Friday, February 20, 2009
citations on library thing
WOW -- very cool feature I just found on Library Thing! You can select your preferred style and copy a full citation for the works in your account. No competition for Refworks, but pretty ccol nonetheless.
Library thing
Well, I thought that I had a librarything account, but since I tried entering every email address I have used in the past two years, I suppose I am mistaken?? No matter, I am having fun creating a new one. Especially in the profile section where it asks what other services you are on. I am noticing these things more and more ever since I became more aware of the power of the semantic web. I like to think that I am positioning myself to be able to dive right in once it becomes more fully developed. At the very least, I got myself an OpenID with the username "janeschmidt". But I digress ...
Oh yeah ... Library Thing is our task for the week! The trick for me is to remember to keep going back to update it! But then again, that is my problem with all of these fun gadgets. They are passing fancies for me, unless I find some friends who are also active users. Gives me motivation to go back.
Main problem with Library Thing is that I don't really do too much leisure reading these days. I read a lot of current events and websites, so it doesn't leave much room for fiction. Ah, to be retired ....
Oh yeah ... Library Thing is our task for the week! The trick for me is to remember to keep going back to update it! But then again, that is my problem with all of these fun gadgets. They are passing fancies for me, unless I find some friends who are also active users. Gives me motivation to go back.
Main problem with Library Thing is that I don't really do too much leisure reading these days. I read a lot of current events and websites, so it doesn't leave much room for fiction. Ah, to be retired ....
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Bookmarking/tagging
I love bookmarking because it helps me to remember a great site that I want to revisit to view new content. Tagging? Not so much.
It may surprise a lot of you, but even though I love the concept of information organization (cataloguing, if you will. ahem), I am terrible at it!! As Janis, Val and Jackie can attest to, I am actually not that good at cataloguing. Details have never been my strong point. All this to say that this also makes me choke when trying to think of descriptive words to use in a tag. I mean, "funny" can only be used so many times, and anything more detailed usually tends to stand alone.
Perhaps I am over thinking the situation for my own personal use, but I certainly think that tagging and social bookmarking is very useful. However, it is not a saviour, and a perfect OPAC tagged by users it does not make. I like to say that a tag is only as good as the number of items it has received. What I mean by that is ... a tag is only going to help people find as many things that are actually tagged with it!!
Did that make sense?
WOW -- look at that; one "Friday" afternoon, and Jane managed to catch up on RULA 2.0. Happy Family Day everyone!!
It may surprise a lot of you, but even though I love the concept of information organization (cataloguing, if you will. ahem), I am terrible at it!! As Janis, Val and Jackie can attest to, I am actually not that good at cataloguing. Details have never been my strong point. All this to say that this also makes me choke when trying to think of descriptive words to use in a tag. I mean, "funny" can only be used so many times, and anything more detailed usually tends to stand alone.
Perhaps I am over thinking the situation for my own personal use, but I certainly think that tagging and social bookmarking is very useful. However, it is not a saviour, and a perfect OPAC tagged by users it does not make. I like to say that a tag is only as good as the number of items it has received. What I mean by that is ... a tag is only going to help people find as many things that are actually tagged with it!!
Did that make sense?
WOW -- look at that; one "Friday" afternoon, and Jane managed to catch up on RULA 2.0. Happy Family Day everyone!!
Woefully behind
I am setting terrible example by not keeping up with the 2.0 fun! Seems like a great way to spend my afternoon before my impending four day weekend! :)
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