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Social + Bookmarking Combining Tools and People to Create New Services

Social + Bookmarking Combining Tools and People to Create New Services. Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan darlene.fichter@usask.ca. OLA Super Conference February 3, 2006. Overview. What are social bookmarking tools? Why use one? How do they work? Library applications.

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Social + Bookmarking Combining Tools and People to Create New Services

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  1. Social + BookmarkingCombining Tools and People to Create New Services Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewandarlene.fichter@usask.ca OLA Super ConferenceFebruary 3, 2006

  2. Overview • What are social bookmarking tools? • Why use one? • How do they work? • Library applications

  3. 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” .

  4. 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

  5. Why use social bookmarking tool? • Social “bookmarking” • Track all the interesting sites you find • Organize web references for research

  6. How do they work? • Create an account • Install toolbar or bookmarklet • Add a site • Search or browse your bookmarks http://www.furl.net

  7. Bookmarklet

  8. Pop up window

  9. Pick a topic or type in a new one: Categories youhave added already

  10. Save or save & email

  11. Savedbookmark

  12. Search

  13. Local cache 498 members also furled this, view comments Related sites

  14. Browser bookmark tools: disadvantages • Browser 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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 rot • NB for writers and researchers • Full text search • Links, categories, tags, annotations and cache

  18. Social bookmarking tools: disadvantages • Security • 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 services • Reliability • Will the service be up? • Will they shut down and you’ll lose all your links?

  19. 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

  20. Social bookmark tools & tagging

  21. 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

  22. del.icio.us tag cloud http://del.icio.us

  23. Adding a link to del.icio.us

  24. My Tags- alphabetical

  25. My Tags –tag cloud

  26. Tapping into the wisdom of crowds • Recent posts • Popular • Recommender systems • Search the collective bookmarks • Watch lists Photo: PartsnPiecesSome rights reserved

  27. 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.

  28. Scholarly networks move online http://www.citeulike.org/

  29. Strengthen library communities • InformationRetrieval (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

  30. RSS feeds and bookmark services • Already mentioned del.icio.us and furl • Publish your links to web site or blog

  31. Furl can keep resource pages up-to-date FURL links http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/weblog/library_weblogs.html

  32. Del.icio.us links republished on weblog http://blogdriverswaltz.com/?p=693

  33. Unalog.com – library community • Primarily used by hacker/librarians who tend to hang out on #code4lib • Open to anyone http://unalog.com/

  34. Library users • How are they/might they use social bookmark tools?

  35. Penn State http://tags.library.upenn.edu/

  36. Penn State Library • Created toolbars and bookmarklet • Adding links restricted to Penn State • World readable • Tag items in OPAC and video catalogue • Plan to expand to e-resources

  37. Discovery outside the catalogue

  38. Links to the catalogue

  39. H20 Playlists - Harvard Law School http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do

  40. 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

  41. School libraries • Lewis Elementary School • Installed Scuttle for teachers & students http://tim.lauer.name/archives/004030.html

  42. Tag – the library is it! • What if our users could tag everything • Every library page • OPAC search results • Electronic resources

  43. Not the BBC

  44. BBC social tagging prototype http://www.headshift.com/archives/002498.cfm

  45. Conclusion • Lots of social bookmark tools • Lots of opportunity for libraries and librarians to make use of • Start to think in Technicolor • What if ?

  46. Questions darlene.fichter@usask.ca

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