Ian Johnson 17 Jan 2008 - please send comments/corrections/questions to me at johnson@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au

Overview

The lists of centres, funding, conferences, blogs etc. on this site are generated as special queries against the Heurist academic social bookmarking/bibliography/database (http://HeuristScholar.org), rendered through XSLT and Cocoon. At the present time, only members of the Heurist Workgroup "centerNet" can assign the special keyword "centerNetShow in Lists" which causes records to show up in the lists generated from Heurist.

Method

There are four generic ways of adding records to Heurist:

• Enter records manually with the Add record icon at top right of the Heurist search form.

• Bookmark pages you visit using the bookmarklet (this is the way I bookmark 99% of pages).

• Bookmark multiple pages from an html page of hyperlinks (or browser bookmarks file)

• Import data from KML files, EndNote REFER format or Zotero (we are currently debugging)

Once you've added records, if you want to see that they are there, click on Recent in the Saved searches panel at the left of the Heurist search to see all records with the most recent added/modified at the top. Remember also to select All Records radio button above the list if you want to see (and bookmark for yourself) material added by other people (this can be done in bulk using the Actions along the bottom of the search page).

In order to make the records which you enter appear in the lists of resources linked from the DHWiki home page, you need to add the Show in lists workgroup keyword. Here are two ways to do this.

Method 1: Direct entry (simplest)

Use DHWiki Heurist adminstration page:

http://digitalhumanities.pbwiki.com/centerNet+listing+-+Heurist+administration+page

to start adding records. The links on this page automatically add ownership and keyword, and set the record type. You can also do this through the addition of record icon on the Heurist search page at HeuristScholar.org/heurist, but you will need to set the workgroup ownershiop and workgroup keyword).

When you add something that is not one of the specified categories (center/organisation, conference, funding source, journal, blog), change the record type if possible to identify it, or failing that, add a personal tag (eg. tools, portals, projects, networks, wikis ... ) to identify the class of material, and let me know what additional record types/lists to add to the wiki.

If the type you are after doesn't exist as a separate type, simply leave as an internet bookmark and tag it with an appropriate tag - that way, I can do a search based on tags and allocate sets of records to particular lists.

Method 2: Bookmarklet (quickest)

First, install the bookmarklet from HeuristScholar.org. To capture a page, highlight summary text if available, then click on the bookmarklet and follow the logic. Highlighted text is dropped in the scratchpad and can be dragged and dropped onto data entry fields (DOI, ISBN, ISSN are recognised and extracted). If you want resoruces captured like this to appear on lists:

• 1. Change the record to an appropriate type (_change_ link at top left of edit form), leave as Internet Bookmark if in doubt;

• 2. Add the workgroup keyword SHOW IN LISTS (in the Workgroups section of the edit form);

• 3. If the record type is Intenet bookmark, add a personal tag such as blog, wiki, VRE, portal etc. (Personal section of the edit form) - this will be used to break the data up into separate lists.

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