Social Navigation in Digital Libraries by Bookmarking

2018

Digital libraries use the semantic web and social networking technologies to improve browsing and searching for resources. With digital libraries’ social and semantic services, every library user has the opportunity to bookmark interesting books, articles, or other materials in semantically annotated directories. Social bookmarking is indispensable to digital libraries. This chapter discusses some of the popular social bookmarks adopted in the digital libraries, the important requirements for including social bookmarking in a digital library system, the design principles of social bookmarks, features of social bookmarking tools, digital libraries and links with social bookmarking, social tagging, social bookmark and digital libraries, advantages and disadvantages of social tagging in digital libraries. The chapter highlights tips that users need to consider when using social bookmarking in digital libraries. The authors conclude that projecting into the future, it is expected that, ...

Advances in library and information science (ALIS) book series, 2018

This chapter elucidates the concept of social bookmarking, its benefits in digital libraries as well as the implications of its use on the intellectual property rights of the creators of the bookmarked works. The author concludes that digital libraries can use social bookmarking as a means of increasing access to and sharing of information resources; improve web searching; as well as to enhance collaboration in the creation and use of information. Since social bookmarks are, by and large, public descriptions of and pointers to the original resources, digital libraries do not infringe the intellectual property rights of their creators. Nonetheless, the libraries should watch against copying large volumes of content from the original resource as this may be construed as an intellectual competition with the bookmarked resource. Digital libraries are advised to develop and apply social bookmarking policies to streamline their use of social bookmarks.

IEEE Internet Computing, 2007

This paper proposes social bookmarking and tagging as tools for effective virtual reference services in libraries. It argues that one of the greatest challenges users face when using information on the Internet is to remember and retrieve data/information that they have previously found to be useful, which therefore makes social bookmarking, tagging and folksonomies imperative. It submits that since social bookmarking and tagging are also collaborative tagging meant for social classification or social indexing thatallow end users to assign keywords to items, they are essential to rendering reference services to users without them physically visiting the library. It highlights five major ways social bookmarking and tagging are beneficial to reference services and concludes that social bookmarking and tagging are a mobile system of empowering libraries in creating, organizing and retrieving information resources available across the virtual space.

ESI 2007

In this paper, we explore various search tasks that are supported by a social bookmarking service. These bookmarking services hold great potential to powerfully combine personal tagging of information sources with interactive browsing, resulting in better social navigation. While there has been considerable interest in social tagging systems in recent years, little is known about their actual usage. In this paper, we present the results of a field study of a social bookmarking service that has been deployed in a large enterprise. We present new qualitative and quantitative data on how a corporate social tagging system was used, through both event logs (click level analysis) and interviews. We observed three types of search activities: community browsing, personal search, and explicit search. Community browsing was the most frequently used, and confirms the value of the social aspects of the system. We conclude that social bookmarking services support various kinds of exploratory search, and provide better personal bookmark management and enhance social navigation.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011

Information and knowledge society brings a new context where technology enhanced tools are key elements for being able to find, evaluate, use and communicate information effectively and efficiently [1]. Bookmarking tools could be the essential tools for supporting information behaviour, specifically information managing and communication. This paper analyses the user experience of existing bookmarking and social bookmarking tools in an e-learning environment. The educational setting provides the required environment to truly study these tools, since their success is not only in the ease of storing, tagging and sharing resources at a given moment in time but in how these resources will be retrieved when needed in the future. In this paper we present a functional analysis and the usability inspection of the tools that support the management and usage of information resources both during short and long terms.

Unashamedly inspired by del.icio.us as we were, we felt there were some additional characteristics of academic reference lists that warranted a separate, tailored service catering to, and making the most of, the needs of the academic community. Therefore, Connotea is a meld of existing reference management conventions and new social bookmarking concepts that are explored in a companion paper . While none of these concepts is original to Connotea, the combination is. To spell them out: 11. GNU General Public License. <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

International Conference on …, 2009

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