Remote Usability and User Experience Testing Tools
8 weeks ago
A categorized and annotated list of web related tools that can be used for usability testing.
web
research
ux
software
userexperience
usertesting
remote
testing
tools
usability
from delicious
8 weeks ago
Scholarly Communications @ Duke
10 weeks ago
Blog on copyright and publishing run by Kevin Smith
library
open_access
ScholarlyCommunication
scholarly_communication
publishing
Blog
copyright
from delicious
10 weeks ago
Scholarly Open Access
11 weeks ago
Blog keeps track of predatory OA publishers.
publication
publishing
scholarly_communication
publishing
publishers
openaccess
open_access
open
access
from delicious
11 weeks ago
Current Citation Practices in Academia « Fair Cite
11 weeks ago
Citation practices for digital humanities and other alt-ac projects.
scholarly_communication
citation
digital_humanities
alt-ac
from delicious
11 weeks ago
Scholarly Communication - Scholarly Communication - LibGuides at Northwestern University
february 2012
Norwestern's very pretty new LibGuide on scholarly communication. Includes sections on Copyright and Author's rights
self_archiving
collaboration
peer_review
copyright
LibGuides
open_access
scholarly_communication
scholarly_publishing
scholarlycommunication
author's_rights
from delicious
february 2012
The Stone and the Shell | Historical questions raised by a quantitative approach to language
january 2012
U of I English professor Ted Underwood's blog
digital_humanities
from delicious
january 2012
Open Access Author Fund Subject Guide
january 2012
Subject Guide hosted by University of Connecticut.
publishing
open_access
open
copyright
from delicious
january 2012
Save My Memories / Digital Photo Storage / Save Photos / Photo Backup
october 2011
From the International Imaging Industry Association, this site offers information on preserving digital images.
preservation
digital
images
from delicious
october 2011
Digital Preservation Coalition | Digitisation & Digital Archiving
october 2011
A non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness on the importance of preserving digital materials. Advice, publications, and training are all offered here.
digital
preservation
images
from delicious
october 2011
Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)
october 2011
This comprehensive site details the steps that the Library of Congress is taking towards preserving its digital materials, as well as recommendations for digital preservation best practices.
preservation
digital
images
from delicious
october 2011
Free online image and photo editor - Aviary.com's Phoenix
october 2011
A web-based image editor with advanced features, such as layers, blending, and magic wand selection. No registration required, buy by signing up users can share their creations, collaborate with other users, and otherwise participate in the Aviary community.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image
october 2011
A popular online photo editor, users can opt to use either Pixler express or Pixler editor. As one might assume, Pixler express is the more basic of the two, and includes basic features such as cropping, rotating, and basic color filters. No registration required.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor
october 2011
Winner of a MacWorld's editors choice for free image editing software, Sumo Paint provides an extensive array of basic and not so basic features. Web-based and easy to get started.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
GooEdit - Chrome Web Store
october 2011
A browser extension for Google's Chrome, GooEdit makes editing images directly on a webpage possible.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
Get Gimp - Like Photoshop, Only 100% FREE
october 2011
A free image editing software available for download. Gimp is one of the more robust free image editors, and allows users to save images in multiple file formats.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
Photo Editor, Online Photo Editor, Photoshop Express | Photoshop.com
october 2011
A free, online version of Photoshop that includes features such as cropping, roatating, resizing, and color adjustments. Users will need to create a Photoshop account.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
Picnik - Photo editing the easy way, online in your browser
october 2011
A free web-based tool that allows users to crop, resize, rotate, add special effects, and more. Photos can be uploaded from your computer, or edited directly from sites such as Flickr or Facebook.
image_editing
from delicious
october 2011
Make It Digital - DigitalNZ
september 2011
Learn about digitization good practice. Share ideas for new digital content.
from delicious
september 2011
Are you meta-smart? | Photometadata.org
september 2011
Images with embedded information about their ownership and content are easier to find and harder to misuse. Metadata is the key to better protecting copyrights, promoting licensing, improving workflow, and managing assets. Unfortunately, it is under-used and under-supported.
from delicious
september 2011
A Glimpse into the Digital Humanities: Mobile Shakespeare – inReads
september 2011
Their project, “Mobile Shakespeare Scripts” (or “MyShx”), offers actors and directors a mobile app for customizing scripts to include commentary, production history, or other digital enhancements.
from delicious
september 2011
Getting permission
september 2011
Assuming the work you wish to use is protected, the work has not been licensed for your use online, and your use is not a fair use or otherwise exempt from liability for infringement, you need permission. Now what?
from delicious
september 2011
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: The Landscape of Digital ...
august 2011
The digital humanities is increasingly becoming a "buzzword", and there is more and more talk about a broadly conceived, inclusive digital humanities. The field is expanding and at the same time being negotiated, and this article explores the idea of a broadly conceived landscape of digital humanities in some depth.
from delicious
august 2011
What Is Digital humanities and What's It Doing in English ...
august 2011
What is (or are) the “digital humanities,” aka “humanities computing”? It’s tempting to say that whoever asks the question has not gone looking very hard for an answer. “What is digital humanities?” essays like this one are already genre pieces.
from delicious
august 2011
Zotero vs. EndNote - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
may 2011
A few weeks ago, ProfHacker got a request asking us if we could compare the two platforms, which gave me a great opportunity to try to figure out why I prefer EndNote.
from delicious
may 2011
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
april 2011
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.
from delicious
april 2011
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and ...
april 2011
A guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past on the Web.
from delicious
april 2011
TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment
april 2011
The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.
from delicious
april 2011
TAPoR
april 2011
The TAPoR Portal is an online environment where users can: keep track of texts they want to study, these texts can be on the web or texts you upload, learn about different tools and try them; run tools on texts to analyze them in different ways. The Portal also has a news service and other features to support your research.
from delicious
april 2011
The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies
december 2010
The Open Citation Project - Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives
open_access
citation
scholarly_communication
december 2010
NSF Data Management and Sharing Policy
december 2010
The NSF's page for information about the 2011 Data Management. Includes links to the individual directorates with guidelines for data management plans in place.
data_management
data_curation
open_access
december 2010
Web Design References: Usability
december 2010
Comprehensive list of usability articles by topic.
usability
web
december 2010
Commentpress
december 2010
Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with Commentpress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog.
WordPress
december 2010
Cartography 2.0
december 2010
Cartography 2.0 is a free online knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps.
spatial_data
map
reference
december 2010
TypeBrewer
december 2010
TypeBrewer is a free help tool that gives non-specialist mapmakers a chance to explore typography in a semi-structured environment. It is not mapmaking software. Instead of providing the functionality of a graphic design program or GIS, TypeBrewer offers a quick and easy way to explore typographic alternatives and see the impact that various elements of type have on the overall look and feel of a map. TypeBrewer is designed for mapmakers who want to learn more about map typography and get practical design specifications for starting a map project.
map
tools
type
december 2010
Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps
december 2010
Full use of this tool will benefit your map designs because colors (even very similar colors) are easy to differentiate when they appear in a nicely ordered sequence (such as a legend). The task of differentiating the colors, however, becomes much harder when the patterns on the map are complex, such as in the lower left corner of the diagnostic map.
map
tools
color
december 2010
Photographing Documents
november 2010
Taking photos of documents requires some skill and practice. Your camera’s features and shooting conditions are also important.
ocr
photography
november 2010
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American
november 2010
The Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, to expand its capabilities based on those principles.
web
future
november 2010
Acrobat Applescript for batch OCR
november 2010
Freely downloadable AppleScript droplet for to batch OCR with Adobe Acrobat.
ocr
november 2010
Manage Your Data: Data Management: Subject Guides: MIT Libraries
november 2010
MIT Libraries have put together an excellent resource for developing data management plans.
data_management
november 2010
Copyright Basics - Copyright Resources for Music - LibGuides ...
november 2010
This guide will point you toward resources to help navigate the complex world of music copyright issues.
copyright
music
november 2010
iMovie 09 tutorial
november 2010
Basics of editing and exporting a video from iMovie.
tutorial
video
november 2010
DIRC Digital Image Rights Computator
november 2010
The Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC) program is intended to assist the user in assessing the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment. Understanding the presence or absence of rights in the various aspects of a given image will allow the user to make nformed
decisions regarding the intended educational uses of that image.
copyright
tool
decisions regarding the intended educational uses of that image.
november 2010
Pliny
november 2010
A free, publicly available, open source software for note-taking and annotation of both digital and non-digital materials
opensource
annotation
november 2010
British Printed Images to 1700
november 2010
A database of thousands of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain in fully searchable form.
image_source
november 2010
Making flashcards in ARTstor
november 2010
Step-by-step instructions for making flashcards in ARTstor.
ArtSTOR
tools
november 2010
Graphics Atlas: Welcome
november 2010
Graphics Atlas is a new online resource that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to archivists, curators, historians, collectors, conservators, educators and the general public.
reference
archives
graphics
history
photography
november 2010
Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related Materials
november 2010
Recommendations for librarians, archivists, curators, and other collections staff.
copyright
fairuse
intellectual_property
best_practices
november 2010
Stanford University state data page
november 2010
GIS data listed by state.
spatial_data
United_States
november 2010
geodata.gov
november 2010
Find data or map services, make a map, browse community information, cooperate on data acquisitions, publish your data and map services.
spatial_data
map
United_States
november 2010
USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Find Data
november 2010
Products & Data Available: Aerial photography, satellite imagery, elevation, land cover, digitized maps, image gallery, collections. FAQs: Data discovery tools, EarthExplorer, new EarthExplorer, Glovis, The Seamless Server, NASA LP DAAC, USGS Geographic Data Download, USGS Web Mapping Portal, Emergency Operations Portal
spatial_data
map
image_source
United_States
november 2010
National Geologic Map Database
november 2010
Welcome to our Data Portal. It is intended to: 1) give you a quick browse and query of our Nation's geologic maps, in a standardized format, and 2) link you to the source information found via the NGMDB Map Catalog and Geologic Names Lexicon. More than 80,000 maps and reports, by 370 publishers, are accessible.
spatial_data
geology
map
United_States
november 2010
National Atlas
november 2010
Nationalatlas.gov™ is the new National Atlas of the United States. It provides a comprehensive, maplike view into the enormous wealth of geospatial and geostatistical data collected for the United States. The latest National Atlas includes electronic maps and services that are delivered online.
spatial_data
map
United_States
november 2010
SimplyMap
november 2010
SimplyMap enables non-technical users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data. SimplyMap turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface. Subscription for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign only.
spatial_data
map
tool
november 2010
Historical GIS Clearinghouse and Forum
november 2010
The Historical GIS Clearinghouse and Forum provides a central reference point for scholars seeking to access or catalogue projects that apply geographic technologies to historical research. Visitors are encouraged to explore--and contribute to--the resources on these pages.
spatial_data
historical
november 2010
AfricaMap
november 2010
WorldMap is an open source web mapping system that is currently under construction. It is built to assist academic research and teaching as well as the general public and supports discovery, investigation, analysis, visualization, communication and archiving of multi-disciplinary, multi-source and multi-format data, organized spatially and temporally.
spatial_data
Africa
november 2010
Database of the Geologic Map of North America | Adapted from the Map by J.C. Reed, Jr. and others (2005)
november 2010
The Geological Society of America’s (GSA) Geologic Map of North America (Reed and others, 2005; 1:5,000,000) shows the geology of a significantly large area of the Earth, centered on North and Central America and including the submarine geology of parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This map is now converted to a Geographic Information System (GIS) database that contains all geologic and base-map information shown on the two printed map sheets and the accompanying explanation sheet.
spatial_data
geology
november 2010
Natural Earth
november 2010
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
spatial_data
november 2010
ArcGIS
november 2010
ArcGIS is an online system for using geographic information everywhere.
GIS
ArcGIS
tool
november 2010
ICPSR Online Learning Center
november 2010
ICPSR data-driven online learning center. Has topical tools.
ICPSR
tutorial
november 2010
Fundamentals of polling-Polling 101
november 2010
This tutorial is intended to offer a simplified glimpse into some of the fundamentals of public opinion polling. Designed for the novice, POLLING 101 provides definitions, examples, and explanations that serve to introduce interested students to the field of public opinion research.
polling
tutorial
Roper
november 2010
abbyy
Africa
agricultural
annotation
ArcGIS
archive
archives
ArtSTOR
audio
best_practices
blog
book
business
citation
climate
collaboration
color
compliance
consulting
conversion
copyright
crowdsourcing
data_curation
data_management
data_mining
data_visualization
digital
digital_humanities
digital_text
digital_text_analysis
digitization
digitize
economics
electronic_reserves
exhibit
fairuse
formats
future
geology
GIS
government
graphics
highlight
historical
history
humanities
ICPSR
ICSPR
image_editing
image_source
images
intellectual_property
international
internet_archive
kindle
LibGuide
list_of_tools
mac
map
map_tools
metadata
meteorology
museum
music
NIH
numeric_data
ocr
omeka
open_access
opensource
permission
photography
polling
preservation
publicdomain
PubMed
reference
Refworks
Roper
SAS
scholarly_communication
screencast
search
social_sciences
software
spatial_data
SPSS
Stata
statistical_analysis
statistics
teaching
TEI
thesis
tool
tools
transcribe
tutorial
type
United_States
UofIllinois
usability
user_forum
video
weather
web
windows
WordPress
XSLT