1. TING.concept
A foundation for change
Framtidens informationstjänster,
infrastrukturer och samarbetsformer
5 mars 2010, Lund, Sweden
Mats Hernvall / TING.Concept / DBC
mats@hernvall.com - mhe@dbc.dk - dk.linkedin.com/in/hernvall
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2. Agenda
Why TING.concept?
What is TING.concept?
TING.concept Community
Current status and the next steps
Q&A

3. Why TING.concept
Why
TING.concept

4. Library bag – relevant
Ensure that library
services are relevant
• Workflow switch – services around
workflows (Lorcan)
• in the right context
• Speed
for the users in the
• Availability
digital society
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lchristajoy42/

5. Challenges
Challenges

6. Libraries – Search
• Mediation / Interaction / Experiences
• Search is important
• But we need more…mediation, interaction,
human touch

7. Users are on all devices,
connected
• The digital world
• Devices
• Content / formats

8. Users everywhere -
Conversation
• Using all tools, and many more
• Interact or consume with data and
services
• How do Library srevices fit into this?
• They won’t come to THELibrary Site

9. Usability expectations
• Whe are competing for user time and
attention “If you ain't going to make
it easy for me, I am not
going to try it. I have
enough hoops to jump
through during the day
to deal with.”

10. Relations
Information objects
• Everything(Books, Film, Music,everything
relates to Metadata, etc.)
• The base for creating Context that works
• Handling the relations
• Inside library but more important in relation
to the rest of the world
Staff Users

11. Vendors – economist picture
• Everybody wants to do everything for
everybody
• User lock in
• These are good users fg new tech
David Simonds/The Economist

12. ”Stop hugging your data”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2009
Vendors – Stop hugging…
• Data lock in
• Only access through proprietary UI and
applications
• Not only content but user statistics, back
en usage, etc
flickr.com/photos/hien_it

13. Libraries – Silos
• Library websites are not integrated
• Vendors have their own products, brand,
interfaces -> Links
Databases
• Mediation are not connected to the content
– relations
• A lot of links – and a website
flickr.com/photos/horrabin

14. Experience economy
Competition – experience
TING.concept -
economy
• Compare TDC play, Bredbandsbolaget
Spotify,
• Our services together with other products
• The ability to deliver ....everywhere easily
• Free business models...

15. Business models - Competition
• Freemium
• Attention economy
• Experience economy
• Price cuts on:
• Content / Media
• Technology
• Bandwidth
• Computing Power
• Storage

17. What is TING.concept?
What is
TING.concept

18. Libraries in the digital society
TING.concept -
• Content
• Interaction
• Context
Content
“the world's best social objects and loads of
them - words, images and sound”

19. Libraries in the digital society
TING.concept -
• Content
• Interaction
• Context Interaction
“experiences through interaction, learning and
sharing – support the workflows”

20. Libraries in the digital society
TING.concept -
• Context
• The pervasive library
• Context
Everywhere – the workflow – network
• Personalization
“designing for experiences is fundamentally
about people, their activities, and the context
of those activities – adding value”

21. TING.concept
TING.concept – overall
• Content
People
Data
• Interaction Search +
+
• Context + Activities
Enrichment
Filter +
+
Design
Relations
Content Interaction Context

22. Experience design - detailed
• Text
Stephen P. Anderson | Poetpainter.com

23. TING.concept
TING.concept original map
• Horizontal integration
• Integrated search
• Unified indexes – but extended with
Linked Data + Federated search
• Distributed model – integrates several
systems and indexes
• Unique throw the focus on API´s and WSS
+ partnerships
• Support competition in the front end

24. Proof of Concept
First production release Mars 2010
Brønd.TING (middle & transaction)
Dansk Biblioteks Center (DBC)
Developer and Integrator
Automated harvesting of content
SaaS provider and hosting partner
Presentation.TING
Århus and Copenhagen Public Libraries
New websites built on Drupal – DING.TING
Full integration with ILS

25. Proof of concept
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26. Brønd.TING + middle.TING
Object WS – Search WS – and more
Object Facettes
Solr
Repository Process
Content
Data Transform
Dock Fedora Index
Search
Commons Apache Lucene
Harvest: Creates objects from input files
Annotate: Writes metadata to the object
Relation: Builds relations to other objects
Store: Stores the object in Fedora

27. Why? Drupal
Drupal is in the Visionaries
quadrant because of its use of the
open source model to drive
adoption and popularity, while
providing enterprise services via
organizations such as Acquia.
Its strong content-centric,
community and web application
foundation is being rapidly
extended with hundreds of
modules, including many for
collaboration and social interaction
support.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Social
Software in the Workplace.

30. Faceted Search
Auto completion
Spelling
Relevance
FRBR-ized!
Covers
Syndication
Deep links – object level
Others that have borrowed
User generated content
Campaign engine
…

31. Faceted Search
Auto completion
Spelling
Relevance
FRBR-ized!
Covers
Syndication
Deep links – object level
Others that have borrowed
User generated content
Campaign engine
…

32. TING.concept
Community

33. TING.concept
TING.concept -
• Content
• Interaction
• Context
Content Interaction Context
Collaboration – Innovation – Sharing
OpenSource

34. An open eco-system
Community slogan
for digital [cultural]
innovation
collaboration, and
shared results

35. TING.concept Community
Library Partner Mobile.TING
• Governance model
• Different teams Community
TING.concept
• Merits (except partner a mix)
Content.TING
Council
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Community Community
Work Group
Brønd.TING Ding.TING

36. TiNG.concept Community
mapping

37. Partnerships
Important part of TING.concept
Partnerships on all levels: system vendors,
content suppliers, developers, libraries,
media, …
Joint projects – Innovation – New products
Partnership committment
to implement digital library services based on
TING.concept
to contribute experience and results to
TING.concept
to contribute according to ability

38. TING.concept eco-system
Use / Re-use
Contribute
Cooperate
Projects Collaborate
Separately owned,
Baseed
funded and governed
B
Based on / supports TING
Initiates
Project owners Participate
Governs Partnership
Funding Committment
System
Individuals Vendors Libraries Institutions Publishers Etc.
Integrators

39. DING.TING core
Copenhagen
Århus
Kolding
Gentofte
Library 1
Library 1
DBC

41. Current status
Århus and Copenhagen Public Libraries
Netlydbog – Library Consortia for Audio
Books
Kolding (and others) – Public Libraries
Gentofte – Central Public Library
DBC – Open Library Services & Integra ILS
PallesGavebod – Denmark's new national
Children's Library (SBM, Libraries and DR)
Procurement process for DEFF
New library infrastructure in Denmark

42. PallesGavebod.dk – Children's
Library
Based on TING.concept and brønd.TING

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44. What’s next?
TING.concept Community launch
New presentation.TING projects – partner
projects, mobile, social functions, etc.
Brønd.TING – performance, tuning,
functions, WS/API´s, integration (ILS,
content platforms), etc.
Content.TING – more content and relations
Nordic countries – Sweden, Finland, ...
Outside Brønd.TING - Linked Data /
Federated search
Outside library sector

45. Freedom of choice
Q If I don´t want to develop myself but still
want the benefits from the TING.concept
Community development. Are there
“standard products” with support and
service?
A Yes! DBC delivers complete solutions based
on the TING.concept with hosting, service
and support. Or select the services that You
need and develop others together with the
TING.concept partners.

46. Your Library Organisation?
Presentation.TING
Library
system(s)
Other Other
Content Libraries
Brønd.TING

47. Q &A

48. Thanks! TING.concept consortium
Copenhagen Public Library= http://bibliotek.kk.dk
Århus Public Library= http://www.aakb.dk
DBC= http://dbc.dk
TING.concept = http://gnit.dk
TING.concept Community – Soon to be released!