delicious and other tagging technologies
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Bookmarking
• share• organize• search• manage
Tagging
• describe an item • allow it to be found again by
browsing or searching
Bookmarking and Tagging
• collaborative
• collaborative tagging allows anyone to attach keywords or tags to content
(Golder, S. & Huberman, B., 2005).
A Few Examples…
• Delicious http://delicious.com/
• Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
• Connotea http://www.connotea.org/
Questions for you
• How many people use Delicious?
• What do you use it for?– Personal– Professional–Work
Delicious - creating
• manually create a bookmark by clicking "Save a new bookmark"
• you can also install a browser add-on
Delicious - tagging• a few or many• tags are descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks
to help you organize, remember and share
Delicious - searching
A search on Public Library
Delicious - searchingThe same search, filtered by tag,
reference
Ways to use Delicious
Uses for…
• Patrons• Librarians/Staff/Library• Professional• Personal
Some additional information
Library Delicious tag collections:
• Stanford's Delicious tag cloud
• North Metro Technical College's Delicious Tags related to students' courses of study
• Hubbell Library's Delicious Tags
• Alameda County Library's Delicious Tags
• Dublin City Public Libraries Delicious Tags
• There is a larger list of Libraries sharing sets of links from the Library Success Best Practices Wiki
Libraries sharing sets of links
Other bookmarking/tagging tools
• Connotea http://www.connotea.org/
• Diigo http://www.diigo.com/
Questions for you
• How many people use have heard of Connotea?
• How many people use Connotea?
• How many people have heard of Diigo?
• How many people use Diigo?
Connotea
Diigo
Some additional information
Library Connotea tag collections: • Bracken Health Sciences Library's collection • Duke University Library's collection
Library Diigo bookmark collections: • SUNY Library Association Working Group for
Information Literacy collection • University of Michigan - Flint Thompson Library
collection
Social Bookmarks on Tagging • Delicious's list of pages and sites tagged with
tagging. • Diigo's list of pages and sites tagged with tagging.
