During the sessions at THATcamp Canberra 2011 I began compiling a list of concepts/tools that I should try hands-on in the next six months. For many of them I could give a perfectly accurate theoretical description, but have not really internalised them. The hitlist started with about 10 links. Easy.

By the time I had check through other notes and tweets it grew … somewhat …

Here is the “suck it and see” list:

• RDF (Resource Description Framework)  http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax/
• Really, truly how triplestores work and fit in to the metadata universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore
• The difference between REST and SOAP and why this is important www.petefreitag.com/item/431.cfm
• JSON  (JavaScript Object Notation) http://www.json.org/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
• JQuery http://jquery.com/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
• Understand models / standards used to build LORE – At least enough about FRBR to fake my way to explaining it better than I can now http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records 
• Play more with Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
• Play more with my clones of the Pipes used by Anna Gerber to build her LibraryHack entry, Convict Book: http://libraryhack.org/2011/05/31/convictbook/
  • Trove People and Organisations Search Pipe  http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5fdd5ad8adb9a48b1dc429a036903610
  • Convict Name Search Copy Pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=b0cff049f9ca0c9547d676ca3973cc40 (Think I broke this one when fiddling with it)
  • Get Shipmates Search Copy Pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=c30cc8a255256de6c4260b27396097f0 
• JSFiddle. Have a look at this when I understand JavaScript a bit better:  http://doc.jsfiddle.net/

• JSONLint – JSON Validator: http://jsonlint.com/

• Learn how Google’s Ngram viewer works http://books.google.com/ngrams,  http://www.culturomics.org/Resources/A-users-guide-to-culturomics 
• Jean-Baptiste Michel et al., “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,” Science331, no. 6014 (January 14, 2011): 176 -182.
• 
Open Archive Initiative – get a bit more familiar with the specifications: http://www.openarchives.org/

• Google Fusion- 
Understand how Google Fusion works : http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html

• Google Refine http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ . Specifically – “Could I take a list of regularly formatted citations in a WORD document, clean them up through Google Refine then output them in a format that can be slurped up by Zotero?” AND “how can you clean up datasets in a way that makes them more cleanly exposed as Linked Open Data?”
• Pseudocode . (Describing algorithms in English using a structured format, rather than a specific coding language) Specifically – is this a useful tool to help my students understand what is going on with very,very simple programming? http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/pdl_std.html
• VoyeurTools – Visual representation after textual analysis? ( http://voyeurtools.org/ )
• Scripto – Tool to allow crowd sourced transcriptions of documentary products: http://scripto.org/
• Install a copy of Omeka to create my own repository of academic papers as an element of my own e-portfolio ( http://omeka.org/ ) 
• Read Anna Gerber (et al.)’s semantic tagging tools comparison paper
• A. Gerber, L. Gao, and J. Hunter, “A Scoping Study of (Who, What, When, Where) Semantic Tagging Services” (n.d.). http://archive.itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/ands/W4SemanticTagging-report-2011-02.pdf
• 
Curio software from zengobi =. Mindmapping/notes management that interacts with Evernote: http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/

• Follow up the concept of “snowclones”. For fun. http://snowclones.org/about/ 



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 THEN I WENT BACK AND FOUND THE LINKS THAT WERE PUSHED OUT IN THE TWITTER STREAM AND SEEMED INTERESTING:. oops….

• 
Founders and survivors. Tasmanian convicts’ stories using various datasets from different agencies
http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org/
• 
Open Bibliographic Principles . We hold these truths to be self-evident (free data now…) http://openbiblio.net/principles/

• 
Citobase (Citation data standards?) http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2009/citobase/cito-20090311/cito-content/owldoc/

• 
National Digital Economy Strategy, Australia: http://www.nbn.gov.au/the-vision/digitaleconomystrategy/

• 
Mediapedia (Images and descriptions of various brands/types of carrier media eg. audiocassettes, zip disks) http://mediapedia.nla.gov.au/home.php

• 
The Real Face of White Australia: harvest of portraits from government documents http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/

• 
State Records Office NSW API documentation : http://api.records.nsw.gov.au/usage

• 
Australasian Association for digital humanities: http://aa-dh.org/

• 
Quakestories: Archive of crowd sourced stories from Canterbury 2010/2011 http://www.quakestories.govt.nz/

• 
Design and Art Australia database: http://www.daao.org.au/

• 
Australian Data Archive: http://www.ada.edu.au/

• 
Sembl Developing the interactive game-interface to explore the collection at the  National Museum of Australia (iPad app. ) http://labs.nma.gov.au/blog/category/sembl/

• 
Beyond the pdf. Peter Sefton’s tools to better manage data http://ptsefton.com/2010/11/05/towards-beyond-the-pdf-a-summary-of-work-weve-been-doing.htm

• 
Auslit data visualisation of relationships between authors : http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgentNetwork&agentId=ALC

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OCCAMS Database for managing research using visual and non-visual data together http://dhh.anu.edu.au/occams

• 
Mapping the Republic of Letters: data visualisation: https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/

• 
Walt Whitman archive has data visualisation http://whitmanarchive.org/

• 
Self teaching coding:

• James Somers, “How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code,” The Atlantic, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/how-i-failed-failed-and-finally-succeeded-at-learning-how-to-code/239855/?single_page=true.
• 
Project Euler Programming problems as a game to improve skills with FUN http://projecteuler.net/

• William J. Turkel and Alan MacEachern, The Programming Historian, 1st ed. NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment (2007-11).
• 
Generic Digital Research Tools
Software useful for annotation and analysis of linguistic data  . From University of Melbourne School of Language and Linguistics
http://linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/research/software.html

• 
Crowdsource data cleaning for NASA http://spacelog.org/get-involved/

• 
Aggregation of Scholarship on the web  Will publish “proceedings” of THATcamps http://pressforward.org/

• 
Collectish. Online collections management software from Museums Victoria and Museums Australia http://collectish.com/

• 
Public Records of Victoria Transcription project: http://prov.versi.edu.au/