Del.icio.us & Social Bookmarking for Your Class & Course Activities

Del.icio.us & Social Bookmarking for Your Class

& Course Activities

Patricia F. Anderson <[email protected]>

UM Health Sciences Libraries Prematriculation, UMMS

July 18, 2007

© 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Del.icio.us

Why Is Del.icio.us Useful?

• Get to your bookmarks from home, office, class, library, clinics …

• Discover more cool links like those you already have

• Sharing resources with peers, friends, teachers & others

• Collect search strategies & information for assignments, bibliographies, projects

• Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.

Like Del.icio.us … but for Scientists

• Connotea

• CiteULike

Getting Started

• Create your account

• Upload your bookmarks

• Export bookmarks (“hotsync”)

• Save links

• Tag

• Annotate

• Settings

Create Your Account

Upload Bookmarks

• Easy: Select file, accept default options

• Public or Private - your choice

Export Bookmarks

• Like hotsyncing your browser

Searching in Del.icio.us

• Three options

Searching in Del.icio.us

• Example:

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

• Tags are freeform and self-selected• Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation

for the same concept– Avian flu = avian.flu = avian_flu = avian-flu = avianflu = Avian.flu =

Avian.Flu = “avian flu” = …– Avian influenza– Bird flu = birdflu– Bird influenza– Pandemic influenza– Pandemic flu– H5N1 / h5n1– MORE: tamiflu, pandemic, flu, epidemic, influenza

• Watch for popular terms

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

• http://del.icio.us/tag/

• Add the term you want at the end of the URL above.

How to Save a Link

• With the post button

• With the browser buttons

• Required elements: title / URL

• Optional standard elements: tags / annotations

• Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

How to Save a Link

• With the post button (eg. PDFs)– 1. Click post

– 2. Paste URL for selected item.

How to Save a Link

• With the post button (eg. PDFs)

• TIP: Use the tab to fill in a tag with the highlighted tag, or click on the choice to save typing.

How to Save a Link

• With the browser buttons

How to Save a Link

• With the browser buttons– TIP: Click on tags you’ve already used to

avoid typing.

How to Save a Link

• Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

Personalized Settings

• Privacy options

• Networking

Personalized Settings: Privacy

• Private links (checkbox)

• Private network (block someone who sends you inappropriate links)

Who Saved What?

Personalized Settings: Networks

Using Networks for Discovery

Linking to Complex Concepts

• Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

Saving Search Strategies

• PubMed & Google & more …

How to Tag - Basics

• Tagging rules– Separate tags with a space– Join words with punctuation (lower-case

preferred) (some simply delete spaces between words)

Tagging Example

• For who? Or should I say 4 who?

• From who? Or should I say via who?

How to Annotate

• Annotations: Personal vs. Communal

• Citations

• Quotations

• Date Viewed

• Size limits on what can be included

Tag & Annotate Examples

• 4, 2, via:, in:, from: … NOT for:

Tagging Tips

• Include both broad and narrow terms

• Design terms with repeated concepts to go from broad to narrow, general to specific.

• Consider using two tags in combination to describe one idea– images.anatomy OR anatomy.images OR …– images anatomy

Tagging Tips

• Use punctuation for spaces (lower case)

• Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term.

• Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.

Tagging Tips

• Tagging shortcuts: examples– Items for a particular audience:

• 4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, etc

– Items from frequently read journals or authors:

• in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd

– Items for people in your delicious network:• for:dentlib, for:tmjchat

Editing Saved Links

• When you are logged in, you can see an EDIT button by all your links.

Saving Items Tagged for You

Saving Items Tagged for You

Tag for Your Course

• To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with this: – premat2007

Tag for Your Course

• To send to the teacher for the class account, tag with this: – for:premat2007

Tag for Your Peers

• To tag items for your class group, tag with this:– Umms2011

Questions?

– Contact: Patricia Anderson at [email protected]