[Web4lib] tagging software for individual documents

[Petter Næss]

If you use Delicious's "Tag this" toolbar button, highlighted text on a
webpage will be automatically pasted into the notes section of the bookmark
form when you tag it. I suspect other social bookmarking services provide a
comparable feature..

Your faculty member might also be interested in a very useful tool called
Citebite (formerly Deep-Quote), which creates a url for a selected string of
text. If you install the Firefox extension, all you need to do is select
text on a page, rightclick and choose "citebite", and a url is corrected for
the selected passage. Very useful for referring others directly to a
specific passage in a document, without requiring them to wade through pages
of text. Once the url is created, you can social bookmark it and do whatever
else you can normally do with urls.  See posting at 
http://ircworld.blogspot.com/2006/07/deep-quote.html


Petter Næss
Information Resource Director
U.S.Embassy, Public Affairs
Henrik Ibsens gate 48
0244 Oslo
Norway
phone (47) 21308802
fax (47) 22440436
pnaess at usa.no
http://www.usa.no
http://ircworld.blogspot.com  

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sandra Cahillane
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:48 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] tagging software for individual documents


Hello all,

A faculty member is "looking for software that will allow multiple people
to tag/index the content of a single document/website--i.e., to tag
sentences and paragraphs within a multi-paragraph document."  He believes
this software already exists.  Does anyone know any details about it?

Thanks,
Sandy

Sandy Cahillane
Systems and Reference Librarian
Bay Path College
Hatch Library
588 Longmeadow Street
Longmeadow, MA  01106
(413) 567-4529 or (413) 565-1376
fax-(413) 567-8345

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