The videos of the Belgrade lectures are now loaded on the University of Belgrade Library’s YouTube channel.

The second day’s presentation was the more interesting topic and a better presentation overall, so I am going to highlight it first.  A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides is here and the playlist for the second lecture is embedded below:

The first day’s presentation was titled From Academic Library 2.0 to (Literature) Research 2.0.  A written overview of the highlights, key diagrams, and slides is located here and the playlist is embedded below:

I look forward to any feedback you might have on either presentation.

As mentioned in my previous post, my first Belgrade lecture focused on the concept of Research 2.0.  The second lecture focused on Scholarly Identity 2.0, which is increasingly important because of the wealth of online identity information created by Research 2.0.

The Scholarly Identity Matrix below is adapted from a general identity matrix concept pioneered by the founders of ClaimID. It is meant to display the different types and components of a researcher’s online identity.

The Scholarly Identity 2.0 Concept Model below displays how the different components from the Matrix fit together.

The black text is content types. The blue are the characteristics of identity these content types best represent. The green is who is responsible for managing this information. The Scholarly Identity 2.0 Concept Model takes the series of concept models one step farther, but with a slightly different twist.

The spectrum is more specific than in past models with one end being entirely user-generated content (UGC) and the other traditional scholarly communication. My hypothesis is that scholarly identity online, or Scholarly Identity 2.0, is a combination of these two information types held together by a unique identifier. For example, the combination verifies not just topical expertise through peer-review of articles, but also personality verified by LinkedIn recommendations.

Please share your thoughts on the accuracy of this model in the comments below or on FriendFeed.

The below presentation covers each quadrant of the Matrix culminating in the Concept Model as a summary.

Scholarly Reputation Management Online: The Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media
Session 6: Wissenschaftskommunikation 2.0
Social Software @ Work

Science Online London 2009: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online from Joanna Wombat on Vimeo.

My slides are posted here.

My slides from Science Online London 2009:

Breakout 3: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida

Discussion on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/solondon/0c635324/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-new-kind-of

Alison Lister’s notes on the session: http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-a-new-kind-of-reputation-online/

Session description:

Breakout 3: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online

Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida

ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?

• How to: Manage your online identity – librariesinteract.info: Blog central for Australian Libraries

  “For the networks you keep, consider using a OpenID service, such as ClaimID, to track your blogs, websites, and profiles. Michael Habib gives a thorough overview of the service’s aims at authority control on the web in an article for Library Journal.”

  (tags: blogcitations claimid onlineidentity lj libraryjournal identity)

• claimID weblog – Manage your online identity. » Archive » Library Journal on ClaimID
  Fred highlights the claimID article on the claimID blog.
  (tags: claimid identity libraryjournal lj)
• Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World [OCLC - Membership reports]
  “The report is based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S.” 280p.
  (tags: toread oclc SocialSoftware socialnetworking socialnetworks privacy trust report)
• Chapel Hill Startup Weekend — November 2-4
  “Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend.”
  (tags: startup startupweekend)
• Unit Structures: ClaimID in Library Journal
  Fred’s announcement about the article on his personal blog.
  (tags: libraryjournal lj identity claimid)

• Managing Your Identity Online – 10/15/2007 – netConnect
  A feature article on claimID, OpenID, and online identity. netConnect is the quarterly Internet supplement for Library Journal. Written by me, Michael Habib.
  (tags: claimid openid libraryjournal netconnect onlineidentity identity identity20 authority authoritycontrol, microid, michaelhabib)
• Librarians on Facebook – 10/1/2007 – School Library Journal
  Mentions the Library 2.0 Interest Group. With little effort, this group has grown to 3,418 members and counting. I am fairly confident this is the largest librarian group on Facebook and one of the largest online communities for librarians.
  (tags: facebook virtualcommunity librarians library2.0 library20)

I have an article out in the Fall edition of Library Journal’s quarterly Internet supplement netConnect (about the Internet, published in print)!

Managing Your Identity Online – 10/15/2007 – netConnect – The article is about online identity and claimID with a sidebar on OpenID. The article breaks down into the following sections (brief excerpts are provided).

• Introduction to claimID and online identity
  

  A new breed of web services have started providing ordinary web users with the tools they need to take back control of their online identity.

• Permanent information online
  

  However, with the rising popularity of blogging and the explosion of social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace, googling potential employees quickly became commonplace. Stutzman and Russell recognized that, while particular services such as MySpace may come and go (see “My Space or Your Space,” LJ netConnect, Fall 2006. p. 8–12), social web services are here to stay. More important, a whole generation is destined to scatter personal and professional information around the web for the rest of their lives.

• Who are you?
  

  If your name is John Smith and someone googles you, it’s not unlikely that the googler can mistakenly think certain information discovered (divorce, etc.) is yours. Wouldn’t it be helpful if there were a method to explain which John Smith you are?

• Taking control
  

  In the claimID FAQ, Stutzman and Russell explain that they embraced “simplicity and standards” when designing the concept. The common thread connecting all the online identity signifiers together is that they all have a web address. Consequently, they decided the simplest way to manage an online identity was by enabling users to create a list of web addresses related to their identity.

• Standards for identity
  

  Once Stutzman and Russell had enabled users to create and sort an annotated list of web sites related to their identity, they turned to emerging identity standards to add additional value to the list. They first implemented MicroID, an open standard that provides a way to verify that the person who owns a claimID profile also “owns” the content to which they are linking.

• Authority control
  

  In Web 2.0 applications, a centralized cataloging system can break down because of the sheer quantity of user-generated content. This has led to collecting user-generated tags instead of subject headings. Similarly, claimID’s methods hint at future decentralized systems for authority records.

• Using OpenID on the Web (sidebar)
  

  The OpenID standard makes it possible for a user with a claimID profile to use this identity elsewhere on the web. OpenID is a decentralized URL-based identity system that allows users to log into web sites with a URL instead of a username or email.

When you get a chance please check out the article and shoot me your questions and/or feedback. I would also like to thank the founders of claimID, Fred Stutzman and Terrell Russell for taking the time to answer my questions and to Jay Datema for the opportunity to write the article.

• The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books & HebrewBooks.org (about page)

  This non-profit has a mission to preserve all Torah Seforim ever printed. So far they have 11,000 classical Hebrew books available for download.

  (tags: lulu printondemand publishing preservation hebrew)

• PublishYourSefer.com – About Our Reprints Program

  This company partners with HebrewBooks.org and Lulu.com (disclosure: I am an employee of Lulu) to offer on-demand reprinting for over 12,000 books. Wow! How is this done?…

  (tags: publishing printondemand lulu hebrew apis preservation)

• Lulu Web Services (Lulu API)

  This is accomplished through the Lulu api, which “allows partners and outside developers to programmatically publish books.” Given that Lulu authors maintain full ownership of their books, why can’t libraries offer on-demand reprints of digitized books?

  (tags: books lulu publishing apis libraries preservation)

• JudaicaOnDemand.com – Judaica and seforim print on demand services for libraries, bookstores, publishers and others

  PublishYourSefer’s sister site, They offer consulting and services for digitizing collections, using print on demand to “monetize” collections, Also have periodicals and books for purchase.

  (tags: hebrew publishing digitization preservation printondemand lulu)

• [CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries

  A discussion. (Thanks Jay)

  (tags: openid claimid lj code4lib identity identity20 toread)