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Metadata  as  an  Analy1cal  and  Wri1ng  tool:    

DEVONthink  and  Scrivener  

Rachel  Kantrowitz,  New  York  University  American  Historical  Associa1on  

January  2,  2015  

Abundance  of  sources  

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DEVONthink  

Scrivener  

Metadata  

OCR  

Overview:  Tools  and  Programs  

Tools:  A  few  terms  

 •  Metadata                  è  data  about  data  •  OCR                è  Op1cal  Character  Recogni1on  

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Metadata  and  tagging  

Programs  

1)  DEVONThink  Pro  Office  

2)  ABBYY  Finereader  

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Tagging  

OCRing  renders  your  archival  documents  text  searchable  

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Scrivener’s  corkboard  for  brainstorming  

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Scivener  +  DEVONthink  integra1on  

Split  Screen  in  Scrivener  

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DEVONthink  

Scrivener  

Metadata  

OCR  

Review  

Thank  you!      

More  informa1on:  rachelkantrowitz.com  Rachel  Kantrowitz  PhD  Candidate  

New  York  University