WISER: Gadgets and Widgets

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WISER Gadgets and Widgets

• Jane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Library
• Emma Cragg, Sainsbury Library

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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.

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Whats 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 its almost all
  free!

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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

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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 peoples lists and discover new sites

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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

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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/HFLOxf
  ord
• Bodleian Law Library http//del.icio.us/lawbod

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Network view other peoples links
Posting
Use tags to filter
Notes and tags
Saved by others
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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

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Social cataloguing

• Make personal lists of books, add notes and tags
  and share
• View other peoples lists/libraries
• View social data other peoples tags,
  reviews, ratings, recommendations

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• Web version of OCLCs 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

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Search
Export to EndNote/ RefWorks
Save to delicious etc
Save to personal lists
Add/read reviews
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Feeds
Save to delicious etc
Create and export as bibliography
Add notes
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• 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

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Add books
See who else owns it
Filter with tags
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Search
View other peoples libraries
Browse by tags
Read reviews
Get recommendations
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LibraryThing bells whistles
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RSS feeds

• RSS Really Simple Syndication
• Subscribe to updates from a variety of electronic
  resources
• Keep up to date
• Dont miss out
• Save time

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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/

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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

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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/

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Features

• Bookmarks
• E-mail
• RSS feeds
• Search tools
• To do lists
• External widgets social networking, IM

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RSS feeds and news
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Web tools
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Conclusion Benefits

• Information comes to you
• Save time
• Content not restricted to one computer
• Customisable
• Share information
• Collective wisdom

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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