{"id":56,"date":"2007-03-09T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/dan-cohen-to-present-zotero-and-the-promise-of-social-computing-in-academia\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T16:10:55","slug":"dan-cohen-to-present-zotero-and-the-promise-of-social-computing-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/dan-cohen-to-present-zotero-and-the-promise-of-social-computing-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Cohen to present “Zotero and the Promise of Social Computing in Academia”"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHNM’s<\/a> Dan Cohen<\/a> will present on Zotero at the University of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<\/a> on Tuesday, March 13 from 12:30-1:45 pm. The talk will be held in the MITH Conference Room in McKeldin Library, room B0135. For directions and other contact information, please visit the MITH homepage<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Zotero and the Promise of Social Computing in Academia”
\nby DAN COHEN (Center for History and New Media, George Mason)<\/p>\n

The Library of Congress contains over a million dissertations. Each of
\nthese works represents an average of four years of work by a
\nspecialist who has diligently and intelligently scanned, sorted, read,
\ncategorized, assessed, and annotated hundreds or thousands of primary
\nand secondary sources. The staggering scale of this work–literally
\nbillions of person-hours in dissertation work alone, not to mention
\nthe research that went into the millions of other books those
\ndissertations share shelf space with–should be matched by the regret
\nacademia should feel since almost all of this research is buried in
\nfiling cabinets or boxes or worse: soon-to-be obsolete digital media
\nsuch as a floppy disk or the tacit knowledge of a researcher’s mind.
\nOften the most we can expect to see from all of this work, aside from
\nthe book or article it informed, is the bibliography that is buried at
\nthe end of the printed text.<\/p>\n

But what if we could use digital methods to recapture that enormous
\namount of scholarly work, the 90% of research that, like an iceberg,
\nis hidden beneath the 10% of the final product? The Zotero project
\n(which I co-direct) has released software that allows users to build,
\ntag, and annotate their own research collections, with a high level of
\nintegration with online texts and databases; the next phase of the
\nproject will add a server through which users and groups can exchange,
\naggregate, and recommend digital texts and resources. If humanities
\nresearchers–professors, students, and others–widely adopted such
\ndigital tools, many parts of the scholarly process could be
\nrecaptured, and, more important, networked together. See
\nwww.zotero.org for more downloads and more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHNM’s Dan Cohen will present on Zotero at the University of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities on Tuesday, March 13 from 12:30-1:45 pm. The talk will be held in the MITH Conference Room in McKeldin Library, room B0135. For directions and other contact information, please visit the MITH homepage. “Zotero and the Promise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}