Connotea - Social Bookmarking for Scientists
January 28th, 2005The Scitech library question mentions Connotea:
“Connotea was created by Nature Publishing Group’s New Technology team. The ideas behind it come from del.icio.us, a general collaborative bookmarking service. Connotea takes this concept and adds some features to tailor it to the needs of scientists. CiteULike is a similar online academic bookmark management service based on del.icio.us, developed independently to Connotea. We’re in close contact with CiteULike to ensure that our two systems work well together.”
Another day, another tagging system. Do you think that open tagging classification is going to catch on? Ummm….yeah!! I also like that they are working closely with CiteULike. Collaboration is the key to success.
Bonus stuff from Connotea:
“You can save links to any online content, but there is special functionality for articles from Nature journals, PubMed or HubMed — Connotea recognises URLs from these sites and imports the bibliographic information for the article you bookmarked.”
Connotea was developed by the Nature Publishing Group and I wouldn’t expect anything other than a great product from them. They are definitely ahead of the curve and will only benefit from it. Great work.