Category Archives: Research Methods

(Talk, Resource-Making) Are you Annotating or Comparing Digital Images in a CMS?

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Sheila Brennan

What have you used in your class or in your own research to annotate images or to compare images…that you recommend or reject? I’d like to create a public Zotero group, at a minimum, of recommended tools or plugins. For … Continue reading →

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(Talk) Digital Dissertations

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Lisa Rhody

For grad students and faculty alike, digital components to dissertations present opportunities to consider the nature of scholarly inquiry, research, and publication.  I am imagining a session designed for graduate students (and faculty who are interested, but more for the … Continue reading →

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Proposal: Creating a Personal Digital Archive from Start to Finish

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Ron Coleman

I’m a reference and systems librarian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as such I work with historians at all stages of their career who are utilizing the primary and secondary sources in the Museum’s Library and Archives. I’ve … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Metadata, Research Methods, Session Proposals, Session: Teach, Workshops | 3 Comments

Notecards for the New Century: Best Practices for Personal Databases

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Jordan

I’m interested in having a conversation about how historians’ construct their personal databases. This topic has come up in some more traditional conference sessions – Friday’s ”Digitally Informed Dissertation,” for instance – but I’d like to discover whether scholars are … Continue reading →

Categories: Linked Data, Metadata, Open Access, Research Methods | 2 Comments