[Web4lib] Stephen Abram: Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition

[Robin Hastings]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:33 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
 Don't we already *have* librarians who understand the power of Web
2.0 and who have learned Web 2.0 tools? And people are already talking
about Web 3.0. Will librarians still be using Web 2.0 tools twelve
years from now? That's kinda what it sounds like.

I'm doing a presentation next week for the National Association of
Government Webmasters (NAGW - if anyone is going to be there, look me
up!) on Web 3.0 and one of the points I'm making is that while Web 3.0
is still being defined, the best way to get there is through use of
the current 2.0 environment. I will talk a lot about mashups and the
like as a part of creating the Web 3.0 (or "Intelligent Web", for
those of you who are sick of versioning the Web) that will come. From
that perspective, knowing the Web 2.0 tools that we have available to
us now, *thoroughly* is pretty important for using the Web 3.0 of the
future. Obviously there will be more to know, but I'm seeing it as
kind of like our situation now. We still use Web 1.0 tools - I still
write in (X)HTML - along with our Web 2.0 ajaxy/api-laden tools. The
next version will continue to use 1.0, 2.0 *and* 3.0 tools.
This, at least, is my humble opinion. The great thing about the fact
that 3.0 isn't *quite* here yet is that we get to help define/build it
ourselves!

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Robin Hastings
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