Deichman RFiD

The invisible link from book to information system

RFID – Radio Frequency Identification

Antenna Transponder Transceiver

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a wireless form of automated identification technology.

What is the magic?

The antenna and the transponder are often combined together as a reader.

The antenna use radio frequency waves to transmit a signal which activates the transponder. When activated the transmitter (tag) sends data back to the antenna.

Active and passive tags

Passive RFID tags does not have it’s own powersource (battery).

The tag uses the power in the radiowave.

Small 0.4mm. x 0.4mm (2004)

Transmission distance is from 10mm to 5m.

Can in theory last forever

Active RFID tags has it’s own powersource (battery)

Can have more memory Bigger than passive tags Transmission distance is

from 10mm to 100m. Store data from

transceiver Battery may last for years

Why RFID?

Price Size Maintenance Automatic Outlives the standard

barcode tags Fast scanning of

products

On site: Deichman Library Norway’s largest, most

important library Items:

Books, CD/DVD/VHS, papers, comics, genealogy

Big changes ahead: Moving to Vestbanehallen

2007/2008 Increasing use of IT; RFID

Roger Evans (Deichman) claimed that there is over 1 million items at the library.

Security at Deichman library

Thousands of books are stolen every year

Electromagnetic tag vs RFID tag

Security gate User-friendliness

Observation

How does the library customer perceive the technology at the library?

Age of the customers using the library … Other observations will be included in

our further reports on Deichman.

11. What do you think about the use of technology at the library? (ie. Mediaworkshop and the ability to search for books on a computer)?

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Philosophical foundations and research relevance: issues for information research

History Philosophy Phenomenology Information science

Phenomenology

How we structure knowledge from experience

Focus on the human experience of the world and not on the world itself

Seeks to understand how persons construct meaning from their experiences

Information

Information Behavior Integration levels Macro Containers Meta Information

Relevance to RFID?

From book to information system

The meaning with technology

Added functionality Human experience of

the book with RFID

The Periscope

Mobile artifact Non-obtrusive Micro-mobility Context Goals