Using the Internet, creating a net presence

Contents

Some examples of resources for anthropologists on the Internet
Search engines
Using the Internet in teaching and research
Creating a good website and a net presence for yourself and your project

Some examples of resources for anthropologists on the Internet

How often do you use the net for something each working day? (excluding email)

• 0-1 time
• 2-5 times
• 6-20 times

What do you use the net for?

• Reading academic articles in full text
• Reading newspapers
• Browsing bibliographies
• Looking up bibliographical references
• Participating in discussion groups
• Looking up referencs
• Ordering books
• Ordering tickets
• Making or editing homepage
• Looking up words in a dictionary
• Looking up words and expressions
• Checking international exchange rates
• Finding regional information
• Acquainting yourself with theoretical and philosophical positions
• Etc....

.... Cannot cover everything, but will give some examples .... :

----> Getting oriented:

Ex.1
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/articles/intro.html
Brian Schwimmer's article (1996)

Old
Many dead links => things change fast
Many live links => still continuity

=> When you establish yourself on the net, think through what you name your site and your files - it is stupid to have to change them. Respond to dead link queries promptly and thankfully!

=> Dead links common on the net => bookmark link collections that are kept up and checked:

....Some examples:

Ex.2
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/
Sosig (Constantly updated)

Ex.3
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/anth_on_www.html 
A Guide to Internet Resources in Anthropology
... not everything works - the table of contents )-:

----> Some text collections and reference works:

How to quote texts from the net:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html 
Chicago Manual of Style

Journals etc. - Jan covered this

Bibliographical reference
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/ 
Anthropology Review Database (limitations)

Library catalogue for reference work
http://www.anthro.ku.dk/Ressourcer/Biblioteket/biblioteket.htm 
IA homepage > Ressourser > Bibliotek > Copac

Non-professional, very large reference work
http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/information/biography/ 
[Note download time: use of table!]
Anthropological biographies 

Semi-professional reference work in progress
http://www.anthrobase.com/Dic/eng/ 
Online anthropological dictionary (AnthroBase)

Professional reference work
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html 
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Text and resource collections - Ex. History of anthropology
http://www.anthrobase.com/Browse/home/hst/ 
History of anthropology homepage

Text collections - Ex. AnthroBase
http://www.anthrobase.com/
AnthroBase

Browse > Theme > A > Applied anthropology => get reference / Wedel's text

Search > "mafia"

The point not merely to find texts, but to use links as resources, e.g. in teaching

E.g. - Course homepage: "Postcommunism":
http://www.fsnielsen.com/kur/2001-II_Post-Com/2001-2_PostCom.htm 
- Bad initial file name (but better not to change)
- Risky use of capitalization in file and folder names
+ Uses AnthroBase regional listing East Europe
- Wrong link!!
+ Uses maps and timelines
+ Supplemental reading (may be continuously updated)

Text collections - Ex. Marxist writers
http://www.marxists.org/ 
Select Author: > Marx archive

Search Engines

This is the main way people get around on the net, so:

• You have to learn to use them
• You have to get into them (see below)

Some specialized search engines:

• anthro.net (mentioned above)
• Library search (Copac) (mentioned above)
• RAI periodical search: http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib_ai/anthind 

For general search: Google

• Regular search / Narrowing search (violence vs. anthropology violence)
• Using quotation marks (anthropology violence vs. "anthropology of violence") (meta-theory vs. "meta-theory")
• Exclude with "-"
• Advanced search, Image search, News search
• Results: Cached version, Category, Similar pages, View as html, Translate
• Google toolbar: Search site, Up, Highlight

For bookmarking: PowerMarks

Using the Internet in teaching and research

We have already to some extent touched on research.
In addition, mention Newsgroups example:
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/anthro-l.html 

In teaching (and publication):

On IA's homepage:
http://www.anthro.ku.dk/Ressourcer/UndervisnRess/it-undervisn.htm 
Ressourcer > Ressourcer for undervisere > Ressources and ideas for using IT in teaching

Publish own texts online:
http://www.fsnielsen.com/txt/texts.htm 

Simple course page:
http://www.fsnielsen.com/kur/2001-II_Post-Com/2001-2_PostCom.htm 

Complex course page:
http://www.fsnielsen.com/kur/2003-2_Gender/ 

Groupcare from this homepage
Reading list with links
How to make a homepage - mini course
etc.

Creating a good website and a net presence for yourself and your project

• Content (give to the net, don't only take) (Ex.1, Ex.2)
• Site stability (stay where you are) and good document names (index.html/default.html + regular names)
• Good page titles (search engines want them)
• Good internal navigation and search (Ex.1, Ex.2, Ex.3)
  - catch "searchers" (home-button)
  - includes "Home" and "halfway home" links on every page! (Check this! Ex.1)
  - includes no-frames link if you use frames (enables linking) - Ex. AnthroBase > Citation > Benedict Anderson
• Esthetics and legibility
  - this is not paper
  - pros and cons of graphics
  - percent or points in tables? (Ex.1, Ex.1.b (table visible); Ex.2, Ex.2.b (table visible); vs. Ex.3 (no table))
• Get into search engines and indexes
  - Sosig > Reference Works (Anthropology) > AnthroBase > [Record Details]