Social Networking Tools in History Research
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The document discusses how social networking tools can be used for historical research. It provides examples of blogs, websites, and tools that historians can use to share research, engage in discussions, tag and geotag photographs and other media, create bibliographies and organize references. These include sites like Flickr, YouTube, LibraryThing, CiteULike, Delicious and Zotero, which allow users to tag, comment on and organize various research materials. The presentation highlights how Web 2.0 enables new ways for historians to collaborate, discover sources and engage with their field of study.
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Social Networking Tools in History Research
- 1. Pacific Northwest History Conference 2008: Social Networking Tools in History Research Mary Paynton Schaff Washington State Library
- 2. What is Web 2.0? It also has some distinctive features…
- 3. Tagging
- 4. Friends Inviting Grouping Interacting
- 5. Subscribing Feed Readers Subscription Automatic Updates
- 6. A Tour of Web 2.0 Sites for Historians
- 7. Blogs Historical Research Uses: Advertising new research tools Engaging in history-related conversation or debate Networking
- 8. The Edge of the West edgeofthewest.wordpress.com
- 11. Visual Web 2.0 Historical Research Uses Displaying old photographs Tagging Discussion Creating Maps Geotagging Creating Mashups Creating Video
- 12. Flickr www.flickr.com Historical collections currently on Flickr: Library of Congress Powerhouse Museum (Australia) Boston Public Library Duke University Archives Tichnor Brother postcards
- 16. 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
- 21. Del.icio.us
- 22. Zotero www.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
- 23. 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 Schaff Reference Librarian Washington State Library Contact me: [email_address] wastatelib.wordpress.com Facebook