Pacific Northwest History Conference 2008: Social Networking Tools in History Research Mary Paynton Schaff Washington State Library

What is Web 2.0? It also has some distinctive features…

Tagging

Friends Inviting Grouping Interacting

Subscribing Feed Readers Subscription Automatic Updates

A Tour of Web 2.0 Sites for Historians

Blogs Historical Research Uses: Advertising new research tools Engaging in history-related conversation or debate Networking

Historical Research Uses:

Advertising new research tools

Engaging in history-related conversation or debate

Networking

The Edge of the West edgeofthewest.wordpress.com

Paleo-Future www.paleofuture.com

Northwest History northwesthistory.blogspot.com

Visual Web 2.0 Historical Research Uses Displaying old photographs Tagging Discussion Creating Maps Geotagging Creating Mashups Creating Video

Historical Research Uses

Displaying old photographs

Tagging

Discussion

Creating Maps

Geotagging

Creating Mashups

Creating Video

Flickr www.flickr.com Historical collections currently on Flickr: Library of Congress Powerhouse Museum (Australia) Boston Public Library Duke University Archives Tichnor Brother postcards

Historical collections currently on Flickr:

Library of Congress

Powerhouse Museum (Australia)

Boston Public Library

Duke University Archives

Tichnor Brother postcards

Platial www.platial.com

YouTube www.youtube.com

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

Organizing known items Discovering unknown items

Creating groups to discuss subjects of interest

Creating booklists and bibliographies

Items: books, articles, websites, media

LibraryThing www.librarything.com

CiteULike www.citeulike.com

Del.icio.us

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

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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Mary Paynton Schaff

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