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UNC Asheville / Ramsey Library /
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
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."
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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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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.
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 - ?
Lures - Snagging
the best quotes
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
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Of
Fish-ponds, and how to oreder [sic] them
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"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.
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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Flicker -
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 Magic Studio (cf.
Flickr) is that you can annotate images
not only with text, but also
other images, audio and video. If you
are interested in using Magic
Studio, there are a few options open to
you:
1. As an individual user - access is
free and we'll be releasing a new
version (v3) in mid-June. In the
meantime, you can register and use v2
at
http://www.magicstudiostart.co.uk/.
2. As an institutional user - this is
also free through our 'Gateway'
service. This enables you to set up
your own 'content channel' for
other Magic Studio users to access
(individuals, schools, etc) as well
as providing access to all the tools,
including the image annotator.
3. As a specific development project
e.g. embedding the tools themselves
into your web site. The methodology for
doing this would very much
depend on your own requirements.
Although not open source per se, we are
doing a lot of work to open up
Magic Studio through content API's to
other services such as Flickr,
Picasa, YouTube and platform API's to,
for example, VLE's in the
education sector. Any of the 'interactives'
created in Magic Studio can
be published anywhere on the web using
the YouTube embedded/syndication
model.
Happy to discuss off-list if you require
further information!
Martyn
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Martyn Farrows
Director, Lexara Ltd
www.lexara.com
Email: martyn.farrows@lexara.com
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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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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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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."
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ResearcherID.com -
Citations of work
Course Authoring
software
Cleaning Up After
Yourself
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