Comments on: What Tools Do Researchers Reliant on Born-digital Primary Sources Use—and Need? http://newengland2010.thatcamp.org/11/09/what-tools-do-researchers-reliant-on-born-digital-primary-sources-use%e2%80%94and-need/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: THATCamp New England » Blog Archive http://newengland2010.thatcamp.org/11/09/what-tools-do-researchers-reliant-on-born-digital-primary-sources-use%e2%80%94and-need/#comment-60 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:11:23 +0000 http://thatcampnewengland.org/?p=401#comment-60 […] isn’t a session proposal; that can be found here. Rather, this is a reflection that I recently posted to my much neglected blog and was invited […]

]]> By: Amanda Izenstark http://newengland2010.thatcamp.org/11/09/what-tools-do-researchers-reliant-on-born-digital-primary-sources-use%e2%80%94and-need/#comment-59 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:56:39 +0000 http://thatcampnewengland.org/?p=401#comment-59 This is a fascinating question – and in some ways it intersects with the proposal that Rob Widell and I put together.

As a librarian, I find that I am more frequently turning to the Internet Archive to find fugitive information from the web. As someone who works with undergraduates and grad students, I think it’s great to have these resources, but does it create more silos of information that don’t cross-reference each other? My question might be “…and how do we make sure there’s easy access to these sources for future researchers?”

]]> By: THATCamp New England » Blog Archive http://newengland2010.thatcamp.org/11/09/what-tools-do-researchers-reliant-on-born-digital-primary-sources-use%e2%80%94and-need/#comment-58 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:29:33 +0000 http://thatcampnewengland.org/?p=401#comment-58 […] of all, I think Clarissa, Carrie, Lincoln, and to some extent Cathleen have raised issues that I’m very interested […]

]]> By: Shane Landrum http://newengland2010.thatcamp.org/11/09/what-tools-do-researchers-reliant-on-born-digital-primary-sources-use%e2%80%94and-need/#comment-57 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:45:04 +0000 http://thatcampnewengland.org/?p=401#comment-57 I’m also interested in people’s ideas about Omeka as a research tool. My experience with it (and with DSpace, to the extent that I’ve played with it) is that the existing systems designed for multi-person work teams aren’t as useful for individual research with a large body of materials. They require a lot more work (metadata, file shuffling) than one person can do, which is ideal for collaborative projects but less immediately useful for a solo project like a dissertation.

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