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This article addresses the subject matter of the audiences in Digital Humanities. Working with the Powerhouse online database, researchers have been able separate this audience into four different categories. This includes the familiars, seekers, utilisers, and wanderers making up the largest percentage.

This blog is about how to teach digital editions more like a seminar. Digital editions are about pedagody, culture preservation, and interpreting. She uses this term as a broader Digital Humanities method to create a network that uses interpretive knowledge and connected skills to reach a certain audience. By making this teaching more like a graduate seminar students are able to contribute more to the class because they will be more easily self-motivated. Students will understand that there is one instructor and that they contribute to their project while also remembering who the audience is.

This video talks to students who have been invited to participate in the only Digital Humanities conference for and by undergraduate researchers. Short segments follow students who discuss the meaning of digital humanities, why there are passionate about the field, and different projects they are involved in. For example, a student expresses the difference in publishing for an audience who will be online and the responsibility of the researcher to approach the project in the best way to present it to a larger audience. Collaboration among researchers in the field is noted to be one of the most important aspects in Digital Humanities.

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 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 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.

This post highlights a project by Sanna Dullaway to recolor old black-and-white photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to recreate the vibrant, colorful worlds that we usually imagine in sepia-tone. In addition to the praise of the project, Yvonne Seale questions if it takes away our historical imaginations and violates the artifacts' historical integrity. Either way, she concedes that this project makes the past more tangible to newer and younger audiences used to seeing everything in color and gets them thinking about history.

The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection is an archive of audio recordings, documents, film footage, and photographs from the Special Collections Library at Northwestern University. The archive's purpose is to preserve the collection, present it to a wider audience, interpret its significance and importance, and allow users to learn more about the cultural heritage and history in the digital age. It is also functioning as a sort of prototype for an historically-infused digital folk music festival and a research workshop.

At the Digital Studio for Public Humanities, Kyle Moody attempted to define digital humanities in one sentence: "open and accessible research and content creation, distribution, and evaluation by persons able to use or utilize technology." In his definition, all people are included whether they are coders or not, a notable difference from many other digital humanists' definitions. Moody discusses how the digital humanities and technology are helping to blur the line between those accessing and consuming content and those creating content. This active reaction to what is being consumed helps developers to see what is wanted and needed and adjust their content based on public reaction. He left his audience with the open question of whether or not the academy has the responsibility to give the public more control over what scholars produce as well as if the academy should be the benevolent curator of cultural content.

An interesting website with the sole intent of informing and involving its viewers. Viewers are able to correct, transcribe, tage and comment digitally uploded information. This information comes from archives of cookbooks, diaries, collections, letters, etc. The website also includes an extensive amont of news, tweets, updates, and contributions via the viewers for the viewers, A great website that really involves its audience. Like a modern day wiki.

This is a neat site created to allow viewers to interact with the archives they come in contact with. ALomost like a modern day wiki. The site contains links that enable the participant to correct, transcribe, or tag and comment of the collections they come across. Some of their collections include cookbooks, diaries, collections, letters, etc. The site also contains news updates, contributions, and tweets to and from the viewers themselves.

DIY History is a website for the public to use to help contribute to preserving diaries, letters, cookbooks, and other handwritten documents by transcribing them and posting them to the database. It also allows these users to go through already machine-transcribed documents to check for errors and make corrections when necessary. The diaries and documents included on this website range from Civil War-era documents, World War II items, and college yearbooks.

Exquisite Corpora is a Tumblr page created by the Harvard metaLAB. The participants are to be in teams of three and craft a detailed abstract for a proposal to a scholarly press based on the genre, platform, and audience cards that they received at the metaLAB grad school. Each one Includes one piece of media (an image, audio file, video, interactive piece, etc.) that illustrates their concept. They have 45 minutes to research, discuss, and compose their proposals before they upload it to the Tumblr. These are similar to the lightning talks we discussed in class.

The core purpose of this article is the promotion of the digital humanities in academia by informing digital humanists how they might be able to better communicate the value of digital humanities. The four main points are: educate the general audience about the subject matter, the need for reviewers to understand the diverse nature of the field, documentating ones role in collaborative projects for the sake of promotion, and explaining the changing nature of peer review in the field. It also briefly addresses the need for institutions to accept new forms of media.

This blogger was asked to create a website over the papers she had been digitizing. Creating a website entailed knowing how to code it, which she had to learn. Her study shows that having the students build a website adds to their learning process and gives them new ways to think. It also allows the students to collaborate with their teachers that can further engage their research process by adding new questions or finding multiple audiences. The future of Digital Humanities lies within the graduate students and how they are being trained so that they can find better and easier ways to teach the younger generation.

In this article a group of researchers are asked to describe the function that their blogs will serve to them and researchers that are going to viewing their blogs. These researchers blogs are motivated by the possibility to share knowledge, aid creativity and provide a feeling of being connected in their research. Ultimately the analysis brings out the blog's combination of function and possibility it offers to each multiple audience.

This website seeks to make history accessible to an online audience through a series of online exhibits. Topics range from "Imaging the French Revolution" to "The September 11 Digital Archive." The website offers free access to primary sources as well as accompanying teaching modules.

This is article on the HathiTrust verdict explains the extent to which the verdict will affect the use of digitized materials in university libraries. The verdict held that digitizing works for the purpose of providing access to the blind and print-disabled is not only fair, but transformative use. This will allows universities to not only maintain digitized texts for this audience, but to share them among each other, reducing wait times for materials from months to minutes.

This short description is an overview of how race can be incorporated into the digital Humanities. This description gives input on the seminar in which our very own professor Amy Earhart is currently partaking in! This seminar will give a brief survey of the emerging field of race and the Digital Humanities, introduce the audience to a variety of digital projects informed by race, and provide links to resources for people interested in working in this field. Topics covered will include: the genealogy of these debates the theortical assumptions that inform them, and issues to consider while constructing a race and digital humanities project.

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.

Podcaster Ethan Watrall confronts the topic of archaeology and its connection to digital humanities. The reality is that archaeologists currently do not have strong connections to digital humanists. What Watrall brings attention to is the peculiarity of this issue, even when archaeologists often use a a variety of digital technologies their research. Watrall does not bring solutions to his issue, but simply is informing his audience DH participants can take a chance to connect their work and communities to archaeologists.