Social Bookmarking and Tagging
A. Basic examples:
B. Academic applications: tools for scholarly literature
These tools can help with:
- bibliographic management
- group sharing
- discovery
C. Possible library uses:
- PennTags, instructions for PennTags
- LibraryThing- Nicole’s catalog
- Virtual Reference mockup from del.icio.us/virtualref
- other systems: Amazon, OPACs, HubMed, HubMed tags
- tags combined with facets at MeFeedia
D. Discussion
- How could we use these tools in our work?
- How might our users benefit from these technologies?
- Could these tools replace or supplement some of our existing tools?
- What are the pros and cons of user tagging? Can it complement our systems of strict metadata?
E. Further reading
- The Hive Mind: Folksonomies & User-Based Tagging
by Ellyssa Kroski - see also “Social Bookmarking” in bibliography