generating KDM models from PHP legacy code

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-255
Author(s):  
Amine Moutaouakkil ◽  
Samir Mbarki
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Legacy System ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Software Artifacts ◽  
Target Platform ◽  
Web Systems

With the rise of new web technologies such as web 2.0, Jquery, Bootstrap. Modernizing legacy  web systems to  benefit from the advantages of the new technologies is more and more relevant. The migration of a system from an environment to another is a time and effort consuming process, it involves a complete rewrite of the application adapted to the target platform. To realize this migration in an automated and standardized way, many approaches have tried to define standardized engineering processes. Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) defines an approach to standardize and automate the reengineering process.  We defined an ADM approach to represent PHP web applications in the highest level of abstraction models. To do this, we have used software artifacts as a entry point . This paper describes the extraction process, which permits discovering and understanding of the legacy system. And generate models to represent the system in an abstract way.

Smart Planning

2018 ◽  
pp. 601-632
Author(s):  
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Application Field ◽  
Planning Culture ◽  
Technology Trend ◽  
Characteristic Process

This chapter discusses the ability of new technologies to support collective intelligence. The technology trend brought into the spotlight is Web 2.0 because it has a great potential to contribute to the refined understanding of planning issues. Such an application field can be called Collective Intelligence 2.0 with crowdsourcing as its characteristic process. This chapter discusses how such an intelligence and crowd-sourced knowledge can be utilized in smartening up urban planning. Crowdsourcing has been experimented in urban planning since the late 2000s, most notably in the forms of wikiplanning, participatory sensing, and co-creation. By combining theoretical insights and empirical evidence, this chapter concludes that Web 2.0 tools can be used to increase various forms of social and collective intelligence and, especially when the precondition of citizen-centered open planning culture is met, have undeniable potential to smarten up urban planning.

Web 2.0 From Evolution to Revolutionary Impact in Library and Information Centers

2019 ◽  
pp. 519-530
Author(s):  
Zahid Ashraf Wani ◽  
Tazeem Zainab ◽  
Shabir Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Select Group ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

A key element of the technology is that it allows people to create, share, collaborate, and communicate. The Web 2.0 differs from ordinary websites as it does not require any web design or publishing skills to participate, making it easy for people to create and publish or communicate their work to the world. The nature of this technology makes it an easy and popular way to communicate information to either a select group of people or to a much wider audience. The Web 2.0 paradigm has gained substantial momentum in the last decade. The influence of Web 2.0 principles and technologies has fueled an explosion of information and media content on the web, and individual and corporate adoption of the technologies continues to rise. In this milieu, it is imperative to understand and learn about the present and evolving Web 2.0 tools and their application in different walks of life. The proposed study made an endeavor to dig deep into the genesis, development, and application of various Web 2.0 tools in library and information science.

City Branding and the Power of Netnography in the Era of Social Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 202-225
Author(s):  
Tuğba Özbölük
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The City

The development of Web 2.0 tools has changed the ways that cities communicate and build their brands. A growing number of travelers are influenced by user generated content, presenting a number of challenges and opportunities for city branding. This chapter will focus on the use of Internet and social media as international marketing communications techniques for cities and destinations. The chapter offers insights to city branding practitioners on how online city branding is carried out and suggests that using social media is an appropriate strategy to promote cities because of its participative and interactive nature. However, it is also emphasized that city branding practitioners should evaluate social media as an opportunity to get closer to customer, instead of a mechanism to be controlled. Exploring implications for practitioners, the chapter can be regarded as an important contribution to an area which is still fairly new and unexplored. The chapter also contributes to the city branding literature by introducing the use of netnography in city branding research.

From East Harlem to Cape Town: Tupac Shakur’s legacy as a globalised oppositional repertoire

Ethnography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146613812092337
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dziewanski
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
East Harlem ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

For marginalised people living in Cape Town, South Africa, rapper Tupac Shakur represents a globalised oppositional repertoire that people draw on for strength and esteem. The study focused on 22 purposefully sampled interviews from township communities throughout Cape Town, which were conducted within a broader multi-year research project that focused on street culture and gangs in the city. Perhaps the most obvious narrative emerging from the research was that of male gang members connecting to the defiant masculine aggression often projected through Tupac’s music. But research also found that gang girls can also draw on the oppositional power he embodies as a street soldier, leveraging it in order to push back against their physical and material insecurity through performances of street culture. There are also ways that Tupac, as the globalised ghetto prophet, serves as a cultural resource for those trying to resist the streets and participation in gangs. The continued resonance of his legacy and image among township residents in Cape Town hints at the links they find in common with disenfranchised groups in American ghettos, and the myriad of similarly segregated urban spaces around the world. Many such groups pursue common cultural strategies to counter their shared experiences with disenfranchisement and disempowerment.

Social Software Use in Public Libraries

2010 ◽  
pp. 451-461
Author(s):  
June Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Social Bookmarking ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Trust Authority ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Innovative Techniques

With the emergence of Web 2.0, libraries have started employing social software applications (such as blogs, tagging, social networking, and wikis) to engage readers, encourage user-contributed content, and connect with user populations in novel ways. However, little research has been conducted on the applications of Web 2.0 technologies within public libraries. This chapter focuses on the applicability of social software in a library setting and examines the use of such innovative techniques as live tagging, social cataloging, and social bookmarking. The chapter evaluates the potential of social software tools for facilitating collaboration between librarians and library patrons; it addresses the concerns expressed by the library and information science community related to the issues of trust, authority, accuracy, responsibility, and ethics in the context of the Library 2.0.

scholarly journals Cardmobili

2012 ◽  
pp. 213-226
Author(s):  
Cândida Silva ◽  
Isabel Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Start Up

The developments of the internet, the proliferation of the use of Web 2.0 tools, and of the technology in general, are leveraging new ways of people to communicate, collaborate, and interact. This new world and new markets, in a daily change, are enabling the emergence of new innovative enterprises and services, taking advantage of the new technologies and of the global network. Cardmobili is a Portuguese start-up company working in the area of mobile services. This company provides a mobile service to manage rewards and membership cards, enabling users to store them in the cloud, while using mobile applications to present them in store, collecting and using the rewards, sharing cards and information with other users and friends in social networks. Cardmobili is linked to merchants’ loyalty management systems, enabling users to access exclusive offers, delivered to their mobile application and web account. The company provides complete services to make any loyalty or membership program mobile: branding, new customer registration, integration of customer account balance, mobile vouchers, coupons and offers, and mobile communication.

Social Software Use in Public Libraries

2010 ◽  
pp. 1174-1184
Author(s):  
June Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Social Bookmarking ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Trust Authority ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Innovative Techniques

With the emergence of Web 2.0, libraries have started employing social software applications (such as blogs, tagging, social networking, and wikis) to engage readers, encourage user-contributed content, and connect with user populations in novel ways. However, little research has been conducted on the applications of Web 2.0 technologies within public libraries. This chapter focuses on the applicability of social software in a library setting and examines the use of such innovative techniques as live tagging, social cataloging, and social bookmarking. The chapter evaluates the potential of social software tools for facilitating collaboration between librarians and library patrons; it addresses the concerns expressed by the library and information science community related to the issues of trust, authority, accuracy, responsibility, and ethics in the context of the Library 2.0.

Weebly, Wikis, and Digital Storytelling

2013 ◽  
pp. 1104-1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Kissel
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Portfolios ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
K 12

In this chapter, the author explores three questions: 1. How is the practice of writing in K-12 classrooms influenced by this era of new technologies? 2. How can online technologies be brought into the classroom so students can understand that they read and write everyday in digital forms? 3. In what ways can teachers create technology-rich experiences to support 21st century writers? To answer these questions the author briefly examines the theoretical foundation of the process model for writing and how online technologies have impacted this model in classrooms. Next, the author describes three Web 2.0 tools that are available to teachers to use in their classrooms during writing: digital portfolios, wikis, and digital storytelling. The author explains how he uses these tools within his own college classroom. Finally, the author provides a rationale for why teachers should consider using these within their own K-12 classrooms so that digital technologies become a natural part of students’ writing experiences.

Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

First Monday ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Cormode ◽  
Balachander Krishnamurthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Technical Work ◽  
The World

Web 2.0 is a buzzword introduced in 2003-04 which is commonly used to encompass various novel phenomena on the World Wide Web. Although largely a marketing term, some of the key attributes associated with Web 2.0 include the growth of social networks, bi-directional communication, various 'glue' technologies, and significant diversity in content types. We are not aware of a technical comparison between Web 1.0 and 2.0. While most of Web 2.0 runs on the same substrate as 1.0, there are some key differences. We capture those differences and their implications for technical work in this paper. Our goal is to identify the primary differences leading to the properties of interest in 2.0 to be characterized. We identify novel challenges due to the different structures of Web 2.0 sites, richer methods of user interaction, new technologies, and fundamentally different philosophy. Although a significant amount of past work can be reapplied, some critical thinking is needed for the networking community to analyze the challenges of this new and rapidly evolving environment.

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