Computing in the Field: Notes, Media and Interactive data collection

Reading

• Appropriate stuff from R. Bernard
• Fieldwork from Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists (Michael Fischer).
• Fieldnotes and Text from Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists (Michael Fischer).
• PDF of Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists Michael Fischer
• Human Relations Area Files collection of Ethnography online - eHRAF

Field Data Collection

• Fieldnotes
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Collections
• Other instruments
• Media
• Some things you can do ...
  • Microformats 
  • Tools - fieldnote editor, spreadsheets, simple databases in LibreOffice/OpenOffice.

Kinds

• KNeTs - online version and example SEI/CSAC project  with data from Congo Basin
• VideoGrok
• Census
• Notes

Resources

• Ethnography Resource Page Videos about ethnographic research in different contexts
• Multimedia Videos about ethnographic multimedia in different contexts
• Geomedia

Software

Basic

• OpenOffice.org

Multimedia

• VideoGrok Application and Tutorial Material (application doesn't work due to java version change ... under repair)
• Transcriber http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/install.php
• Kaltura http://www.kaltura.org/project
  • Cider making
  • iMovie help and tutorials

Fieldnotes

• Fieldnotes

Kinship

• Kinship Editor download page If you just want to run the software download by clicking the Green button. (The other downloads under Files include the source code for the Kinship Editor). on Sourceforge.net.
  • Kinship Editor Template for putting your diagram on a web page. Load by clicking link and then do "Save As...". Make sure you save to "Page Source" and not "Web Archive". Put the page in your web folder and then edit it, following instructions in the template.
    • Representing Kinship Tutorial covers most aspects of this section