Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian
Jessamyn West, Librarian.net
Flickr, Tagging, and the F-Word (Jessamyn)
- Features
- Easy upload
- [M: Jessamyn just said “groks”]
- easy find
- easy share
- Tagging
- Metadata by me
- …by my family & friends
- …by anyone
- Tagging vs Classification
- Can co-exist
- Must regognise the differences
- it’s not a fight
- Folksonomy
- user created metadata
- grassroots community classification of digital assets
- flat namespace
- not mutually exclusive with other systems
- helps with scalability problems
- involves the users in the problems
- does have the “synonym problem”
del.icio.us (Jenny)
- social bookmarking
- the bookmarking version of flickr
- tagged boomkarks
- RSS feeds of tags and users
- You can search your bookmarks but others can’t search your bookmarks
- Use to research new topics
- These are the sites are reading and are important enough to bookmark
- Hacks
- ToRead
- ToRent
- ForName (private = for:username)
- Download media in iTunes
- del.icio.us for your library
- LaGrangeParkLibrary (for the ref desk)
- Thomas Ford Memorial Library (aaron schmidt, displaying the feed back onto the Web site)
- Floksonomies sites
- CiteULike (accademic)
- last fm (music)
- 43 things (what do you want to do, meet others who want to do the same thing)
- 43 places (where do you want to visit)
- Technorati (blogs)
- MetaFilter
- Yahoo! Search
- Yummy! (hosts PDFs)
- Amazon.com search inside the book concordanance
- bookswelike.net
- LibraryThing
