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This is an interactive question and answer website by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. The question this link leads to is more of a request by Inna Kizhner, a member of this website, for help with DH projects with strong visual/non-linear components. This website shows that in the field of Digital Humanities, many people reach out to each other and collaborate.

This article is one of my favorites! Ms. Knowles chose to ask a question that could not be aswered....until they found a way by means of digital humanities. The questions was simply this, "What could General Grant see in his view at Gettysburg?" This question sparked a menas to find an answer by digitally mapping the terrain at the time on the battle in coordination with Grant's height/ location. This success led to a Project wtih Knowles and Paul Jaskot concerning the concentration camp, Auschwitz, and another similar project done about the Salem Witch Trials by Benjamin Ray. Such great research and visual representations.

Anne Kelly Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont, posed a simple question that could not be accurately answered before: What could the confederate general Robert E. Lee actually see during the battle of Gettysburrg. In order to answer this question Ms. Knowles team began by creating a digital map of the areas topography at the time of the battle. Then, the group as whole began to replicate the view Lee would have had by generating what is known as a viewshed from a point 75feeet above the terrain the distance from the ground to the cupid floor plus Lee's eye level standing in his.

According to the article, DH Answers represents a chance for digital humanists to communicate with fellow digital humanists through a free and community driven Q&A board. Anyone may post and answer freely, and community members are encouraged to tag their posts so as to facilitate the creation of new categories. Questions range from improving the site itself to introducing undergraduate students to the digital humanities. Forums users may also make requests for information, such as "a list of all graduate programs that study DH."

DH answers s is a part of the Association for Computers and Humanities' website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

This website, arts-humanities.net, aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing: information on projects creating and using digital content, tools and methods to answer research questions, information on tools and methods for creating and using digital resources, a listing of expert centers and individual researchers, a library documenting lessons learned through case studies, briefing papers, and a bibliography. The website encourages people to become members and to contribute.

Zotero forums is a part of Zotero's website that people can register to and join the online conversation about the Digital Humanities. Most of the forum is dedicated to issues digital humanists can run into in the technical side of the field. This link takes you directly to a list of the forums that many people use to ask questions, opinions, and overall discuss an problems or thoughts they may be having about the digital humanities.

This article highlights three large uncertainties of the Micha Cardenas about the digital humanities: is queer new media rare or is analysis of it rare, if there is something "conservative, even sellable" that is present in the digital humanities, and can queer theory, new media, or the digital humanities "disturb hegemonic systems." Although the article does not answer any of these questions, it discusses the history of Queer Theory as "hip, trendy," and its potential reflection in the digital humanities. These questions also arise out of a concern that discussions in digital humanities, particularly CCS, "can run down a road that is very conservative."

This article highlights the issue of technology assisting to those who could potentially do powerful and bad things with it. Some of this technology is in place today to help assist these terrorists to crumble our nation's infastructure. Security expert, Brian Snow, seeks to answer the hard questions concerning the intent to use technology in negative ways if put into the wrong hands.

This website called Humanist is an "international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities." The goal of this website is to create a forum where people can log on and discuss any issues with the digital humanities and share thoughts and ideas. Humanist is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

Scholastica is a server that allows people to publish journals and articles. The main point is to bring together "editors, authors, and reviewers" to one area. It also emphasizes the idea that using their system makes the process of getting material published in and peer reviewed is much simpler, less time consuming, and generates genuine interest and collaboration between all parties. It is open for all subjects, and even welcomes people to create a journal in a content area that may be lacking. It is a paid membership, but also provides options of community support with their "The Conversation," what I am assuming is a question-answer section.

Although alt-ac is not exclusive digital humanities, or even exclusively humanities, the report on the #alt-ac panel for the Digital Humanities 2011 highlights some of the issues and questions relevant to the DH field. Some of the problems are personal in nature, such as the professional differences between#alt-ac and tenure, and others are more institutional, such as the issues with "credential creep." Although the article does not necessarily provide answers, it highlights many of the concerns alt-ac professionals have in pursuing their career.

We all have had classes were there is a grade distrubtion and although there maybe a huge distrubtion of A's ultimately we can not determine who has actually retained the information. The article Show Me Your Badge written by Kevin Carey helps us better answer this question. In this article Carey introduces us to this idea of digital badging. Digital badging are portals that leads to a large amount of information about what the bearers know and can do. This new invention has helped to communicate detail information about college graduates.