HCL 2.0 » Social Bookmarking http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20 \"The Web is unlocked--resistance is futile.\" Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Social Bookmarking http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20/2007/05/04/social-bookmarking/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20/2007/05/04/social-bookmarking/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 17:08:15 +0000 hcl20 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hcl20/2007/05/04/social-bookmarking/

  • Offer discovery – great at onset of research
  • Non-binary and all terms listed together
  • Democratic
  • Self moderating
  • Follow desire lines
  • Offer insights
  • Engender community
  • Low-cost alternative to traditional taxonomy
  • Only requires small learning curve

    • Limitations:

    • No synonym control
    • Lack precision
    • Lack hierarchy
    • Lack recall susceptible to gaming (spamming)

    Solutions:

    • Address limitations with tag clusters, tag bundles, faceted tags, deep tagging in video

    SEE PennTags Project – http://tags.library.upenn.edu/help/Social bookmarking initiative that allows Penn library users to bookmark catalog records, add tags, share with others

    QUESTIONS

    Is social bookmarking a fad or a trend?

    On what online resources would the incorporation of social bookmarking be beneficial?

    Should social bookmarking be incorporated into perpetual resources like HOLLIS?

    How are comments maintained over time? Are they perpetual, weeded out occasionally, all removed on some timetable? Whose responsibility should it be to perform maintenance?

    What impact will social functionality have on public terminals?

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