# habib: RT @jaykaydee: My dissertation: “Beliefs and Uses of Tagging Among Undergraduates” http://bit.ly/97bJQI If you’re into that sort of thing

# habib: RT @mfenner: New blog post: ORCID session at #solo10 and other important #orcid news http://bit.ly/crZzWg

# habib: RT @gthorisson: My latest SlideShare upload: ORCID presentation from Science Online London 2010 – http://slidesha.re/dqjO0F

# habib: RT @ORCID_Org: We’re officially a non-profit! Announced today, ORCID initiative is now ORCID, Inc http://bit.ly/c8L8hW

# RT @IanMulvany: #solo10 some pics and links to presentations from the session I hosted. http://directedgraph.net/2010/09/07/solo10-presentation-slides/

# WEBINAR (free): The Future of Search and Discovery, Sept. 8 w/ Jud Dunham and Cameron Neylon http://t.co/tiia9JS

# RT @Machemes: New and Unique Tool Eases the Process of Finding Article Reviewers: The search is based on the Scopus macheme fo… http://bit.ly/9U3bEy

# My slides from Connecting Scientific Resources at Science Online London 2010 available at http://t.co/3vrgEc1 #solo10 #li @IanMulvany @rjw

• Corey Reece » Blog Archive » Walled gardens no more. (A unified social network and the makings of a plan)

  I met Corey at BarCamp and we got to discuss this idea. I look forward to seeing where he takes it next.

  (tags: microformats openid socialnetworking xfn social_networks socialnetworks)

• RDU Start Up Weekend

  There was a brief preliminary meeting at BarCampRDU.

  (tags: startup startups barcamprdu barcamp unconference barcamprdu2007)

• Pew Internet: Tagging

  An older report. Just saving it for later: “A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts.”

  (tags: tagging statistics pewstudy Folksonomies folksonomy)

• Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Tagmash: Book tagging grows up

  This is a major move forward in tagging: “In getting past words or short phrases, tagmash closes some of the gap between tagging and professional subject classifications.”

  (tags: cataloging folksonomy library2.0 tagging Folksonomies librarything)

• Tagmashes from LibraryThing. Many-to-Many:

  Weinberger’s take: “With tagmashes, the info that this tag is related to that one is gleaned from the fact that a human said that they were related.”

  (tags: Folksonomies folksonomy librarything metadata cataloging tagging)

• Lulu Partners with ImageLooop for Slideshow Widget Offering

  (tags: lulu widgets)

• Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Abstract: Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship

  The abstract for Michael’s dissertation. I really look forward to reading it.

  (tags: michaelstephens blogging library2.0 librarianship librarians dissertation)

Faceted Friending is a term that I have started using to describe what I see as one of the next major stages of how tagging will improve social software. In his recent post titled Sharing and Following/Listening in the Social Web, Thomas Vander Wal discusses how networks are beginning to allow users a deeper level of granularity into how their defined relationships effect their sharing. For example, the Family, Friends, and All distinction in Flickr is built into how information is shared. Thomas’ post highlights some of the top level distinctions that people are making along these lines. While many of the following points will overlap with what Thomas is writing about, I believe that I offer a different perspective on many of the same issues.

One example he uses is “Geo Listening and Sharing”. Basically this includes sharing and listening to people in your geographic vicinity. I had the pleasure of working with Thomas on a mini interactionary at DCampSouth. There we were broadly tackling how to improve status updates and Facebook feeds. One of the ideas we came up with was to allow sharing within a geographic area.

The concept of faceted friending is being employed elsewhere on the web as well. The subscription function in del.icio.us is another popular example. I don’t necessarily want to subscribe to my contacts bookmarks about cats and local politics, but I might want to subscribe to their bookmarks on folksonomy and tagging. In fact, with resource sharing applications like del.icio.us, the utility is highly diluted when employed as a straight network. This is why at BiblioCommons, tagging and subject headings are the bonds that hold the network together. Rarely do I care about all of the topics that a person is reading up on, but I often am interested in one unique facet of our shared interests.

This is also important in more social instances. This became particularly noticeable to me when Facebook opened up to the world. Before, I primarily used Facebook to interact with local friends, friends from college, etc. All of a sudden half of my Facebook friends were librarians. While they are librarians who I consider friends, they don’t necessarily need to know my local happy hour plans and I don’t necessarily need to know about stuff they are doing outside of our shared participation in the library world. This background is how the idea of being able to focus status updates by shared personal facets or geography entered my mind when working on the design challenge with Thomas at DCamp.

One of the tricks to employing Faceted Friending is to make the process simple enough that users take advantage of it. That is why our group decided to minimize the facets that could be attached to a status update to those that would be most useful to that feature. Given that students often use it to share their whereabouts, the geographic importance of status came through as a major facet. The difference between core friends and acquaintances came through as a second, which lead us to the concept of a VIP status update that is only sent out to a core group of friends.

A second way to get people to take advantage of faceted friending is to automate the process as much as possible. So for example, when I add someone as a del.icio.us contact, the system could compare our tags, offer up the most common shared tags, and then offer that I pick tags to follow. Again, BiblioCommons is doing this very well and a lot of my belief in this concept comes from my time with them.

Another example of automating this process is through automatically determining geographical information. In the Facebook status updates example, Facebook could determine a users whereabouts by IP address and share their location oriented status updates with friends in that vicinity. Of course GPS can be used similarly.

A third way to simply the process of faceted friending is through embracing and developing open standards that can allow people to maintain categories of friends across social networks. Beginnings of this can be accomplished through adoption of creative uses for microformats such as XFN. This is a topic Chris Messina brought up at last years BarCampRDU that has been gaining increasing traction lately.

I hope to host a session on Faceted Friending at tomorrow’s BarCampRDU. Unfortunately, I will miss the morning sessions, but will pitch the idea for the afternoon.

I plan on writing a lot more about this topic, but was just trying to get a preliminary sketch of my ideas out there. I will be writing more on faceted tagging as well. Ultimately, I see the intersection of faceted tagging and faceted friending as fueling the next generation of social software.

• Loose Cannon Librarian » printed with permission…

  About Danbury and LibraryThing for Libraries, from the post – “I wrote a sidebar to John Blyberg’s must-read article on open APIs (go, now, read it)… I asked for and received permission to post the unedited version here:”

  (tags: librarything danbury opacs OPAC tagging Folksonomies library2.0)

• Always Pushing Information – 7/15/2007 – netConnect

  “John Blyberg advocates for open APIs between libraries and vendors to speed innovation”

  (tags: blyberg OPAC bibliocommons ils librarything apis)

• WorldCat Local pilot announcement [OCLC]

  Saving some older links.

  (tags: worldcatlocal Worldcat oclc OPAC)

• LibraryThing for Libraries

  (tags: library2.0 librarything OPAC folksonomy)

• The Implications of OpenID » SlideShare

  (tags: openid presentation)

• Implementing OpenID » SlideShare

  (tags: openid presentation)

• A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

  From the site “This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts.”

  (tags: openid identity tutorial)

• » The case for OpenID | Digital ID World | ZDNet.com

  (tags: openid identity identity20)

• Startup Weekend
  I am interested to see how this spreads. Could libraries use this method? From the site: “Have you ever wondered what a group of highly talented and motivated people could accomplish in a weekend? Could they start a company from concept to completion?”
  (tags: startup startups unconference)
• Startup Weekend Boulder
  Blog for the first Startup Weekend.
  (tags: startup startups unconferences)
• vosnap :: coming soon
  The product/company birthed at Startup Weekend: “VoSnap is a social voting tool that reduces time wasted on decision-making, makes sure everyone in the group has a voice, and gives instant feedback on fun or serious decisions.”
  (tags: vosnap startup startups)
• Webology: Contents, Volume 4, Number 2, 2007, Web 2.0, Folksonomy and Ontology
  (tags: folksonomy Folksonomies metadata tagging toread)

• eFoundations: OpenID and education
  OpenID and Education.
  (tags: openid toread)
• Unit Structures: Are Tags Vannevar Bush’s “Trails”?
  From 04/06 – “Tagging systems don’t work because a ton of people use them; they work because tags are valuable to us. “
  (tags: tagging refindabilty Folksonomies)

• Help, I need somebody to tag
  This student needs help conducting research on his Master’s Thesis on “Collaborative Indexing Systems”, i.e. tagging. Please take his 15 minute tagging “survey” if you get a chance. “Tobias Kowatsch, Student of Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Fu
  (tags: folksonomy research tagging thesis survey experiment TobiasKowatsch Folksonomies)
• Pattern Recognition » Why ALA will never learn
  BIGWIG got in trouble with LITA for not using enough LITA branding. However, I am joining LITA because of BIGWIG.
  (tags: lita bigwig ala ala2007)
• Library Web Chic » Blog Archive » Exhausted but gratified
  Karen Coombs’ response to Jason’s post and the LITA Letter. “But the truth is that the only way the system changes is if people participate and try to change it.”
  (tags: ala lita bigwig ala2007)
• Free Range Librarian » Blog Archive » Educating LITA
  A deeper discussion of ALA committees resulting.
  (tags: ala lita bigwig)
• del.icio.us usability – a photoset on Flickr
  A peak at Del.icio.us usability testing. Posted on Flickr of course.
  (tags: del.icio.us delicious usability photos)

• Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults

  The coMscore press release on Facebook’s massive growth in use among non-college age users.

  (tags: facebook statistics SocialSoftware)

• Faceted Folksonomy | davidsturtz.com

  via johnfudrow — Post on Faceted Folksonomy. This is one of my favorite topics as of late. Expect to hear a lot about this in the near future. Basically it is a concept for collecting richer user contributed metadata.

  (tags: metadata folksonomy tagging faceted)

• InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Social Tagging

  More on faceted tagging.

  (tags: folksonomy tagging metadata faceted facets)

• FaceTag: Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Classification in a Social Tagging System — ASIST Bulletin June/July 2007

  From the ASIST Bulletin, this article appears to describe the need for faceted tagging and how FaceTag is attacking the problem.

  (tags: toread facetag faceted facets tagging folksonomy EmanueleQuintarelli)

• FaceTag: Integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system

  “FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of user-generated tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classi

  (tags: toread faceted facets folksonomy tagging)

• Folksonomies: power to the people (Paper presented ISKO Italy-UniMIB meeting : Milan : June 24, 2005)

  via John Furdrow — Seems more general than the same author’s works on faceted tagging, but seems like it would be a helpful into to his line of thinking.

  (tags: EmanueleQuintarelli toread faceted facets tagging folksonomy Folksonomies)

• citation-formats – Microformats

  “This page will display several different types of citation format types.” In depth comparison of Dublin Core, MODS, bibTeX and Z39.80

  (tags: wiki microformats hcite citation citations bibtext)

• tiara.org » Online Identity Bibliography

  “A collection of academic papers and books about identity online and online identity.”

  (tags: identity20 identity bibliography research psychology)

• tiara.org » status in social media

  “I finally got a glimmer of a dissertation idea today: status in social media.” – Includes a nice discussion of status in Web 2.0 geek culture.

  (tags: culture SocialSoftware status)

• The Real Paul Jones » Blog Archive » OCLC NextSpace virtual roundtable – Q1

  Paul is blogging his answers to the questions being given to panel participants. The topic of the virtual roundtable is online communities. Other panel members include Fred Stutzman, Lori Bell, and Ed Castronova.

  (tags: oclc virtualcommunities)