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early years of this century with the rise and success of Delicious. Providing similar
functionalities as the well-known Delicious system, our system additionally allows
to create bookmarks for files on internal file server, taking into account existing rights
management and the possibility to share bookmarks not only with other people but
also with people having a certain tag.
The system has two main views, the personal site showing all bookmarks of a user,
public and private ones (a user can mark bookmarks as private being only visible
to them and not appearing in public searches) and a general view, called 'What's
new' showing all public bookmarks. Bookmarks and users can both be tagged and
searched. The system also offers a set of tools to ease the bookmarking process.
We developed a JavaScript-based bookmarklet, allowing people to easily bookmark
web pages and a Windows tool to bookmark files. Also integrated is an automatic
tags recommendation system recommending tags based on the bookmarked item
(extracting the most important words from the describing text) and the most used
tags by the user. We also integrated a so-called “Most Popular” section, showing the
most frequent used tags of the week and of all time to help users see what topic is
currently trending in the company, pictured in Fig.
9.2
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Our bookmarking systemwas intended to be a prototype to test the usefulness and
acceptance of such a tool within the enterprise. Hence, the developed bookmarking
system was not intended to be a full featured, product-like, bookmarking system.
Nevertheless, the system was well accepted among the employees of the enterprise
(test group was one department), and led to the management decision to install
such a system enterprise wide. Consequently, the system was made available to
Fig. 9.2
Overview of the most used tags in the bookmarking system this week. The all time list is
visualized accordingly
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