Every now and then we find out that the academic field produces some interesting tools for classification and organisation of information. A case that really interested me H20 Playlists, a site that allows us to organise, by using tags, academic papers, journalistic notes and alls kinds of texts to build our own selections from a thematic classification the we define ourselves. One of the most interesting functionalities is that it lets us search by word or keyword among lists generated by other users, and add them in a simple way to our own. Then we can publish it under a Creative Commons license and share it with the rest of the site’s visitors.

Since this tool is still in beta phase, it still lacks a few things, such as the possibility to edit massively certain lists. But it has some interesting points, like the possibility of separating by using subtitles the different fields within the list.

In my case, I’ve been developing a list of studies about Mobilities, a category that sums all sorts of physical and virtual mobility given in our society -and, hence, comprehends tourism, interaction on the Internet, for instance. Since I built my list starting from others already existing in the site, it’s still a little messy. But you can see it in this link. The RSS feed of the list is here. Each item on the list is a different thing in the feed, which is really something positive.

I got to H20 Playlists thanks to two notes published at CultureCat; more exactly at this and this entry.