Pacific Northwest History Conference 2008:

Social Networking Tools in History Research

Mary Paynton SchaffWashington State Library

What is Web 2.0?

It also has some distinctive features…

Tagging

Friends

Inviting

Grouping

Interacting

SubscribingFeed Readers Subscription Automatic Updates

A Tour of Web 2.0 Sites for Historians

Blogs

Historical Research Uses:• Advertising new research

tools• Engaging in history-

related conversation or debate

• Networking

The Edge of the Westedgeofthewest.wordpress.com

Paleo-Futurewww.paleofuture.com

Northwest Historynorthwesthistory.blogspot.com

Visual Web 2.0

Historical Research Uses• Displaying old

photographs– Tagging– Discussion

• Creating Maps– Geotagging

• Creating Mashups• Creating Video

Flickrwww.flickr.com

Historical collections currently on Flickr:

• Library of Congress• Powerhouse Museum

(Australia)• Boston Public Library• Duke University Archives• Tichnor Brother postcards

Platialwww.platial.com

YouTubewww.youtube.com

Web 2.0 Bibliographic Tools

• Organizing known items Discovering unknown items

• Creating groups to discuss subjects of interest

• Creating booklists and bibliographies

Items: books, articles, websites, media

LibraryThingwww.librarything.com

CiteULikewww.citeulike.com

Del.icio.us

Zoterowww.zotero.org

• Compare to RefWorks and EndNote

• Firefox plug-in• Creates detailed

bibliographies from bookmarks automatically

• Manages all types of documents

• Social aspects to come in Zotero 2.0

Questions or Comments?• Presentation available

from Slideshare:

www.slideshare.net /mschaff

• Handouts with featured websites available on the Washington State Library Public Services Blog

wastatelib.wordpress. com/handouts

Mary Paynton SchaffReference Librarian

Washington State Library

Contact me:

mschaff@secstate.wa.gov

wastatelib.wordpress.com

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