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Getting Organized: Using Del.icio.us organize library content

Pingsheng Chen

pschen@cwmars.orgElectronic Reference Supervisor

Worcester Public Library

5/13/2009

http://sites.google.com/site/wplrefe/Home/pc/cmrls-workshop

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What We Will Cover

I. IntroductionII. How libraries are using Delicious:• Tags, tag bundles to organize web resources or other

online resources • Tag Rolls to display Tag Clouds on the library’s website• Link Rolls to insert delicious bookmarks in the library's

website

III. How to use Delicious Link Rolls

VI. Tips for modifying your javascript

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INTRODUCTION

Delicious is a free social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage, share and access your bookmarks from any computer anywhere.

Getting started1. Go to the http://delicious.com 2. Click the Join Now link. 3. Choose a username and password. 4. Fill in your email address. 5. Click the Register button. 6. Click Install Extension Now to add del.icio.us buttons to your

web browser. After they're installed, you can bookmark pages easily by clicking on the del.icio.us buttons in your toolbar. Or you can skip this step if you don’t want to have buttons installed.

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6. Click Install Extension Now to add del.icio.us buttons to your web browser. After they're installed, you can bookmark pages easily by clicking on the del.icio.us buttons in your toolbar. Or you can skip this step if you don’t want to have buttons installed.

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7. Click Import Existing Bookmarks if you would like to.

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7. Saving a bookmark

If you have buttons installed, you can click the "Tag" or "Bookmark thison Delicious" button to save a new bookmark. If you do not, click Savea new bookmark. Regardless, you'll see the following fields.

URL: is simply the address of the page you're bookmarking.

Title: If you're using one of our bookmarking tools, this will be prefilledWith the title of the page you're saving. Feel free to edit this in any wayThat makes sense to you.

Notes: where you may want to write some additional info for yourself or to let others know why you bookmarked this page.

Tags: Enter one or more tags separated by spaces here.

Check Do Not Share if you want to make your bookmarks private

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HOW LIBRARIES ARE USING DELICIOUS I. Using tags and tag bundles to organize web

resources or other online resources

What are tags ? Tags are keyword-like one-word descriptors assigned to data to organize and find it. This categorization system is also known as "folksonomy". Folksonomy (also called social tagging) is a categorization system developed over time by folks. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and you can always rename or delete the tags later. All tags you choose are at the same level and do not form any hierarchy.

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I. Using tags and tag bundles to organize web resources or other online resources

The only limitation on tags is that they must not include spaces. So if your web page needs a two-word descriptor like "Clark University", you may want to tag it as “CU”, “Clark-University”, “ClarkUniversity”, “Clark.University”, “Clark_University”, or whatever else makes sense to you.

What is a tag bundle?A Tag Bundle is a Delicious featurewhich allows you to combine several related tags into a logical grouping to create another level of hierarchy, a broader category. For instance, you might combine the tags "art", "art_history", and "paintings" into a bundle and call it "Arts".

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I. Examples of using tags and tag bundles

1. University College Dublin: linking each subject heading from their web resources to its delicious bookmarks.

http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/guides_to_web_resources/index.html

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I. Examples of using tags and tag bundles

2) Assumption College for Sisters: linking delicious bookmarks to their website

http://www.acs350.org/Library.htm

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I. Examples of using tags and tag bundles

3) San Mateo Library's Bookmarks on Delicious: using Dewey Decimal Classification System to organize web links http://delicious.com/SanMateoLibrary

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II. Using Del.icio.us Tag Rolls to display a Tag Cloud on their library’s website

What are Tag Rolls?

Tag Rolls are a Delicious feature that allow you to display a

cloud or list of your Delicious tags as part of your website

by embedding a piece of javascript into your website.

What is a Tag Cloud?

A tag cloud is a different way to view your bookmarks. It

displays tags according to their weight and frequency

relatively with other tags. It is done with appropriate font

sizes and colors. The more important a tag is, the bigger or

“louder” it appears.

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Examples of Tag Clouds 1) Art Library Students & New Art Libraries Society

Professionals: using del.icio.us Tag Rolls to display a Tag

Cloud on their website

http://home.uchicago.edu/~mmacken/arlisnapcloud.html

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Examples of Tag Clouds 2) MIT Libraries: using a tag cloud on their Virtual

Reference Collection webpagehttp://home.uchicago.edu/~mmacken/arlisnapcloud.html

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Examples of Tag Clouds 3) Brimbank Libraries in Australia: take the concept one

step further by displaying links from the cloud on the website.

http://www.brimbanklibraries.vic.gov.au/index.php?option=com_deliciouslinks&Itemid=77

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III. Using Link Rolls to insert delicious bookmarks in the library's website

What are Link Rolls?

Link Rolls are a Delicious feature which allows

you to display a list of your Delicious

bookmarks as part of your website by

embedding a piece of javascript into the

website

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Examples of Using Link Rolls1) The College of New Jersey: using Link Rolls to Insert Delicious

bookmarks into their Italian Studies Subject Guide (a good example

of bookmarking all types of online resources including books,

websites, articles and databases)

http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html

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Examples of Using Link Rolls3) Worcester Public Library: using Link Rolls to embed

Delicious bookmarks in the library's web resources pages

http://www.worcpublib.org/web_resources/telephone.html

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Examples of Using Link Rolls4) WPL Regional Reference Blog: using Delicious to

bookmark the library's databases and then embed the

bookmarks on the blog http://wplrefblog.blogspot.com/

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VI. How to use Delicious Link Rolls

1. Log into your Delicious account

2. Click on Settings on upper right hand of your screen

3. Click on Link Rolls

4. Choose appropriate display options

5. Copy the javascript

6. Insert the javascript into a desired place of your web page or blog

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A demo: Display all the bookmarks under one’s delicious account:

http://delicious.com/ping_training & http://

pingsnotes.blogspot.com/

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A demo: Display bookmarks from http://delicious.com/ping_training into a blog at

http://pingsnotes.blogspot.com/

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VI. Tips for modifying Link Rolls’s javascript

1) To display all bookmarks under one’s delicious account http://delicious.com/ping_training

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<script type="text/javascript“

src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/ping_tra

ning?title=ARC%3A%20getting%20organized

&icon=s&count=20&sort=alpha"></script>

///

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VI. Tips for modifying Link Rolls’s javascript

1) To display all bookmarks under http://delicious.com/ping_training

///

<script type="text/javascript“

src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/ping_tra

ning?title=ARC%3A%20getting%20organized

&icon=s&count=20&sort=alpha"></script>

///

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VI. Tips for modifying Link Rolls’s javascript

To display bookmarks under one specific tag

http://delicious.com/ping_training/delicious_learning

<script type="text/javascript“

src="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js

/ping_trainig/delicious_learning

?title=LearningDelicious&icon=s

&count=20&sort=alpha"></script>

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Reference

• Delicious library’s examples and other links at http://delicious.com/ping_training

• Display Delicious bookmarks on a blog http://pingsnotes.blogspot.com/

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Questions?

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Thank You!

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Google Sites Examples

What is Google sites?

Google Sites is a wiki offered by

Google, which lets you create web

pages, postings and to-do-lists and

organize your files and more.

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Google Sites Example IA website: Worcester County Writers (in progress)

http://sites.google.com/site/worcwriters/Home “Worcester area writers, 1680-1980” Michael True

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Google Sites Example II

As a Content Management System: a website WPL Reference Division Info and eResource Center

http://sites.google.com/site/wplrefe/ http://sites.google.com/site/wplerm/wpl-databases

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Google Sites Example II

E-Resource Management System:

WPL Database Titles:

http://sites.google.com/site/wplerm/wpl-databases

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Google Sites Example III

As a Project Management System: WPL Web 2.0

Projects: sites.google.com/site/wplrefe/Home/pc/testlist

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Google Sites Example V

A File Cabinet: WPL E-Resource Brochures

http://sites.google.com/site/wplrefe/Home/pc/e-

resources/brochures

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Google Sites Example VI

Attach files: (better than email--bigger files and easy to access)

http://sites.google.com/site/wplrefe/Home/pc/cmrls-workshop