Jason Griffey's preconference presentation for Internet Librarian 2007.

1. del.icio.us libraries
Or,
how to abuse social bookmarking for fun and profit

2. Social Bookmarks

3. via: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

4. Lots of options
• Blinklist
• StumbleUpon
• Ma.gnolia
• Furl
• Caches entire page
• Del.icio.us
• Since 2003
• Now owned by Yahoo

5. 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

7. Adding Bookmarks

10. Firefox Extension

11. Find
Organize
Reuse

12. Find

16. Organize

17. Tags
✦Uncontrolled vocabulary
✦Wisdom of crowds
✦“Folksonomy”

18. 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
✦

20. Tag Cloud

21. 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

24. Reuse

25. Tags meet RSS
RSS 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

27. RSS + Media = Podcast
Media 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

28. Embedding
✦ Linkrolls
✦ http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls
✦ Daily Blog Post
✦ http://del.icio.us/help/sharing
✦ RSS
✦ Aggregators, CMS, iTunes...nearly anything

29. 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

30. 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

31. Even more...
✦ License your feed
✦ Import/Export
✦ Facebook

32. Summary
✦ Find, Organize, Reuse
✦ If it has a URL, del.icio.us it
✦ Infinitely reusable information pieces

33. Information R/evolution

34. Jason Griffey
Head of Library Information Technology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
✦ 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

35. Jason Griffey
Head of Library Information Technology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
✦ 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
✦ Jason-griffey@utc.edu
✦ AIM: utcrefJason
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