Social Bookmarking
Session Information
The TOTS session on Social Bookmarking will be held on Thursday December 13, 2007 from 2.00-4.00 in Koerner 216.
Speakers
Allan Cho, Humanities and Social Sciences, Koerner Library
Susan Atkey, Humanities and Social Sciences, Koerner Library
Sheryl Adam, Humanities and Social Sciences, Koerner Library
What is social bookmarking?
Social Bookmarking in Plain English - Video (Lee Lefever. Commoncraft. August 2007)
The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos on web2.0 tools. This one explains the power of social bookmarking and how it makes websites easier to remember, organize and share.
Social Bookmarking Tools
- del.icio.us : a popular social bookmarking website which allows you to store and share bookmarks on the web.
- Furl : One of the main features of Furl is that it also archives a complete copy of the html of each bookmarked page so that the content is accessible even if the page is moved or modified.
- Connotea : an academic social bookmarking site, specially designed for scientists and clinicians.
- CiteULike : a free online service to organise references to academic papers of interest and share them with others.
- Scuttle : open-source social bookmark manager that can be installed on a local server
- 2collab: Elsevier recent developed a social bookmarking tool for researchers, Initiated by a collaboration between Scopus and ScienceDirect.
Social Bookmarking at UBC Library
- Fisheries Subject Guide : In this example, Sally Taylor uses the "Linkroll" feature of del.icio.us to display current fisheries news on the Fisheries Subject Guide. When new bookmarks are tagged with the keyword "fisheries", they will automatically display in the news feed on the Subject Guide.
- Anthropology, Ethnology, and Archaeology Museums and Archives : In this example, Susan Atkey uses four separate del.icio.us Linkrolls to display websites of anthropology and ethnography museums in four geographic areas. As new sites are added and tagged on del.icio.us , they automatically display on this guide.
Social Bookmarking at Other Libraries
- Thunder Bay Public Library uses de.licio.us tags to organize links to webresources.
- University of Alberta uses de.licio.us tags for the links off their subject guides, e.g. Climate Change.
- Created by the staff at the University of Pennsylvania Library, Penn Tags permits cardholders to tag books from the library's catalogue, articles and webpages. I haven't been able to determine if they display in the catalogue for logged-in University of Pennsylvania Library cardholders. For sure they're not available from off campus: try a search in their Voyager catalogue here.
- Ann Arbor Public Library permits tagging by cardholders only, but anyone can leave a message on the "card catalog image". (Try a search in their catalogue for Quantico by Greg Bear.)
UBC Example
Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange is a UBC project under the direction of David Vogt (Education) and Lee Iverson (Electrical Engineering)
"An online place where the world will collectively discuss, review and apply the the best ideas for sustainable cities."
Further Reading
For more information about Social Bookmarking, the following articles offers more insight:
- "Social Bookmarking Tools (I)." D-Lib Magazine. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
- "Social Bookmarking Tools (II)" D-Lib Magazine. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/dlib/april05/lund/04lund.html
- "7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking." Educause. http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
Covers the who, what, where, why, and how of social bookmarking in a short two-page summary.
Discussion Questions
How do you see yourself using this tool in your work environment?
- Kim will use something, probably Cite U Like, for a project involving researchers on and off campus, throughout the province, with and without access to our licensed databases.
What are some of the advantages of using this technology?
What are some of the challenges of using this technology?
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There are too many tools! Help! I can't keep up with it, and I'm a technology afficionado! It's hard to keep track of all the id's and passwords!
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Connotea and Site U Like seem to similar, how could I choose? And ???? will actually format bibliographies, but it only works with Firefox, which we don't have.
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Who knows about these things? Who owns them? We have a responsibility to ensure that what we steer our users to are stable and reliable.
- Maybe we could have our own server for tags for our catalogue (like Penn Tags) -- that would make our users' data Canadian, at least.
- There's a tension between privacy and open source. You have to give up some privacy to use open source, etc.
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