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Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary

Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary. Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager University of Michigan Library Access 2008 2 October 2008. What Is MTagger?. Library-Based Tagging Tool delicious fURL Social networking tools (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) Way to organize academic bookmarks

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Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary

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  1. Tag! You’re It:Social Bookmarking at MLibrary Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager University of Michigan Library Access 2008 2 October 2008

  2. What Is MTagger? • Library-Based Tagging Tool • delicious • fURL • Social networking tools (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) • Way to organize academic bookmarks • Always accessible • Shared with others • Build a common pool of knowledge

  3. What is a Tag? • A label that you assign to a web page • Think of it as a filing system • One web page can be in many of your folders • One web page can be in many people’s folders • Has meaning to you • Lets you find a group of like things again • Word or phrase

  4. What MTagger Does • Allows users to assign keywords to “library stuff” on our site • Catalog • Web Pages • Digital Images • Library publications • Or anything, anywhere (via bookmarklet) • Search, display, retrieve bookmarks

  5. What Is Different? • Collections • MLibrary (library web pages) • Mirlyn (library catalog) • Digital Images • Scholarly Publishing • Everything Else • Integration with Site

  6. Three Ways to Tag: Navigation

  7. Three Ways to Tag: Tag Cloud

  8. Three Ways to Tag: Bookmarklet

  9. Where People Tag

  10. Tagging Something

  11. Your tags are available in MTagger Then What?

  12. Item Listing

  13. How MTagger Is Used • Basic Stats (as of 9/27): • 823 users • 2329 tags (1957 unique) • 1849 items (URLs) • Not as broadly / deeply as we’d like • Tags are generally tagger-centric • Exception: Librarians tag differently

  14. Everyone’s Tags

  15. User Demographics

  16. What Gets Tagged

  17. Finding New Stuff

  18. MTagger RSS Feeds • Every search • Specific person • Tags • Individual tags used by a particular person

  19. Feed for Person’s Items

  20. Feed for a Tag

  21. Feed for a Person’s Specific Tag

  22. Programmer’s API • MTagger Data Available in • RSS • Styled HTML • JSON • Detailslib.umich.edu/mtagger/mtaggerAPI.txt

  23. Resource Guides

  24. Managing Tags

  25. Issues and Challenges (1) • Tagging tied to U-M “uniqname” • Accountability & public face • Pluses and minuses

  26. Issues and Challenges (2) • Balance of anonymity and sharing • MTagging is a public act • Offers anonymity, not privacy • Most feedback on this issue from a single source

  27. Issues and Challenges (3) Getting noticed by users • Fliers, handouts, cards • Various publicity tools • Integration into library BI • Word of mouth

  28. Where Next? • Usability study Summer 2007 • Improvements planned for • Tag cloud display on pages • Tag cloud display in MTagger • Handling of “collections” • Workflow • Integration into VuFind beta • Expansion into HathiTrust (née MBooks)

  29. Development Environment • Cake PHP • MySQL • JavaScript on web pages (Mirlyn, Image Collection, Scholarly Publishing) to build a valid permalink • Intent to make version 2 open source (spring 2009)

  30. Links MTagger: http://lib.umich.edu/mtagger MTagger Updates: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/blt/archives/mtagger/ Ken Varnum Email: varnum@umich.edu Blog: http://www.rss4lib.com/

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