CiteULike and Connotea: Linklogging Goes Academic
Seb Paquet,
Feb 11, 2005
Mostly a discussion of CiteULike, a system that "lets you build a 'personal library' recording bibliographic information and enabling you to tag papers for future retrieval and group sharing." Of course, that's how OLDaily started - as the output from the links I was saving for my own reference. A homegrown system. Now such a system is useful - it looks really useful when you see the ten-item version Seb posts - but my database now contains 8,271 items collected over the years. And I have found that, while I use my system, I tend to use it rather less than I might when, say, writing a paper. And consequently, there are many references in my papers that are not in my database, and vice versa. Collecting useful cites is easy - Edu_RSS now has more than a hundred thousand useful cites. Using them is harder - what I am after is an engine that will read what I'm writing as I write it and suggest appropriate references. Metadata? Well, no, I'm not going to tag a hundred thousand objects. What I am after is a way to capture the context in which these references were used, and then to create a cracking good search engine that recognizes when my writing has entered a similar context.
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