Social Bookmarking for Scholarly Digital Libraries

Social bookmarking services have recently gained popularity among Web users. Whereas numerous studies provide a historical account of tagging systems, the authors use their analysis of a domain-specific social bookmarking service called CiteULike to reflect on two metrics for evaluating tagging behavior: tag growth and tag reuse. They examine the relationship between these two metrics and articulate design implications for enhancing social bookmarking services. The authors briefly reflect on their own work on developing a social bookmarking service for CiteSeer, an online scholarly digital library for computer science. T he contemporary Web has popular-ized social bookmarking services,which let users specify keywords or tags for Web resources that they’re inter-ested in. Well-known examples include del.icio.u