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The purpose of this power point presentation is to provide information on an alternative to XML called "Linked Data." The purpose of linked data is, according to the powerpoint, not to create "data silos" but to connect all these pieces of data together akin to hyperlinking. By digitizing materials in this manner, data can be more readily connected through the use of various identifiers such as Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).

In China scientist are rewarded with cash for publishing an article in a prestigious general. The more prestigious the journal, the larger the sum. So because of the limited international circulation of Chinese journals, there is a real push to have one's work appear in an international index, such as the science citation index, Engineering index, or the index to scientific & technical proceedings. The author of this article Does the Chinese Model Make Sense, Phil Davis, questions wither or not this model is authentic. He believes that the need for money will eventually exceed the need to produce valid, and original work. Davis is able to justify is argument by mentioning previous works that were written by the chinese that had an extreme amount of plagerism and unoriginal work. From this evidence he was able to persuade readers that the Chinese Model did not make sense nor did it have any valid points. His commentary was a critque of the article The outflow of academic papers from China: Why it happening and can it be stemmed, written by Shao Jufang and Shen Huiyun.

The NDIIP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation) twitter account tweeted a link to a video featuring Kari Kraus giving a speech titled "Phylogenetic Futures: Big Data and Design Fiction" at Big Data & Uncertainty in the Humanities hosted at the University of Kansas. Kraus spoke about the application of digital humanities to phylogenetics, or the study of evolutionary relatedness between various groups of organisms. She presents phylogenetics as a part of the big data segment of digital humanities. Her speech details the applications of phylogenetics in digital humanities through examining cultural materials.