tag! you’re it: social bookmarking at mlibrary
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Tag! You’re It: Social Bookmarking at MLibrary. Ken Varnum Web Systems Manager University of Michigan Library Access 2008 2 October 2008. What Is MTagger?. Library-Based Tagging Tool delicious fURL Social networking tools (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) Way to organize academic bookmarks - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tag! You’re It:Social Bookmarking at MLibrary
Ken Varnum
Web Systems Manager
University of Michigan Library
Access 2008
2 October 2008
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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
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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
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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
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What Is Different?
1. Collections• MLibrary (library web pages)
• Mirlyn (library catalog)
• Digital Images
• Scholarly Publishing
• Everything Else
2. Integration with Site
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Three Ways to Tag: Navigation
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Three Ways to Tag: Tag Cloud
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Three Ways to Tag: Bookmarklet
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Where People Tag
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Tagging Something
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Then What?
Your tags are available in MTagger
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Item Listing
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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
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Everyone’s Tags
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User Demographics
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What Gets Tagged
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Finding New Stuff
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MTagger RSS Feeds
• Every search
• Specific person
• Tags
• Individual tags used by a particular person
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Feed for Person’s Items
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Feed for a Tag
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Feed for a Person’s Specific Tag
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Programmer’s API
• MTagger Data Available in•RSS
•Styled HTML
•JSON
• Detailslib.umich.edu/mtagger/mtaggerAPI.txt
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Resource Guides
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Managing Tags
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Issues and Challenges (1)
• Tagging tied to U-M “uniqname”
• Accountability & public face
• Pluses and minuses
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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
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Issues and Challenges (3)
Getting noticed by users
• Fliers, handouts, cards
• Various publicity tools
• Integration into library BI
• Word of mouth
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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)
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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)
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Links
MTagger:http://lib.umich.edu/mtagger
MTagger Updates:http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/blt/archives/mtagger/
Ken VarnumEmail: [email protected]
Blog: http://www.rss4lib.com/