social networking tools in history research
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Presented at the Pacific Northwest History Conference in Corvallis, April 18, 2008TRANSCRIPT
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Pacific Northwest History Conference 2008:
Social Networking Tools in History Research
Mary Paynton SchaffWashington State Library
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What is Web 2.0?
It also has some distinctive features…
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Tagging
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Friends
Inviting
Grouping
Interacting
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SubscribingFeed Readers Subscription Automatic Updates
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A Tour of Web 2.0 Sites for Historians
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Blogs
Historical Research Uses:• Advertising new research
tools• Engaging in history-
related conversation or debate
• Networking
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The Edge of the Westedgeofthewest.wordpress.com
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Paleo-Futurewww.paleofuture.com
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Northwest Historynorthwesthistory.blogspot.com
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Visual Web 2.0
Historical Research Uses• Displaying old
photographs– Tagging– Discussion
• Creating Maps– Geotagging
• Creating Mashups• Creating Video
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Flickrwww.flickr.com
Historical collections currently on Flickr:
• Library of Congress• Powerhouse Museum
(Australia)• Boston Public Library• Duke University Archives• Tichnor Brother postcards
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Platialwww.platial.com
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YouTubewww.youtube.com
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Web 2.0 Bibliographic Tools
• Organizing known items Discovering unknown items
• Creating groups to discuss subjects of interest
• Creating booklists and bibliographies
Items: books, articles, websites, media
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LibraryThingwww.librarything.com
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CiteULikewww.citeulike.com
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Del.icio.us
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Zoterowww.zotero.org
• Compare to RefWorks and EndNote
• Firefox plug-in• Creates detailed
bibliographies from bookmarks automatically
• Manages all types of documents
• Social aspects to come in Zotero 2.0
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Questions or Comments?• Presentation available
from Slideshare:
www.slideshare.net /mschaff
• Handouts with featured websites available on the Washington State Library Public Services Blog
wastatelib.wordpress. com/handouts
Mary Paynton SchaffReference Librarian
Washington State Library
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