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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 is providing an update of the advances DPLA has made in creating a digital national public library. DPLA announced the launch of it Digital Hubs Pilot Project in 7 states at DPLA Midwest (a large conference in Chicago. The project was created to help local libraries and communities digitize their collection with technological resources and supportive staff. A prototype will be launched in April of 2013 with topics including civil rights, Native Americans, and immigration. It also announced Appfest (held Nov. 8 & 9) to present ideas, including working models, of possible platforms for the metadata.

The Sloan Foundation focuses its grants in science, technology, and economic institutions that they believe will improve American quality of life. Many of the open-access journals and projects that the Sloan foundation provides grants for fall under the initiatives for Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge. The initiative look for projects that expand public access to research journals, archives, and books online.

The goal of the collaboration between the Sloan Foundation and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at U-M's Institute for Social Research is the lessen the gap between the published peer-reviewed articles and the data they cite. They are attempting to make the research data for social sciences to become more transparent and open for researchers. The main goal of this project is to create, implement, and standardize citation that gives the producers proper credit.

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.

The MHL's focus is to digitize and make available a large scale collection of rare medical journals, books, articles, and films. Their goal is to make it a free, open access journal of historical, established, and highly-qualified medical material to advance contemporary understanding of the medical field along with common knowledge of humanity. A majority of the contributors are university libraries, including Harvard an Yale. It is not a forum to publish current or contemporary research and articles.

This 'conversation' by Patrick Murray-John is about the tension caused by collaborating with people of different focuses and specialties (more hack; less yack). He challenges the thought that technology has invaded the humanities. he believes that it is the other way around, owing to the detail to structure of the digital representation. He argues that explicating code as you would a dissertation is a great approach because the code does contribute to how people will perceive and process the information on the page. He compares user interface to kids learning to analyze literary text. The question many students ask ("Why can't we just read it? Why does it have to be work?") should not be questions posed about the interface. He believes that users should not be able to view or deal with the inner workings of the application.

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.

Tim Hitchcock begins this article by stating that books are dead. He goes on to explain his statement, qualifying that the process of creating a 'book' is lengthy and redundant, especially in the digital age. In our current state, we still think of data in reference to standard book form (book, chapter, page, line). He also criticizes modern humanists' approach/integration of scholarship and technology. Hitchcock believes that many utilize technical shortcuts (such as Google Books), but refuse to recognize it. Or they reference an article that they found online, but cite the paper version. His greatest criticism is the path that he believes digital humanities is going. He beleves that it is following the progress of the book too closely and that in an attempt to make things accessible, they have not utilized the versatility of digital publishing. He notes that how we currently view books depends on how digital humanities progresses. At the end of the article, Hitchcock describes his original tone and intention of the article. He also describes the editing and peer-review process.

This website provides information about several programs, websites, and formats that show promise in long-term sustainability of digital information. It also describes formats that they do not believe will be the best option of sustainability. It also covers formats in consideration of copy right laws, collecting the information, and how to adjust a format to fit the Library of Congress recommendations.

This is an informational page on digital preservation. The page talks about the National Digital Informational Infrastructure and Preservation Program. It's main concern is preserving and making available significant digital content, especially is it is only in digital form.

Dan Cohen opens his blog with the announcement that several of his colleagues "taken democratic ownership" and they now have a new interface and editing process. He also provides several screen shots (from his ipad) of the journal to give his readers an idea of the articles and layout. He also notes that they do not use the typical process of publishing in an academic journal; he calls their approach the "catching the good."

Peerj offers three different types of memberships, each with their own advantages and restrictions, but all are for life. They emphasis that they do not publish based on possible "impact" or "interest," but focus on scientific soundness. They also offers "No questions asked" waivers for people in certain countries.

Scholastica is a server that allows people to publish journals and articles. The main point is to bring together "editors, authors, and reviewers" to one area. It also emphasizes the idea that using their system makes the process of getting material published in and peer reviewed is much simpler, less time consuming, and generates genuine interest and collaboration between all parties. It is open for all subjects, and even welcomes people to create a journal in a content area that may be lacking. It is a paid membership, but also provides options of community support with their "The Conversation," what I am assuming is a question-answer section.

PeerJ is an open access journal that researchers in Biological and Medical Sciences publish their works for a one time membership fee, which covers their lifetime. The PeerJ, Inc. has two different publication venues: PeerJ is a peer reviewed journal and PeerJ Preprint is where they can post their unfinished works for feedback.