Linking Social Networking Sites to Scholarly Information Portals by ScholarLib
This addresses the problem of limited scholarly information sharing in online communities, but it is incremental as it builds on existing models.
The paper tackles the lack of integration between social networking sites and digital libraries for scholarly content, proposing ScholarLib as a bi-directional model to enhance access and retrieval quality.
Online Social Networks usually provide no or limited way to access scholarly information provided by Digital Libraries (DLs) in order to share and discuss scholarly content with other online community members. The paper addresses the potentials of Social Networking sites (SNSs) for science and proposes initial use cases as well as a basic bi-directional model called ScholarLib for linking SNSs to scholarly DLs. The major aim of ScholarLib is to make scholarly information provided by DLs accessible at SNSs, and vice versa, to enhance retrieval quality at DL side by social information provided by SNSs.