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Overview

Research Tools Turning Search into Research

Darlene Fichter

Data Library Services, U of S Library

November 15, 2004

Social Bookmarking Tools

What are they?What features do they offer?

FeaturesOffer more the standard bookmarking

– Ability to bookmark any site with two clicks– Accessible from any computer

Accessible by anybody– By default, links are public unless marked private

Searchable personal archive Local Cache

– Furl will keep a cache of the pages/documents you keep. Spurl - 150Kb

Sharing/Learning with Others

What’s hotSpurl, furl, del.icio.us, and feedmelinks

create lists of active and popular resources

Tagging

Tools like de.licio.us and flickr, a social photography tool, make it easy to add keywords or tags

Other tools have more sophisticated schemes and support multi-word categories (furl) and hierarchical structures (Spurl)

Hierarchy

Recommendation Services

Built-in recommender systems – Item Level:

Who else has added this item and what comments did they make

Leads to discovery of people with like interests– Profile Level

Subscribing to Someone’s Bookmarks

View online when logged inRSS feed

– All bookmarks– At the topic level

By email– Daily digest

Productivity Tools

Thumbnail

Tools: BugMeNot, TinyUrl

Pre-populated Searches

Lazy Blogger / Webmaster

Post your links to your blogPost bookmark folders on your web site for

departmental news, etc.

Insert JavaScript to Display Bookmarks

More features …such as

Export:Furl XML format Zip archive of your saved documents Internet Explorer favorites format Mozilla/Netscape bookmarks format MLA citation format APA citation format Chicago citation format CBE citation format BibTeX citation format

Risks - Hosted Applications

StabilityLongevitySecurity

Export your database

Are Social Bookmarks for You?

Definitely the right tool for some jobsMy case

– 3 workplaces, multiple computers, browsers– Travel– Write and need cached copies– Need to share – publish to web, by email– Need to “Keep Found Things Found”™

Questions?

Find out more on social bookmarking tools?Check my furl:

– www.furl.net/members/fichter– Change drop down to Social Software –

Bookmarks– Resource List

Article in Online September/October 2004 “Tools for Finding Things Again” -