Research BUsing WordPress to Share Research

Jeremy BoggsCreative Lead

Center for History and New Media

1Make the current means of collect information easier to use for critical reflection and discussion.

Back in the Day

“If you use all your research, you haven't done enough research.”

James I. Robertson

We’ll never use all this:

ConnoteaLibraryThing Zotero

We already have

Great bibliography sites with APIs, like:

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/WebAPI

We already have Great content sites with APIs, like

Chronicling America

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

We need code and examples for using these APIs

phpZotero - http://github.com/clioweb/phpZotero

Improve blogs as an mechanism for critical reflection and discussion on our research.2

Some Current Solutions

CommentPress

Headup

Citation Aggregator

Atelier

Scenario:

Individual scholar uses host of web services for research, wants to easily sort through that content for writing posts and pages in WordPress

Atelier - Panel for Adding Post Content

Drag items from your stored content into posts

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