Enrollment in our Digital Humanities class has been an adventure. Now when I am online, I am newly aware of a whole backdrop that has always been there, but I have been heedless of. No longer! Although I do recognize that I have just removed one layer of oblivion and have MANY more to work through.
This week, an email from LinkedIn containing Higher Education highlights featured a link to a Professor Hacker article by Brian Croxall titled Zotero vs. Endnote in the “Chronicle.” What stuck me when reading this article and the comments following was all of the topics it raised that we have discussed in class: personal preference, familiarity, synching, magic, patience, code, collaboration, open access, the list goes on. . . . And it all made sense.
Next, I searched for “Zotero” in the Chronicle- 87 results. This high number would have surprised me in February when the semester began. Not today.
Finally, I found a post by Amy Cavender that suggested that the Readability function might make sites more Zotero compatible- maybe this will help solve our class puzzle! She also wrote “Getting Started with Zotero” (there is a part II as well). I am grateful for all of the help out there as this journey continues without the support of our fearless and entertaining leader.