What’s appetizing about social bookmarking?

What’s appetizing about social bookmarking?

Del.icio.us

Why would you care that 155 people have tagged“aSSL – Ajax Secure Service Layer”?

Del.icio.us is a community of selectors

Finding Resources & Potential ColleaguesFollowing annotations like a detective…

Del.icio.us encourages trusted networking

Selector’s networking

Del.icio.us

Networking possibilities… over 1 million users

Del.icio.us / InterlibraryLoan

Creating a collective namespace

Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us

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Other Bookmarking Systems…CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/

Connotea: http://www.connotea.org/

FURL: http://www.furl.net/

Directory of Social Bookmarking Sites: http://www.aboutsocialbookmarks.com/asb/DisplayArticleServlet/DirectorySocialBookmarkingSites.html

How is a Library using social bookmarks? See PennTags: http://tags.library.upenn.edu/

Evaluate capabilities & uses

Other Bookmarking Systems…

Del.icio.usInteresting Reading • Golder, Scott, Bernardo Huberman, “The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems,”

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/tags/index.html

• Hammond, Tony et al., “Social Bookmarking Tools (I) A General Review,” http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

• Iskold, Alex, “The Social Bookmarking Faceoff,” http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_bookmarking_faceoff.php

• Kroski, Ellyssa, “The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging,” http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2005/12/07/the-hive-mind-folksonomies-and-user-based-tagging/

• Lund, Ben, et al., “Social Bookmarking Tools (II) A Case Study – Connotea,” http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/lund/04lund.html

• Rosenfeld, Louis, “Folksonomies? How about Metadata Ecologies?”, http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000330.html

• Rox, Torsten, “Social bookmarks’ chart” ver. 3.5 (2006) http://www.roxomatic.de/archives/985/Social-bookmarks-review-version-3.5

• “7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking”: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf