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Appealing to groups

Appealing to groups

Attila Csordas (blogger at Partial immortalization and occasional NPG contributor) visited the Nature offices a few days ago. It’s always good to meet working scientists but especially when they’re as enthusiastic about the web as Attila is. One of the things he mentioned was that in his opinion social software for scientists tends to focus on individual users rather than groups, which is a fair point. In the life sciences, at least, the lab is the basic organizational unit. Should we be doing more to encourage uptake of sites like Connotea, Scintilla and Network on that level? There’s a clear  … Read more

Tagging and Bookmarking In Institutional Repositories

If you’re familiar with Connotea, our free online information management tool, or with the general idea of social bookmarking then you’ll know what we mean when we say that we’ve released some software that adds tagging and social bookmarking to EPrints-based institutional repositories. On top of that, it uses tags and bookmarks to recommend related articles.  Read more