Del.icio.us Libraries

Slide 1: del.icio.us libraries Or, how to abuse social bookmarking for fun and profit

Slide 2: Social Bookmarks

Slide 3: via: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Slide 4: Lots of options • Blinklist • StumbleUpon • Ma.gnolia • Furl • Caches entire page • Del.icio.us • Since 2003 • Now owned by Yahoo

Slide 5: Why del.icio.us? ✦ Easy and fast ✦ Human readable URLs ✦ http://del.icio.us/griffey ✦ http://del.icio.us/tag/IL2007 ✦ Richness of folksonomy ✦ Ubiquity of RSS

Slide 7: Adding Bookmarks

Slide 10: Firefox Extension

Slide 11: Find Organize Reuse

Slide 12: Find

Slide 16: Organize

Slide 17: Tags ✦Uncontrolled vocabulary ✦Wisdom of crowds ✦“Folksonomy”

Slide 18: Folksonomy ✦ Positives Non-hierarchical descriptors ✦ Inclusive, not exclusive ✦ Open ended ✦ Long Tail ✦ ✦ Negatives Non-hierarchical descriptors ✦ Inclusive, not exclusive (polysemy) ✦ Numbers make it work ✦ Personal ✦

Slide 20: Tag Cloud

Slide 21: Meta Tags ✦ for:griffey ✦ Special tags ✦ System:media:audio ✦ Video, image, document ✦ system:filetype:mp3 ✦ Jpg, mpg, avi, mp3, pdf, doc ✦ Folksonomic meta tags ✦ Via:griffey ✦ Cite:griffey

Slide 24: Reuse

Slide 25: Tags meet RSS RSS available at every level of taxonomy ✦ User level ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/griffey ✦ Tag Level ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/IL2007 ✦ Combinations ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/griffey/IL2007 ✦ Multiple tags ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/copyright+library

Slide 27: RSS + Media = Podcast Media meta tags come with enclosures ✦ Just my MP3s ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/griffey/system:filetype:mp3 ✦ Everyone’s MP3s ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3 ✦ Video ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/tag system:media:video ✦ Get specific ✦ http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+library

Slide 28: Embedding ✦ Linkrolls ✦ http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls ✦ Daily Blog Post ✦ http://del.icio.us/help/sharing ✦ RSS ✦ Aggregators, CMS, iTunes...nearly anything

Slide 29: What do I do with all this? ✦ Pathfinders ✦ Internal communication of resources ✦ Feeds for subject specialists ✦ RSS into Blackboard/WebCT for individual classes ✦ Personal research tool

Slide 30: More advanced use ✦ API ✦ Your Network ✦ Subscriptions/Inbox ✦ Private bookmarks ✦ JSON: JavaScript Object Notation ✦ History of a URL ✦ http://del.icio.us/url?url=http://wikipedia.org

Slide 31: Even more... ✦ License your feed ✦ Import/Export ✦ Facebook

Slide 32: Summary ✦ Find, Organize, Reuse ✦ If it has a URL, del.icio.us it ✦ Infinitely reusable information pieces

Slide 33: Information R/evolution

Slide 34: Jason Griffey Head of Library Information Technology University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ✦ Flickr ✦ http://flickr.com/griffey ✦ Blip.tv ✦ http://griffey.blip.tv ✦ LibraryThing ✦ http://www.librarything.com/catalog/griffey ✦ Last.fm ✦ http://www.last.fm/jgriffey ✦ Facebook ✦ Metafilter ✦ Digg

Slide 35: Jason Griffey Head of Library Information Technology University of Tennessee at Chattanooga ✦ Pattern Recognition ✦ http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp ✦ Del.icio.us ✦ http://del.icio.us/griffey/IL2007 ✦ Twitter ✦ http://twitter.com/griffey ✦ LITABlog ✦ http://www.litablog.org ✦ Jason-griffey@utc.edu ✦ AIM: utcrefJason This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Any media used and not created by Jason Griffey is understood to be copyright by the original author, and is used under the U.S. Fair Use guidelines.