Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study - Connotea - The Diigo Meta page

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    Introduction

      

     Connotea [1] is a free online reference management and social bookmarking service for scientists created by Nature Publishing Group [2]. While somewhat experimental in nature, Connotea already has a large and growing number of users, and is a real, fully functioning service [3]. The label 'experimental' is not meant to imply that the service is any way ephemeral or esoteric, rather that the concept of social bookmarking itself and the application of that concept to reference management are both recent developments. Connotea is under active development, and we are still in the process of discovering how people will use it. In addition to Connotea being a free and public service, the core code is freely available under an open source license [4]. 

      

     Connotea was conceived from the outset as an online, social tool. Seeing the possibilities that del.icio.us [5] was opening up for its users in the area of general web linking, we realised that scholarly reference management was a similar problem space. Connotea was designed and developed late in 2004, and soft-launched at the end of December 2004.  

      

     Usage has grown over the past several months, to the point where there is now enough data in the system for interesting second-order effects to emerge. This paper will start by giving an overview of Connotea, and will outline the key concepts and describe its main features. We will then take the reader on a brief guided tour, show some of the aforementioned second-order effects, and end with a discussion of Connotea's likely future direction. 

       

    The Key Concepts behind Connotea

      

     Unashamedly inspired by del.icio.us as we were, we felt there were some additional characteristics of academic reference lists that warranted a separate, tailored service catering to, and making the most of, the needs of the academic community. Therefore, Connotea is a meld of existing reference management conventions and new social bookmarking concepts that are explored in a companion paper [6]. While none of these concepts is original to Connotea, the combination is. To spell them out: 

       

    1. Online storage of references and bookmarks

      

     The current standard practice in personal reference management is to have a database of citations stored locally on a user's own computer, and manipulated using dedicated desktop software. Moving the database online has a number of advantages: it makes the collection available from any web-enabled computer, and it allows easy sharing of personal collections (or subsets of them). Storing references online also opens up some new possibilities – direct linking into the literature, for example – and is the foundation that supports the other three pillars of Connotea (see below). Of course, online storage has its disadvantages too: the responsiveness and usability of the application, for example, and the fact that the availability of your data is in the hands of others. To alleviate these risks, we therefore intend to allow easy import and export between Connotea and other systems, including desktop reference management tools. 

       

    2. Simple, non-hierarchical organising

      

     Instead of placing reference material in folders, or folders within folders, the organisational apparatus of Connotea creates a totally flat, but multi-faceted, space. The data can be viewed from the perspective of tags, or users, or links. The 'tags' of Connotea and other social bookmarking tools often lead commentators to decry the anarchy of unconstrained keywords, but this overlooks the fact that tags are intended first and foremost as a way for individual users to manage their own collections. In this w
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  • it makes the collection available from any web-enabled computer, and it allows easy sharing of personal collections (or subsets of them). Storing references online also opens up some new possibilities – direct linking into the literature, for example – and is the foundation that supports the other three pillars of Connotea
  • When a URL is added to Connotea, it is first analysed in order to determine whether it belongs to the set of URLs that Connotea recognises. This can trigger a special behaviour for those web pages that represent academic articles or books – bibliographic data for the reference material is collected and added to Connotea. For example, for scholarly articles, Connotea stores the publication name, volume and issue numbers, publication date and the list of authors for the article. At the time of writing, Connotea supports four different article archives and websites [n2], and the Amazon websites for books.
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Page Comments

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  Torsten Rox-Edling on 2006-03-31
  Connotea was conceived from the outset as an online, social tool. Seeing the possibilities that del.icio.us [5] was opening up for its users in the area of general web linking, we realised that scholarly reference management was a similar problem space. C
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  Jason Fleming on 2006-08-02
  Connotea [1] is a free online reference management and social bookmarking service for scientists created by Nature Publishing Group [2].
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  ken love on 2006-08-03
  Connotea was conceived from the outset as an online, social tool. Seeing the possibilities that del.icio.us [5] was opening up for its users in the area of general web linking, we realised that scholarly reference management was a similar problem space. C
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  Nicola Mattina on 2006-09-02
  Servizio di social bookmarking specializzato dedicato al mondo accademico. Implementa un sistema di collaborative filtering. L'articolo ne offre una vista approfondita.
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  Kit Logan on 2007-11-13
  Description of Connotea a social bookmarking site for academics combining online storage of references and bookmarks, with tagging to allow for easy retrieval as well as other useful tools.
  

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