Pinterest: Social Collecting for #linking #usinq #sharinq

摘要

Information is collected and organized on a massive scale by the general public using social media websites for tagging, blogging, and photo sharing. Institutions have adopted social media efforts like the Flickr Commons or adding user-tagging capabilities to websites in recent years. In a similar vein, the website Pinterest allows users to annotate digital objects in their own personal collections . A key difference between the Pinterest model and previous efforts is that images are copied from the source website to the user's Pinterest collection, creating a new digital surrogate. Pinterest combines the annotating features of tagging websites with the collecting and describing features of photo sharing and blogging websites. Digital libraries and other organizations can take advantage of these developments to expand the reach of their material, allowing users to create personalized collections incorporating their content.