ECS – Electronic and Computer Science, archivio aperto dell’Università di Southampton, ha implementato il social tagging per attribuire una classificazione distribuita ai propri record.
Una volta effettuata una ricerca nel repository, infatti, l’archivio restituisce una schermata con l’avvertenza:
“Tags And Related Items From Connotea
This is an experimental tagging service in association with Nature magazine. For more information and to create a Connotea account see the (What is Connotea?) page. You need an account you add your own tags.
Log in to Connotea to see tags and related items for this item.”
Loggandosi con il proprio account su Connotea, è a questo punto possibile associare ex-novo tag al record oppure visualizzare le parole-chiave assegnate in precedenza.
In questo modo non solo ogni qualvolta si cercherà una risorsa all’interno di ECS, sarà possibile richiamare le classificazioni attribuite, ma il record dell’archivio sarà in automatico caricato nella propria biblioteca di Connotea con i relativi tag.
Nelle parole di Timo Hannay, del blog You’re It! – a blog on tagging:
“One general problem with IRs is that, notwithstanding services like Google Scholar, a lot of their content isn’t very easy to find, and it certainly isn’t easy to browse between related items in different repositories. Our new code aims to improve things by allowing IR users to tag articles and see links to related content, all from within the IR web page itself. Behind the scenes, the software communicates with del.icio.us and/or Connotea (Nature’s own social bookmarking service for scientists). Since Connotea is open source, it will also work with any instance of Connotea Code.
The good folks at the University of Southampton’s Electronics and Computer Science Department have now put this code on their institutional repository, creating our first real-world installation (yeah!). Here is an example of a tagged paper. You need to enter Connotea user details for it to work (because calls to Connotea’s web API require you to be a known user).”
Ho realizzato una prova con il record Generic Rationale for University Open Access Self-Archiving Policy di Steven Harnad: funziona! Adesso posso visualizzare la risorsa taggata sia in ECS che in Connotea.
