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June 07, 2008
Great New Wiki of Digital Research Tools
Here's another one of those, "Why didn't I think of that?" ideas that may be helpful to people. DIRT, Digital Research Tool is a wiki created by a group of librarians from Rice and Sam Houston Universities. Their goal is to organize short reviews of software to "help researchers--professors, students, think-tankers, corporate intelligence gatherers, and other inquisitive folks--do their work better."
The wiki is well organized from the start. The front page lists the types of tools they reviewed based on what you want to do. Want to edit images? There's a link to a page listing seven different titles for helping you do this, with direct links to each title. Want to network with other researchers? There's a link for that, too with a list of suggestions like Ning, Academici and Pronetos Professor's Network.
These librarians have obviously put a lot of work into this wiki and best of all - it IS a wiki so it can be updated and you can add content yourself. They are using PBwiki which is very simple to use. If you do want to contribute you will have to contact Lisa Spiro at lspiro@rice.edu to get editing access to the wiki but she says they welcome contributors.
Posted by swortman at June 7, 2008 10:29 AM
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There's also a librarian from UTA in that group of librarians... :)
Posted by: efrierso at June 9, 2008 04:12 PM
Cool, Eric. Were you on there before and I just missed you? - Yes, Eric is an editor, too!
Posted by: swortman at June 9, 2008 04:43 PM
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