Sorting blog - blogging practices

Sorting blogs – blogging practices

Lambert Heller, TIB/UB Hannover: Presentation to the librarians‘ program, July 16./17., at the 32. conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation 2008

Lambert Heller @ GFKL, 16. 7. 2008

References

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… literature references at http://bibsonomy.org/user/sciencebloglibrarian

… this presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/lambo/tags/gfkl08

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Overview

What are weblogs?

What are scienceblogs / knowledge blogs?

Indexing in library catalogs, repositories and blogs

Indexing of blogs through their authors

Indexing of blogs through readers

Indexing of blogs through third parties?

1. What are weblogs?

One person publishing – as easy as e-mail

Newest entry comes first, has a date stamp and a permalink

Conversational , as far as the author wants it

Often regularly updated and short, but above all: no fixed rules

Many links – typical web medium

Blogs are laboratories for new techniques/practices, e.g.. RSS (Libby/Winer 1999), today lifestreaming

Metaphors: logbook, megaphone

2. What are scienceblogs / knowledge blogs?

Teenie diaries – and the „long tail“

„ Mass-market scholarly communication “ (Rosenthal)

Electronic + informal = fast

Getting feedback from community + fault-tolerant environment

Emerging „peer review“ through blogrolls, links, comments

Sorting one‘s own knowledge work (Efimova)

Blogs as media of informal learning

Trend in e-learning: from one LMS to many PLE s

Scienceblogs as college marketing 2.0

Scienceblogs as commenting and indexing the web

3. Indexing in catalogs, repositories and blogs Lambert Heller @ GFKL, 16. 7. 2008 Yes, through scattered tools (e.g. social bookmarking) Discussions and first attempts. Works, whenever it‘s useful for PIM, and when critical mass is reached. Readers In parts, through planets and community aggregators No (argument: doesn‘t scale) Yes Intermediary actors Yes, tagging and free categories Yes, through centralized tools No Authors Blogs Repositories Catalogs Indexing through▼ in►

4. Indexing of blogs through their authors

Indexing at the level of blog items

Vintage: (free) categories, since 2004: tagging

APIs, Plugins from Yahoo, Knallgrau, Reuters etc.: Indexing is supported and standardized through text mining methods

Medical librarian Rachel R. Walden, weblog „Women's Health News“: indexing with MeSH

The future: Indexing with LCSH or Wikipedia?

5. Indexing of blogs through readers

Social bookmarking on plattforms like del.icio.us

Tagging : Readers attaching ad hoc keywords

Above all PIM , but thereby valuable „social metadata“

The concept is moving into sciences (e.g. Connotea)

Tags meeting controlled vocabularies (MyEdna, EntityDescriber etc.) – valuable for both sides

6. Indexing of blogs through intermediary actors?

Consider that authors and readers want to do the indexing by themselves!

No alternative, since central indexing doesn‘t scale here, neither for single blog items nor even blogs as a whole

Novel services for communities needed

Who aggregates the (community-) aggregators ?

Can archiving and indexing complement one another?

Tools for scattered indexing should fit blog-like informations (freely available, many languages, vibrant) and should also fit the world of more traditionally structured information.

Thank yoou!