Scribes in the office and the archives
Rather than blather on and on and on and on about Scribe and how I organize my research, I’ve put together a powerpoint tutorial of the program as I use it. It’s a text- and image-heavy file, because it is intended to stand alone, online, to help other people build their own digital database — or at least help people understand what I’m doing.
The keyword searches at the end of the tutorial are the part of Scribe that I anticipate being most useful for me. Being able to find sources addressing veterans, women, labor groups and other specific group with a few keystrokes will make the writing process so much easier.
[…] Despite the very real and tangible usefulness of the wiki, my Scribe database is possibly the most exciting product of my digital history TOR. With Scribe, I have created a searchable database of my research images without running the risk of corrupting or accidentally deleting my research. The keywords let me search for references ranging from Kissinger to Haldeman, from veterans and labor unions, as well as specific groups and strategies. Streamlining the keywords has helped me focus my attention on patterns in the Colson papers as well as the Nixon Administration. My primary complaint with Scribe is that is not always an intuitive program and I therefore created a PowerPoint tutorial for you and anyone else who might be curious about how I built my database/archive with Scribe. I posted the tutorial in a brief blog entry about Scribe (Scribes in the office and the archives) and attached it in an e.mail as well. I have also included a full backup copy of the Scribe database – if you are curious, feel free to do some keyword searches just to get a feel for the program. […]
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