Abstract

The Subdirecció General of Biblioteques take part as trial in the project of change toward a new culture of management and production of contents that the Culture and Mass Media Department of Generalitat de Catalunya is carrying out under the technological platform of Vignette Corporate, what supposes a great opportunity to present through the Libraries Portal an accurate offering of services, resources and information literacy for citizens and also, from the Extranet, looked at librarians of the public libraries, a good collaborative work environment for professionals. We describe the creation of this portal hold up under the development of two parallel projects, analyzing the impact on recipients, from the existing relationship between its expectations and the offered answer with regard to the formulation of the project.

Abstract

Current technological expansion has allowed a new generation of consumers to move from being mere users to architects of their own goods following the “do it yourself” (DIY) trend. Fabrication laboratories (fablabs) enhance this trend and complement it with the possibility of collaborating with other users (DIWO), allowing to replicate any project in another fablab, since they all share two elements: machines and free/open-source tools. Thanks to their capacities in the dissemination of knowledge through networks, these spaces expand the limits of such collaboration on a planetary scale. The diffusion of their projects –which is shown as one of the pillars of this ecology- requires an adequate documentation. This article identifies the elements that influence the diffusion process carried out in fablabs to obtain, finally, an explanatory model about project documentation.