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Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager University of Michigan Library Access 2008 2 October 2008

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Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary. Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager University of Michigan Library Access 2008 2 October 2008. What Is MTagger?. Library-Based Tagging Tool delicious fURL Social networking tools (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) Way to organize academic bookmarks - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Tag! You’re It:Social Bookmarking at MLibrary

Ken Varnum

Web Systems Manager

University of Michigan Library

Access 2008

2 October 2008

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What Is MTagger?

• Library-Based Tagging Tool• delicious

• fURL

• Social networking tools (Flickr, Facebook, etc.)

• Way to organize academic bookmarks• Always accessible

• Shared with others

• Build a common pool of knowledge

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What is a Tag?

• A label that you assign to a web page

• Think of it as a filing system• One web page can be in many of your folders

• One web page can be in many people’s folders

• Has meaning to you

• Lets you find a group of like things again

• Word or phrase

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What MTagger Does

• Allows users to assign keywords to “library stuff” on our site• Catalog

• Web Pages

• Digital Images

• Library publications

• Or anything, anywhere (via bookmarklet)

• Search, display, retrieve bookmarks

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What Is Different?

1. Collections• MLibrary (library web pages)

• Mirlyn (library catalog)

• Digital Images

• Scholarly Publishing

• Everything Else

2. Integration with Site

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Three Ways to Tag: Navigation

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Three Ways to Tag: Tag Cloud

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Three Ways to Tag: Bookmarklet

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Where People Tag

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Tagging Something

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Then What?

Your tags are available in MTagger

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Item Listing

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How MTagger Is Used

• Basic Stats (as of 9/27):• 823 users

• 2329 tags (1957 unique)

• 1849 items (URLs)

• Not as broadly / deeply as we’d like

• Tags are generally tagger-centric

• Exception: Librarians tag differently

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Everyone’s Tags

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User Demographics

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What Gets Tagged

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Finding New Stuff

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MTagger RSS Feeds

• Every search

• Specific person

• Tags

• Individual tags used by a particular person

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Feed for Person’s Items

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Feed for a Tag

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Feed for a Person’s Specific Tag

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Programmer’s API

• MTagger Data Available in•RSS

•Styled HTML

•JSON

• Detailslib.umich.edu/mtagger/mtaggerAPI.txt

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Resource Guides

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Managing Tags

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Issues and Challenges (1)

• Tagging tied to U-M “uniqname”

• Accountability & public face

• Pluses and minuses

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Issues and Challenges (2)

• Balance of anonymity and sharing

• MTagging is a public act

• Offers anonymity, not privacy

• Most feedback on this issue from a single source

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Issues and Challenges (3)

Getting noticed by users

• Fliers, handouts, cards

• Various publicity tools

• Integration into library BI

• Word of mouth

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Where Next?

• Usability study Summer 2007

• Improvements planned for• Tag cloud display on pages

• Tag cloud display in MTagger

• Handling of “collections”

• Workflow

• Integration into VuFind beta

• Expansion into HathiTrust (née MBooks)

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Development Environment

• Cake PHP

• MySQL

• JavaScript on web pages (Mirlyn, Image Collection, Scholarly Publishing) to build a valid permalink

• Intent to make version 2 open source (spring 2009)

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Links

MTagger:http://lib.umich.edu/mtagger

MTagger Updates:http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/blt/archives/mtagger/

Ken VarnumEmail: [email protected]

Blog: http://www.rss4lib.com/