social + bookmarking combining tools and people to create new services
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Social + Bookmarking Combining Tools and People to Create New Services. Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan [email protected]. OLA Super Conference February 3, 2006. Overview. What are social bookmarking tools? Why use one? How do they work? Library applications. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Social + Bookmarking Combining Tools and People to Create New Services
Darlene FichterUniversity of [email protected]
OLA Super ConferenceFebruary 3, 2006
Overview
What are social bookmarking tools?Why use one?How do they work?Library applications
What is a “social” bookmarking tool?
A social bookmarking site allows users to share their personal bookmark of favorite web sites and articles with others.
Anyone can search and view any bookmarks you designate as “public” .
Why use social bookmarking tool?
“Social” bookmarking sites:– Help people find like minds– Discover new resources– Point web visitors to your
favourite sites– Republish fav links to blog,
website, forum
Your Network
Why use social bookmarking tool?
Social “bookmarking”– Track all the interesting
sites you find– Organize web references
for research
How do they work?
1. Create an account2. Install toolbar or bookmarklet3. Add a site4. Search or browse your bookmarks
http://www.furl.net
Bookmarklet
Pop up window
Pick a topic or type in a new one:
Categories youhave added already
Save or save & email
Saved bookmark
Search
Local cache
Related sites
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Browser bookmark tools: disadvantagesBrowser bookmarks were not used to find things again*Browser drawbacks
– Hard to manage– One computer– Limited search/browse– Many duplicates/dead links
*“Keeping Found Things Found™”http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/projKFTF.asp
Social bookmark tools: advantages #1
Many helpful features not found in your browser bookmark application– Available anytime from any online computer
Ref desk, office, home, laptop– Very quick to assign multiple categories
Contrast “manage your bookmark” browser tools
Social bookmark tools: advantages #2
Features– One click to add & write a short annotation – One click to clip part of the site (simply highlight a
sentence or paragraph) before you click “Save bookmark”
– Rate sites on a scale from 1-5– Designate a bookmark or folder public or private
Social bookmark tools: advantages #3
Create a local cache of the page or article aka Google’s cached version
Prevents loss of information due to link rotNB for writers and researchers
Full text searchLinks, categories, tags, annotations and cache
Social bookmarking tools: disadvantagesSecurity
– how private are your private bookmarks?Privacy
– What personal information do you have to provide– Many schools do NOT or CANNOT have students sign
up for external servicesReliability
– Will the service be up?– Will they shut down and you’ll lose all your links?
Many social bookmarking tools
Web sites– del.icio.us, furl, RawSugar, Spurl, Netvouz,
BlinkList, Connectedy Web sites - scholarly citation style
– Connotea, CiteULike Install Locally
– Connotea, Scuttle, Unalog
Social bookmark tools & tagging
Social bookmark tools & tagging
Tags are descriptors or keywords individuals assign to objects (photos, articles, sites …)
The practice of collaborative tagging or categorization is known as a folksonomy
del.icio.us tag cloud
http://del.icio.us
Adding a link to del.icio.us
My Tags- alphabetical
My Tags –tag cloud
Tapping into the wisdom of crowdsRecent postsPopularRecommender systemsSearch the collective
bookmarksWatch lists
Photo: PartsnPieces
Some rights reserved
Where can they be used by libraries?
Libraries can tap into the movement of informal offline networks of information sharing by:– Leadership – install and promote the software– Make sure our electronic resource management systems
are “tag-friendly” Librarians can use them to build networks, share
resources, and discover new resources.
Scholarly networks move online
http://www.citeulike.org/
Strengthen library communitiesInformationRetrieval (8)
– A group to which it is possible to post IR related papers.Info_Lit_McGill (2)
– McGill University Library committee on Information Literacy
Librarians (6)– A group for academic/university/college librarians
librarians_german (3)– Group for German librarians
RSS feeds and bookmark services
Already mentioned del.icio.us and furlPublish your links to web site or blog
Furl can keep resource pages up-to-date
FURL links
http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/weblog/library_weblogs.html
Del.icio.us links republished on weblog
http://blogdriverswaltz.com/?p=693
Unalog.com – library community
Primarily used by hacker/librarians who tend to hang out on #code4lib
Open to anyone
http://unalog.com/
Library users
How are they/might they use social bookmark tools?
Penn State
http://tags.library.upenn.edu/
Penn State Library
Created toolbars and bookmarklet Adding links restricted to Penn StateWorld readableTag items in OPAC and video cataloguePlan to expand to e-resources
Discovery outside the catalogue
Links to the catalogue
H20 Playlists - Harvard Law School
http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do
H2O Playlists make it easy to:“transform traditional syllabi into interactive, global
learning tools share the reading lists of world-renowned scholars,
organizations, and cultural leaders let interested people subscribe to playlist updates
and stay current on their fields promote an exchange of ideas and expertise among
professors, students, and researchers communicate and aggregate knowledge -- online
and offline.”http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/about.do
School libraries
Lewis Elementary SchoolInstalled Scuttle for teachers & students
http://tim.lauer.name/archives/004030.html
Tag – the library is it!
What if our users could tag everything – Every library page– OPAC search results– Electronic resources
Not the BBC
BBC social tagging prototype
http://www.headshift.com/archives/002498.cfm
Conclusion
Lots of social bookmark toolsLots of opportunity for libraries and librarians
to make use ofStart to think in Technicolor
– What if ?
Questions