Who uses Delicious to keep track of business information sources?

[hyunduck]

I saw a pretty neat article in the latest issue of CRL News (April 2009): "Social bookmarking for library services: Bibliographic access through Delicious". Use of Delicious by librarians is not new, but I thought their approach was particularly interesting. They provided some ideas on using delicious to tag local resources to provide deep subject access; and how to easily incorporate Delicious content into web pages using JavaScript.

This was particularly interesting to me, because I've been thinking of ways to harness our collective knowledge of web sources relevant to business research, and reduce the seemingly redundant practice of maintaining our own list of web resources on individual subject guides.

What if we formed a common account/network of accounts on delicious, using very specific tags to recommend highly relevant web sources related to business research-- we could all then reap the benefits by incorporating the results on our local guides. A little bit of coordination could also mean staking out different industries to track. I have no idea if this would work and if so, how. But, does this sound interesting to anyone? Has anyone looked into this before? Are there gaps in my logic?

Let me know what you think...

[hyunduck]

Thanks for posting to the discussion Aleha,

I'm Canadian so those resources interest me too! (though I'm currently in the U.S.). Perhaps we can continue considering options on this discussion board until/if more organizing is in order?

Options:
"share with" - pro/cons?
"common tag" - pro/con?
"export/import" options with a common account - pro/con?
...


Issues/Questions:
maintenance
taxonomy
local display
...

--hdc.

[hyunduck]

The least you need to know:

Okay so, Josh Wilson, a colleague of mine helped explain how the code from the article above would work locally. Basically, if you have access to html editing, you should be able to copy the code in the attached file, substituting/personalizing the parts in all caps (i.e. where it says TITLE, USERNAME and SPECIFIC TAG). I had to attach the code as a separate file since the html got parsed by this editor.

Have fun experimenting!
deliciousfeedcode.txt

[Donna Stanford]

What article?

[hyunduck]

College and Research Libraries News (April 2009): "Social bookmarking for library services: Bibliographic access through Delicious" - the link: http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/a...