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)

• 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.

• Building Blocks for Portable Social Networks

  A great summary of the standards currently available (OpenID, various microformats, API’s) that could be used to create portable social networks.

  (tags: openid xfn microformats social_networks socialnetworks apis)

• National Archives Partners With CreateSpace and Amazon to Digitize Movies

  CreateSpace is entering the POD marketplace, so I would like to take this time to point out that Lulu’s api offers great opportunities for libraries and archives to sell already digitized content.

  (tags: apis lulu nara)

Related posts on portable social networks:

• BarCampRDU,Part 3, Social networking, Social browsing, and Microformats
• Faceted Friending: Using Tags to Increase Relevancy in Social Networks

Related posts on creative uses of the Lulu api:

• http://mchabib.com/2007/07/19/links-for-2007-07-19/
• http://mchabib.com/2007/07/28/links-for-2007-07-28/

• Corey Reece » Blog Archive » Walled gardens no more. (A unified social network and the makings of a plan)

  I met Corey at BarCamp and we got to discuss this idea. I look forward to seeing where he takes it next.

  (tags: microformats openid socialnetworking xfn social_networks socialnetworks)

• RDU Start Up Weekend

  There was a brief preliminary meeting at BarCampRDU.

  (tags: startup startups barcamprdu barcamp unconference barcamprdu2007)

• Pew Internet: Tagging

  An older report. Just saving it for later: “A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts.”

  (tags: tagging statistics pewstudy Folksonomies folksonomy)

• Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Tagmash: Book tagging grows up

  This is a major move forward in tagging: “In getting past words or short phrases, tagmash closes some of the gap between tagging and professional subject classifications.”

  (tags: cataloging folksonomy library2.0 tagging Folksonomies librarything)

• Tagmashes from LibraryThing. Many-to-Many:

  Weinberger’s take: “With tagmashes, the info that this tag is related to that one is gleaned from the fact that a human said that they were related.”

  (tags: Folksonomies folksonomy librarything metadata cataloging tagging)

• Lulu Partners with ImageLooop for Slideshow Widget Offering

  (tags: lulu widgets)

• Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Abstract: Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship

  The abstract for Michael’s dissertation. I really look forward to reading it.

  (tags: michaelstephens blogging library2.0 librarianship librarians dissertation)

• Always Pushing Information – 7/15/2007 – netConnect

  “John Blyberg advocates for open APIs between libraries and vendors to speed innovation”

  (tags: blyberg OPAC bibliocommons ils librarything apis)

• WorldCat Local pilot announcement [OCLC]

  Saving some older links.

  (tags: worldcatlocal Worldcat oclc OPAC)

• LibraryThing for Libraries

  (tags: library2.0 librarything OPAC folksonomy)

• The Implications of OpenID » SlideShare

  (tags: openid presentation)

• Implementing OpenID » SlideShare

  (tags: openid presentation)

• A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

  From the site “This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts.”

  (tags: openid identity tutorial)

• » The case for OpenID | Digital ID World | ZDNet.com

  (tags: openid identity identity20)

• user-interface – Microformats – Social Network Portability
  Section on useing XFN, hCard, etc. to create a portable social network. I wrote about this idea over a year ago after a discussion we had at BarCampRDU 2006.
  (tags: barcamp barcamprdu microformats xfn openid social_networks SocialSoftware)
• VuFind: Home
  “July 18, 2007 – Villanova University announces VuFind, a next generation library catalog, is now freely available as Open Source software.” Looks very cool. I need to spend more time with it though. Update: I just checked out the demo. This is really nice. It employs excellent faceted search with a clean interface and incorporates first stages of some social tools.(tags: opensource OPAC library2.0 faceted facets)
• Notes from BarCampRdu,Part 3, Social networking, Social browsing, and Microformats at LIS :: Michael Habib
  
  
  The earlier post discussing portable social networks. (Second half of the post) Two equations were discussed:
  XFN + OpenID = portable network
  XFN + hCard + Jabber + OpenID = ad hoc (open standards) social networks(tags: openid microformats socialnetworking social_networks SocialSoftware barcamp barcamprdu)

• 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)