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This Article discusses the interests that Google and Yahoo have in Wikipedia. The story that Cohen claimsis being missed is the generosity exhibited towards Wikipedia by these two corporations with little or no apparent compensation. He then explains the benefits that Wkipedia can offer to the field of data mining.

This is a follow-up article to a post Cohen wrote on Wikipedia and its relation to Google and Yahoo. In this post, he discusses the validity of Wikipedia as a tool to create text profiles of subjects for search engines.

A professor at Georgetown University is collaborating with students to further develop the Wikipedia Arabic program that has very few data covering materials in this language. Students will work with people who speak Arabic, mostly those that live in Egypt, to create and translate Arabic articles. This professor plans to show others her students research so that they can influence other scholars research and further develop research in translating media information around the world.

The broad topic of Digitial Humanities is neatly placed as a quick reference in the wiki-database. As a short guide on the subject, main points of focus, sub-topics, and direction are categorized, indicating the audience to be for the general population. The sources range from shcolarly articles to essays conveying the topic across forms of research under it. The contributor of the site is a reseacher for the UCL centre for digital humanities.

Unlike the definitional experience with Wikipedia, we are given a hands-on approach with technology influencing the humanities for a specific issue. The article describes the relationship of technology incorperated to make hindered people more accesible with the general activity of reading and the role Digital Humanities plays in intrepurting this interaction. This is a more specialized and focus area for the study but the approach is more practical than theorized.

OKC is a collaborative effort to "make the record of human knowledge" inclusive. They plan to do this by digitizing printed or physical artifacts in libraries and creating an online collection. It talks about the issues libraries face, such as funding for digitization, and attempt to rectify the issues with the libraries. This page also includes projects OKC suports and is contributing to, such as the Wikipedia Gateway Project. It promotes collaboration between libraries and cultural centers and advocates for the smaller 'non-commercial players.' Their greatest interest concerning technology, is to attempt to advance and integrate existing technical architecture.

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information". A subtopic of the broader concet with which defining the structure and scope of it will align perspectives for other topics as an example.

Information retrieval is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full-text indexing. A subtopic of the broader concet with which defining the structure and scope of it will align perspectives for other topics as an example.

Richard E. Miller, an English professor at Rutgers University, gives a presentation to the Rutgers University Board of Governors on Digital Humanities. He argues that the English department is moving towards that of Digital Humanities due in large part to the internet becoming increasingly involved in English and humanities education. His presentation defines and discusses Web 2.0 (the web as used for creation rather than just research) and how the use of things such as Wikipedia, blogs, etc. are pushing everyone towards creation-mode on the internet. Through this presentation, Miller hopes to convince the Board of Governors to allow for the creation of a Digital Humanities department at Rutgers University.

Adrianne Wadewitz is featured as a guest writer in this article. She shares with us details about her position as a Digital Humanities postdoc at Occidental College. The freedom provided by her position seems to be her favorite aspect of her job. Wadewitz includes in this article a four point list of her planned tasks and activities for October 1st. This includes working on an article discussing teaching with Wikipedia.