The Social Aspect Of Resource Discovery
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The document discusses resource discovery through social means such as writing blog posts, chatting with colleagues, listening to people, and sharing resources using popular networked services. It provides examples of how writing blog posts attracts relevant comments and links, and how Twitter can be used to find examples related to a talk. The conclusion is that social resource discovery is natural, requires little effort, allows the use of popular services, and helps the community.
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The Social Aspect Of Resource Discovery
- 1. The Social Aspect Of Resource Discovery Brian Kelly, UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources bookmarked using ‘ jisc-2008-11 ' tag Acceptable Use Policy Recording of this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Email [email_address] Blog site http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/online/jisc-2008-11/
- 2. Contents Resource discovery via: Writing blog posts Chatting with colleagues Listening to people Meeting new people Sharing resources using popular networked services
- 3. A Blog as a Magnet For Content I write blog posts – and this attracts content relevant to my areas of interest: Comments Referrer links Note that I need do little more to write relevant content (the content comes to me – and I can even get in via RSS)
- 4. The Incoming Links Here’s a list on incoming links to be blog (and note the RSS feed of the links)
- 5. An Example I’ve an interest in how Web 2.0 may be used in schools, public libraries, etc. A series of examples are delivered to be because I’ve previously written on this topic.
- 6. Twitter Twitter: Meaningless or trivial drivel? Contextualised and relevant snippets from my friends and colleagues? Both of the above? Note A view of monolithic systems tends to impose a one-system-fits-all solutions A view of personal learning/research environment allows users to select solutions which work for them.
- 7. Twitter Example I was speaking at the IAMIC 2008 Conference (International Association of Music Information Centres) Twenty minutes before talk due to start I tweeted a request for example of Web 2.0 music sites Here are some of the responses See <http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/what-can-web-20-offer-to-the-iamic-community/>
- 8. My Slideshare Upload Sharing resources on popular services (e.g. Slideshare) can help me to find new resources Note the services need to be popular
- 9. Related Slides Here are related presentations with a Web2.0 tag.
- 10. Here are related presentations with a Web2.0 tag. Related Slides Perhaps more useful are presentations for more specialist areas such as those with a ‘digital-preservation’ tag.
- 11. How Do I Find New Resources How do I find new resources or gain new insights when: Writing articles, blog posts, etc. Writing peer-reviewed papers Arrange trips (flights, hotels, etc.) I tend to: Use Google Ask colleagues socially (over coffee, in the pub, …) Listen to what people are saying (in blogs, in blog comments, on email, …) Ask questions (in physical world and on Twitter, email, on my blog posts, …) Follow links to me previous work Follow links in related papers in conferences
- 12. Finding New Resources What I don’t do: Use manual catalogues (won’t have latest stuff – except for finding hotels, etc Use the library Use institutional repositories Use Athens, Shibboleth … Use safe / quality services (too slow; too boring; too samey; …) Use services with little content
- 13. Conclusions The social aspect of resource discovery: Is natural to us all (e.g. finding new pubs, restaurants, etc.) Requires little effort at the publishing/production side Allows us to use services of proven popularity Allows us to move on to new services without having to write off significant effort Should be acknowledged as being of importance to the community