In this seminar we have introduced many lesser known, but potentially even more useful tools to scholars such as the particularly powerful Google Fusion Tables and Google Trends to the simple but powerful Google Keep among others. This just scrapes the surface with a series of tools that evolve everyday and with new tools emerging and other fading away after contributing to our scholarly imagination.

1. Using Google Tools for Digital
Humanities Scholarship
“A Panoply of Stable or Quirky Opportunities”
Shawn Day - 23 March 2015

2. Objectives
‣ To appreciate the breadth of Google Tools available to
support scholarly endeavour;
‣ To find a tool or two that you may not have been aware of;
‣ To identify a way or two that you may not have
considered using tools that you already were aware of;
‣ Most of all: Inspire and Imagine.

3. Disclaimer
‣ I am not actually a shill for Google;
‣ I actually prefer Open Source Tools;
‣ But I also use the best tool for the task at hand.
‣ Major Caveat:
Tools come, Tools Go. They change constantly.

4. GoogleX/Solve for X

5. GoogleX/Solve for X

6. Looking for a Tool Pattern
‣ Making Google Data Available
‣ Mining Google Data with Google Tools
‣ Applying Google Tools toYour Own Data
‣ What Google Tools Do People Use Today?

7. The Tour
‣ Google Scholar
‣ Google Keep
‣ Google Fusion Tables
‣ Google Public Data
Explorer
‣ Google NGramViewer
‣ Google Trends
‣ Google Correlate
‣ Google Docs +
‣ Google Developer
‣ Google Cultural Institute
‣ Google Big Picture Group
‣ Google Apps for Higher Ed
‣ Google Sites

8. Schematic of Tools
‣ Complex - Simple
‣ General - Specific
‣ Abstract - Fun

9. Google Scholar

10. Who Uses Google Scholar?
‣ You can use it as your own dashboard and manage your
own scholarly citations
‣ Similar in that to ResearchGate or academia.edu
‣ Not as geared towards the social graph
‣ Mines the spidering capabilities of Google

11. Competitors

12. Google Keep
‣ A Personal/Professional Data Manager
‣ Based on collections of snippets with limited metadata
‣ Collecting random - or quite intentional bits of data
‣ Tied to Google Infrastructure
‣ Lack of Import/Export/Capture

13. Google Keep

14. Google Keep versus Evernote

15. Google Public Data Explorer
‣ Access Public Data Sets Aggregated and Presented by
Google
‣ Mine massive ordered datasets for related data, matching
trends, etc.
‣ Are contributed to/solicited by Google - Limited
‣ Currently: UN, EU, US Census Bureau, Iceland, Ireland CSO
but growing

16. Google Public Data Explorer

17. Google Fusion Tables

18. Google Fusion Tables
‣ A Powerful Data Munging andVisualisation Environment
‣ Search both Google and User Contributed Datasets
‣ Parse and FormatWeb Accessible data
‣ What are the limitations?
‣ What are the dangers?

19. Vida.io

20. Open Refine aka Google Refine

21. Google Ancient PlacesVisualisation
http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis

22. Google NGramViewer
‣ 2004 - 2008 Google digitised in cooperation with libraries
and publishers and continues to do so at a reduced rate
‣ +30 Million manuscripts
‣ In 2010 Google estimated that there are 130M unique
titles in the world
‣ Initial Partners:
‣ Harvard University, Harvard University Library
‣ University of Michigan, University of Michigan Library
‣ NewYork Public Library
‣ University of Oxford, Bodleian Library
‣ Stanford University, Stanford University Libraries (SULAIR)

23. GoogleBooks Advanced Search

24. Google NGramViewer

25. Google Trends
‣ A friendly face to expose what the most popular searches
are returning
‣ A a cultural mirror provides a heuristic means to look at
the social life of data
‣ Have to appreciate what is being
‣ What are the dangers?

26. Google Trends

27. Google Correlate
‣ Kind of a Reverse Google Trends
‣ Looks for terms or concepts matching the search pattern
demonstrated by the one you enter.
‣ The potential is to correlate related phenomenon
‣ Based only on what Google Indexes and related user
interaction

28. Google Correlate

29. GapMinder

30. Google Docs Secrets

31. Google Docs Secrets
‣ Collaboration
‣ Extensibility

32. Google Developers

33. Google Developer
‣ What it is?
‣ How it is useful?
‣ What are the limitations?
‣ What are the dangers?

34. Google Cultural Institute

35. Google Cultural Institute
‣ As part of its mission to organize the world’s information,
Google partnered with hundreds of institutions with a
view to hosting the world’s "cultural treasures" online.
The Institute aims to preserve the world's cultural
creations and make them accessible online now and for
future generations.
‣ Context
‣ Partnerships

36. Google Cultural Institute

37. Google Big Picture Group

38. Google Big Picture Group
‣ A Research Group dedicated to exploring how
information visualization can make complex data
accessible, useful, and even fun ;-)
‣ How it is useful?
‣ What are the limitations?

39. Google Apps for Higher Ed

40. Google Apps for Higher Ed
‣ What it is?
‣ How it is useful?
‣ What are the limitations?
‣ What are the dangers?

41. Summarising
‣ There’s No DirectWay to Find All of the Tools
‣ Tools can work together
‣ Data Sharing
‣ Sustainability
‣ Ease of Use
‣ Extensibility
‣ Applicability

42. Google Time

43. Upcoming Seminars
‣ 20 April - Requirements Engineering for Humanities/
Social Science Scholars
‣ May - Digital Project Management
‣ May - Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Beginners

44. Thanks
Shawn Day
@iridium
s.day@qub.ac.uk
http://qubdh.co.uk