What is Web2.0 ?
Web 2.0
- a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004
- refers to a perceived second-generation of Web-based services—such as
- social networking sites
- wikis
- communication tools
- folksonomies
- emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.
What is RSS ?
- RSS is a Web content syndication format.
- Acronym for Really Simple Syndication
- It provides a mechanism to subscribe to "headlines" from a web site.
- RSS can be used as an alternative to electronic tables of contents for receipt of up-to-date TOC and Abstract information, or as a way of syndicating information from this website on another site.
How do I know a web page contains RSS ?
An icon appears in Firefox
News Aggregators (I)
- RSS-aware programs are called News Aggregators
- Many weblogs make content available in RSS.
- A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.
News Aggregators (II): Thunderbird
News Aggregators (III): Google Reader
Pubmed With RSS (I)
(
From NCBI tutorial): To add PubMed searches to your collection of RSS feeds, run a search in
PubMed and choose RSS Feed from the Send to pull-down menu
Pubmed With RSS (II)
This will take you to the RSS Options Page where you may name the feed and limit the number of items to be displayed by each feed
Pubmed With RSS (III)
After clicking the Create Feed button, the system will generate an XML icon
Pubmed With RSS (IV)
>Click the XML icon to display a screen of XML. Copy and paste this URL into the "subscribe" form located in your RSS reader
Social Bookmarking:
- Store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too.
- You can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks
- see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return
Social Bookmarking: CiteULike & Connotea
From CiteULike FAQ: CiteULike
(and Connotea) are
- a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.
- When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library.
- The servers automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself.
- you can access your library from any computer.
- You can share your library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you.
- In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.
- When it comes to writing up your results in a paper, you can export your library to either BibTeX or Endnote to build it in to your bibliography.
Social Networks:
In a web context, a social network is a site that helps you connect with like-minded people, typically through forums, message boards and keyword matching.
Social Networks: LinkedIn
Example: looking for someone in my
LinkedIn network working in the field of
biodiversity.
Blogging
- One day in March 2005, Reed Cartwright jotted his thoughts on his blog, De Rerum Natura, after reading a paper that had just been published in Nature. Cartwright, then a PhD student in genetics at the University of Georgia, was skeptical...(The Scientist)
- Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. BMC Medical Education 2006, 6:41
- "Blogs" and "wikis" are valuable software tools for communication within research groups.Artif Organs 29 (1), 82-3 (Jan 2005)
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