20101201 social bookmarking

Social Bookmarking for Research

and Education

Marc Loman

Wageningen UR Library

Contents

Social bookmarking what is it all about ? Tagging The social part Broadcast yourself Follow your favourites

Favourites/bookmarks on your PC

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of tags.

Web 2.0

a tag is a relevant

keyword or term associated

with or assigned to a piece of

information (like pictures, articles or video

clips), thus describing the item and enabling keyword

based classification of

information it is applied to.

Tags

Delicious.com

Store your bookmarks online Tag your bookmarks Share your bookmarks Subscribe to bookmarks

Social bookmarking in Plain English

Bookmarks in delicious

A tag cloud

A tag cloud with Wordle.net

Delicious Network

Other systems

There are more science oriented systems:

2Collab Connotea CiteUlike Unalog Scholar.com Zotero

Connotea makes suggestions

Exporting references

Allows for structured output

Bibliographic formatting

Follow your favourite tags

More tips and tricks

• Keeping up to date with RSS Feeds

• Web 2.0 and the Academy (registration required)

• http://library.wur.nl/desktop/events