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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 what lii.org is. http://lii.org I happen to think that authority is dead dead dead as a method of measuring information worth, but that's just me. :-) Jason On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Cindy Harper <[log in to unmask]> 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 ideas I've been mulling > over. > > Last week I sent this message to the "Suggestions and Ideas" forum at > delicious. > > http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=3237&page=1#Item_0 > The basic idea is to develop a delicious network of librarians. Or a > network > of faculty members. Then have one login whose network included those > users, > and share that login so that lots of people could share that network. > Delicious responded that we could have a wiki where people posted their > delicious names so that others could add them to their personal networks, > but that doesn't scale up very well. > > Or another project I've toyed with, involving focused searching: I started > with Robert Teeter's index to Great Books lists. > http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtalphaa.html<http://www.interleaves.org/%7Erteeter/grtalphaa.html> > <http://www.interleaves.org/%7Erteeter/grtalphaa.html>. > I've almost completed pulling them into a MySQL database so that I could > sort the titles by the number of Great Books lists that mention each title. > Then I thought about how one could do focused searching of the web, > collecting pages with a title containing (best and books) or (great and > books), and screen scraping title lists (you'd have to have some heuristic > method of identifying the data, of course, and I'm aware what problems > might > arise there). But my test searches in that idea showed that one runs into > a > lot of commercial ephemeral lists and spurious lists. Now, you could rely > on crowd-sourcing to filter out the consensus by ranking by the number of > sites/cites. But I thought you might want to differentiate between the > source - .edus, librarys, etc. > > So that led me to speculate about a search engine that ranked just by links > from .edu's, libraries sites, and a librarian-vetted list of .orgs, > scholarly publishers, etc. I think you can limit by .edu in the > linked-from > in Google - I haven't tried that much. if anyone here has experience at > using tha technique, I'd like to hear about it. 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. > > Is anyone else thinking about these ideas? or do you know of projects that > approach this goal of leveraging librarian's vetting of authoritative > sources? > > > > > Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian > Colgate University Libraries > [log in to unmask] > 315-228-7363 > -- Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/griffey