Web 2.0:Delicious

& social bookmarking

A brief look at tools & applications

BookmarksHave generally had Favourites orBookmarks capability in browsers

Disadvantages:

• Only your bookmarks, not shared • Stay on one PC• Inaccessible from another PC , remote

location etc.

Web 2.0ey approach

• Access from any net connection• Share with others – vote etc• E.g:

– Del.icio.us– Digg– Reddit– Stumbleupon– FURL (archive whole webpages)– CiteULike (academic focus)– Connotea (academic focus)

Del.icio.us:

• Homepage at http://del.icio.us/

• Google delicious & hit “I’m feeling lucky”

Delicious homepage:

Latest items added to delicious

N.B. Counter of the number of times has been listed in Delicious

Search box

Tags info

Usual registration procedures…

Install buttons in browser (or links)…

Alternatively use ‘post’

(Is a tutorial as step 3)

Can see basic functionality on blank page (search, tag options, showing)

Search

Tagging

‘Show’ options

Go searching for what interests you.

When find it, click on Delicious button to open your account & add link to your collection (tag button to add link if already logged in).

Delicious will open a dialog box.

It will automatically save the URL.

It will also provide :

• default description tag,

• notes field &

• tags field (often with some suggested tags)

You can then amend, add to these fields :

• preferred description tag,

• notes

• tags (folksonomy) for future searching – this is the important bit!

•N.B. Try compressing multiple words into single word tags

e.g. SearchEngines EnvironmentPlanningAct1979

The item will then come up in Delicious, along with your notes & tags !

You continue adding more links in this manner.

If at another PC, can use ‘post’ rather than installing buttons.

You can also import all your existing favourites by using the

‘settings > bookmarks > import’ function

This imports links with tags based on your original folder arrangement.

By default all imports are ‘private’ (you have to make them public if you want the world to see them)

On the social side, you can use ‘your network’ to :

• build a network of other users you find of interest,

• add other usernames as you come across them, &

• use the ‘save this’ link to add their links to your collection

You can have ‘fans’, & subscribe to tags & add RSS feeds

Your network

Save this

Under the tag options :

• view your tags as a ‘list’ or a ‘cloud’,

• Sort alpha or by frequency

• Fine tune by using ‘min 1,2 or 5 tags’,

• Create / show or hide ‘bundles’, & edit tags (e.g. rename)

I would also set display at 100

List

Cloud

Search by selecting a tag (e.g. Blogsearch), & Delicious will display all the items in your collection that you have tagged with that term.

Unlike with folders, items can have multiple & different tags

ACTIVITIES !!!:

• Have a look at our site at http://del.icio.us/bremertafe/ which was built to cover all aspects of a library’s operations, & created by all staff setting up a Delicious account, importing favourites, & pooling all relevant ones.

• Also have a look at http://del.icio.us/horticulture which was built as an alternative to subject links for Horticulture.

• Have a play…Go to Delicious homepage http://del.icio.us

Username qld

Password 123qweThis will log you in to the Delicious Qld site (a play area I set up).

Find a few interesting URLs & copy. Go to the Post function on Delicious & paste it in the URL field, then add description, notes & tags & save. Refresh Delicious Qld page & see what you have done. Try a few more URLs (load the buttons if you are keen).

• Like it ? Set up your own account !

Another social bookmarker is FURL which saves entire webpages.

Very useful if have sites with dynamic URLs e.g. newspapers

- can act as own personal archive or ‘wayback machine’

Another couple of interesting ones for anyone researching are based around referencing, & allow export to BibTeX & Endnote:

Connotea & CiteULike

How to use it ?

Not being Digital Natives, need to be able to:

• get to it fast &

• keep using it.

So :

• Add it as favourite on the PCs you use

• Make it your homepage

• Email the link to yourself (with username & password prompts)

• Remember the URL…

…persist

Thanks !

Brad Jones bradley.jones@deta.qld.gov.au