Social bookmarking EMBL Centre for Computational Biology 30 th of May, 2006 Michael Kuhn
briefly: my motivation
one year of social bookmarking
before: over 100 bookmarks in browser
now: only 11 (my toolbar)
over 300 links in del.icio.us, organized with tags
concepts examples science 2.0 references
remember the Yahoo! catalog?
bookmarks: a similar hierarchy
taxonomy
folks
tags
a tag is a keyword you assign intuitively
HierarchyTags Eukaryota Metazoa Chordata Craniata Vertebrata Euteleostomi Mammalia … Hominidae Homo homo primate eukaryote vertebrate mammal
Comparison HierarchyTags fixed framework, created beforehand dynamic and created on the spot logical descriptionintuitive description only one categorycan have many tags filing is slowtagging is fast
concepts examples science 2.0 references
analyze tags and cluster them
social bookmarking in academia
keywords are already there!
keywords are not in PubMed
instead: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms)
let readers describe the paper: tagging
managing your references: how does it work?
CiteULike Nature Publishing Groupone-man project links and papers/booksmainly papers/books partially imports bibliographic data fully imports bibliographic data can keep posts private (optional: until date) all posts are public API to access the data from other tools no API yet supports tag intersections no tag intersections, but can store PDFs
there are many social bookmarking sites
social bookmarking and collaboration
summary of this section
Social bookmarking: … helps you to manage and organize your references … lets you follow the references of people you know or trust … generates recommendations of interesting references for you (but don’t expect wonders yet)
concepts examples science 2.0 references
you gain: a fast way to store and retrieve information
you get: assistance in finding new papers
you profit: from the insight of other people
you give: your bibliography (your selection of publicly available information)
conflict between advancing knowledge and advancing your career
possible disadvantage: another scientist discovers an article earlier (or at all)
possible disadvantage: someone might deduce what you are working on
you have to decide if you want to contribute
(but I think it is worth it)
(also, you can keep your bookmarks private for some time in Connotea)
take-home message
With social bookmarking … … you can better keep track of your links and references … you implicitly share knowledge with other scientists
Next Tuesday: Stop ing huge files: How to jointly edit manuscripts and share data
concepts examples science 2.0 references
About social bookmarking: A two-part review and introduction: and Wikipedia articles: Scientific social bookmarking: CiteULike: Connotea: General social bookmarking services: del.icio.us: Flickr: (plus many others) Other links: NCBI taxonomy: Medical Subject Headings: