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WISER: Gadgets and Widgets
Jane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Library
Emma Cragg, Sainsbury 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– del.icio.us, StumbleUpon etc
• Social cataloguing – My WorldCat, LibraryThing
• RSS feeds and readers– Google Reader, Bloglines
• Customised start pages – iGoogle, Page Flakes, NetVibes
Social bookmarking
• 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
• http://del.icio.us • http://www.connotea.org• http://www.simpy.com• http://www.stumbleupon.com• http://digg.com• http://reddit.com• http://www.furl.net
Del.icio.us
• One of the first and most basic sites, pioneered tagging
• Oxford examples: – Vere Harmsworth Library: http://del.icio.us/vhllib– History Faculty Library: http://del.icio.us/HFLOxford – Bodleian Law Library: http://del.icio.us/lawbod
Posting
Notes and tags
Saved by others
Use tags to filter
Network – view other people’s links
Discovering with Delicious
• Search by keyword
• Search by tag
http://del.icio.us/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
• 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
Save to personal lists
Save to delicious etc
Add/read reviews
Search
Export to EndNote/ RefWorks
Feeds
Save to delicious etc
Add notes
Create and export as bibliography
• 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
Filter with tags
See who else owns it
Search
View other people’s libraries
Browse by tags
Read reviews
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
• Also known as feed aggregators• Organise feeds using folders and tags• Share single items or entire feeds
http://www.google.com/reader/ http://www.bloglines.com/
Sources
• Look for the RSS icon
• News sites e.g. Google News, BBC• Databases e.g. Business Source Complete• Blogs e.g. Financial Times, TechCrunch• Social bookmarking sites e.g. del.icio.us
Start pages
• Redesign the web to suit your needs
• Create a launch pad for your research
• http://www.google.com/ig
• http://www.pageflakes.com/
• http://www.netvibes.com/
Features
• Bookmarks• E-mail• RSS feeds• Search tools• To do lists• External widgets; social networking, IM
RSS feeds and news
Web tools
Conclusion: Benefits
• 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
