ScholarLens Back to search
2009•Unpublished venueRequires access

A Survey of the Application of Web 2.0 in Top 30 Chinese University Libraries

Li Si, Shi Ruoyao, Bijuan Chen

Open publisher page 2 citations

Abstract

This paper takes the top 30 Chinese university libraries as a sample, and investigates the application of Web 2.0 technologies including RSS, Wiki, Blog, Tag/Folksonomy, IM, Podcast/Vodcast, Toolbar and Ajax. The results show that there are two-thirds of libraries adopting one or more Web 2.0 technologies. Only one-tenth of libraries adopting more than four Web 2.0 technologies. RSS was the most widely applied technology and Wiki was the least used one. The application of Web 2.0 technologies was not extensive and profound enough and was still in the early stage of development. The main reason lies in some shortcomings of technology application, librarian quality, service marketing and information literacy and etc.

About this research paper

What this paper is about

This paper takes the top 30 Chinese university libraries as a sample, and investigates the application of Web 2.0 technologies including RSS, Wiki, Blog, Tag/Folksonomy, IM, Podcast/Vodcast, Toolbar and Ajax. The results show that there are two-thirds of libraries adopting one or more Web 2.0 technologies. Only one-tenth of libraries adopting more than four Web 2.0 technologies. RSS was the most widely applied technology and Wiki was the least used one. The application of Web 2.0 technologies was not extensive and profound enough and was still in the early stage of development. The main reason lies in some shortcomings of technology application, librarian quality, service marketing and information literacy and etc.

Why it matters

OpenAlex reports 2 citations for this work. Citation counts describe recorded attention and do not establish research quality.

Key contribution

A contribution statement is not available in the OpenAlex record.

Method / approach

Method details are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Main findings

Findings are not separately available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Limitations

Limitations are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Applications

Application details are not available in the OpenAlex metadata.

Available abstract

This paper takes the top 30 Chinese university libraries as a sample, and investigates the application of Web 2.0 technologies including RSS, Wiki, Blog, Tag/Folksonomy, IM, Podcast/Vodcast, Toolbar and Ajax. The results show that there are two-thirds of libraries adopting one or more Web 2.0 technologies. Only one-tenth of libraries adopting more than four Web 2.0 technologies. RSS was the most widely applied technology and Wiki was the least used one. The application of Web 2.0 technologies was not extensive and profound enough and was still in the early stage of development. The main reason lies in some shortcomings of technology application, librarian quality, service marketing and information literacy and etc.

Key concepts: RSS, Ajax, World Wide Web, Folksonomy, Computer science, Web 2.0, Web standards, Web page

Related papers

Related paper 1Related paper 2Related paper 3
Back to paper searchBrowse research topicsOriginal source
A Survey of the Application of Web 2.0 in Top 30 Chinese University Libraries — Research Paper | ScholarLens