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Date: 2024-04-15 22:16:09+00:00
From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.545: extensive downloading & scholarship
hi,
from my point of view (and a digital library of nearly 5000 different
sources), for managing annotations in the PDFs, extraction of 'worked'
passages et alia similar, plus the formal management of citation styles
when writing, Zotero (opensource, multiplatform) would never be
sufficiently praised
Maurizio
Il 15/04/24 08:01, Humanist ha scritto:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 545.
> Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
> Hosted by DH-Cologne
> www.dhhumanist.org
> Submit to:humanist@dhhumanist.org
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>
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>
> Date: 2024-04-12 21:37:02+00:00
> From: James Rovira<jamesrovira@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.544: extensive downloading & scholarship?
>
> I do that too, but the books I get in print I scan to .pdf, make text
> searchable, and put them with everything else in one Dropbox folder.
> Actually, my teenage daughter Grace has been doing my scanning in exchange
> for favors or money for about five years now. She just scanned
> Adorno's Aesthetic Theory for me in exchange for driving her to deliver
> a slushy to her boyfriend at work. Then I read the material using the
> iAnnotate app on my iPad. I can annotate on that app exactly the same way
> I might a printed book ("dog ear" pages, underline, highlight, write notes in
> the margins or above text), and on top of that, email my annotations to
myself.
> I put myemailed annotations in a Google mail folder -- allows me to text
search
> all my annotations on any given key word and find the books or articles they
> were annotated in. The email includes the book title and page numbers of my
> annotations with related text.
>
> I don't think nearly enough about differences among foreign sources.
> Disciplinary differences I tend to see as being fairly transparent within
> the books and articles themselves.
>
> I'm not sure how to answer your other very good questions. I don't know
> that it's changed things so much as sped them up. I'm less likely to lose
> track of something I bookmarked in a printed book, and word searches are
> easier and more reliable than book indexes.
>
> Jim R
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 2:41 AM Humanist<humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:
>
>> As standard practice I search for, usually find and download an
>> extensive range and amount of articles and books, take what I need from
>> them, buy this or that book that I actually need to read through or
>> otherwise consult repeatedly and file the material away according to a
>> scheme I've worked out. I assume this is more or less what most of us do.
>>
>> My question is this: how has the practice I've just described affected
>> your scholarship? To what extent has it changed your disciplinary reach?
>> How has it affected your conception of the discipline in which you are
>> working? Do you poach or make a strong attempt to understand foreign
>> disciplinary contexts, their standards and ways of working?
>>
>> Comments eagerly awaited.
>>
>> Yours,
>> WM
perché l’uomo possa fare pubblico uso della propria ragione
è necessario che il potere agisca in pubblico
norberto bobbio
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le persone per scegliere devono sapere, devono conoscere
allora quello che un giornalista dovrebbe fare è informare
giancarlo siani
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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
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