Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager University of Michigan Library Access October 2008
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! What Is MTagger? Library-Based Tagging Tool delicious fURL Social networking tools (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) Way to organize academic bookmarks Always accessible Shared with others Build a common pool of knowledge
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! What is a Tag? A label that you assign to a web page Think of it as a filing system One web page can be in many of your folders One web page can be in many people’s folders Has meaning to you Lets you find a group of like things again Word or phrase
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! What MTagger Does Allows users to assign keywords to “library stuff” on our site Catalog Web Pages Digital Images Library publications Or anything, anywhere (via bookmarklet) Search, display, retrieve bookmarks
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! What Is Different? 1.Collections MLibrary (library web pages) Mirlyn (library catalog) Digital Images Scholarly Publishing Everything Else 2.Integration with Site
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Three Ways to Tag: Navigation
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Three Ways to Tag: Tag Cloud
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Three Ways to Tag: Bookmarklet
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Where People Tag
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Tagging Something
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Then What? Your tags are available in MTagger
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Item Listing
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! How MTagger Is Used Basic Stats (as of 9/27): 823 users 2329 tags (1957 unique) 1849 items (URLs) Not as broadly / deeply as we’d like Tags are generally tagger-centric Exception: Librarians tag differently
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Everyone’s Tags
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! User Demographics
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! What Gets Tagged
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Finding New Stuff
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! MTagger RSS Feeds Every search Specific person Tags Individual tags used by a particular person
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Feed for Person’s Items
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Feed for a Tag
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Feed for a Person’s Specific Tag
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Programmer’s API MTagger Data Available in RSS Styled HTML JSON Details lib.umich.edu/mtagger/mtaggerAPI.txt
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Resource Guides
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Managing Tags
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Issues and Challenges (1) Tagging tied to U-M “uniqname” Accountability & public face Pluses and minuses
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Issues and Challenges (2) Balance of anonymity and sharing MTagging is a public act Offers anonymity, not privacy Most feedback on this issue from a single source
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Issues and Challenges (3) Getting noticed by users Fliers, handouts, cards Various publicity tools Integration into library BI Word of mouth
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Where Next? Usability study Summer 2007 Improvements planned for Tag cloud display on pages Tag cloud display in MTagger Handling of “collections” Workflow Integration into VuFind beta Expansion into HathiTrust (née MBooks)
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Development Environment Cake PHP MySQL JavaScript on web pages (Mirlyn, Image Collection, Scholarly Publishing) to build a valid permalink Intent to make version 2 open source (spring 2009)
Access 2008: Tag! You’re It! Links MTagger: MTagger Updates: Ken Varnum Blog: