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Presentation at the GAELIC Summer training camp, 26 November 2009, South Africa. How to create delicious bookmarking site, practical tips.
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Web 2.0 ApplicationsSocial Bookmarking
Pavlinka Kovatcheva, Subject Librarian University of Johannesburg
E-mail: [email protected] GAELIC Summer Training Camp
26 November 2009
Web 2.0 Applications• Web 2.0 emerged as a way to stimulate people’s participation,
contributions and collaboration in the creation of a new content over the web
- Blogs - Social Networking - Social Bookmarking & Sharing- RSS feeds- Wikis- Instant Messaging/Chat- Podcasts & Videos - Embed widgets for visual illustration- Mobile Technologies
UJ Sciences Librarian Web 2.0 World
Web 2.0 Applications
InformationPush/Pull
Information Retrieval
InformationExchange
Social Bookmarking
- Delicious
Blogs-Web pages
-Posts
RSS feeds-ToC
-News
Wikis-UJ Sciences
Subject portals
Instant Messaging- MeeboMe
-Skype
Social Networking-Facebook
Adapted from Chua, 2008
http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com
Social Bookmarking
According to Wikipedia:• Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize,
search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.
• Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of metadata, so that other users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves. Such descriptions may be free text comments, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".
Social Bookmarking
Implications for Librarians, Researchers and Learners• Tagging (cataloguing ) information resources with keywords has
the potential to change the way we store and find information• Information retrieval – Social bookmarking application enable content
to be found based on a set of user-specified criteria• Social Bookmarking simplifies the distribution of reference list;
bibliographies, articles; videos, book reviews, news and other resources among academics, researchers and students
• Can be used as Current Awareness and Selective Dissemination of information tool (articles, news; ToC, websites; blog posts, etc)
• Databases with Social Bookmarking applications: EbscoHost, RSC, IoP, ScienceDirect- 2Collab, AccessScience, etc.
Getting started with Social Bookmarking
• Decide on the purpose of the Bookmarking site
• Who is your intended audience
• Benchmark with other libraries
• Select a Social Bookmarking site
• Create an account (use generalised e-mail / password)
Recommended sites to start:• Del.icio.us.com• Google Bookmarks• Digg, etc.
Advantages:• Easy to find new and older Information (tags)• Keep users informed on the latest in the Sciences, Library, IT fields,
etc.• Search per tagg• Enable you to advertise your own links (blogs, websites, etc.) • Easy and quick to tag articles, news, websites, etc. • Saves from an e-mail overload• Good Information Retrieval toolSuggestions: • Delicious is the choice of many libraries• When creating an account for a bookmarking site, make use of the
generalised e-mail of your institution. • Create a more subject specific service and do not cover too many
topics.
Advantages & Disadvantages
Del.icio.us: Edit options
Bookmarking Tools
The websites provided an easy way to bookmark a
record
Social Bookmarking: EbscoHost Databases
Social Bookmarking: EbscoHost Databases
“Sciencelibrarian”: Records according to day
“Sciencelibrarian”: Records according to Tags
Delicious is a free website that enables all the users around the world to bookmark their favorite web contents on the web
http://delicious.com/tags/sciencelibrarian
Social Bookmarking: Tag a Web Resource
Latest Articles on Delicious, selected by your Subject Librarian: Astronomy & Physics
Social Bookmarking: Statistics
UJ Sciences Librarian Portal: Del.icio.us Widgethttp://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/
• Why use Social Bookmarking tools?- Easy to find new & older references- Easy to share subject relevant information - Easy to tag resources from an articles or a web page- You bookmark and share the available information in the world- Bookmarking saves from an e-mail overload- Easy to communicate the information to users by using other Web
2.0 tools like – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Blogs, etc. - It is exciting and it is fun. You are “out there”, not only “in here”. You
are part of the creation and sharing of the world knowledge and information. You are a cutting-age Librarian.
Tag, tag, tag…… lead or be left behind! Thank you!!!!!
In Conclusion
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