Today’s post is brought to you by the Edmonton Public Library, and their awesome catalogue. Seriously, this thing is pretty darn great. First of all, using content from Amazon Web Services, you can see pictures of many of the books’ covers. But even better, there are a bunch of great features which allow users to interact with the library materials as well as with each other. In the screenshot below, I’ve highlighted some of these, using the example of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

From within the catalogue, you can rate the book, create tags, or write summaries and reviews. You can also flag the book and create lists of library resources including that item. You can check out other’s lists, tags, or comments (one reader, for example, suggests that you should skip the novel in favor of the BBC documentary. At least it wasn’t the Keira Knightly version. Hey, I bet the library has that too!) You can tweet the link, post it to facebook, or share it using a rather enormous array of tools, including many I’d never heard of. BallHype, anyone?

There’s even a link that says “buy this title” which takes you to the Amazon page for the book. In case you started out wanting something for free, but then decide you’d rather spend money on it. Is there anything you haven’t thought of, Edmonton?

Another feature is that users can actually interact with other users, see what others are reading, tagging, reviewing. You think Mr. Darcy is kind a pompus jerk? Hey, me too!

Now, since I am not an Edmonton Public Library cardholder, I’m not actually able to play with these tools, but I like the way the whole interface is set up. It looks pretty clear and easy to use, while still providing access to all the relevant features. It’s integrated into the catalogue alongside traditional catalogue fare such as location, call number, section, and the like, so there’s no need to search for the extra features. Which is to say that Edmonton Public Library patrons have it good, and I am filled with jealousy. VPL, take note.

My only real criticism (if you could even call it that) is that as the system seems pretty new, a lot of the resources haven’t been tagged or reviewed yet. However, this will likely change as time goes on.

In conclusion, two thumbs up, Edmonton. Your library catalogue almost makes me want to be there. Almost.

Per promuovere l’apertura del nuovo negozio a Malmö, in Svezia, Ikea ha inventato un nuovo tipo di marketing interattivo, il “Facebook Tag Marketing“.

Utilizzando una delle funzioni più popolari su Facebook, il tagging degli amici in foto, la community dei fan Ikea è stata chiamata a raccolta per taggare oggetti e mobili Ikea mostrati nelle foto di alcuni showroom.

Perchè avrebbero dovuto farlo? Gli utenti più veloci, che hanno taggato gli oggetti con il proprio nome, se li sono poi portati a casa. Niente male!

Ecco un video interattivo dell’ iniziativa social targata Ikea:

Geniale!

La Blanche

I have recently become a ‘flickr pro’ member and started using groups more meaningfully. It is a social networking site that taps into my unconscious, I feel. Frequently I am surprised to see my own connotations that spring up when presented with a new image uploaded by one of my contacts.

I love the daily flickr newsletter and those previews, the mix of them, 5 in a line maximum per contact, every day a visual treat. They trigger unknown associations in me. I click on the one that makes me most curious when I don’t have much time to explore all of them.

You never know, sometimes it’s light and shadows, details in the background, personal tags that add another layer of meaning, a comment by another viewer that is moving. It’s so intense the dynamic, like being pulled into a narrative that resembles a film. A few images tell a story but the story differs from what the person saw who took the shot which also differs from the real story. Interpretation of the interpretation.

Today, TooSix uploaded a simple neonsign saying Kreuzberg – the part in Berlin where I spent nearly 7 years – it made me do what expected least: a German poem-style memory unfolded, I typed without really thinking. I hadn’t been aware this was still living inside me. So fresh. Nothing’s ever lost. Nice. Grateful for the inspiration, thanks TooSix.

Gute alte Zeiten. Sehnsucht. Ratten. Strassenkehrer. Doner Kebap. Best in town. Politische Debatten nach 2 morgens. Ach.
Ein Neon Schild. Nicht mehr. Nicht weniger.

En el fabuloso libro “The Groundswell”, los autores Li y Bernoff hablan de 3 grandes acciones que se pueden tomar en el área de comunicación digital: hablar, escuchar y energizar. La última es la menos obvia. Consiste en aprovechar comunidades o grupos sociales ya existentes y “darles energía” para que éstos crezcan y ayuden a fortalecer tu marca. El ejemplo que colocan en el libro es el de los AFOL (Adults Fans of Lego), contando cómo la empresa Danesa ha logrado “empoderar” a su ya existente grupo de fanáticos.

El ejemplo que quiero compartir a continuación es similar. Lo hizo la gente de IKEA, y si bien no sé si califica estrictamente como un caso de “energizing”, creo que lo sencillo de la idea y lo contundente de su efecto es suficiente como para dedicarle unos minutos.

¿Qué hicieron? Utilizaron el “tagging” de fotos de Facebook para hacer que la gente compartiera fotos de la tienda y sus productos en una divertida promoción.

En este breve vídeo pueden ver cómo lo hicieron. Es un ejemplo de genialidad, sencillez y eficiencia en propuestas digitales.

El punto a resaltar acá es que se pueden hacer cosas muy interesantes sobre la base de lo que la gente ya está haciendo en el mundo digital. O dicho en otras palabras, hay que entender que queda mucho por descubrir sobre las “relaciones” y los “comportamientos” de los consumidores en este dinámico mundo on-line, porque aún en lo más trivial, se pueden hallar grandes oportunidades para energizar (hablar o escuchar).

P.S: Tat tip to Mitch Joel (@mitchjoel), who shared the link to the video via Twitter.

…if you zoom in, you can still see the blue paint on her fingers…

Conforme noticiado no Mashable, a IKEA utilizou as ’social media’ de forma exemplar na divulgação da abertura de uma nova loja em Malmo, na Suécia.

A abordagem, de uma simplicidade genial, consistiu na criação de um perfil do gestor da loja no Facebook que, durante um período de duas semanas, foi sendo alimentado com fotos de exposições do catálogo. Posteriormente, através da funcionalidade ‘tagging’, os clientes localizavam os produtos nas fotos e associavam-lhe o seu nome. O incentivo era generoso: o primeiro cliente a etiquetar (tag) um produto, recebia-o como oferta.

Veja em baixo o vídeo com a descrição detalhada da campanha:

Rapidamente, a iniciativa ganhou o efeito viral pretendido e os utilizadores começaram a partilhar links e imagens no Facebook, garantindo a divulgação da abertura da nova loja por milhares de utilizadores. Tudo isto suportado por um investimento insignificante.

Um caso de referência para as marcas na utilização das ’social media’ como poderosa ferramenta de marketing.

Some of the most creative inventions of all time have come from simply re-imagining an existing product and using it in new and inventive ways. One of the best examples in history is Arm & Hammer’s use of their baking soda product as a refrigerator deodorizer. After the war when housewives were introduced to the concept of pre-made and instant baking products, baking from scratch lost a lot of business, so in order to prevent going bankrupt, Arm & Hammer had to reinvent the way that consumers used their product.

Recently IKEA (one of my favorite places to buy furniture until I can afford the higher end merchandise) developed a Facebook campaign that reinvented the way companies approached social media campaigns. When everyone else is using a simple fan page and widgets, IKEA decided to use one of the most popular features of Facebook to bring user interaction.

The only thing I would say is that after visiting the Ikea corporate page, I would kind of hope they would have done some coverage over this campaign.

See the Mashable article here: http://mashable.com/2009/11/25/facebook-marketing-ikeas-genius-use-of-photo-tagging/

See this video below:

Hier haben wir einen interessanten Fall vor uns, der aufschlussreicher ist als manche Studie über das User-Verhalten in YouTube. Wir haben das Musikvideo „My little Boy“ (animated by Günther Auer) zum gleichnamigen Song von Rosivita & Klaus Karlbauer (Album Nachtblau 2006) auf 2 YouTube-Kanälen ins Netz gestellt. Nicht mal strategisch, sondern einfach so, weil wir uns diesbezüglich nicht akkordierten. Auf beiden Kanälen wurden von uns nach dem Hochladen keinerlei Aktivitäten mehr gesetzt.

Das Video, eine Animation haut-und fleischartiger pulsierender Landschaften zusammen mit dem Song „My little Boy“ ist schlicht und einfach GENIAL:

Bescheidenheit ist eine Zühr
Doch weiter kommt man ohne ühr

Auf Kanal 1 wurde es am 24.08.2006 hochgeladen und hatte seither 895 Aufrufe
Auf Kanal 2 wurde es am 26.04.2008 hochgeladen und hatte seither 9.671 Aufrufe.

Worin liegt nun der Unterschied? Sie haben es erraten: Im Tagging!

Die Tags für Kanal 1 lauten: Animation Dream Nightmare Musicvideo

Die Tags für Kanal 2 lauten: flesh Guenther Auer GTT Rosivita Mylittleboy body organism organic life animation www.guentherauer.net.tf penis cock

Interessant ist auch, welche Kommentare auf Kanal 2 zu finden sind, welch inspirierende Auswirkung vor allem, so wie es mir scheint, die letzten beiden Tags auf diverse User haben!

DRIP DROP MOP TOP!

]]> http://jonaston.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/delicious-tags-twitter-and-the-back-burner/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:25:21 +0000 Jon Aston http://jonaston.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/delicious-tags-twitter-and-the-back-burner/

I’m a long-time Delicious.com user.

For anyone not familiar with it, Delicious is a “social bookmarking” site that stores your bookmarks on the web – which makes them accessible from anywhere with internet access.  It’s “social” because anyone can see my public bookmarks, just as I can see theirs.  You can also see what tags they used to describe the content they’re bookmarking, who and how many people have bookmarked a given web page, and more…  all of which can lend a measure of credibility to information sources, and can help you spot trends.

Through the magic of RSS, Delicious also makes it easy to subscribe to bookmarks by user and/or tag, which can be pretty darned handy.  For example, I recently subscribed to Chris Brogan’s “CaseStudy” tag… so every time Chris bookmarks a Case Study he finds useful… I will know about it.  I’m practically hard-wired to the guy’s ginormous brain! How cool is that? You have to love the social web!

[If you're reading this and don't already know who Chris Brogan is... I like to think of him as the Santa Claus of Social Media.  Check out @ChrisBrogan and ChrisBrogan.com.]

I suspect I am a fairly typical Delicious user. I bookmark tons of stuff on Delicious  — more often than not — for some kind of ambiguous, unknown, unpredicted “future reference”.  When tagging, I try to be as descriptive as possible, while attempting to predict what keywords I will be searching for later on.  Over time, my tagging has grown a little sloppy (Typos, changes in the way I tag certain phrases, etc). I’ll get around to cleaning it all up one day. No. Really.

Anyway, to get to the point, my tagging habits have been changing lately,  as I continue to strive to become more efficient and more productive.  I thought some of you might be interested in the new methods I’ve developed for myself in the process:

1. Tagging with twitter names:  Whether it’s the author of original content, someone I follow on twitter who was mentioned in an article, or the generous tweep who shared the link… I tend to connect good information to people.  If they’ve written, inspired or shared good information… they’re bound to do so again.
2. The Back Burner: Several of my more recent Delicious tags are short-form names for projects I have on the back burner, or am preparing to start at some point in in the not-too-distant future.  Unfortunately, tags like “tp360″ “teej” and “s101″ are pretty much meaningless to anyone who might happen to be browsing or searching my bookmarks (sorry!), but they will be invaluable to me when I get to the stage of organizing/planning the project in question.

If you’re a Delicious user, I would love to learn about your tagging habits, or how they are evolving. Please drop me a comment below.

The world’s most popular portable music player, iPod Nano, can now shoot high-quality video with its built-in video camera and microphone that captures clean audio for playback on the built-in speaker. iPod Nano also comes with a larger 2.2 inch color display.

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Introduction

If you are building software and want to release that software at regular intervals then why not tag each release in Mercurial? That way you can very easily rollback to that version of the software at any time. Whats more is that you can use your own tags rather than trying to remember the mercurial revision number that was current at the time of release.

There are many approaches to software versioning which will not be covered here. Check out this wikipedia article on software versioning for more details on the different approaches. The purpose of this article is to apply the versioning as a tag in your mercurial repository.

Apply a tag in mercurial

When using mercurial, you must always tag after a commit. So if you know that you want to tag your current working directory, you must commit it first and then tag it. Given this it obviously makes it very easy to tag a commit that you might have made a long time ago in the past. Bear this in mind when using the tag command in mercurial and you will understand clearly how this feature can be used.

This is how you would tag a revision in a mercurial repository, first decide what revision you want to tag and then run the following command. In this example it will tag revision number 45 with “2.0.5″

hg tag -r 45 2.0.5

This command automatically commits this tag, so if you run “hg tip” in your terminal, you will see something like the following:

changeset:   51:209937087918
tag:         tip
user:        Darren Jensen
date:        Sun Nov 22 13:10:47 2009
summary:     Added tag 2.0.5 for changeset b50b86512aac

Note that the changeset for “tip” is 51:209937087918 and the comment is “Added tag 2.0.5 for changeset b50b86512aac” (this comment is also added automatically by mercurial by the way). Given that I asked mercurial to apply the tag to revision 45, you can easily see that it is a commit made a while ago. The changeset indicated in the comment (“b50b86512aac”) does indeed refer to revision 45.

Use a tag in mercurial

So how to use this tag going forward? Here are a couple of ideas.

Use it to see the commit info at that time using the log command as follows:

hg log -r 2.0.5

This will return the log entry that is associated with that tag, so in our example it would return the entry for changeset 45:b50b86512aac, as follows:

changeset:   45:b50b86512aac
tag:         2.0.5
user:        A Developer
date:        Tue Jul 21 14:27:50 2009
summary:     Made some serious changes to the application and deployed it to production

Use it to clone the repository to the tag point (note that the tag itself would not be included since that is added after this point). So if you do a “hg tip” on this cloned repository, then your would see the log entry for changeset 45 but the tag and the changeset that commit the tag will not be there (changeset 45 will have the tag “tip” in this case!).

hg clone -r 2.0.5 somerepo

Check out the Mercurial wiki for more details regarding tagging in mercurial, including how to deal with tagging conflicts, local tags (as opposed to “regular” tags which is covered in this article), removing tags and more.

Aaron Adams and BTT are everywhere, carrying the water for most of us who love, like or otherwise fish for bonefish. Found a story from the Miami Herald.  BTT went down and met with Bahamian guides to discuss increasing participation in the tagging and reporting of tagged fish.  Read the story here.

Tagged bone. Photo from... MIKE MAZUR / FLY FISHING IN SALT WATERS

A little selection of dirty insides from Stockholm.

~uh uh uh.. dikala saya mempunyai banyak perkara nak diceritakan, jadual begitu penuh sekali, dan kerja menimbun menunggu. Ohh.. saya nak tulis jugak, walaupun terpaksa berulang kali tutup dan buka skrin ni, bila ada orang datang ~terutamanya bila Project Manager saya datang! ehehehe…

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Cuaca

Lewat kebelakangan ini, Malaysia dilanda hujan sepanjang hari, kan? Saya sangka hanya Pantai Timur sahaja, tapi hampir kesemua tempat pun melaporkan keadaan yang sama, jadi terpaksalah saya akui, Malaysia sekarang mengalami musim tengkujuh.

Yang sebenarnya, saya sangat suka hujan. Kecuali sewaktu hujan turun semasa saya mahu keluar rumah dan ingin menaiki pengangkutan awam, atau bila baju tak kering-kering di ampaian, atau ketika saya mahu naik terbang ke mana-mana, kecuali pada saat-saat itu, saya suka hujan!

walking in the rain..

Sejak dulu saya mempunyai habit suka memerhati rintik-rintik hujan dari anjung rumah, atau pun melalui tingkap yang terbuka luas. Saya suka bila angin serta basah air hujan tu terkena ke muka saya, menimbulkan rasa dingin dan nyaman sekali. Bila merenung pada hujan yang sedang turun, selalu membawa saya ke emosi yang pelbagai, kadang-kadang sayu, ada ketikanya sedih, di suatu ketika lain pula mungkin rasa aman, gembira dan macam-macam lagi lah.

selepas hujan..

Bila waktu hujan, suasana akan menjadi sejuk dan nyaman. Ramai orang suka duduk di rumah di waktu ini. Manarik selimut adalah sesuatu yang nikmat di kala suasana begini. Tetapi, menikmati secawan nescafe atau teh panas, sambil memerhati hujan yang masih turun, adalah sesuatu yang saya paling gemari.

nescaffee panas dan hujan..

Teringat sewaktu kecil dulu, pada waktu hujan begini, kami anak-anak kecillah yang paling gembira. Tak seperti sekarang, abah dan mak, atau ahli keluarga yang lain tak pernah marah kami mahu mandi hujan. Aktiviti ini selalunya diakhiri dengan kami beramai-ramai membuat empangan pada sungai kecil di dalam kampung. Air sungai yang mengalir, dicampur dengan air hujan yang turun, sekejap saja empangan sudah dipenuhi air. Sebelum empangan kecil tu pecah, semua orang akan terjun ke dalam empangan yang tak sampai pun paras lutut tu. Tapi itu pun dah cukup menggembirakan kami. Arwah tok pula, ketika waktu hujan ini, sangat suka menikmati secawan kopi panas. Kadang-kala, ada pula hidangan sampingan, ubi kayu rebus, dicicah dengan kelapa parut bersalut gula. Wah, sangat sedap!!

kanak-kanak dan hujan..

Tapi sekarang, saya sudah jarang menikmati hujan. Tak tahulah sama ada kerana saya yang terlalu sibuk, atau hujan sudah tidak memberikan kesan kepada emosi saya lagi. Tapi kalau mempunyai kesempatan itu, saya tidak akan melepaskan peluang menikmatinya. Errmm…

Gambar

Sejak beberapa hari ini, officemate saya sangat suka meletakkan gambar-gambar dalam facebook. Tapi saya ada sedikit isu dengan perkara tersebut.

Isu yang pertama, saya tahu, ini agak kebudak-budakkan sedikit. Tapi ntah kenapa, saya rasa sedikit sakit hati bila, mereka buat album dan upload gambar-gambar yang diambil oleh saya. Sekarang saya sudah faham perasaan jurugambar-jurugambar profesional bila gambar mereka diambil dan digunakan oleh orang lain.

Walaupun saya bukanlah jurugambar profesional, tapi saya juga tak suka dibuat begitu. Terasa seperti gambar itu bukan hak saya lagi, bila saya lihat album gambar tersebut dalam profile mereka. Kalau itu hanya gambar si tukang upload, saya tak kisah sangat. Tapi kalau melibatkan gambar orang lain *termasuk saya, pemandangan dan angel yang pelik-pelik, saya terasa seperti itu karya si tukang upload tu pula. Memang sakit hati jugalah saya rasa. Kalau lah kamu semua tahu macam mana kalau saya ambil gambar orang, agaknya, kamu semua mungkin boleh faham perasaan saya..

Isu kedua, sudahlah upload gambar-gambar kepunyaan saya, di-upload sekali gambar saya, dan tag pula saya dengan gambar-gambar tersebut. Ini pun saya tak suka. Itu yang saya benci tentang facebook, kadang-kala saya semacam hilang kawalan ke atas hak peribadi saya. Saya paling kurang suka publish gambar sendiri di mana-mana laman milik saya. Kalaupun saya upload gambar saya sendiri, saya jarang tag gambar saya sendiri, kecuali kalau itu gambar beramai-ramai atau mempunyai kenangan tertentu. Tapi kalau gambar saya seorang, nak pula gambar itu saya sendiri yang ambil *boleh bayangkan macammana keadaannya, dan diambil tanpa apa-apa maksud, tolonglah! Saya memang tak suka mengglemerkan diri sendiri.

Jadi, apa yang saya boleh lakukan adalah, saya bersabar sahaja! Ahahaaa.. Iyalah, perkara-perkara macam ni susah juga nak cakap. Boleh menimbulkan salah faham yang lain pula. Cuma, selepas ini, saya takkan serahkan gambar-gambar yang saya ambil kepada orang lain, atau setidak-tidaknya, sebelum saya upload dulu gambar tersebut.

Dan kepada kawan-kawan yang lain, saya bukanlah begitu rigid. Saya sangat flexible sebenarnya. Beritahulah saya dahulu. Letaklah gambar-gambar yang elok sedikit seperti mana saya memlilih gambar anda semua. Dan kalau itu gambar memang milik anda, saya tak kisah sangat sebenarnya, itu karya anda. Kalau gambar saya buruk pun, saya pasrah saja. Ahahaa.. memang saya pun bukanlah cantik sangat, cuma comel je!

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Kerja

Ha memang, kalau dapat membebel, macam dah tak boleh nak berhenti-henti.

Perasaan kucar-kacir yang saya rasa 5-6 bulan lepas, muncul lagi. Terasa diri tidak kompeten dengan orang lain, selalu terasa diri bekerja lebih lembab dari orang lain, selalu rasa lost, tapi masih lagi malas mahu memberikan fokus 150%, dan macam-macam lagilah. Aish.. apa nak jadi dengan saya nih. Ini bukan petanda yang baik!

Walaupun saya sibuk bagai nak rak, tapi saya pun hairan bin ajaib, macamana saya dengan senang hati boleh buat perkara-perkara lain pula ~seperti menulis blog ni. Satu sebabnya mungkin, saya pun dah tak dapat nak prioritize kerja saya. Semuanya ada label urgent. Dan kalau yang tak urgent itu pun, saya selalu je berasa cemas kalau-kalau akhirnya saya terlupa juga, kerana pada akhirnya, yang tiada label urgent itupun, akan menjadi urgent juga!

Ada seorang officemate baru di office saya ni, dia punya minat hampir yang sama dengan saya. Dan ada pula yang menambah-nambah cerita, Farah tu soulmate saya saya, sebab kami berdua sanggup bangun pukul 6.30 pagi untuk pergi berjoging bersama di KT hari tu. Ahahahaa.. macam tu pun boleh panggil soulmate ke? *Seri Nur Fasa, ini schoolmate anda!

Anyway, ingat tak saya pernah cerita pasal Rain? Ok, kalau nak tengok gambar dia dengan lebih jelas, sila klik sini, blog si Farah tu! Dan kalau nak tengok saya buat aktiviti merapu kat KT, boleh juga klik sini dan sini.

Let me just say, that I am thoroughly satisfied with my new HootSuite add-on!! Like I had mentioned in my earlier post, I recently signed up for HootSuite and it has become my favorite Twitter client!!!

And yesterday, HootSuite created an add-on for Firefox!! The add-on is a mini Hootlet dashboard, but what makes it so grand is that you don’t need to copy and paste links anymore, and no more switching back-n-forth from page to page working to set up your next tweet…

Just click on the cute little Owly icon  and it will shorten the URL, add descriptive text, then send it to any or all of your twitter accounts!!

WOW, I mean, WOW… how can it get any better!!

If you download the add-on, I must tell you that the HootSuite icon will not show up after restarting Firefox. It’s a little different from most Firefox add-ons in that you will have to manually place it onto your browser.

I’ll tell you how to do it…

Go to View > toolbars > customize > and drag-n-drop the HootSuite owl icon. Then, you’re good to go!!

Check out HootSuite here, if ya like… HootSuite

I will say, the one bad thing with HootSuite is that it does not yet allow you to view or manage your followers. I’ve read that they are working on some ideas to get this feature into the client. But, as I said before, HootSuite is really awesome if your goal is to share with the friends you’ve already got…

Photographed by Rob React

This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. Please credit Rob Larsen with a link to Drunkenfist.com, if you use this photo anywhere. Thanks.

– License

“Do you provide mechanisms (tagging, for example) to help users create their own navigation through your site?”

Tagging is a large part of how Last.FM tracks your interest in music. Through the “Like” and “Ban” buttons that accompany the radio station, users can put an emphasis on which songs they like and don’t like. Through using the tags, and other attributes, of each song, Last.FM can better track which songs it thinks you enjoy the most. This, obviously, helps users create their own navigation through Last.FM.

I decided to change the title of my blog once more. It is important to acknowledge my librarian roots, yet nod to my divergent interests.

In the Learning Commons at Lake Washington Technical College we are piloting an embed project using Delicious to create, effectively, homemade LibGuides. Using existing collection resources we can create a link roll using specific tags associated with programs and class numbers. This permits us to obtain an javascript embed code, which can be given to the instructor who can then paste this same code into their Angel course shell. Any number of items can be gathered into this, including YouTube videos, PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and many more.
This method of bookmarking our existing resources (e.g., articles in journals that can be found in our electronic collection) permits compliance with copyright and helps faculty create a remotely accessible course reserve system. Primarily, I think it will be addressed in the following ways:

1. Create collection inventories by bookmarking periodical and ebook publications at the item level. If these materials are consistently tagged at the item-level, then collection inventories could be created on the fly. The only foreseeable issue would be items added after a first sweep through might not be included, but routine updates could address this issue.
2. Create course-specific reserves, incorporating material from our existing On-line subscription databases, as well as freely available web content (e.g., videos, audio content, documents).

In effect, this system would create embedded LibGuides, since the listings would be held within the course shell and students would access this information concurrent with their work in Angel.

The Delicious link roll project would look like this: https://lwtclearningcommons.pbworks.com/Delicious-Rolls-%28Library-Database-Mashup%29

I think the idea is to create back ups on the Learning Commons Wiki site, which will serve as a safety net in case Angel goes down.

In the initial phase of this project, I had lots of questions (see comments section, “New Tags for Embed Project”), many which will be answered over the life of the project. This is an interesting project, because it is an attempt at creating resource lists and an electronic reserve system for faculty and students from an existing On-line and freely available technology, Delicious.

I still do have lots of questions that need answers. Using this system of creating electronic reserves for courses are we in compliance with copyright? Are there any privacy and copyright issues involved in making course-level content discoverable? Where does this system intersect with the library catalog system? Is there a way to bookmark library records for items currently in our collection?

I think these are important questions to consider and resolve as this project moves forward and I am excited to participate in such a project.