Exploring Social Bookmarking and Bibliographic Systems

Abstract

One of the fundamental challenges of using the Web is keeping found things found, whether it be at the basic level of simple URLs or other digital content such as images and data sets. Social bookmarking has arisen to be a popular solution to this problem. According to “7 things you should know about social bookmarking,”¹ social bookmarking “is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and ‘tagging’ them with keywords.” A specific type of reference is a bookmark or favorite, which is a URL stored by the user. You can try to manage these URLs in the browser by storing them as favorites or bookmarks. Social bookmarking involves storing one’s references online and making bookmarking a collaborative process.

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