“Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking

Tools”

Good Practice by Focuss.Info

Richard Lallemanmet dank aan Michel Wesseling

Track: national and global information infrastructures Amsterdam, 7 October 2008

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

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Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

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Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

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As librarian I maintain favorite

websites in delicious.com

I am doing my PhD in forestry in Nepal and I save valuable websites related to

this topic on the Internet

As project member of the WHO I

maintain a portal specialized in HIV

in Africa

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Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

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Hi guys, start saving websites in social

bookmark accounts and you’ll find the websites back when you need

them. And... You share it with the world

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Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Web 2.0 presages a Web 2.0 presages a freeing of datafreeing of data, allowing it to be exposed, discovered and , allowing it to be exposed, discovered and manipulated in a variety of ways distinct from the purpose of the application originally manipulated in a variety of ways distinct from the purpose of the application originally used to gain access.used to gain access.Web 2.0 Web 2.0 permits the building of virtual applicationspermits the building of virtual applications, drawing data and functionality , drawing data and functionality from a number of different sources as appropriate. from a number of different sources as appropriate. Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is participativeparticipative. The traditional Web has tended to be somewhat one-sided, . The traditional Web has tended to be somewhat one-sided, with a flow of content from provider to viewer.with a flow of content from provider to viewer.Web 2.0 applications Web 2.0 applications work for the userwork for the user, and are able to locate and assemble content , and are able to locate and assemble content that meets that meets ourour needs as users, rather than forcing us to conform to the paths laid out for needs as users, rather than forcing us to conform to the paths laid out for us by content owners or their intermediaries. us by content owners or their intermediaries. Web 2.0 applications are Web 2.0 applications are modularmodular, with developers and users able to pick and choose , with developers and users able to pick and choose from a set of interoperating components in order to build something that meets their from a set of interoperating components in order to build something that meets their needs.needs. Web 2.0 is about Web 2.0 is about sharingsharing: code, content, ideas.: code, content, ideas.Web 2.0 is about Web 2.0 is about communicationcommunication and and facilitating communityfacilitating community..Web 2.0 is about Web 2.0 is about remixremix..Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is smartsmart. Applications will be able to use knowledge of us, where we have been . Applications will be able to use knowledge of us, where we have been and what we are doing to deliver services that meet our needs.and what we are doing to deliver services that meet our needs.Web 2.0 opens up Web 2.0 opens up the Long Tail,the Long Tail, making it increasingly cost-effective to service the making it increasingly cost-effective to service the interests of large numbers of relatively small groups of individuals, and to enable them to interests of large numbers of relatively small groups of individuals, and to enable them to benefit from key pieces of the platform while fulfilling their own needs.benefit from key pieces of the platform while fulfilling their own needs.Web 2.0 is built upon Web 2.0 is built upon TrustTrust, whether that be trust placed in individuals, in assertions, or , whether that be trust placed in individuals, in assertions, or in the uses and reuses of data.in the uses and reuses of data.

Source: Miller, Paul (2005), Web 2.0: Building the New Library, Source: Miller, Paul (2005), Web 2.0: Building the New Library, Ariadne 45, Ariadne 45, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/intro.htmlhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/intro.html

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Web 1.0

► Saving favorite websites on computer

► Favorite websites available for one person at the time

► One characteristic to describe the favorite website

Web 2.0

► Saving favorite websites on Internet;

► Favorite websites available for more than one person at the time;

► More than one characteristic to describe the favorite website

Storing and saving favorite websites ...

Bookmarking Social bookmarking

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Storing and saving favorite websites ...

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

► Technical maintenance is minimal, human promotion is maximal

► 100 % about sharing: institutions+individuals share favorite websites, the Focuss.Info Initiative shares the code for the subject specific search engine

► Disappearing disciplinary borders in the library

► The relevance of the results of Focuss.Info while using precise terms was much higher than that for the Google results (independent research by ODI)

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

► Technical maintenance is minimal, human promotion is maximal

► 100 % about sharing: institutions+individuals share favorite websites, the Focuss.Info Initiative shares the code for the subject specific search engine

► Disappearing disciplinary borders in the library

► The relevance of the results of Focuss.Info while using precise terms was much higher than that for the Google results (independent research by ODI)

► Are Web 2.0 technologies or initiatives driven by the tyranny of the majority?

► Is the Focuss.Info Initiative replacing other research tools, such as the generic search engines?

Problems/Questions

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

► Are Web 2.0 technologies or initiatives driven by the tyranny of the majority?

► Is the Focuss.Info Initiative replacing other research tools, such as the generic search engines?

Problems/Questions

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

Focuss.Info Initiative: Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Tools

► www.focuss.info► ask@focuss.info

► Further readings:

Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Knowledge sharing through collaboration in development studies: The Focuss.Info Initiative, Information Development, 24(2), pp. 151-155

Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Community contributed content and global studies research, Global-e: A global studies journal, 2(1), available at:

http://global-ejournal.org

Matthews, P. and Wunder, A. (2007) Evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking at the Overseas Development Institute, www.web2fordev.net/