Del.icio.us & Social Bookmarking for Your Class & Course Activities Patricia F. Anderson <pfa@umich.edu> UM Health Sciences Libraries Prematriculation, UMMS July 18, 2007 © 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Del.icio.us

Why Is Del.icio.us Useful? Get to your bookmarks from home, office, class, library, clinics … Discover more cool links like those you already have Sharing resources with peers, friends, teachers & others Collect search strategies & information for assignments, bibliographies, projects Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.

Get to your bookmarks from home, office, class, library, clinics …

Discover more cool links like those you already have

Sharing resources with peers, friends, teachers & others

Collect search strategies & information for assignments, bibliographies, projects

Feed your links to a web site, blog, Facebook, etc.

Like Del.icio.us … but for Scientists Connotea CiteULike

Connotea

CiteULike

Getting Started Create your account Upload your bookmarks Export bookmarks (“hotsync”) Save links Tag Annotate Settings

Create your account

Upload your bookmarks

Export bookmarks (“hotsync”)

Save links

Tag

Annotate

Settings

Create Your Account

Upload Bookmarks Easy : Select file, accept default options Public or Private - your choice

Easy : Select file, accept default options

Public or Private - your choice

Export Bookmarks Like hotsyncing your browser

Like hotsyncing your browser

Searching in Del.icio.us Three options

Three options

Searching in Del.icio.us Example:

Example:

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us Tags are freeform and self-selected Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation for the same concept Avian flu = avian.flu = avian_flu = avian-flu = avianflu = Avian.flu = Avian.Flu = “avian flu” = … Avian influenza Bird flu = birdflu Bird influenza Pandemic influenza Pandemic flu H5N1 / h5n1 MORE: tamiflu, pandemic, flu, epidemic, influenza Watch for popular terms

Tags are freeform and self-selected

Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation for the same concept

Avian flu = avian.flu = avian_flu = avian-flu = avianflu = Avian.flu = Avian.Flu = “avian flu” = …

Avian influenza

Bird flu = birdflu

Bird influenza

Pandemic influenza

Pandemic flu

H5N1 / h5n1

MORE: tamiflu, pandemic, flu, epidemic, influenza

Watch for popular terms

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/tag/ Add the term you want at the end of the URL above.

http://del.icio.us/tag/

Add the term you want at the end of the URL above.

How to Save a Link With the post button With the browser buttons Required elements: title / URL Optional standard elements: tags / annotations Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

With the post button

With the browser buttons

Required elements: title / URL

Optional standard elements: tags / annotations

Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

How to Save a Link With the post button (eg. PDFs) 1. Click post 2. Paste URL for selected item.

With the post button (eg. PDFs)

1. Click post

2. Paste URL for selected item.

How to Save a Link With the post button (eg. PDFs) TIP: Use the tab to fill in a tag with the highlighted tag, or click on the choice to save typing.

With the post button (eg. PDFs)

TIP: Use the tab to fill in a tag with the highlighted tag, or click on the choice to save typing.

How to Save a Link With the browser buttons

With the browser buttons

How to Save a Link With the browser buttons TIP: Click on tags you’ve already used to avoid typing.

With the browser buttons

TIP: Click on tags you’ve already used to avoid typing.

How to Save a Link Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

Personalized Settings Privacy options Networking

Privacy options

Networking

Personalized Settings: Privacy Private links (checkbox) Private network (block someone who sends you inappropriate links)

Private links (checkbox)

Private network (block someone who sends you inappropriate links)

Who Saved What?

Personalized Settings: Networks

Using Networks for Discovery

Linking to Complex Concepts Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

Saving Search Strategies PubMed & Google & more …

PubMed & Google & more …

How to Tag - Basics Tagging rules Separate tags with a space Join words with punctuation (lower-case preferred) (some simply delete spaces between words)

Tagging rules

Separate tags with a space

Join words with punctuation (lower-case preferred) (some simply delete spaces between words)

Tagging Example For who? Or should I say 4 who? From who? Or should I say via who?

For who? Or should I say 4 who?

From who? Or should I say via who?

How to Annotate Annotations: Personal vs. Communal Citations Quotations Date Viewed Size limits on what can be included

Annotations: Personal vs. Communal

Citations

Quotations

Date Viewed

Size limits on what can be included

Tag & Annotate Examples 4, 2, via:, in:, from: … NOT for:

4, 2, via:, in:, from: … NOT for:

Tagging Tips Include both broad and narrow terms Design terms with repeated concepts to go from broad to narrow, general to specific. Consider using two tags in combination to describe one idea images.anatomy OR anatomy.images OR … images anatomy

Include both broad and narrow terms

Design terms with repeated concepts to go from broad to narrow, general to specific.

Consider using two tags in combination to describe one idea

images.anatomy OR anatomy.images OR …

images anatomy

Tagging Tips Use punctuation for spaces (lower case) Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term. Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.

Use punctuation for spaces (lower case)

Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term.

Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.

Tagging Tips Tagging shortcuts: examples Items for a particular audience: 4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, etc Items from frequently read journals or authors: in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd Items for people in your delicious network: for:dentlib, for:tmjchat

Tagging shortcuts: examples

Items for a particular audience:

4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, etc

Items from frequently read journals or authors:

in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd

Items for people in your delicious network:

for:dentlib, for:tmjchat

Editing Saved Links When you are logged in, you can see an EDIT button by all your links.

When you are logged in, you can see an EDIT button by all your links.

Saving Items Tagged for You

Saving Items Tagged for You

Tag for Your Course To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with this: premat2007

To share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with this:

premat2007

Tag for Your Course To send to the teacher for the class account, tag with this: for:premat2007

To send to the teacher for the class account, tag with this:

for:premat2007

Tag for Your Peers To tag items for your class group, tag with this: Umms2011

To tag items for your class group, tag with this:

Umms2011

Questions? Contact: Patricia Anderson at pfa@umich.edu

Contact: Patricia Anderson at pfa@umich.edu