Andrew P wrote:
Also worth mentioning is a new site SiteCite.com that
allows you to organize web links with custom URLs. It was created by a
library programmer and has
discovery tools so that bookmarks are easily retrievable. [...]
I'm surprised that a library programmer has put the We need
: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On
Behalf Of Keith Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:35 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Bookmarking web links -
authoritativeness or focused searching
AbleGrape.com is a good example of a focused search
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Tim Cornwell tc...@cornell.edu wrote:
41,000 sites and 21 million pages (http://www.ablegrape.com/en/about.html) is
a lot of
vetting.
...
Authoratative vetting of a large volume of resources is a hard problem. I
haven't seen
any good solutions, but am
www.diigo.com is a social bookmarking site like delicious and it has added
features like creating groups around specific themes and the ability to
annotate the Web pages you bookmark for future reference. You might want to
explore this feature and see if it is appropriate for what you
It's not social bookmarking, but as far as But I'm thinking now about
the possibility of a search engine limited to sites cooperatively vetted by
librarians, that would incorporate ranking by # links. Something more
responsive than cataloging websites in our catalogs., well, that's almost
exactly
Cindy Harper wrote:
I've been thinking about the role of libraries as promoter of authoritative
works - helping to select and sort the plethora of information out there.
And I heard another presentation about social media this morning. So I
though I'd bring up for discussion here some of the
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Cindy Harper wrote:
I've been thinking about the role of libraries as promoter of authoritative
works - helping to select and sort the plethora of information out there.
And I heard another presentation about social media this morning. So I
though I'd bring up for
I feel like a couple years ago a librarian(s?) created a Google Custom Search
Engine that did exactly what you describe as focused searching, but I can't
find a link any more. You can search the CSEs by scrolling down on this page
(and there are a couple of links to directories, too):
AbleGrape.com is a good example of a focused search engine that aims
to index only authoritative sources within a particular disciple --
in this case it's wine, enology, and viticulture. It currently crawls
about 40,000 vetted websites.
It's a great search engine for the subject area it serves,
