Zotero 2.0: Social Bookporn
A while ago I was wondering whether there were any good social networking sites for academics, and whether I really needed one. Now it looks like Zotero is going to fill the gap. Zotero 2.0 is now in beta, and Dan Cohen has given a rundown of the new features. Users will get a personal page on the Zotero site allowing us to network and interact with people with similar research interests, and users will be able to create and join groups to make sharing of bibliographic data easier. This all looks really exciting. I’ll probably try it once I’ve got my Zotero collections and tags in better order.
Comment by Jeremy Boggs — 2:14 pm, 22 May 2009 [permanent link to this comment]
When you figure out how to do this, let me know! Because of various crazy things I’ve done with my computer, I’ve got 3-5 different profiles with different libraries, and need to merge them into one when I get a chance. I find it interesting how making Zotero collections public has made me more self-conscious of how organized my research and tags are, since I’m making them public. Not self-conscious enough, mind you, to do something about it. But soon, hopefully.
Comment by Gavin Robinson — 4:10 pm, 22 May 2009 [permanent link to this comment]
It’ll probably always be true that having good technology doesn’t necessarily lead to making good decisions about how to use it. I didn’t really get the idea of tags until I started using delicious, so my Zotero tags started out being too hierarchical. I’ve relied on collections more than tags but I think there’s too much duplication between my collections. I’m thinking of improving my tags and then getting rid of most of the collections but it could take a lot of work to get it right.