Cool Tools

Library & Research Services for Parliaments

Jane Dysart

Dysart & JonesAssociates

jane@dysartjones.com

www.dysartjones.com

IFLA 2009

Categories of Tools

• Search & visualization: finding & displaying content

• Mashups: combining content

• Pushing Content– RSS, blogs

• Social Media/ Social Networking Software– Flickr– YouTube

• Twitter

• Learning Morewww.dysartjones.comPresentations

Google Translated Search

• How to search [Czech]-language content using [Czech] versions of my search words

• View results in both [Czech] and English

• Run search results through another translation service

• www.google.com/translate_s

Tip from Mary Ellen BatesCIL2009: Super Search Shares25 Search Thoughts

Visual Wikipeadia = VisWiki.com

• Searches all Wikipedia articles

• Combines results with Youtube

• Shows subcategories, visual relationships, tag cloud of “related”

• Politics of Present Day Nations & States

• http://www.viswiki.com/en/Politics_of_present- day_nations_and_states

Legal Research Engines

• Cornell Law Library

• Google Custom Search Engines

• Search legal research guides, legal internet, and academic blawgs

• Http://snipr.com/cdr9z

• Tips on customizing, http://snipr.com/pl57v

Wordle

• Use Wordle.net to analyze content

• Generates a word cloud on any body of text or blog

• Good for finding themes

• Obama’s Inaugural address

• http://blog.wordle.net/2009/02/wordles-and- inaugural-addresses.html

Other Finding Tools

• Global Legal Information Network, http://www.glin.gov/search.action

• Constitution Finder, http://confinder.richmond.edu/

• CALL Legal Research Links, http://snipr.com/pl9dp

• EU Court decisions, http://snipr.com/plbho

• European Commission Competitions Decisions, http://snipr.com/plbmn

• World Legal Information Institute, http://www.worldlii.org/

• Law by Source, http://www4.law.cornell.edu/world/

• GlobaLex, http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html

• Transnational Law, http://www.trans-lex.org/

Mashups

Library Mashups: Exploring New WaysTo Deliver Library DataNicole C. Engardhttp://books.infotoday.com/books/LibraryMashups.shtml

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

Pushing Content – Blogs, RSS

• Librarians also collect information proactively on important or topical issues and make it available as information files or web logs to clients.

• Thomas: legislative info from the Library of Congress– Daily digest of Congressional Record via RSS

• Email alerts – maintain lists

• Twitter

Social Media & Social Networking Software

• Social Media: where people interact with content & each other– Blogs/comments– Twitter/microblogging– Wikis/joint publishing– Flickr/ sharing & commenting on pictures

• www.flickr.com– YouTube/ sharing & commenting on videos – www.youtube.com

Tribal Voting Plea in Afghan election, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZNNzcd_n4U

• Social Networking Software: people interact with each other– Facebook, also push content– LinkedIn

Twitter.com

• Worldwide usage but only 2 languages: English & Japanese

• Microblog; Follow streams of comments on issues, people, regions…..

• Trending topics

• Twitter Tools & apps– Tweetdeck– Groups: – Twitter apps for groups, http://tinyurl.com/mzegrk, have great

names: CoTweet, Twaitter, TweetFunnel, HootSuite, TwitIQ 10:46 AM Aug 4th from TweetDeck

• Wisdom of crowds

Twitter: Gov Resources & Tips

• List of US government twitter feeds; http://snipr.com/pl767

• GovTwit: directory of 2,246 71,932 users, tweets & 21,617,918 followers; http://govtwit.com/

• Twitter strategy for gov departments, http://snipr.com/pjf82

• Twitter in gov agencies: best practices; http://snipr.com/pl78k

http://snipr.com/pjf82

Learning More

• www.LLRX.com

Questions? Comments? Other things to explore next year?

THANKS!

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jane@dysartjones.com