The blog You're It reports on open source code released by Connotea that can be added to 'Instituional Repositories' (IRs).
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.
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This Connotea thing is fantastic - with a little more work it could be Del.icio.us meets Endnote - the killer app for research.
Interesting though that it's sponsored by Nature.
Posted by: Andrew Jessup | March 17, 2006 02:57 PM
Yes, I can certainly see the potential in it. I've used CiteULike and it is useful but to have it in-house with extension to del.icio.us sounds good.
Posted by: Georg | March 17, 2006 03:24 PM