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Using Google Tools for Digital Humanities Scholarship
“A Panoply of Stable or Quirky Opportunities”
Shawn Day - 23 March 2015
Objectives‣ To appreciate the breadth of Google Tools available to
support scholarly endeavour; ‣ To find a tool or two that you may not have been aware of; ‣ To identify a way or two that you may not have
considered using tools that you already were aware of; ‣ Most of all: Inspire and Imagine.
Disclaimer‣ I am not actually a shill for Google; ‣ I actually prefer Open Source Tools; ‣ But I also use the best tool for the task at hand.
‣ Major Caveat: Tools come, Tools Go. They change constantly.
GoogleX/Solve for X
Looking for a Tool Pattern‣ Making Google Data Available ‣ Mining Google Data with Google Tools ‣ Applying Google Tools to Your Own Data
‣ What Google Tools Do People Use Today?
The Tour‣ Google Scholar ‣ Google Keep ‣ Google Fusion Tables ‣ Google Public Data
Explorer ‣ Google NGram Viewer ‣ Google Trends ‣ Google Correlate ‣ Google Docs +
‣ Google Developer ‣ Google Cultural Institute ‣ Google Big Picture Group ‣ Google Apps for Higher Ed ‣ Google Sites
Schematic of Tools‣ Complex - Simple ‣ General - Specific ‣ Abstract - Fun
Who Uses Google Scholar?‣ You can use it as your own dashboard and manage your
own scholarly citations ‣ Similar in that to ResearchGate or academia.edu ‣ Not as geared towards the social graph ‣ Mines the spidering capabilities of Google
Competitors
Google Keep‣ A Personal/Professional Data Manager ‣ Based on collections of snippets with limited metadata
‣ Collecting random - or quite intentional bits of data
‣ Tied to Google Infrastructure ‣ Lack of Import/Export/Capture
Google Keep versus Evernote
Google Public Data Explorer‣ Access Public Data Sets Aggregated and Presented by
‣ Mine massive ordered datasets for related data, matching trends, etc.
‣ Are contributed to/solicited by Google - Limited ‣ Currently: UN, EU, US Census Bureau, Iceland, Ireland CSO
but growing
Google Public Data Explorer
Google Fusion Tables‣ A Powerful Data Munging and Visualisation Environment
‣ Search both Google and User Contributed Datasets ‣ Parse and Format Web Accessible data
‣ What are the limitations? ‣ What are the dangers?
Google Ancient Places Visualisation
http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis
Google NGram Viewer‣ 2004 - 2008 Google digitised in cooperation with libraries
and publishers and continues to do so at a reduced rate ‣ +30 Million manuscripts ‣ In 2010 Google estimated that there are 130M unique
titles in the world ‣ Initial Partners: ‣ Harvard University, Harvard University Library ‣ University of Michigan, University of Michigan Library ‣ New York Public Library ‣ University of Oxford, Bodleian Library ‣ Stanford University, Stanford University Libraries (SULAIR)
Google Trends‣ A friendly face to expose what the most popular searches
are returning
‣ A a cultural mirror provides a heuristic means to look at the social life of data
‣ Have to appreciate what is being ‣ What are the dangers?
Google Correlate‣ Kind of a Reverse Google Trends ‣ Looks for terms or concepts matching the search pattern
demonstrated by the one you enter.
‣ The potential is to correlate related phenomenon
‣ Based only on what Google Indexes and related user interaction
Google Correlate
Google Docs Secrets
Google Docs Secrets‣ Collaboration ‣ Extensibility
Google Developers
Google Developer‣ What it is? ‣ How it is useful? ‣ What are the limitations? ‣ What are the dangers?
Google Cultural Institute‣ As part of its mission to organize the world’s information,
Google partnered with hundreds of institutions with a view to hosting the world’s "cultural treasures" online. The Institute aims to preserve the world's cultural creations and make them accessible online now and for future generations.
‣ Context ‣ Partnerships
Google Cultural Institute
Google Big Picture Group‣ A Research Group dedicated to exploring how
information visualization can make complex data accessible, useful, and even fun ;-)
‣ How it is useful?
‣ What are the limitations?
Google Apps for Higher Ed
Google Apps for Higher Ed‣ What it is? ‣ How it is useful? ‣ What are the limitations? ‣ What are the dangers?
Summarising‣ There’s No Direct Way to Find All of the Tools ‣ Tools can work together ‣ Data Sharing ‣ Sustainability ‣ Ease of Use ‣ Extensibility ‣ Applicability
Upcoming Seminars‣ 20 April - Requirements Engineering for Humanities/
Social Science Scholars ‣ May - Digital Project Management ‣ May - Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Beginners
