Playing in Lisa Spiro's DiRT (Digital Research Tools)

In his interview for the current HASTAC Scholars Forum on DigitalHumanities, NEH's Director of Digital Humanities Programs, BrettBobley, mentioned the excellent list of digital tools that ProfessorLisa Spiro and her team has prepared. It's been on my to-do list to blog about thisremarkable list for a long time and this is the nudge I needed. What Ilove about the list is that she gives a function or a desire and thenyou link to the tools that can make that goal a reality. Here's herlist, but mostly you need to go to her website to check out this toolswiki and all of the other goodies available there. Thank you, Lisa,for this wonderful service to scholarship!

The url to Lisa Spiro's DiRT WIki (Plant Seeds, Grow Ideas) is: http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/ Believe me, you can get lost playing in this sandbox for days and days.

Now, my next stop is to go to the HASTAC Scholars and contributethere. C'mon everybody. Join this important and useful discussionthat could make a difference to your future.

HERE IS LISA SPIRO'S LIST OF FUNCTIONS. CLICK THROUGH AND SUDDENLY AN ARRAY OF TOOLS IS MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

I want to...

• Analyze statistics
• Analyze texts
• Author an interactive work
• Blog
• Brainstorm/ generate ideas
• Build and share collections
• Collaborate
• Collect data
• Communicate with colleagues
• Compare resources
• Conduct linguistic research
• Convert/ manipulate files
• Create a mashup
• Edit images
• Find research materials
• Focus
• Make a dynamic map
• Make a screencast
• Manage bibliographic information
• Mine data
• Network with other researchers
• Organize my research materials
• Perform qualitative data analysis
• Search visually
• Share bookmarks
• Share information
• Stay current with research
• Take notes/ annotate resources
• Transcribe handwritten or spoken texts
• Use mobile devices
• Write a paper
• Write collaboratively
• Visualize data
• --------------Special thanks to Flickr community members Chloe Dietz and LiminalMike for these images. (The second one is a visualization of a hardrive using vizualization software.) For full documentation , click on the images.