Social Bookmarking
CEC FORUM
Judy O’Connell
2 July 2007
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Semantic Web

Surfing the net

Saving and storing
Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Ubiquitous
Connectivity
Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Collaboration networks
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Findable!

RSS

Syndication
Aggregation
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Information Overload 13
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Social Bookmarking
Filter and manage information
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Create a knowledge n e t w o r k
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Create a collaborative pooling of
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information
TAG - Your own virtual filing cabinet
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Folksonomy
“…an Internet-based
information retrieval
methodology consisting
TAG
of collaboratively
generated, open-ended
labels that categorize
content such as Web
pages, online
photographs, and Web
links..” (Wikipedia)
Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Keyword
Introduction to Social Bookmarking

tag clouds
Introduction to Social Bookmarking

social Bookmarking
Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Del.ici.ous?
• Store your bookmarks online
• Tag your bookmarks
• Share your bookmarks with others
• Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

Tagging

Tagging
– Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with
or assigned to a piece of information (like a picture,
article, or video clip), thus describing the item and
enabling a keyword-based classification of
information it is applied to”

Peer networking

Learning support

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