About the Edtags.org research project

Edtags.org is a website for educators (e.g., teachers, education graduate students, professors, librarians, etc.) to connect with people sharing similar interests, discover relevant materials that may have "eluded" the traditional card catalogue search, and store and categorize your favorite bookmarks.

We encourage you to upload, store, categorize and share your own course papers, pre-print materials, pictures and the like. When you label a bookmark "private" only you can see it; however, sharing is what this site is all about!

After you register, you can import bookmarks from your browser's "favorites" or your del.icio.us bookmark list. In addition, you can export your bookmarks from our site to XML, HTML, your browser or del.icio.us. In other words, you can always backup your data!!!

» We highly recommend adding our bookmarklet to your browser. This will help you save bookmarks "on the fly."

» Register now to start using Edtags.org!

Here's a quick layout guide to our bookmarks

Other Stuff

Edtags.org is based on an open-source project (Scuttle) licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Thank you to our funders: The Harvard Provost Innovation Grant and the Harvard Institute for Quantitave Social Sciences.

Special thanks to Prakash from Indiagram.com for the wonderful modifications to Scuttle and for the templates we used to start reprogramming this site!

The programmer/outdoorsman Seth Battis transformed the site into a social network through his amazing work on the user profiles and intellectual contributions to tag clustering algorithms. He functions as the lead contributor to our growing code base, and the person responsible for many amazing advancements in the site's functionality.

Several researchers have made substantial contributions to the UI and site usability: Paul Ham, Maciej Sudra, Matt Niemitz, Uma Jagtiani, Martha Parker, Pieta Blakely, Carla Lillvik, Deborah Garson, Patrice Moskow, Kathleen Donovan, Ling Hsiao, Silvia Bonomusa, Seoin Lim, and Sam Halpert just to name a few...

Edtags.org supports most of the del.icio.us API. Almost all of the neat tools made for that system can be modified to work with Edtags.org.