All things come and then go. Including mobile devices as we think of them
today. No apocalypse needed. It's just the nature of things. There was a
time not long ago (and in some contexts even today) that an interface was
expected to behave like a DEC VT100 terminal.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Alexander Johannesen <
alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Huh. Well, then. :)
>
> On what basis do you think mobile devices will go away? Do you mean
> like some apocalyptic event and the end of modern times as we know it?
>
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Peter Schlumpf <pschlumpf_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The way I see things going is the total dissociation of data and
> semantics
> > with the medium and whatever technology used to store present it, whether
> > it's paper cards or iPads. There will come a time, sooner than one may
> > think, when mobile devices will be gone. Even the "cloud" will come and
> > go. It doesn't matter. Then there may come a day once again when in
> some
> > cases a paper card catalogue might be a desired "format" for this kind of
> > stuff.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Alexander Johannesen <
> > alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > Smaller displays can only handle so much, just as people can only
> handle
> >> so much. How can the library catalog adapt to that?
> >>
> >> I think it is a bit deeper than that. A lot of development also
> >> happens in other fields, like the before-mentioned semantic
> >> technologies, but also user experience, HCI, norms for GUIs, norms for
> >> information architecture, and the focus on APIs in software in
> >> general. And we humans are catching up to adapting our systems to the
> >> way we humans deal with the world, ie. human cognition.
> >>
> >> First it was about presenting byte-sized info (ala Twitter and
> >> widget-driven systems), and then little by little our systems have
> >> caught up to the human notion of information constraints and
> >> boundaries; constraints often negates how data is interpreted, and
> >> boundaries determines the context of the data. Coupled with human
> >> cognition, these are exciting times for reshaping information not for
> >> smaller screens, but for human beings in general. Even larger and far
> >> more complex systems are going this way of widgetifying complexity
> >> down to a level of quicker understanding patterns and semantics of
> >> data; smaller units of data explained by relationships between other
> >> smaller units of data.
> >>
> >> We are heading for systems that have models closer to the human model
> >> of understanding. Oh, did I mention Topic Maps? *grin*
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:56 AM, James Weinheimer
> >> <weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On 10/4/2013 3:04 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
> >> > <snip>
> >> >
> >> >> "Individual pieces of content aggregated together into one
> experience."
> >> >> Isn't that linked data?
> >> >>
> >> >> No, but UI components such as cards that create the experience can be
> >> >> built
> >> >> and connected easier/better if the data underpinning them is linked.
> >> >
> >> > </snip>
> >> >
> >> > As it says in the article, because of the huge growth in APIs and SDKs
> >> (that
> >> > is, individual applications working behind the scenes to give a
> >> specialized
> >> > kind of access and retrieval and do not have to have anything to do
> with
> >> > linked data) "is driving the web away from many pages of content
> linked
> >> > together... " into what the author claims will be a type of a card
> >> display.
> >> > This is because mobile will probably be the main wave of the future,
> so
> >> > while there is such a great deal of information that *can* be
> aggregated
> >> > together, there is a corresponding loss of screen size, therefore:
> >> something
> >> > has to give. Even the latest Google update, Google Hummingbird, which
> >> they
> >> > claim is like replacing the engine on a car:
> >> > "Panda, Penguin and other updates were changes to parts of the old
> >> > algorithm, but not an entire replacement of the whole. Think of it
> again
> >> > like an engine. Those things were as if the engine received a new oil
> >> filter
> >> > or had an improved pump put in. Hummingbird is a brand new engine,
> >> though it
> >> > continues to use some of the same parts of the old, like Penguin and
> >> Panda."
> >> > Google claims they changed it to improve something they call
> >> "Conversational
> >> > Search". Search Engine Land has a good review of Hummingbird.
> >> > http://searchengineland.com/google-hummingbird-172816
> >> >
> >> > Conversational search is natural language, uses semantic technologies
> and
> >> > who knows what else but it is obvious that conversational search
> >> envisions
> >> > people interoperating with their mobiles by voice. Google Glass works
> >> only
> >> > by voice so conversational search has to work for it. I must
> acknowledge
> >> > that when I try to use the touchpad on my android phone, all I do is
> type
> >> > mistakes. It is much easier to use the voice input, even though it
> makes
> >> me
> >> > feel like Captain Kirk ordering Scotty to beam me up.
> >> >
> >> > I don't care for the idea of "cards" given in that article in "Inside
> >> > Intercom" but the logic seems to be inescapable. Smaller displays can
> >> only
> >> > handle so much, just as people can only handle so much. How can the
> >> library
> >> > catalog adapt to that?
> >> >
> >> > Will the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries actually be a return to
> >> the
> >> > cards? That would just be too ironic!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > James Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com
> >> > First Thus http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
> >> > First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus
> >> > Cooperative Cataloging Rules
> >> > http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
> >> > Cataloging Matters Podcasts
> >> > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic
> Maps
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> >>
>
>
>
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