Digital Research with Zotero
The Programme in African Digital Humanities will offer a set of on-line workshops over the next six weeks to encourage people to use Zotero, the free, open-source digital research manager. Zotero simplifies the gathering, analysis and referencing of the forms of evidence researchers now use -- from TikTok videos to original manuscripts. It supports powerful tools for collaboration between groups of researchers, and between students and their supervisors. The next version of Zotero, 6.0, includes a built-in PDF annotation and note extraction tool, with many powerful features. All of these tools are free.
Zotero also provides cloud-storage and backup using Amazon Web Services at the standard price for cloud backups (2gb at $20 per annum, 6gb at $60 per annum). For graduate students, these storage costs should be carried by our institutions -- and we will be gathering usernames to work on setting this up.
The workshops will be on-line and we ask those interested to you sign up for the sessions that suit their interests and needs. The sessions are open to anyone interested.
1. March 1, 13:00 to 14:30 | Introduction to Zotero. Installing, capturing data, referencing, creating a sync account, synchronisation, sharing collections, understanding tags and folders. Register here https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtfu2gqz4pHNbGF7i2EUa6trFUZ66aCi5p.
2. March 8, 13:00 to 14:30 | Features of Zotero 6. Enabling pdf annotation, using colours in annotations, creating notes from pdf annotations, and using tags and annotation colours in notes. https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtdO-hqjsuHdI4KjduNmwAgBZUQoPujBFR
3. March 15, 13:00 to 14:30 | Installing Zotero Extensions. Using the Zutilo extension and tags to control complexity and organise your research. https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoc-irpzMiEtIHY4S14lpfCdnlTwvjcqx8