Jeanbean’s Weblog

Discovery Exercise:

1. Take a look around del.icio.us using the SJLibraryLearning2 account that was created for the San Jose Public Library’s Learning 2.0 program. Done
2. Explore the site by clicking on tags and usernames. Try finding a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by a lot of other users–click on the “saved by” link. I clicked on Reference that had 57 saved links. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to categorize this reference? yes
3. Create your own del.icio.us account and bookmark at least 5 items. Has anyone else bookmarked the same things? Yes (suggestion: bookmark one page from your Wetpaint wiki to your del.icio.us account) Done Bookmarked six in all.
4. Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?

1) CiteULike (citeulike.org), a social book marking service, allows articles to be tagged with useful keywords for later retrieval. One could use MeSH terms for social book marking tags. If an individual medical library wishes to index various Web resources using MeSH, Del.icio.us or a similar social book marking tool is a convenient way to do so. For making book recommendations in the library, tag the books in ways that make sense, but where one could rate them to give faculty a better idea of what the books really worth their time. For 1st year medical students who have to do a history of medicine project–you could create a tag particular to that assignment. Many students and others already use this kind of task tagging–to create their own bibliographies through just one tag.

2) Connotea allows the author can keep track of their bibliography as they are writing. Others can access that bibliography and its links more easily after it’s published. Authors can keep adding to that bibliography as they see more resources that fit. Other people can use the same tag to add resources they think are important to be joined to that paper as they see them, whether it is a paper that builds on the findings of the original or is otherwise relevant. Basic Science researchers could use Connotea for collaborative research. This Connotea method has been used in a couple places in the medical library world. It recognizes the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you. Find the list of references you want your colleagues to see and then email them a link to the page. You can access Connotea from any computer and can Save references as you work without having to switch programs. You can choose to make them private, or shared with just a select group of other Connotea users if you prefer.

3) My Del.icio.us

Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/louissid