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In this article, William Pannapacker discusses his personal "come to DH moment," his interactions with the field, his concerns about Digital Humanities, and some of the projects appearing that are interesting and address his concerns. One major project highlighted by Pannapacker is the DH Commons project, described "as the match.com for digital humanists." The article ends with a call for uninvolved scholars at institutions, particularly those that do not have DH centers, to utilize these various projects to collaborate and join the digital humanities.

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."

This is a guest blogpost on the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) website of TAMU, written by Dr. Jacob heil, a post-doctoral researcher for the IDHMC. He writes in an attempt to express the early modernist's perspective of DH. He starts by discussing the issue of definition ("in" or "out"), His opinion is that, "To my mind, I'm not 'in' or 'out' of DH; I'm just doing my work." He embraces the popular ethos of collaboration and a dedication to open-access, though he admits they might be ideals. He argues that reasearch should become resource, speaking of the way in which teachers share their research.

This webliography provides history and general information on the origin and growth of the field of Digital Humanities, including the Day of DH 2012. It provides many different organizations involved in Digital Humanities, and sorts them according to associations, collaboratories, and funding. There are also links and explanations on tutorials that teach researchers how to go about working in digital humanities, including tutorials on coding. The webliography comes to a close with information on conferences and institutions in the field of DH for researchers to find further information from.

This is a a blog by Peter Bradley, a digital humanist whose focus is in philosophy. He makes the observation that there is a definite lack of philosophers in the DH. He notes that there are philosophers who work in technological advancement, and philosophers who use technology to advance philosophy, but he states there is no one doing philosophy. For example, philosophers may analyze the concept of open-access and Logicians may help with coding, but people are not utilizing the technical aspects for their research such as map trends.

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.

Professor John Unsworth summarizes an academic approach by outlining the schamatics of defining this study. The site inherits an authorial presence and gives the content credibility. the site is explained in a manner for a broad audience to view and understand with examples and practice explanation.

Although the definition and scope of this humanities studies is expanded or centralized within the blog. This section within the site has many definitions and forming a word cloud would produce a consistant termonolgy used. The highlight of this site is the open access and audience awareness.

This article explains how there has been a discussion about how to evaluate the work of digital humanities and how they are going to do so. First, they will build a bibliography of existing statements and institutional policies in the Digital Humanities Zotero Group Library. Group membership is open and we encourage DHNow readers to add materials and citations to the library. Second, they will solicit new writing on critical assessment for the full breadth of DH scholarship.

This article highlights the approach and concept of Digital Humanities to a wider audeience. This is a unique summary due to the fact that the there is no clear difinition but a general scope of the direction and trend that this study is heading towards in humanities, The key synapsis as a digital humanist is the reliance on other sources for a framing of the defintion.

Blogger and self proclaimed Digital Humanist Shannon Christine Mattern worries that the technical term "digital humanities" does not do the field any justice. The title was then broken down by Mattern. She says that digital is too broad of a term. If something by chance involves technology, it might be prematurely designated into Digital Humanities. The focus relies too heavily on "digital".

As a program offered by the city of university of new york, who set to showcase the definition and experience of learning of this topic through their incetive, Digital humanities is explained in an open access for an a more specific audience rather than the entire population that the web offers.

Cohen blogs about the emergence of several new ways of publishing within the scientific field that is still considered scholarly and many times peer reviewed. Some of the websites mentioned offer to publish a writer's work for a lifetime, for a few dollars. The emergence of these self-publishing, academic, scientific sites also shows a slight shift in philosophy. By restricting the publication through certain channels, the publishing companies and universities were choosing what will be the topic "of next year." Some times they were right, sometimes they were wrong, but either way, great and important papers were lost because they were not considered "the next big thing" or they are too "normal."

In this article Lee Bessette discusses the challenges that teachers find in digital Humanities. He believes, that most contingent faculty already feel, to a certain extaint, like super-humanists, expected to be able to teach just about any sub-area of their field at the drop pf a hat. Adding DH to the overlaod can become a burdern to those teachers who are not on tenure and can not afford to learn DH because of time, research, and funding.

This online website is a guide that serves as an introduction to the the field of Digital Humanities. On this website hosted by the University of Delaware, there are plenty of resources and links for "topics and discussions about defining and describing DH, tools for projects, and links to the DH community such as blogs, open access journals, and conferences and events."

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.

ProfHacker in The Chronicle of Higher Education put a notice out that people new to digital humanities can receive a mentor through DHCommons to help guide them. It also notes that those who have experience in DH can apply to be a mentor. Although ACH has had a mentor program, it seems to have been more unofficial and the technical sign-up was confusing (and funny!). The partnership with ACH and DH Commons allows greater access, and less confusion, for people to sign up.

This is the main page of O'Reilly's website. He is a member of PeerJ's board and has contributed to many open access journals. His focus within DH seems to be the technical aspects, but he his a huge advocator for open access. There are many videos on this page of interviews he has give, videos of his lectures, articles written about him, and articles he has written. His main page also spot lights workshops, conferences, and articles concerning the future of open access, technology, ethical uses of technology, and technological business philosophy. O'Reilly is an extremely active member in the technological world, and is also instrumental in developing the tone for open access.

This article presents an examination of how digital humanities is currently conceived and described, and examines the discursive shift from humanities computing to digital humanities.