Connotea - academic bookmarks
Really impressed with Connotea after reading Social bookmarking tools (II) A case study – Connotea.
Here is the Connotea news feed for the latest.
Great features
- Future implementation of groups
(According to Social bookmarks chart, this is already implemented in Spurl, CiteULike, Unalog and igooi) - Future implementation of openURL links
- Private accounts or private entries…they even include an expiry date for your liking (see Fri 6th May 2005 entry on the latest news)
(over a third of other systems have this feature) - Open code
- Search by tag
del.icio.us users can use del.icio.us tag search or meta-tag search tools like tag central or technorati tag search - Add a comment bookmarklet
o you don’t have to go to your bookmark within your archive to add a comment, instead you can click on the bookmarklet when you are on that particular webpage
(note: you can’t comment on a webpage that isn’t already in your archive)o And you can add multiple comments
o Also include hyperlink text in your comments
- With any Connotea record you can see everyone’s comments in a thread via a bookmarklet…this is amazing!
(I think Gibeo all has this feature) - Identified field
o Automatically mapping meta-data from archives/publishers so you can automatically save a citation in one click.
Eg. If you bookmark a page from PubMed, the exact format of the citation will be recognised and will be duplicated into your bookmark
- Export/Import into personal reference managers
(not sure if it can generate citations style’s like Furl). - Tags have high or reputable google rankings
- Retrieve items from multiple tags and users in the one search string (this is unique!)
- If you click on a date it also displays
o All tags used in the bookmarks on this date
o Users who posted these bookmarks on this date
o Related tags
o Related users
- If you click on a user it also displays
o Users tag list
o Related tags
o Related users
- If you click on a tag it also displays
o Users who use these tags
o Related tags
o Related users
- If you click on on ? others it also displays
o RSS for the URL of a bookmark
(Del.icio.us users can use DURL) - If you click on ? comments it also displays
o A thread of all Connotea comments for that bookmark
Requested features
- Collapse/expand function like in del.irio.us
- Full-text (cache) web-page like in Furl and others
- RSS for comments of an individual bookmark
(Gibeo has email notification) - Only searches a tag label or a user at the moment, needs to search in title, URL, description, etc..
- Browse authors, within a users account, then browse a particular author in all accounts
(CiteULike has this feature) - Posting a link to a blog
(Blogmarks has this feature)
Alternate View
- You can view all public bookmarks sorted by date…ie. using the date as a section title, like a blog
o At the moment you have to click on a date (which is noted on the end of every bookmark)…wouldn’t it be good if there was a calendar archive (like on a blog) to view entries made on any date
o I’d like to view this at the user level
(see dashLog)
![email.png](http://services.nexodyne.com/email/icon/GxbiQvgbwBgCnw%3D%3D/oIp%2BJMQ%3D/R01haWw%3D/0/image.png"){kind=icon}
“Only searches a tag label or a user at the moment, needs to search in title, URL, description, etc..”
- Simpy has that feature
Comment by Otis — May 17, 2005 @ 3:05 am