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[edit] Getting started
[edit] What is Faviki?
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms (Semantic tags). This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge.
[edit] What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a method of keeping bookmarks on a website instead of on a computer and sharing them with your friends and other internet users. There are several advantages to this.
- Easily accessible bookmarks
You can access your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter which computer you use: at home, at school, at work... Your bookmarks are always at the tips of your fingers.
- Share your bookmarks
You can share your bookmarks with friends, coworkers and others. Show them the interesting things you found on the web!
- Find what others like
Find people with similar interests and see what they bookmarked. Or find something new and exciting by browsing the tags from many Faviki users.
[edit] What is Tagging?
Tags are keywords or descriptors that you assign to your bookmarks. For instance if you wanted to describe the Google web site you could use tags such as "search engine" "internet" "image search" etc. Thanks to tags it is easy to search and find your bookmarks and also to browse through bookmarks added by others. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like.
[edit] What are Semantic Tags?
Unlike classic tags, which are just words, semantic tags represent references to unique concepts that have their own URL. This solves the problem of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags. So, instead of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with classic tags (cocacola, coca-cola, coca+cola, CocaCola) there will be just the one unique “Coca-Cola” tag. Faviki is powered by DBpedia, which represents community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia for creating semantic tags.
For more on semantic tags please check Faviki blog
[edit] Using Faviki
Some less experienced Internet users might be intimidated by the buzzwords such as "semantic". There's no need to be! Faviki is very simple to use by anybody.
[edit] Registering
Before you start using Faviki you must register. This is a fast and easy step. To register visit Faviki and click the join button. Fill in the required fields, providing your e-mail and choosing username, password and your time zone. Clicking on the "join" button will then lead you to the install bookmarklet page.
[edit] Installing Bookmarklet
Bookmarklet allows you to mark a web page without having to visit Faviki each time you want to do so. Installing the bookmarklet is fast and easy and doesn't require you to restart your browser. It will take you just a few seconds. After you have reached the "install bookmarklet" page simply follow the instructions shown there. They differ slightly depending on the web browser you use.
Note that you must turn on the "bookmarks toolbar" (Firefox) or "links" (Internet Explorer) or "bookmarks bar" (Safari) option in your browser. Different browsers have different name for this option. It is usually found in the "view" menu of your browser, or in its "toolbars" sub menu.
After the Faviki button is placed in your toolbar, click on the "I'm done" link and you will be taken to your Faviki page. There will be no bookmarks yet, of course, but you can save them easily using your newly installed Faviki bookmarklet.
[edit] Faviki Page Overview
A typical Faviki page has several parts. There is the user's menu where you can sign out or edit your profile. Here are also the links to yours and your friends' bookmarks. Then there is the search field and links to saving shortcuts and getting RSS. The main part of the page is a list of 20 bookmarks with the links to earlier and later bookmarks. The right side of the page contains context-dependent sidebar with tag info, popular topics and types and user info.
- User's menu. You can sign out or edit your profile. Here are also the links to yours and your friends' bookmarks.
- The search field.
- Save a shortcut to this page or get the RSS.
- List of bookmarks (20 per page).
- An opened bookmark.
- Context-dependent page info.
- Popular topics and types on this page.
- Links to earlier/later bookmarks.
[edit] Search
If you have saved a lot of bookmarks the easiest way to find any specific one is by using the search. The search field is located near the top of the page and consists of two parts: "people" and "tags". If you are viewing the page with your bookmarks your username will be present.
To start the search, type the tags that you wish to search for in the "tags" field. As with adding tags you cannot type just anything. The tags you wish to search for must correspond to Wikipedia concepts. When you start typing an autocomplete list will appear with suggested tags. Just like when adding tags you can choose a tag from the list or use the Google search by pressing the [G] button.
You can search for more than one tag but they must be typed in one at a time and separated with semicolon (;). When searching for multiple tags you can chose whether to search for any of them (by choosing the "or" option) or for all of them (by choosing "and"). Another way is to choose a tag from the tag cloud. The search results will include all of the bookmarks that contain that tag.
If there are any usernames present in the "people" field the search will include only the bookmarks from that user (or those users, if more than one username is present). If you wish to search the bookmarks of all Faviki users, the "people" field should be blank.
- People field, separate multiple tags with semicolon (;).
- Tags field, separate multiple tags with semicolon (;).
- Google search - the use is the same as with adding tags.
- Search button (or Enter).
- When searching for multiple tags you can chose whether to search for any of them (by choosing the "or" option) or for all of them (by choosing "and").
[edit] My Bookmarks Page
When you click the Faviki link in the bookmarklet, you will be taken to the web page that contains the saved bookmarks of you and your friends. If you wish to see only your bookmarks you can do so by clicking your username at the top of this page. Your bookmarks page is the place where you can view all the bookmarks you have saved. Besides your saved bookmarks also listed are popular domains (sorted by popularity from left to right), your shortcuts and popular tags (arranged in a tag cloud). Of curse, there are also popular topics and types which can be found on every Faviki page. You page and your page with friends are basically the same. The only difference is that your page contains only your bookmarks, while your page with friends contains their bookmarks as well.
- Your domains, sorted by popularity from left to right.
- Your friends - you can invite your friends by clicking on the 'invite friends' button.
- Your tag cloud, with a link to the most used tags.
- Your shorcuts. Learn more
[edit] Searching Your Bookmarks
Searching your bookmarks is not different from searching bookmarks saved by all Faviki users. Learn more in the search section.
[edit] Shortcuts
You can save any Faviki page by using shortcuts. To save a shortcut, after you get the search results click the "save shortcut" link (located in the blue bar below the search field). The results of the search will be saved in the "shortcuts" section located in the right part of your bookmarks page, below the list of popular domains. You can, for instance, use a shortcut to reach a page that concerns a topic you are interested in. The examples could be Knowledge representation (topic) or Semantic Web and Wikipedia. Or you can follow certain user's bookmarks concerning, say, Janos.Haits: Search engine. These are, of course, only a few examples.
[edit] Saving Bookmarks
Now that you have installed the bookmarklet you can start adding bookmarks. It is fun and easy!
When you visit a web page that you would like to bookmark, click the Faviki button (bookmarklet that you have installed). This will start the Faviki bookmarklet. Add tags by typing them in the input field. You can add as many tags as you like, but note that they must be added one at a time. Read more about adding tags in the next section. After you have finished adding tags, you can add some additional information about the web page by clicking the "edit title and notes" link. The "edit my note" field is meant for your comments about the page. You can also copy/paste text from the page and place it in the "edit text from page" field. Alternatively, if you select text on a web page and then click the Faviki button, the selected text will automatically be added to the "edit text from page" field.
After you have finished adding tags and editing notes clicks the "save" button. That's it! You have successfully saved a bookmark. You can visit your Faviki page by clicking the Faviki link in the bookmarklet or close it.
- Input field for entering a tag. Check out Adding Tags for more information.
- Google search for tags.
- A black colored tag is already upvoted by you (you can unvote it by clicking on the '-' button).
- A gray colored tag is added/voted by someone else (you can upvote or downvote it by clicking on the '+' or '-' buttons).
- A red colored tag is downvoted by you (you can unvote it by clicking on the '+' button if you changed your mind).
- Click to edit title, your notes or text from the page.
- Save and close. If you closed it by accident, just click on the Faviki button in the toolbar to open it again.
- Click on the logo to go to your bookmarks page (with friends).
This screen appears when you click on the 'edit title and notes' button. You can go back to the previous screen by clicking on the 'back' button.
- Change the title if it's bad or too long.
- Add your note about the saved webpage.
- Go back to the 'adding tags' screen.
Editing text from the webpage. If you select text from the webpage, it will be automatically included in the 'edit text from page' field, after you click on the Faviki bookmarklet.
- You can edit text from the webpage here.
- Selected text from the webpage which is automatically included.
[edit] Adding Tags
Adding tags in Faviki is slightly different than classic tagging because Faviki uses semantic tags. But have no fear, different does not mean difficult or complicated. Note that because Faviki uses semantic tags you cannot add a tag by typing just anything. The tag you wish to add must correspond to some Wikipedia concept. That way the same things will be labeled with the same tags. For the same reason tags must be added one at a time. Here is how it's done.
[edit] Autocomplete List
When you start the Faviki bookmarklet and start typing in the input field you will see an autocomplete list of suggested tags. This list will change depending on the letters you type. Usually it won't be necessary for you to type the whole word for it to appear in the autocomplete list.
When the tag that you wish to add appears in the autocomplete list click on it and the tag will be added to your bookmark. You can add as many tags as you like by repeating this process.
- Start to type and autocomplete list will appear.
- Tags above the delimiting line indicate the ones already added by Faviki users.
- Tags below the delimiting line represent all DBpedia tags.
[edit] Google Search
Sometimes it is hard to find the most appropriate tag with autocomplete list, especially in the cases of acronyms and ambiguous terms. That is where Google search comes in handy. To find the most appropriate tag in such cases type in the tag and click the [G] button in the bookmarklet window. You will then see a list of tags. When you find the one you wish to add simply click on the "copy" link and the tag will be added.
- Type in the tag you are looking for.
- Click on this button to search.
- Click one of these buttons to show one result, 4 results (default) or 8 results.
- Close the Google search results.
- List of found tags (Wikipedia pages).
- Click on the 'copy' button to add the tag.
- Navigate through the search result pages.
