Social Bookmarking & Tagging: talk for IT Partners
Social bookmarking is a web based service, where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed. These systems usually categorize their resources by the use of informally assigned, user-defined keywords or tags.
A. Basic examples:
B. Academic applications: tools for bookmarking scholarly literature. These tools capture more detailed metadata from certain scholarly web sites and allow you to export citations into a bibliography following standard formats.
C. More social bookmarking sites:
- Furl – a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on the web
- Spurl – stores a copy of your page as it was when you first read it
- Yahoo! My Web
D. Other tagging examples:
- PennTags, instructions for PennTags
- LibraryThing- Nicole’s catalog
- other systems: Amazon, OPACs, HubMed, HubMed tags
- tags combined with facets at MeFeedia
E. Further reading
- The Hive Mind: Folksonomies & User-Based Tagging
by Ellyssa Kroski - see also “Social Bookmarking” in bibliography