USERS AND USE CASES

Use cases demonstrate the 'reality' of using systems, a handful of current examples are offered here as a means of demonstrating how Heurist can be used.  We plan to add more detailed use cases for Heurist, building on the applications we and colleagues have already developed, when time permits.

Keeping Track of Bookmarks:    Ien Ang, Cultural Studies Researcher

Ien uses Heurist to save her internet bookmarks in.  Ien uses this online collection of resources to retrieve and tag bookmarks wherever and whenever she is working online and she and her colleagues share their bookmarks with each other as part of a research Workgroup.  This collaborative method of updating and referring resources within peer networks builds up a readily available collection of resources and shared awareness. 

Creating a Bibliography for Publication:    Arianna Traviglia, Remote Sensing in Archaeology Specialist

Arianna is using Heurist to maintain a large bibliography of resources for remote sensing in Heurist.  The strength of the collating and publishing functions of Heurist enable Arianna to choose a citation style to publish her bibliography in and to have that bibliography (or sections of it) published live online.  The openness of Heurist allows other specialists in the field to view this collection of references and encourage them to build upon this valuable research resource.

Creating the Laboratory Website... and More...:    Ian Johnson, Academic and Website Developer

One of Heurists great features is its ability to store and publish information to the web.  Ian set up Heurist to operate as content management system for the Archaeological Computing Laboratory website.  The content in Heurist can be fed to the website and can be fed to other websites within the university and externally.  For example a regularly updated list of humanities centres kept in Heurist is feed to the Digital Innovation (Faculty of Arts) and to the centerNet (an International Network of Digital Humanities Centres) websites. 

Bibliography for Project Website:    Ian Johnson, Academic and Chief Investigator

The bibliography for the Rethinking Timelines project will be published on the project website.  The bibliographic entries in Heurist (with annotation and discussion pages) will in time be dynamically-generated as a series of webpages.  Using Heurist as the central repository to maintain the bibliography up-to-date with new material makes it easy to enable the project team, and other intersted parties, to contribute to it.

Managing Media and Mapping for Project:    Steven Hayes, Database Application Developer

Steven has undertaken development work to enable media to be stored and linked to relevant records within Heurist.  The Journey to Horseshoe Bend project, undertaken by Drs Peter Dallow and Hart Cohen (University of Western Sydney).  This project is using Heurist as a means of storing marked up text (TEI) of the book by Strehlow and linking parts of the text to a map to indicate points on the journey.  The this project is maintained in its own Heurist instance and the historical text and the mapping of the journey is published online.