A computer-mediated library that promotes access to a wider array of information resources and services beyond its physical location.
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Prospects and Challenges of Web 3.0 Technologies Application in the Provision of Library Services
Promise Ifeoma Ilo (University Library, Pamo University of Medical Sciences, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), Christopher Nkiko (Elizade University, Nigeria), Cyprian Ifeanyi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria & University of South Africa, South Africa), Justina Ngozi Ekere (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria), Roland Izuagbe (Covenant University, Nigeria), and Michael O. Fagbohun (Covenant University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch122
Abstract
The chapter examines the prospects and challenges of the application of Web 3.0 technologies as they relate to semantic web, federated search, mobile application, and their impact on library services. The principles, features, application, potentiality, and challenges of the technologies vis-à-vis library services form the broad objectives that guided the chapter. Following a brief retrospective review of the developments of web technologies, the chapter discusses Web 3.0 from the context of semantic web, cloud computing, federated search and virtual reference services. It broadens the prospects of Web 3.0 as it affects the provision of web-based services like its flexibility as solution to digital content volatility and ability to widen cloud-based services using open source electronic library software among others. Having expatiated the challenges Web 3.0 portends for web-based library services, the chapter concludes with the need for librarians and users to co-create value for participatory librarianship.