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OPLIN 4Cast #253: 2012 strategic technologies
October 26th, 2011

<http://www.oplin.org/4cast/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/chess-pieces.png>Last 
week, even though we're still more than two months away from the New 
Year, the Gartner Group released their list of the Top 10 Strategic 
Technologies for 2012 <http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1826214>. 
These are technologies that they feel will have a high potential to 
disrupt business, might require a large investment of cash, or carry 
high risk if the business is late to adopt them. Since this is the OPLIN 
/4cast/, not the "10cast," we're focusing today on the four strategic 
technologies which we think might have the most impact on libraries: 
Mobile-Centric Applications; Social User Experience; Big Data; and the 
Internet of Things.

    * Library mobile applications: what counts as success?
      <http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/washburn-io.pdf>
      [pdf] (OCLC Research/Bruce Washburn) "Some library mobile apps
      concentrate on the library catalog. Search and discovery of the
      catalog can sometimes be implemented relatively quickly, in
      particular if the system that supports the website for the catalog
      offers an out-of-the-box mobile solution. In some recent surveys
      of mobile users of library services, the library catalog was not
      the most used or desired service. Other services such as looking
      up library hours, reserving a study room or computer, checking out
      materials, paying fines, and reading electronic resources were of
      as much interest as searching the library catalog; in most cases
      much more important."
    * What is "social reading" and why should libraries care?
      <http://tametheweb.com/2011/06/14/what-is-> (Tame the Web/Allison
      Mennella) "To increase both the library's appeal and stress its
      value to users, libraries should consider implementing
      customizable and participatory services for social reading. There
      are a number of ways to accomplish the creation of this social
      space from designing blogs, podcasts, a wiki or even using an
      existing social media platform like GoodReads. The key is to build
      and maintain a site that uses moderated trust to give patrons a
      voice in this social space. If possible, libraries should give
      patrons the opportunity to design and manage their own 'space'
      within the library's broader social platform."
    * Retooling libraries for the data challenge
      <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/salo/> (Ariadne/Dorothea Salo)
      "Deposit processes in many institutional repositories assume a
      limited number of files to deposit, such that they can be
      described and uploaded one at a time by a human being. Applying
      this manual process to datasets is like trying to empty the ocean
      with an eyedropper. The SWORD protocol [Simple Web-service
      Offering Repository Deposit] holds potential to ameliorate this
      problem, but the protocol has not yet made its way into researcher
      or even library tools or processes."
    * Buh bye library card, hello smartphone?
      <http://ryanlivergood.com/?p=173> (Ryan Livergood) "Libraries
      should definitely be paying attention to apps like Google Wallet
      that utilize NFC [Near Field Communication] technology. Before
      long, many of our patrons may begin to abandon their wallets for
      their NFC enabled smartphones and expect to be able to use them at
      libraries like they can at the Walgreens or Subway across the
      street. Hopefully, their libraries will be 'yes' libraries that
      allow their users to store their library card in their smartphone
      wallet."

*/Last year fact:/*

For those keeping score, many of Gartner's 2012 strategic technologies 
were also in their 2011 list 
<http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221>; note that, "Video ... 
as a standard media type used in non-media companies..." has apparently 
graduated from prediction to fact.
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