Consider adding social media sharing links to VTechWorks pages

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Consider adding social media sharing links to VTechWorks pages #763

Closed alawvt closed 2 years ago

alawvt commented 2 years ago

Social media sharing buttons on item pages

How big an issue is tracking?
Would we get usage info?
Look at other repositories or ask on listservs

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45333859/dspace-with-links-to-social-media has instructions for adding addThis button. Is addThis a tracking concern?

alawvt commented 2 years ago

GDPR and AddThis: Your Questions Answered!

Q: At what point in the process is the AddThis user data collected?

A: The AddThis cookie is “dropped” when an end user visits a publisher site that uses the AddThis Website Tools. Certain consent tools allow for cookies to be suspended (or “not dropped”) if the user has not consented to cookies on the site. Publishers are encouraged to use consent tools that are appropriate given their particular business needs.

alawvt commented 2 years ago

VTX, for example, https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2021/08/unirel-studentvaccinationrate.html, adds links to Facebook (via JavaScript), Twitter, and link copying, rather than through a 3rd party.

alawvt commented 2 years ago

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository also has HTTP links directly to the social media sites.