Tagging at UPenn Library

November 30th, 2005

I had to look at this page for a bit to figure out exactly what it was. Once I was able to wrap my brain around it, the more this seemed like an amazing idea. The main page is an aggregate for all of the tagged items that the UPenn community is adding to the collective knowledge base. I see it as a del.icio.us for the entire UPenn community, which is what I think it is. And all of the pages have RSS feeds! Good move for the library to take the initiative (just like Shane Nackerud took the initiative for UThink) in this way and a very cool idea, one that I have not seen in any higher education setting (please let me know if you have).

They’ve taken it a step further by creating a bookmarklet for easy tagging and adding a tagging feature to their toolbar as well. Very innovative!

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