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UNC Asheville / Ramsey Library /
Special Collections
Being a list of
ONLINE RESOURCES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC
TOOLS,
and other necessary RESEARCH AIDS,
Not unworthy the occasional perusal of most
Luddites and Technophobes.
“Simon
Peter said, I go a Googling: and they
said, We
also wil go with thee.”
**With
apologies to
Messrs. Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton
Tackle Box Basics
Browsing the River
(internet browsers)
Casting a Wide Net
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OMEKA -
The next-generation research tool that
makes it easy to gather, organize, annotate,
search, and cite materials you find online and
off. "Omeka is a web platform for publishing
collections and exhibitions online. Designed for
cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and
educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify
and facilitates community-building around
collections and exhibits. Omeka is free and
open source.
Learn more."
Recently OMEKA released a package that will
assist small historical societies and museums to
develop interactive web sites for their patrons.
See:
The Center for History and New Media <chnm.gmu.edu>
is excited
to announce the release of our Object of
History/Omeka software
package--a free, open-source, web publishing
application for
museum educators and curators.
OOH/Omeka is based on the successful museum
education site, The
Object of History: Behind the Scenes with the
Curators of the
National Museum of American History <objectofhistory.org>.
Created for small museums and historical
societies,
OOH/Omeka is designed to help those
institutions create online
exhibits and educational websites. OOH/Omeka
allows curators and
museum educators to build meaningful learning
experiences
focused on key items from institutional
collections, using
primary sources, expert interviews, and other
assorted
materials. Most importantly, the OOH/Omeka
minimizes the cost
and technical expertise needed to reach
students, teachers, and
members of the interested public through the
web.
The OOH/Omeka package includes all of the
software and structure
that curators and museum educators need to
create their own
Object Lesson sites, as well as a
step-by-step guide to using
the software and crafting Object Lessons that
convey content
knowledge as well as emphasize historical
thinking skills.
Download the OOH/Omeka Package: <objectofhistory.org>
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ScholarPress -ScholarPress
is a developing hub for educational WordPress
plugins - bridging the gap between technology
and pedagogy.
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Syllabus Finder
-Find and compare syllabi from thousands of
universities and colleges on any topic.
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Prof
Hacker -
Tips and tutorials for higher
education
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Tools Center -
Browse a
collaborative Wiki resource spanning any and all
tools that might be applicable to the practice
of online history.
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Survey Builder -
A
tool that builds online surveys, especially
applicable to oral histories.
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Poll Builder -
Build customizable polls and include them on
your web site for free.
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CHNM Labs -
Center for
History and New Media.
View upcoming tools and programs to help you
collect, and interpret history in new and
imaginative ways. Current projects include H-Bot,
Site Builder, Timeline Builder, and WordPress
Courseware.
Scheduling you
Fishing
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Jiffle -
From
iPolipo
and adapted as a Student Scheduler at Prof Hacker
- "Tips and Tutorials for Higher Education"
Landing Your Catch
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Zotero -
"The next-generation research tool that makes it
easy to gather, organize, annotate, search, and
cite materials you find online and off."[WE NEED
TO RE-WORD?]
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EndNote -
See Web of Science for UNCA faculty, students
and staff.
Lures - Snagging
the best quotes
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Scribe - A
notetaking application designed with historians
and other Humanities types in mind.
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Notebook - Clip
and collect information as you surf the web
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EndNote -
See Web of Science for UNCA faculty, students
and staff.
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Diigo
- A social networking
site that allow for the save and distribution of
quotes, citations, and web-pages. Afree
premium account especially designed for
educators is available.
Learn More
Spinners - Putting
your images into action
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Vertov - Vertov is a free media
annotating plugin for
Zotero, an
innovative, easy-to-use, and infinitely
extendable research tool. Both are Firefox
extensions. Vertov allows you to cut video and
audio files into clips, annotate the clips, and
integrate your annotations with other research
sources and notes stored in Zotero.
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YouTube
- the ubiquitous source of streaming video
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animoto
- the end of slideshows
Create your own video show with still images and
music
Pod-Casting
Of
Fish-ponds, and how to oreder [sic] them
?
Location, Location, Location!
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GPS Trackstick (http://www.gpstrackstick.com)
can be carried in your pocket or in your car. It
tracks and records the path it travels. The
recorded data, or "geo tagging" information, can
then be uploaded "to create custom maps of walking
or driving routes, hiking trails, or points of
interest."
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Google Maps (http://maps.google.com),
"offers a one-button way to overlay public,
geotagged media onto the relevant section of a map
as you view it; photos or videos tagged with the
location in question simply fall into place on the
map."
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Google
Earth’s 3D display, similar to Google Maps
feature, offers the ability to place media
directly on the map.
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Flickr Maps (http://www.flickr.com/map),provides
the tags for any location in a region of the
world. Use the tags to geo-locate your work.
"Cleaning the
Catch" (Formatting your Bibliography & Refining)
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Citing Sources
from Duke University Libraries
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Tiny URL
- TinyURL was created as a free
service to make posting long URLs easier, and
may only be used for actual URLs.
The Trophy Room
- Showing off your catch
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Slideshare -
SlideShare is the best way to
share your presentations with
the world. Let your ideas reach
a broad audience. Share publicly
or privately. Add audio to
create a webinar.
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Web Scrapbook -
Store all kinds of media
items—URLs, images, text, and
movies—and collaborate with
others in a scrapbook manner.
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Flickr -
Free limited
storage and share of your image
collections. Unlimited
storage for a fee. " ...We
want to get photos
into and out of the system in as
many ways as we can: from
the web, from mobile devices,
from the users' home computers
and from whatever software they
are using to manage their
photos. And we want to be able
to push them out in as many ways
as possible: on the Flickr
website, in RSS feeds, by email,
by posting to outside blogs or
ways we haven't thought of yet.
What else are we going to use
those smart refrigerators for?"
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The main difference with the image
annotation tool in Flickr (Magic Studio
) is the abiblity to annotate images,
video, and audion with text. Access is
free for individual users.
http://www.magicstudiostart.co.uk/.
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Institutions can use the service for
free, as well, through the 'Gateway'
service. By establishing a 'content
channel' other users can be added so
other users can access the service.
Includes image annotator.
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Image Studio tools can be embedded into
the active web site.
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Image Studio works with Flickr, Picasa,
YouTube, and other APIs and VLE's
(educational institutions). The
interactive material created in Magic
Studio can be published on the Web.
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Magic Studio Start
- Magic Studio™
Start is a free online service
for teachers to access, build and share
interactive learning materials and activities ,
without needing to learn specialist software
skills.
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Snapfish -
"Today's photo sites pack in a
whole lot of extra features
beyond just print ordering,
including the now customary
album-creation, sharing, and
editing functions...HP's
Snapfish offered the best prints
for the least money, and as a
result earned our Best Bet
award." - PC World, January 2007.
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Fotonotes
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FotonotesTM is an standard,
specification, and collection of scripts for
annotating images.
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Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- Create, store and share
documents and spreadsheets on
the web
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PBwiki.com
- "Lets you quickly set up your own
free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit
and share information. It's as easy as a peanut
butter." [I like this tool. It
is "Moodle-like," easy to learn, and flexible,
but without paying a bit more, not particularly
good for image projects..]
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MediaWiki - a free software
wiki package originally written for Wikipedia.
It is now used by several other projects of the
non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ...
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ResearcherID.com -
Citations of work in progress or recently
accomplished.
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IDIDWORK - ididwork
allows users to keep a work log. You can jot
down what you've been doing at work so none of
your accomplishments are forgotten. See exactly
what your teammates are up to in real-time.
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YAMMER
- Yammer is a tool for making companies and
organizations more productive through the
exchange of short frequent answers to one simple
question: “What are you working on?”
Web Authoring
software
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OPENEDIT_DAM
- Loacated in
Cincinnati, Ohio, this open-source editing
program is a JAVA based, open source
software used to build powerful, yet lightweight
web applications. It is licensed under a royalty
free, perpetual and transferable GNU LGPL
license. The open source framework provides
freedom on setting systems as desired. The
program is built with Velocity and has a
Pluggable Database Storage module that uses
Hibernate, if a database is required. The use of
AJAX enabled pages and previews allows a dynamic
web interface. Also, includes JAVA Servlet and
runs well with other applications and uses XML
metadata, nested layouts, and server side
scripting and again Velocity/JSP. Can be
installed on Windows, Linus, Solaris and OSX.
Rummaging in Other
Tackle Boxes
A FORM for Every
Fish
Course Authoring
software
Cleaning Up After
Yourself!
Collection Management
- Collective
Access (formerly Open Collection)
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an open access
collection management system
- CMSBox - a content management system created
by a Swiss team
File Management
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SugarSync - will synchronize
files across your system and multiple computers.
Will assist in online backup, Multi-computer
sync, remote access, mobile phone access, music
& photos, file sharing, data security, and more.
Not all features are free.
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