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Capabilities Tagging system similar to Del.icio.us / Connotea Click tagging NSF Tag Cloud Searching for NSF Tags Listing Profile Adding a user as a friend

Tagging User are able to tag any webpage online using a bookmarklet The bookmarklet can be dragged on to the bookmark toolbar (only when user is logged in) similar to Connotea

Dragging Bookmarklet to Bookmark Toolbar

Clicking on the bookmarklet

Change in "My Tags”, “Recent Tags” menu

Click tagging Home page consists of feeds from NSF, SCIVEE etc. User (when logged in) has the option to tag a feed item as “Interested” or “UnInterested” The tags can be displayed using the “My Tags” link

NSF Tag Cloud The Tag Cloud displays all meta tags which were created automatically from the NSF Awards You can browse all the projects related to these meta tags Eg. Clicking “2007” would display all the people who have the tag “2007” meaning that they worked in projects awarded in the year Meta Tags: Year name “2008” Size of the Project “Small” “Medium” “Large” NSf Directorate “GEO” “BIO” etc.

User who have tag “2007”

Searching for NSF Tags NSF tags were automatically created from the NSF awards database NSF Tags consists of the NSF People, the directorate, Co-PI, Award # etc. Search can be done using any of these tags Search results contains the PI and all tags associated with him

1) Search

2) Results

3) Refining Search (using “Refine Search” Textbox)

Refining Search (contd.)

Results

Projects having tag “geoffrey” (NAME) under Geoffrey Fox

Projects having tag “stewart” (NAME) under Craig Stewart

Projects having tag “2010” (YEAR) under Craig Stewart

Projects by tag “ )” (AWARD #) under Craig Stewart

Projects having tag “small”

Listing Profile Listing Proposals they worked on Listing the people whom they collaborated with Listing tag cloud for users Displaying a detailed Profile of users (including NSF people) Example: Clicking on the Full Name in the search would take you to that user’s profile page

Profile for “Marlon Pierce”

Adding as a Friend A user (when logged in) can also add any user as a friend Once you are on the profile page of any user, you can add that user as a friend by clicking “Add User Full Name as a friend” link.

Example (Clicking the link below)

Click “My Profile”

Your Profile displaying Friends List

Capabilities in Future Adding any RSS Feeds to your profile Connecting other social networking portals such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Orkut etc. Possibility of using Google’s OpenSocial.OpenSocial Import/Exporting data to/from Connotea or Del.icio.us.Connotea Del.icio.us

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