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Tweet Archive from Designing Libraries 2018

Sep 19, 2018

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in Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech

The 7th edition of the Designing Libraries conference just wrapped up here at the U of Calgary, and I thought it'd be fun to capture the tweets using the hashtag #designinglibraries, so here you go: Here's the full archive (457 tweets as of posting) Here's a dashboard summary view Here's a nifty view that allows…

3 Simple, Free Apps for Accessing Your Home Computer From Anywhere (Gizmodo)

Apr 11, 2018

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Paul R. Pival

in Electronic Reference, Random Tech Tips, Service, Web/Tech

AnyDesk is totally new to me, so I thought I'd make note of Gizmodo's post on 3 Simple, Free Apps for Accessing Your Home Computer From Anywhere. I use Chrome Remote Desktop at least weekly, and have used TeamViewer to good effect in the past, so can vouch for each of those. The commenters overwhelmingly…

Installing Extensions in Open Refine – note to self: RTFM

Dec 14, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Data, Miscellaneous, Tutorials, Web/Tech

One of my all-time favourite open source tools is Open Refine, which "is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." Today I'm talking about that extending bit. One of the nice features of Open Refine is…

A quick showdown of three automatic transcription tools

Oct 12, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Random Tech Tips, Social Networks, Web/Tech

One of my hats these days has me supporting students and faculty in the use of NVivo, a piece of software used for qualitative data analysis. Often people are wanting to analyze the text of recorded interviews, and of course that usually requires someone to transcribe the audio into text. I'm always on the lookout…

Shape file and .KML for First People’s Language Map of British Columbia

Mar 15, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Maps, Service, Web/Tech

I spent a couple hours today helping a student look for a shape file of the First People’s Language Map of B. C. (or anything even close to it). No luck, but feel free to chime in if you know of something we missed! Finally while Inspecting and Viewing Source, I tripped across an embedded (or…

Using TheHerdLocker.com to find the good content on Twitter

Feb 6, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Random Tech Tips, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Some time ago I learned about TheHerdlocker.com from a post on ResearchBuzz. Since then, it's grown a bit, and I've been receiving useful weekly updates to a few hashtags I like to follow on the Twitter. In a nutshell, rather than you creating a column within Tweetdeck to collect all mentions of a given hashtag,…

Hydrator is my new favourite tool to hydrate tweet-ids (aka so many tools!)

Feb 3, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Data, Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Update – April 18, 2023: From the developer: Twitter's changes to their API which greatly reduce the amount of read-only access means that the Hydrator is no longer a useful application. The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter. For the past couple of weeks I've been helping…

If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine

Feb 2, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Service, Web/Tech

Last month I railed on the new Wayback Machine plugin for Chrome. Well they've been busy, and the current version solves many of my nitpicks on the initial version. Archive.org has a post detailing 6 ways you can save pages to the Wayback Machine, and that Chrome plugin makes the list because it now allows…

Here’s how to monitor for disappearing or changing news online

Jan 16, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Service, Social Networks, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Over the weekend Ed Summers released a tool called diffengine that monitors an RSS feed and then posts captures of any changed text to Twitter. It's meant for monitoring news sites, but could be used for anything that has an RSS feed. Useful for monitoring your news site of choice for disappearing news, but also reports that…

Sorry, the new Wayback Machine extension for Chrome needs some work!

Jan 16, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Miscellaneous, Web/Tech

Feb 2, 2017 update: improvements have been made! The other day I saw a headline about a new extension for the Chrome browser from the Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. I had initially ignored this, assuming it was the same thing as Wayback Chrome, but upon further inspection, the latter, which has been around for quite…

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