Laurie Allen Research & Instructional Services Librarian Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania Michael Winkler Director, Information Technology and Digital Developmen University of Pennsylvania Libraries Educause October 12, 2006 PennTags Social Bookmarking in a University Library

Context: University of Pennsylvania Libraries Research University: 23,700 students 13,200 staff (includes 4200 faculty) +11,700 UP Health System = 48,600 Penn people UPenn Libraries 5.57 million volumes 15,194 videos/dvds 13,866 e-journals

Research University:

23,700 students

13,200 staff (includes 4200 faculty)

+11,700 UP Health System

= 48,600 Penn people

UPenn Libraries

5.57 million volumes

15,194 videos/dvds

13,866 e-journals

Introducing PennTags Social Bookmarking tool for the Penn community Works with Penn Library resources, and external online resources: Records in our Online Catalog Links from our link resolver to online journal articles Public Web Resources DOI’s (coming soon) provides simple, stable URL structure for easy access, reuse and sharing supports discipline-based community building

Social Bookmarking tool for the Penn community

Works with Penn Library resources, and external online resources:

Records in our Online Catalog

Links from our link resolver to online journal articles

Public Web Resources

DOI’s (coming soon)

provides simple, stable URL structure for easy access, reuse and sharing

supports discipline-based community building

How it Works (Technically) Simple technical architecture Capture Location, person, context as expressed with tags or annotations javascript bookmarklet or direct entry resolution services – openURL, DOI or proprietary provides simple cgi key / value pairs for input (API) Store develops the social relationships of posts to other posts, locations, owners, tags, or projects provides simple URL structure that mimics directories (API) Delivery maximize output flexibility and reusability xml output to documented format that can be transformed by xsl (API)

Simple technical architecture

Capture

Location, person, context as expressed with tags or annotations

javascript bookmarklet or direct entry

resolution services – openURL, DOI or proprietary

provides simple cgi key / value pairs for input (API)

Store

develops the social relationships of posts to other posts, locations, owners, tags, or projects

provides simple URL structure that mimics directories (API)

Delivery

maximize output flexibility and reusability

xml output to documented format that can be transformed by xsl (API)

Users collect online resources in PennTags. Assign tags Write long annotations Find the resources again using tags Share the links, annotations, and tags with the world Pull content into research guides, other web-pages How it works

Users collect online resources in PennTags.

Assign tags

Write long annotations

Find the resources again using tags

Share the links, annotations, and tags with the world

Pull content into research guides, other web-pages

Expected uses: Film Studies Annotated Bibliographies Librarians can create Research Guides more easily, rss As a substitute for delicious in an academic context How it is Used

Expected uses:

Film Studies Annotated Bibliographies

Librarians can create Research Guides more easily, rss

As a substitute for delicious in an academic context

Unexpected Uses: Lots of tags. dkelly Business Area Studies: quickly accommodate a new service PennVetTags (group functions) Meetings with students (private?) Vet home page? How it is used

Unexpected Uses:

Lots of tags. dkelly

Business Area Studies: quickly accommodate a new service

PennVetTags (group functions)

Meetings with students (private?)

Vet home page?

How it is used (by the numbers) the penn community – 67892 active credentials 8972 posts (7740 with tags) 582 unique owners average 27 posts / day 7304 unique tags used 26714 times average 4 tags / post

the penn community – 67892 active credentials

8972 posts (7740 with tags)

582 unique owners

average 27 posts / day

7304 unique tags used 26714 times

average 4 tags / post

Sources

What‘s next? Marketing PennTags... Measuring Influence Integration into VCAT (video catalog) DOI support Export to delicious, endnote, rtf, refworks, bibtext, etc? Published api

Marketing PennTags...

Measuring Influence

Integration into VCAT (video catalog)

DOI support

Export to delicious, endnote, rtf, refworks, bibtext, etc?

Published api

Why did you do this? Why not use delicious? Is it open source? Can we try it? Have you seen resistance by librarians? From the audience. Questions:

Why did you do this?

Why not use delicious?

Is it open source?

Can we try it?

Have you seen resistance by librarians?

From the audience.