Linkstacking, Scholars and Libraries
New post on Linkstacking. The idea is simple: you have a bookmarklet on your browser toolbar. When you visit a site you’d like to make note of, hit the bookmarklet and minimal information (including, I guess, annotations) are stored in a central location. Dan Chudnov’s unalog is a good example.
The author thus logically asks:
So, with all of this, the question is: Isn’t this the type of service libraries should be providing?
Answer: yes!
But I want to see the concept of linkstacking extended. If I read an online news or law review article, I want to be able to store full citation-oriented metadata with the click of my bookmarklet. Even better, I’d like to highlight a key chunk of text I might refer to later, and have that content stored along with the metadata, without me having to doing anything more than click a button. Now that would be useful!
