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March 10, 2005
links software allows sharing of URLs
links.med.yale.edu is a beta project of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and the Yale University Library.
links is a group linklog; you can post the links you are reading and look at what other people and groups of people are reading on the web here. Anyone at Yale (valid netid required) can get an account simply by signing in through the Yale Authentication Service (use the link at right). Once you have an account, use the bookmarklet to add your own links.
links lets anyone create and join groups here too. Groups are sets of people with some shared interest: a course project team, a research unit, or some friends, whatever you want. Both your own account and groups you join can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.
Once you're set up and saving your links here, you can syndicate your own recent links or your group links using RSS, or export your whole set of personal links to a number of formats for use in other systems. See the docs for more details about how to do this.
Our goal is to make links an extremely useful and easy way to share information or just keep notes for yourself. Over the next few months we will be working to improve how links can keep more detailed information about your links, such as bibliographic fields you for journal articles.
links is a beta project for the 2004-2005 academic year; we hope it will be helpful during this beta phase, and we would like to hear from you about what we might do to improve it. Use the contact page above to let us know what you think.
Access is at http://links.med.yale.edu/
Posted by dstern at March 10, 2005 01:26 PM
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