Transcript WISER Getting Organised on the Web Jane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Library Penny Schenk, Bodleian Law Library.

WISER
Getting Organised on the Web
Jane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Library
Penny Schenk, Bodleian Law Library
Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 is a term being used to describe a
new generation of internet sites and
services which encourage
participation and collaboration
between
user communities.
What’s in it for me?
• Sites/tools that can help you to:
– Organise yourself on the web
– Discover new content and bring the web to you
– Share research and interesting content with others
• No technical know-how needed and it’s almost
all free!
Tools to look at today
• Social bookmarking
– delicious, StumbleUpon etc
• Social cataloguing
– SOLO e-shelf, My WorldCat, LibraryThing
• RSS feeds and readers
– Google Reader
• Customised start pages
– iGoogle, NetVibes
Social bookmarking
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Create personal lists of web links
Add comments or information
Share web links with others
Accessible from anywhere
Add tags to classify/filter your list
View other people’s lists and discover new sites
Social bookmarking sites
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http://delicious.com
http://www.connotea.org
http://www.simpy.com
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://digg.com
http://reddit.com
http://www.diigo.com
http://www.google.com/bookmarks
Delicious
• One of the first and most basic sites, pioneered tagging
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Vere Harmsworth Library: http://delicious.com/vhllib
History Faculty Library: http://delicious.com/HFLOxford
Bodleian Law Library: http://delicious.com/lawbod
Education Library: http://delicious.com/EDLIBOxford
Language Centre Library: http://delicious.com/LanguageLibOxford
Sainsbury Library: http://delicious.com/SainsburyLibrary
Nuffield College Library: http://delicious.com/NuffieldCollegeLibrary
Philosophy Library: http://delicious.com/Oxford_Philosophy_Library
Zoology Library: http://delicious.com/zoolib
Posting
Network – view other people’s
links
Use tags
to filter
Notes
and tags
Saved by others
Discovering with Delicious
• Search by keyword
• Search by tag
http://delicious.com/tag/[??]
• Subscribe to feeds by user or by tag
• Share your links
Social cataloguing
• Make personal lists of books, add notes
and tags and share
• View other people’s lists/libraries
• View ‘social data’ – other people’s tags,
reviews, ratings, recommendations
Social features in SOLO
• Click through to Google
Books/Amazon/WorldCat
• Add and view tags, reviews and ratings
• Search and browse by tags
• Export records to
Endnote/Refworks/Connotea/delicious
SOLO e-shelf
• Sign in using Oxford single sign-on or use
as guest
• Save records, and sort into folders
• Save searches to run again or subscribe
to updates (email or RSS)
Organise
In folders
Email alerts
View full record
• Web version of OCLC’s WorldCat, with web 2.0
features
• Create personal reading lists with space for
notes, RSS feeds
• Share with others
• Export as citations
• Add social data to WorldCat records
http://www.worldcat.org
Search
Save to
personal
lists
Export to
EndNote/
RefWorks
Save to
delicious etc
Add/browse
by tags
Add/read
reviews
Feeds
Save to
delicious etc
Create and export as bibliography
Add notes
• Like a WorldCat of personal libraries
• Catalogue your personal library and show it off
with widgets
• Add and view social data– LT social data is
much more comprehensive than My WorldCat
• Get recommendations
• Join groups to discuss
http://www.librarything.com
Add books
See who
else owns
it
Filter with
tags
Search
Link through to other
sites/ebooks/catalogues
Read
reviews
View other people’s
libraries
Browse by tags
Get
recommendations
LibraryThing bells & whistles
RSS feeds
• RSS = Really Simple Syndication
• Subscribe to updates from a variety of
electronic resources
– Keep up to date
– Don’t miss out
– Save time
RSS feed readers
• Organise feeds using folders and tags
• Share single items, entire feeds or bundles
of feeds
http://www.google.com/reader/
Add subscriptions
Organise subscriptions
Star items
Share items
Sources
• Look for the RSS icon
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News sites e.g. Google News, BBC
Databases e.g. Business Source Complete
Blogs e.g. Financial Times, TechCrunch
Social bookmarking sites e.g. delicious
Start pages
• Redesign the web to suit your needs
• Create a launch pad for your research
• http://www.google.com/ig
• http://www.netvibes.com/
Features
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Bookmarks
Email
RSS feeds
Search tools
To do lists
External widgets; social networking, IM
Add gadgets to your homepage
Return to homepage
Add to your homepage
Add individual
RSS feeds
Search for gadgets
RSS feeds and news
Web tools
Conclusion: Benefits
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Information comes to you
Save time
Content not restricted to one computer
Customisable
Share information
Collective wisdom
Conclusion
• Organise yourself on the web
– Save your bookmarks, create reading lists and bibliographies,
rationalise your reading, build your own web portal
• Discover new content and bring the web to you
– Use the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to filter the best of the web,
subscribe to updates
• Share research and interesting content with others
– Get back what you put in, make recommendations, work
collaboratively