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Kevin Colton explains how the use of simulation can increase the fundamental learning of history. By using charts, maps, diagrams, and photos, students can get a different and more effective learning experience. He also goes on to explain the basics of how he created the simulation and gives images to give you an idea of what the maps might look like and a demo simulation video.

This site offers information on how to curate data, in regards to the humanities. Data curation is a new problem for the humanities as both data and analytical practices become increasingly digital. This site is directed towards teaching students about the field of data curation and how the multiple resources on this site will offer assistance with data curation challenges.

This site explains the components of cloud computing and the scale of the data centers where all of the information is stored. This article also has videos attached to give you a video tour of the Microsoft Datacenter. The scale of these datacenters is ridiculously large. Only a few companies are setting up these centers and allowing people to see them.

This article explains the use of curating early modern texts and how the process of doing so has advanced over the past few years. This new style of curating and archiving is organized to make the digital archive design and the use of the sites much more easy to navigate and explore for certain content. The author of this article believes that archiving and open access is a public service but not all works need to be available.

This article explains how, with the use of digital humanities and simulations, historians will be able to use animation archives to teach history to students. Like a lot of students, both young and old, we are visual learners. By the use of maps and charts and pictures, one can better understand what is being taught, in this instance it will be history. The picture shown here is an example of what students will use.

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 describes the end to Microsoft's Live Seach Team. This team has indexed the contents of 750,000 books and 80 million scholarly journals. The project scanned books and put them into a database that allowed the contents to come up in a diiferent area online when the content was being searched for. This effort comes as a dissappointment due to its ending of the project.

Focusing mainly on Science, Technology, and Medicine, open access eprints allow authors of published research papers or paper to archive their literary work. This allows for others to peer-review their work and allows for their work to be used as a research tool. The works are organized and easily abled to be searched.

In this article, there is a comparison between two different archive for fan fiction that allows users to access their favorite fan fiction material. FanFiction.net is a popular site that allows users age 13 and up to view hundreds-of-thousands stories in over 30 languages. Archive of Our Own is a non-profit organization that needs an access code to gain entry. There are all different types of fan fiction material for all ages. Both archives are evaluated into a pro and con list.

In this short description, reCAPTCHA is described as a free service that aims to digitize media, such as books, radio shows, and newspapers. With the ability to determine if the user is actually human, the archive is attempting to archive basic human knowledge and make information more accessible.

With the use of digitizing media, NASA and Internet Archive are teaming up to scan films and photographs into an online database where their information can be stored and accessed with easy use. Making this kind of information available online, NASA believes, is important to catagorizing information and storing it for effiecient use. Internet Archive will be using a new system where the media catagorized by historical significance.

WILEY Open Access is an online database used to archive journals. This open access library offers peer reviewed journals that easy to use for researchers. Authors are allowed to published these journals to this site and reviewed by an editorial board that determines if the work will be an asset to this open access library. There are journals on various topics but after searching the site, I have noticed that the most popular journals are the ones that concern science and medicine.

Beginning with the explanation of how algorithms have changed technology in many different aspects, this article discusses how Digital Humanities came to be. Also, the "resistance" of literature to data can affect the use of algorithims and why it is seemingly not always accurate. The article also talks about the start of turning literature into data and why the digitization of books is going to be important. The idea of having a completely accessable, professionally reviewed, open access library is any scholars dream. The unlimited access to any written work would change the way people research. Although there are still some changes that need to be done with the algorithims, digital humanities is a huge developmental project.

This digital archive is an archive that allows for content to be open for global access. The content consists of digitized texts, in many languages, and other multimedia material. The material on this site is used in respect to copyrights and the content owners and contributers agreements.

PLOS is a nonprofit publisher that publishes only 7 journals in topics related to science or medicine. Every article that is published is open access and is freely able to be viewed online. The publishers of this website believe that their journals allows for ease of research and is determined to accelerate the advancement of knowledge in these fields.

After making millions from his internet inventions, this article from Forbes, discusses how Brewster Kahle and Google are constantly butting heads. Brewster Kahle believes that his open access of books restricts Google from having optimum control over data, such as texts. Most of the scans that are available in Kahle's Archive, are from Google. Although Kahle has been compiling his library since 1996, Google was not incorporated until 1998. Kahle's Archive is now offering a service called Bookserver that allows anyone to upload their literary texts and loan it to others.

With the advancement of Digital Humanities and the ability to digitize text, this article talks about Brewster Kahle, the creator of Internet Archive and the home to thousands of books, journals, media, etc. Claiming to be a digital librarian, Internet Archive is an online database, much like Wayback Machine, where users can access out-of-print and out-of-copyrighted works. Kahle believes it is important to digitize these texts because one day they may not be available to the public anymore.

After playing around on the Wayback Machine website in class, I wanted to know more about the site. In this article, we see the man behind the creation of the Wayback Machine site and what exactly the site contains. This archive allows for users to browse through over 160 billions webpages, going as far back as 1996, and keeps the internet past preserved in his online archive. This storage system is reliable and effiecient for users and is really quite interesting to browse through some of our favorite and popular sites today.

This article focuses on the internet users means for obtaining media via an online archive. The Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making an array of media immediately available as onBitTorrent for downloading content. By using this means of getting media and other data, users are offered a faster delivery regardless of internet connection.

This article explains the dispute between Google and publishers here in the United States. As we have seen in class, Google Books offers internet users the ability to search through their database of scanned books. Publishers are fighting that Google is violating copyright laws by scanning these books and letting people have free open access. Although the project itself is causing an uproar, publishers as well as authors are being given the opportunity to decide what books are included in this project.