June 6, 2008
New Wiki Helps Humanities Researchers Find Online Tools
A new wiki provides a directory of online tools for humanities scholars. The site, which uses software that lets anyone edit or add to the material, covers more than 20 categories, including blogging tools, specialized search engines for scholars, and software programs that can record what is on a user’s screen.
The site, called Digital Research Tools, or DiRT, is run by Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University.
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University runs a similar collection of resources called Exploring and Collecting History Online, or ECHO—Jeffrey R. Young
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Um, did you forget the URL? Yes, yes you did. In a news piece about a new online site. Wow, that’s just hardcore!
— Jeff McNeill Jun 6, 06:52 PM #
URL seems to be
http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/
— Liz Jun 6, 06:59 PM #
Thanks for helping to get the word out about Digital Research Tools, Jeffrey. I want to emphasize that the wiki is very much a group effort—there are 5 editors (including me) who oversee different categories of tools, and a growing number of contributors.
— Lisa Spiro Jun 7, 04:20 PM #
OpenSource GIS
QGIS
Grass
— Dave Postles Jun 9, 06:40 AM #