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Writing: Records, chips, chips

After making the field work, what next? As it turns out is the same as before doing so: chips, chips, chips. When I was a student we used chips in cartons of 20 inches wide by 12.5 cm high. To find out what exactly we do with information our notes, field notes and transcripts, we made a page with almost every paragraph, and qualifying words we put them on the right: housing, food, music ... (Or in my case "cooperation", "economic problems", "cooperative", "ideas about the afterlife and the daily life", "relations with other towns," relationships con la ciudad", "familia", "producción diaria", y así sucesivamente).  Al final de este ejercicio de desmenuzamiento de la información en fichas, generalmente hacíamos montones de fichas en el suelo, para ver qué cosas sobresalían, en términos de lo que habíamos obtenido.  Era un trabajo lento, difícil y hasta cierto punto, viéndolo a la distancia, cómico por lo primitivo de la técnica.

Lo más increíble de todo es que antes de que hubiera computadoras, había que hacer todo esto con la máquina de escribir.  En el extremo superior izquierdo de cada ficha poníamos nuestros propios datos, pues muchas veces trabajábamos team (eg research institutions), together with data from the source. In the upper right put the date on which we collected the information, and then the 'topics' relevant (today we call' tags ').

The advent of word processors many of these things changed: instead of typing all the cards, began to cut and paste, so that each card had only a label. Also, it was impossible not to spread the tiles on the floor, and start collecting the tokens similar as separate documents in virtual folders. But strangely my generation continued to use the cards to make chips.

seems that the chips are still the Classificationof and information technology of choice in the world in anthropology and the humanities. Zotero program, which works in Firefox and now is in the process of becoming a program that works out browsers, faithfully replicates the process of making chips. I use it for three years and I have hundreds of virtual tokens. This program was developed by librarians at several universities, in close consultation with professionals social sciences and humanities. It is obvious that not only me but thousands of people who were educated in anthropology and related disciplines for over a century, and we continue to make chips.