Social Bookmarking intro

Chris Willmott Dept of Biochemistry

cjrw2@le.ac.uk

Knowing where it’s at: find it? flag it? share it? (or how del.icio.us

saved my life)

Exploiting New Research Tools

University ofLeicester

The rise of social bookmarking

Social bookmarking

services

del.icio.us www.stumbleupon.com ma.gnolia.com

digg.comreddit.com

connotea.org citeulike.org

2collab.com

Bookmarks ≠

Favourites • Bookmarks accessible on multiple computers

• Attach notes

• Tagging for future reference

• Multiple tags

• User-generated tags = “folksonomies”

Example using del.icio.us

Example using del.icio.us

Example using del.icio.us

Example using del.icio.us

Example using del.icio.us

Sharing discoveries in del.icio.us

Sharing discoveries in del.icio.us

Sharing discoveries in del.icio.us

Using RSS feeds from Tags

Using RSS feeds from Tags

Using RSS feeds from Tags

link

Social citation software • Websites most akin to EndNote & RefWorks

• Not as flexible re other web-based sources

• Can tag these and other sites using Del.icio.us

• Use one in conjunction with Del.icio.us?

connotea.org citeulike.org

2collab.com

The del.icio.us

effect Before

After