community contributed content with web 2.0 social bookmarking tools
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“Community Contributed Content with Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking
Tools”
Michel Wesseling and Richard Lalleman
Pre-IFLA conference Toronto, 6 August 2008
Social Networks and Interdisciplinary Networking
Generic vs. specific
Storing and sharing Web 2.0 as change
Knowledge Management tool within the field of global development studies, by:
storing
+
sharing
=
creation
hand-picked favorite Internet resources
in a search engine
+
=
Focuss.Info
Generic vs. specific
Storing and sharing Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific
Storing and sharing Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific
Storing and sharing
Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific
Storing and sharing
Web 1.0
► Saving favorite websites on computer
► Favorite websites available for one person at the time
► One characteristic to describe the favorite website
Web 2.0
► Saving favorite websites on Internet;
► Favorite websites available for more than one person at the time;
► More than one characteristic to describe the favorite website
Storing and saving favorite websites ...
Bookmarking Social bookmarking
Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific
Storing and sharing
Storing and saving favorite websites ...
Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific Storing and sharing
Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific Storing and sharing
► Technical maintenance is minimal, human promotion is maximal
► 100 % about sharing: institutions+individuals share favorite websites, the Focuss.Info Initiative shares the code for the subject specific search engine
► Disappearing disciplinary borders in the social science library
► The relevance of the results of Focuss.Info while using precise terms was much higher than that for the Google results (independent research by ODI)
Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific Storing and sharing
Web 2.0 as change
► Are Web 2.0 technologies or initiatives driven by the tyranny of the majority?
► Is the Focuss.Info Initiative replacing other research tools, such as the generic search engines?
Generic vs. specific Storing and sharing
Problems/Questions
Web 2.0 as change
Generic vs. specific Storing and sharing
Web 2.0 as change
► Are Web 2.0 technologies or initiatives driven by the tyranny of the majority?
► Is the Focuss.Info Initiative replacing other research tools, such as the generic search engines?
Generic vs. specific Storing and sharing
Problems/Questions
Web 2.0 as change
► www.focuss.info► [email protected]► Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6516373841
► Further readings:
Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Knowledge sharing through collaboration in development studies: The Focuss.Info Initiative, Information Development, 24(2), pp. 151-155
Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Community contributed content and global studies research, Global-e: A global studies journal, 2(1), available at:
http://global-ejournal.org
Matthews, P. and Wunder, A. (2007) Evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking at the Overseas Development Institute, www.web2fordev.net/