Social Discovery, Social Access

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Social Discovery, Social Access

• Stephen Francoeur
• Baruch College (New York, NY)
• NFAIS Humanities Roundtable
• New York, NY
• 20 October 2008

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Image Von Tatanes
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Web 2.0 is about sharing
Image furiousgeorge81
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Web 2.0 is about reusing
Image find eric
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The growing use of Web 2.0 and social
networkingcombined with collective intelligence
and mass amateurizationis gradually but
inexorably changing the practice of scholarship.
2008 Horizon Report
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The URL is the coin of the realm.
Image seychelles88
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What Users Do with URLs

• Bookmark
• Email
• Cite
• Save
• Link

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So what kind of URLsdo we give our users?
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
http//search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?directtrue
dbaphAN33662654siteehost-live
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest)
http//proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did1341182471sid
1Fmt3clientId8851RQT309VNamePQD
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Library Literature (Wilson)
http//vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?r
ecid0bc05f7a67b1790e053375cd87049c520439b56e070d4
b24c6d890d7046ab8b7952ac6d75f93dfd1fmtH Naylor,
S., et. al., Why Isn't Our Chat Reference Used
More? Finding of Focus Group Discussions with
Undergraduate Students. Reference User Services
Quarterly v. 47 no. 4 (Summer 2008) p. 342-54
JSTOR
http//www.jstor.org/stable/2649282
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The Last Mile Problem
Image Ewing Galloway
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Article found via WorldCat.org
Launches link resolver
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Find this at my library.
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Object-Oriented Social Networks
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Users who bookmarked the same article.
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Profile of one user who bookmarked the article
in Connotea.
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Its not information overload. Its filter
failure.

• Clay Shirky

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ZDNet
Digg
NYTimes
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Dell IdeaStorm
Amazon
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User profile in Bibliocommons catalog
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Widgetmania!
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Search Widgets from the Library
Federated search tool.
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Search Widgets from Vendors
ProQuest search box in my Facebook profile page.
JSTOR search box in my Facebook profile page.
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Recommendations

• Better URLs for web 2.0 uses
• Expose content to the web
• Help searchers make content social
• Embrace widgets

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Image Credits

• Slide 2 Tatanes, Von. http//filipinolibrarian.bl
  ogspot.com/2006/12/baruch-colleges-newman-library.
  html
• Slide 5 furiousgeorge81. http//flickr.com/photos
  /furiousgeorge81/177926979/
• Slide 6 find eric. http//flickr.com/photos/phone
  scoop/1940736498/
• Slide 8 seychelles88. http//flickr.com/photos/se
  ychelles88/362428141/
• Slide 15 Galloway, Ewing. http//digitalgallery.n
  ypl.org/nypldigital/id?731081F

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Sources

• Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith,
  Rachel S. 2008 Horizon Report.Austin, TX The New
  Media Consortium, 2008. 16 October 2008
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  link
• Schmidt, Aaron. NFAIS social database mockup.
  Walking Paper. 1 March 2008. 16 October 2008.
  . link
• Shirky, Clay. Its Not Information Overload.
  Its Filter Failure. Web 2.0 Expo, New York, NY.
  18 September 2008. 16 October 2008
  /detail/4817. link