Social bookmarking

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Bookmarking in the context of ICT means to save a link in some place (e.g. the bookmarks manager of a web browser) and optionally add metadata (keywords, description, title, ..).

There are several forms of shared (or social) bookmarking:

(1) “Social bookmarking is a web based service, where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed. Social bookmarking sites generally organize their content using tags. Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the practice of tagging and inferences drawn from grouping and analysis of tags.” (Wikipedia)

Social bookmarking is a kind of social software that can be associated with Web 2.0 and that uses some kind of folksonomic tagging system.

(2) On the opposite, Links managers (e.g. directories like DMOZ) is a kind of social software that is associated with pre-web 2.0. The taxonomy is made by the system administrateors and users just add links. Of course, one could imagine that users were also given permission to add categories.

(3) There are some more individual bookmarking tools that allow some form of sharing or exporting.

(4) Specialized tools exist for very specific kinds of links.

E.g. social reference managers like Connotea or citation indexes like CiteSeer.

(5) Combined tools, e.g. that allow notetaking, share digitial artifacts like web publications, etc.