Gives you html to put anywhere of a tagcloud of your flickr tags. So nice.

We've been scooped...

A few libraries are trying out social tagging: the University of Pennsylvania (UP) was one of the first library adopters with its PennTags (tags.library.upenn.edu/). The site allows UP students, faculty, and staff to bookmark quality Web sites and records in UP’s online catalog and share these resources with others. Additionally UP users can create and share “projects” or groups of links on a single site named for the topic.

PennTags is a site dedicated to academic tagging, but this technology can also be incorporated into an existing library Web presence. Stanford University is also experimenting with social tagging, in order to educate patrons about the library’s resources and to provide a platform for curators to identify quality external Web sites. Instead of a standalone tagging site, the open source content management software Drupal (drupal.org/) forms the base for Stanford’s Information Center site, which also includes wiki and blog modules. From there, the designers have added a del.icio.us module that allows users to find tags organized by subject.

This was a talk by Mike and Laurie.

A podcast of the presentation that Mike & I did at Educause in October.

Notes

A Columbia Librarian posted a long article about tagging systems and their use in libraries. Interesting reading.

This paper analyzes the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us, to assess how collaborative tagging supports and enhances traditional ways of classifying and indexing documents. Using frequency data and co-word analysis matrices analyzed by multi-dimensional scaling, the authors discovered that tagging practices to some extent work in ways that are continuous with conventional indexing. Small numbers of tags tend to emerge by unspoken consensus, and inconsistencies follow several predictable patterns that can easily be anticipated. However, the tags also indicated intriguing practices relating to time and task which suggest the presence of an extra dimension in classification and organization, a dimension which conventional systems are unable to facilitate.

This paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and intermediaries. User, author and intermediary keywords were collected from journal articles tagged on citeulike and analysed. Descriptive statistics and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the context of keywords from the three groups.

Eric Raymond's white paper on the lessons learned from open source software production.  I capture these to assist in my thinking as we go forward with PennTags development.  The Cathedral model represents a closed, commercial approach to software development while the Bazaar represents the OSS model of development.

1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
   
2. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
3. "Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." (Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month", Chapter 11)
   Or, to put it another way, you often don't really understand the problem until after the first time you implement a solution. The second time, maybe you know enough to do it right. So if you want to get it right, be ready to start over at least once.
4. If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
5. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
6. Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
7. Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
   Or, less formally, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." I dub this: "Linus's Law".
9. Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
10. If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
    

A nice set of promises about how to be a librarian in the world today.

Penntags as a 'popular' social bookmarking site.

Introducing Bookmarkz!

By now everyone is quite familiar with the concept of social bookmarking.

I'm sure you have your favorite bookmarking website just like everyone else .. but do you have an easy way to encourage your website or blog visitors to socially bookmark your content?

Use Bookmarkz (beta) to easily add "one-click social bookmarking" links for one to thirty five ninety four popular social bookmarking websites and what's even better is it's all done with virtually no setup! How could it get any easier?

Homepage of the Penn WebSIG.

This is the presentation that Mike and Laurie did at Educause about PennTags.

Brief descriptions of the Creative Commons licenses.

Check out the bottom of the page...in reference to 3spots

Here are over 200 services that can bookmark and share! This without counting the +250 digg clones!
What's so great about SOCIAL bookmarks is that it creates a people powered search engine. Even if you don't use these services to bookmark you can use these for searching, the more a web page is bookmarked the more popular!

Used on some Blogsites to assist folks in posting to their favorite Social Bookmarking site such as delicious, fark, magnolia, and PennTags!

note laurie's sweet rejoinder. i like using the term 'bulletproof' to refer to great design, that which cannot be misinterpreted, confusing to users or in need of additional clarification for effective use. people should be able to use a resource at a basic level without instruction. they should be able to become advanced users on their own terms, serendipitously or deliberately.

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Interesting program for doing powerpoint like presentation of slides...very cool.  Perl based and I think xsl based.

Really well, reviewed in TechCrunch, this is a new, open source social bookmarking tool. Apparently, it allows you to upload and bookmark all kinds of files.

 

Complore is derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research).As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds, from traditional research areas such as the sciences and engineering to non-traditional fields such as theater and music, through collaboration and networking and provide them a common platform to collectively explore their areas of interest. Thus complore provides people to think and work as a team.

Complore also provides students, faculty, technical experts and outstanding scholars an opportunity to work in professional collaboration with each other with a stimulating level of scholarship, research, and intellectual engagement that immeasurably enriches their experience. It also provides a common space for students to consider and comment on each and every one’s research materials including their own. By exchanging and building upon each others' ideas, students are encouraged to work and learn together.

All photos on Flickr tagged avocet.

USGS site that aids in identification.  Picture gallery, descriptions, habitat, etc...

Some laptops will be provided, but please bring your own laptop if you have one: As the web is becoming a more flexible and robust research environment, the library is finding ways to use new technologies to more efficiently find and use research level resources. Attendees will be introduced to the library's groundbreaking tool for storing, sharing and organizing research links, and will learn how to customize Firefox to make it an efficient tool for research.

Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you're browsing the web.

And since Google Notebook lives in your browser, you won't be left with a scattered collection of notes, Word docs, and browser bookmarks to sort through; all your web findings will be gathering into one organized, easy accessible location that you can access from any computer.

Someone has a blog about Carrie Fisher, and refers to the PennTags page on Carrie Fisher.

Google is sponsoring a "summer of code". What if we were a mentoring organization?

Plum is similar to Kaboodle and Stylehive in that it is a social bookmarking site that allows users to add a lot of metadata about bookmarks (including images). Bookmarked items can tagged and be added to a public, private or shared “collection” (there are a number of defaul collections and more can be added).

One key way that Plum is different than other bookmarking site is that it allows users to bookmark items on their computer, not just on the web. A file that is open in certain desktop applications (things like photos, power point presentations, iTunes playlists, address book entries, email, etc) can be added to Plum by clicking a button on the Plummer, a small downloadable application for Windows or Mac. See the last screen shot below for a look at the Plummer.

Gee...projects and local resource tagging!  How are we to ever keep up? 

Just doing my weekly stalk of the internet for mentions of PennTags, and here's one that my technorati feed missed.

A long, annotated list of sites and products that allow some form of note taking.

An interesting drag and drop interface for reccomending dvds.

Paper proposals due on May 10.

LawLibTech - blog from the law libraries...nice comment on efforts like PennTags

The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania invites you to join the best minds from a variety of fields to explore the effects of digital links on people’s ability to understand and care about their larger society.

Most internet users know hyperlinks as highlighted words on a web page that take them to certain other sites. But hyperlinks today are quite complex forms of instant connection—for example, tags, API mashups, and RSS feeds. Moreover, media convergence has led to increased instant linking among desktop computers, cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, digital video recorders, and even billboards.

Delicious has a method in place for reporting copyright infringements in delicious. hmmm

Sign up for a Penntags training workshop here.

Listible is a new way to get relevant resources quickly.

By using Web 2.0 features such as AJAX, folksonomy (tagging), social elements such as voting/commenting and the listible's listonomy (listing), resources can be sorted in a way that will be digestible.

Instructions on how to import from delicious to Magnolia.

This list is how I imagine sorting posts in a project. Beautiful and simple.

Tagging Tips

about vs. help redux.

Tagging tips is a good idea that i've seen elsewhere.

Should we divide help and about pages the way they do? And check out their snazzy flash movie Go with the Flow.

Q and A format

A rich site.

Another recent blog post about Penntags. He likes the birds.

Proposals due January 23.

Really, I'm just testing out the new posting function. Nice.

Geoff -- please translate me this page.

Get Geoff to translate this for me.

A very clear description of the proposed SmartFox application.

IMDB -- but customizable. good idea. Users make lists of movies and then comment on each others lists. A nice feature is called "affinity" which I think we might like to do with Penntags at some point. Affinities is basically like "people who like this also like" but is more -- this person has a lot in common with these people.

A list of lots of sites that show various ways of visualizing delicious tags, from tagclouds to all sorts of other systems.

This is the Tagteam Blog, where we keep track of the work of the Tagteam.

Gives you html to put anywhere of a tagcloud of your flickr tags. So nice.

Check this out. Feedburner has added this really cool feature to their feeds, which allows you to email, or tag to delicious, an item directly from your feedreader. From techcrunch.

A blog posting from a legal blog.

"What's Digg? Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do."

I think we should think about allowing users to have the ability to add weight to posts here, in addition to assigning impact based on clicks. For instance, don't we want our important users to be able to tell us that a post represents an article that has a lot of weight.

Especially if we're thinking that people will have weights in addition to posts having weights.

another example of user-defined ranking. As we think about how to measure the impact of particular posts, I think we want to add some user-created aspect, and I think this is a better model than digg for rating items. I'm not sure how many icons Penntags will eventually be able to handle, but I like the simplicity of promoting and demoting sites here. reddit allows users to download bookmarklets so that they can register their like or dislike of a site while they're on it. I think, in the case of Penntags, we might like to have the option, in addition to copying an item, of voting it up or down for usefulness.

I have no idea what to do with this but it is at least a way to get around the fulltext issue in CSA if absolutely necessary.

We're getting good press from one of my favorite blogs. yay

These are instructions about using PennTags. For more help, contact Laurie Allen at laallen@pobox.upenn.edu. Or AIM upennliblaurie

If you have questions about Penntags, email Laurie Allen or create a post in Penntags and use the tag "help" to describe it, and I'll get back to you.