PRICELESS TAGS

Bargain Bookmarks and Priceless Tags: Socially Organizing Social Data

Presentation at IASSIST 2007 Conference

Rachael Barlow

Social Sciences Data Coordinator, Trinity College

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

 

Kristin Partlo

Reference/Instruction Librarian for the Social Sciences, Carleton College

Northfield, Minnesota, USA

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Our Proposal, As Submitted

Title: Priceless tags: Socially organizing social data

Keywords: bookmarking, tagging, web 2.0, social software, professional development

Abstract: The "openness" of data can result in confusion. There are so many data resources and they change every day! We try to keep up by bookmarking, but traditional bookmarks are private and immobile. We share data resources on listservs, but listservs impose a certain linearity that fails to teach us about what data resources really matter and to whom.  Social bookmarking tools, like Del.icio.us and Furl, provide a way to liberate your bookmarks from your computer, allowing you and others to access them. Social bookmarking tools extend the possibilities of sharing resources through "tagging,” allowing users to organize resources and contribute to a system that reveals how exactly users think about the resources at hand.

In this session, hear about current experiments with social bookmarks and tags and find out about how IASSIST can use these technologies to create a more interactive community of data providers, users, and seekers.