Google Tools for Digital Scholarship

This presentation explores the variety and diversity of Google Tools intended fro scholars and imagines how the larger stable might be employed for scholarly pursuits.

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2. Google Tools for Digital Humanities Scholarship Opportunities or Quirky Distractions? Shawn Day - 29 April 2016
3. Objectives ‣ Appreciate the breadth of Google Tools available to support scholarly endeavour; ‣ 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. ‣ http://wp.me/P40OB7-cI
4. Disclaimer ‣ I am not actually a shill for Google; ‣ I generally prefer and advocate Open Source Tools; ‣ But I also use the best tool for the task at hand. ‣ Major Caveat: 
 Tools come, Tools Go. 
 They change constantly and nowhere more so than the Google stable.
5. GoogleX/Solve for X - The X in Alphabet
6. GoogleX/Solve for X
7. What Are They Up to?
8. SketchUp!
9. Looking for a Tool Pattern ‣ Making Google Data Available ‣ Mining Google Data with Google Tools ‣ Applying Google Tools to Your Own Data
10. What Google Tools Do You Use Today? ‣ Google Mail ‣ Google Search ‣ Android ‣ Google Maps ‣ Google Calendar ‣ Google Contacts ‣ Google Earth ‣ ?
11. The Tour ‣ Google Scholar ‣ Google Keep ‣ Google Fusion Tables ‣ Google Public Data Explorer ‣ Google NGram Viewer ‣ Google Trends ‣ Google Correlate ‣ Open Refine ‣ Google Docs + ‣ Google Forms ‣ Google Developer ‣ Google Cultural Institute ‣ Google Big Picture Group ‣ Google Apps for Higher Ed ‣ Google Sites
12. Schematic of Tools ‣ Complex —> Simple ‣ General —> Specific ‣ Abstract —> Fun
14. Google Scholar
18. 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
19. Competitors
20. 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
21. Google Keep
23. Google Keep versus Evernote
24. Google Public Data Explorer ‣ Access Public Data Sets Aggregated and Presented by Google ‣ 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
26. Google Public Data Explorer
28. Google Public Data Explorer ‣ You can upload your own datasets ‣ Use Google Visualisation Tools Automatically ‣ Integrate with Other Publicly Available datasets ‣ You cannot actually see or export the raw data ‣ What else might you use?
33. Google Fusion Tables
37. 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?
38. Vida.io
39. Open Refine aka Google Refine
40. Alternatives ‣ Mr Data Converter ‣ Data Wrangler
41. Google Groups
42. Google Groups
43. Google Ancient Places Visualisation http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis
44. Google Cultural Institute
45. 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 ‣ What are the dangers?
46. Google Cultural Institute
47. 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)
48. Google NGram Viewer
49. GoogleBooks Advanced Search
50. 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?
51. Google Trends
52. Google Trends Visualizer
53. 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
54. Google Correlate
55. GapMinder
56. Google Docs Secrets
57. Google Forms ‣ A little less known Google Doc Tool
58. Google Forms
59. As an Alternative to ‣ SurveyMonkey ‣ Commercial ‣ Proprietary and Closed ‣ Professional ‣ Well Established ‣ LemonForms ‣ OpenSource ‣ Steeper Learning Curve ‣ You Need Your Own Server
60. Google Docs Secrets ‣ Collaboration ‣ Extensibility
61. Google Developers
62. Google Developer ‣ What it is? ‣ How it is useful? ‣ What are the limitations? ‣ What are the dangers?
63. Google Big Picture Group
64. 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?
65. Just to Say This is Where You Become the Product
66. Google Apps for Higher Ed
67. Google Apps for Higher Ed ‣ What it is? ‣ How it is useful? ‣ What are the limitations? ‣ What are the dangers?
68. Summarising 1. There’s No Direct Way to Find All of the Tools 2. Tools can work together 3. Data Sharing 4. Sustainability 5. Ease of Use 6. Extensibility 7. Applicability
69. Evolution of the Web
70. Google Time
71. Thanks @iridium s.day@qub.ac.uk http://qubdh.uk