I just noticed that Blended Shelf plays a role in the new image movie of the University of Konstanz. It is an honor that my alma mater uses my work to advertise for itself. I assume that an English version will follow soon.
I just stumbled (thanks to RR) over Arena for Books. This is a design challenge with the task to …
“Develop futureoriented and viable ideas for the physical presentation of digital publishing products and services in bookstores and at trade fairs.” Source: http://arenaforbooks.jovoto.com/
… by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association) and others. Between all the ideas are various interesting approaches of digital shelves such as the Bookshelf 2.0:
Update: Now I realized that the Bookshelf 2.0 is the winner of the challenge. Buchreport published an article about it.
I added some screenshots of the current html5 version of the Blended Shelf. This is work in progress. A lot of features are still missing and the final product may look differently. The technological base is VuFind and a lot of html5, css3 and js.
I’m happy that my old (the first) version of the Blended Shelf is part of the recently published Blended Library Vision Video:
The video was first shown at a workshop of the University of Konstanz about the outcomes of the Blended Library Project.
At the workshop I learned that the Blended Shelf was also incorporated into the great project Quellentaucher. The Quellentaucher is part of the libros project (a project of the HCI group of the University of Konstanz where I studied and worked as research assistant). A recent video shows the impressive Quellentaucher at the Stadtbibliothek Köln and how it uses parts of the Blended Shelf to visualize literature:
As a preparation for my talk at the Bibliothekartag I made a short video of the HTML5 version of the Blended Shelf.
Currently I´m working at the ZHAW on this HTML5 version of the Blended Shelf. It is build upon great open source software such as Apache SOLR, ZEND Framework and VuFind and is implemented on the client side with pure CSS3, JavaScript and HTML.
I am happy to announce that I will talk about the Blended Shelf at the Bibliothekartag 2014 in Bremen. The talk will be embedded in the awards ceremony of the B.I.T.online – Innovationspreis. The session is planned for the 05. June 2014 from 10:30 to 12:30 at the Stand der Verbände.
The talk will be a follow-up to my talk last year in Leipzig. While in Leipzig I had to conclude my talk with assumptions about the usability and usefulness, I now will be able to present the results of my studies and give an insight in the current efforts to develop it further.
I am looking forward to interesting talks and an inspiring conference!
Ohio.com (Akron Beacon Journal Online) and VÖBBLOG are writing about “shelfies“. That is the term for the shelf-equivalent of “selfies” (Wikipedia: Selfie). I didn’t know that the New York Public Library already called out a #libraryshelfie day on 29. January 2014.
I will start to share my favorite shelfies in a gallery.