From Peter Suber's Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_03_05_fosblogarchive.html#114210529249282640
Software for tagging eprints in Eprints archives
New Connotea software supports institutional repositories, a press
release from the Nature Publishing Group, March 10, 2006.
http://www.nature.com/press_releases/pr100306.doc
Excerpt:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has released new software
http://www.connotea.org/taggingtool which enables institutional
repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social bookmarking
services Connotea and del.icio.us. This latest innovation allows
content within institutional repositories to be bookmarked, tagged,
and linked to related content. The work behind this development
was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
as part of their PALS Metadata and Interoperability Projects 2
program. Once installed in a repository, the software will enable
users to bookmark documents in that repository using their Connotea
or del.icio.us account, assigning their own tags and without leaving
the web page. They can also see what tags have already been assigned
to the document they are viewing in the repository and click on
links to related content, either within the same repository or
elsewhere on the web. If bookmarked in Connotea, the bibliographic
metadata for the institutional repository item can be automatically
imported. Connotea already does this for items bookmarked from several
other sources, including Nature, PubMed, Science, Blackwell Synergy,
Wiley Interscience and Amazon. Recognizing the importance of the
content within institutional repositories, this new functionality
will allow such content to be integrated and linked with the wider
scientific literature.
Received on Sat Mar 11 2006 - 23:21:19 GMT