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This is the main page of Stanford University's projects in digital humanities, mainly the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). CESTA is a digital humanities project comprised of several projects, that span a wide variety of content areas and use different approaches. Two of the three projects mentioned (Mapping the Republic of Letters and Spatial History Project) seem to be a collaborative research effort to digitally map a concept. The last project under CESTA, Literary Lab, seems to be an archive of papers, dissertaions, and research by the current students and staff members of Stanford.

This website is designed to give viewers an inside look at the humanities at Stanford University. With the new technologies through digital humanities, people are able to create virtual archives and interact with source material in a way that has never been done. The use of these interactive archives, like the "Authorial London", scholars are able to use new forms of technology in a more efficient way to research certain material.

This overview of copyright law and the application of fair use discusses the deciding factors as they apply to different types of copyrighted work.

Stanford's Lit. Lab is a collection of short-term research-based projects/experiments. It is a new 'project,' created in 2010 by Matthew Jockers and Franco Moretti. They make a note that all projects are collaborative, even if only one author is cited. The best way to describe this project is a collection of 'mini-research-based' projects/experiments presented in/through a "digital and quantitative nature."

The main page for Stanford's CESTA is in a blog format. The moderator posts announcements, such as research positions that need to be filled, projects that they would like to 'spotlight,' and new/interesting information collected through one of the 3 projects. There are also posts of events/seminars/workshops/lectures/publications that relate either the subjects being researched in CESTA or about the digital humanities itself.

Google Books is a service that allows searches of full-texts of books and magazines that have been scanned by Google. These texts are stored into a digital database and with the use of "character recognition", a user can locate any textual material. This website discusses the legal aspect to Universities access and use of Google Books. With a proposed agreement between AAP and Google Book Search, the proposal was unfortunately rejected.

Like the archive websites that we viewed in class, this website is designed to archive material from the Renaissance. There are course related material, such as blogs and lesson plans, there are databases with texts and images from this early time period, and there is a "studio" designed to help writers in their research. There are also external links for any other sites that are wished to view. An archive website is useful for research and Stanford University designed this one for research purposes and informational value.