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Anna Gerber

Anna Gerber

I am a software engineer with the eResearch Lab at UQ ITEE, currently developing collaborative tools for literary scholars through the Aus-e-Lit project.

We're working on an open source Firefox extension, LORE, which aims to enable scholars to annotate web-based scholarly resources and to organise, tag and relate bundles of resources which are published as 'compound objects'. We have also been extending the AustLit web portal to include information contributed by the research community through annotations and compound objects, and to add a full text service, federated searching and graphical reports and visualisations.

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Research Tools Zeitgeist

August 20th, 2010 § 1

I’d like to propose a session to discuss the use of  research tools and services within the digital humanities.
Sites like the DiRT wiki http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/, and arts-humanities.net provide lists of  projects and software,  but these lists are large and it’s difficult to tell which of the tools are widely adopted, mature or stable. I’m particularly interested in how THATcampers are using open source tools and free or open access services, because these have the potential for reuse, extension and adaptation.
The kinds of things that could be discussed include:
  • What digital research tools/services do you use or are you considering using?
  • What kinds of activities are not well supported by existing tools?
  • How might current or future DH projects try to fill the gaps?