Remote Usability and User Experience Testing Tools
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
View all projects | DHCommons
Listing of DH projects seeking assistance
from delicious
january 2012
Save My Memories / Digital Photo Storage / Save Photos / Photo Backup
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Learn about digitization good practice. Share ideas for new digital content.
from delicious
september 2011
Are you meta-smart? | Photometadata.org
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
A guide to gathering, preserving and presenting the past on the Web.
from delicious
april 2011
TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment
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
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
NSF Data Management and Sharing Policy
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
Comprehensive list of usability articles by topic.
usability  web 
december 2010
Commentpress
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
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
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
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
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
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
Freely downloadable AppleScript droplet for to batch OCR with Adobe Acrobat.
ocr 
november 2010
Manage Your Data: Data Management: Subject Guides: MIT Libraries
MIT Libraries have put together an excellent resource for developing data management plans.
data_management 
november 2010
Copyright Basics - Copyright Resources for Music - LibGuides ...
This guide will point you toward resources to help navigate the complex world of music copyright issues.
copyright  music 
november 2010
iMovie 09 tutorial
Basics of editing and exporting a video from iMovie.
tutorial  video 
november 2010
DIRC Digital Image Rights Computator
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 
november 2010
Pliny
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
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
Step-by-step instructions for making flashcards in ARTstor.
ArtSTOR  tools 
november 2010
Graphics Atlas: Welcome
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
Recommendations for librarians, archivists, curators, and other collections staff.
copyright  fairuse  intellectual_property  best_practices 
november 2010
geodata.gov
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
ArcGIS is an online system for using geographic information everywhere.
GIS  ArcGIS  tool 
november 2010
ICPSR Online Learning Center
ICPSR data-driven online learning center. Has topical tools.
ICPSR  tutorial 
november 2010
Fundamentals of polling-Polling 101
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
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