Thing 11 - Social tagging and search
Friday, November 14th, 2008Thing 11: Social tagging – search different sites
Enter the same search term in the searchbox at the following sites. The purpose of looking at these resources is to identify varying uses of tags/keywords/descriptors/subject headings. Compare the results you get from each site, and any others you’ve found interesting, and blog about them.
• del.icio.us - popular social bookmarking site. Kate will be discussing this.
• Connotea - “Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists”. User tagged .
• CiteULike - “a free online source to organise your academic papers”. User tagged.
• Murdoch University Library catalogue subject search
• http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ - UQueensland catalogue search
• zuula - compiles searches from many search engines
• kartoo - outputs sites visually as a series of “maps”. Keyworded with interrelationship of terms shown.
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO BEFORE YOU CAN TICK OFF THING 11:
1. Enter the same search term in the searchbox at the sites above.
2. Compare the results you get from each site, and any others you’ve found interesting, and blog about them.
