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Jason Griffey's preconference presentation for Internet Librarian 2007.TRANSCRIPT
del.icio.us libraries
Or,
how to abuse social bookmarking for fun and profit
Social Bookmarks
via: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Lots of options• Blinklist
• StumbleUpon
• Ma.gnolia
• Furl
• Caches entire page
• Del.icio.us
• Since 2003
• Now owned by Yahoo
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
Adding Bookmarks
Firefox Extension
Find
ReuseOrganize
Find
Organize
Tags
✦Uncontrolled vocabulary
✦Wisdom of crowds
✦“Folksonomy”
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
Tag Cloud
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
Reuse
Tags meet RSSRSS 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
RSS + Media = PodcastMedia 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
Embedding
✦ Linkrolls
✦ http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls
✦ Daily Blog Post
✦ http://del.icio.us/help/sharing
✦ RSS
✦ Aggregators, CMS, iTunes...nearly anything
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
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
Even more...
✦ License your feed
✦ Import/Export
Summary
✦ Find, Organize, Reuse
✦ If it has a URL, del.icio.us it
✦ Infinitely reusable information pieces
Information R/evolution
✦ 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
Jason GriffeyHead of Library Information TechnologyUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Jason Griffey
✦ 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
✦ [email protected] ✦ AIM: utcrefJason
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Head of Library Information TechnologyUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga