a digital toolbox for historians

A Digital Toolbox for Historians

Dr. Larry CebulaWashington State Archives

Eastern Washington University

Ye Olde Research

Ye Olde Notetaking

Ye Olde Writing

Then, Everything Changed

Our Agenda

1. Researching Online2. Keeping your act

together3. Playing Nice with

Others4. Tools for building! 5. Having a Presence

Researching Online - Wrong

Library Databases

http://www.ewu.edu/library.xml

Newspaper Archives

• Chronicling America• New York Times• Historical Newspaper

s of Washington• Google News Advanc

ed Search• Historical Newspaper

s Online Index [US]

• Historical Worldwide Newspapers on the Internet

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx

http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx

https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?as_drrb=a

https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?as_drrb=a

http://guides.library.upenn.edu/historicalnewspapersonline



http://libguides.bgsu.edu/content.php?pid=98702&sid=740645




Online Books

• Google Book Search• Internet Archive• Hathi Trust• Digital Public Library of A

merica• Europeana

http://www.google.com/advanced_book_search

http://archive.org/index.php

http://www.hathitrust.org/

http://www.hathitrust.org/

http://dp.la/

http://dp.la/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CFcQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.europeana.eu%2F&ei=9-ONUbGqLMG7igKlzICIDQ&usg=AFQjCNEXkMGCXtOVKUBiiKSlTESjiwdIsg&sig2=l-EM9mX56Df5wxBpbBvyAQ&bvm=bv.46340616,d.cGE

Just Google It

• Google Scholar• Advanced Google Search

http://scholar.google.com/

http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Other Online Archives

• Thousands, large and small, topical• American Journeys• Segregated Seattle• Washington State Archives, Digital Archives• University Digital Archives

http://www.americanjourneys.org/

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm

http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/News/

http://digitalcollections.library.yale.edu/

Keeping Your Stuff Together

• Dropbox (vid)• Zotero• Picasa/Flickr

https://www.dropbox.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ZvB0GE5_A

http://www.zotero.org/

http://www.flickr.com/http:/picasa.google.com/

Sharing and Collaboration

• Google Docs• Slideshare

https://drive.google.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/LarryCebula/edit_my_uploads

Tools for Building

• Google Maps• Google Fusion t

ables• Omeka• Audacity• Photostory/

Moviemaker/ iMovie

• DIRT

http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/2010/02/vanished-rural-schools-of-spokane.html

http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/search?q=mapping+dead

http://northwesthistory.blogspot.com/search?q=mapping+dead

http://omeka.org/

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage

Having a Presence

• They will Google You! Yes they will.

• LinkedIn• Academia.edu• Twitter• Blogger

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