The Ontario Genealogical Society's annual workshop is a fantastic event and a must attend for any new or veteran genealogists. If you use a camera or scanner for your geological research, come by our booth, and I'll show you how to never manually sort your research images again!...
As someone who works with multiple word documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and web browsers simultaneously, window management is a real issue. Windows 10 has "snap assist" which automatically resizes and arranges up to four windows to fit your screen. This is especially helpful for anyone who wants to take full advantage of large desktop monitors. Apple...
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software is an emerging and powerful technology that can, when used with proper care, be an immensely helpful research tool. Researchers can take the images of type-set documents and convert them into searchable text. If the quality of the OCR is high enough, researchers can...
Sometimes we need to rename our research images to suit new purposes. For example, I downloaded several dozen volumes of Canada's House of Commons Debates for my doctoral research. Now, I'm using the same files for a digitization and transcription project that will be live on the web in...
I used to dread coming home from successful archival research trips. I returned with with thousands - or even tens of thousands - of photographs of documents that were critical to my research knowing that I would have to spent hours, or even days, mechanically grouping them together to match...
Welcome to the inaugural post of the "Digital Research Tricks" blog. Whether you’re a scientist using a telescope or critter-camera, or historian, genealogist, or archeologist using a point and shoot camera or cellphone to capture your data, digital technologies allow us to capture thousands of images at little...
Come and check out Confero 2.0's new features at our Congress 2015 booth near the registration centre....
Several months ago, Daniel Heidt gave a presentation at York University's History department about using research technologies like cameras and tripods for archival research. He also described a variety of photograph management software tools and strategies - including Confero - as well as the utility of various reference management...
Worried about your next archival trip? Need to know how to: Prepare for an archival trip? Learn how to use digital cameras in archives? Sort your thousands of images quickly? Integrate photographs into your notes? Check out this upcoming workshop with Daniel Heidt at St. Jerome's University from 2:30 to 4:00 pm in SJU 3013. Everyone is welcome. ...
About to head embark upon a research trip and want a better way to organize the thousands of images that you're about to produce? For the last six months we have been busily working on Confero 2.0 and are about to begin beta testing! Confero 2.0 contains a...
