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In this article a case study is shared discussing car manufacturing company Volvo and their strategy in organizing their big data in order to improve their company as a whole. By implementing digitized reports in organized topics such as product design and vehicle diagnostics in to their large Teradata system, data can be processed and completed in one minute, rather than the hour it used to take to process a single query. Moreover, the Volvo company now analyzes a number of issues in an integrated and organized way. For instance analysts can predict failure rates of vehicles over time through the monthly stored collected reports of cars that have experienced specific failures. They can also correlate mechanical failures with the specific geographical areas the vehicle is located in. A car in urban Japan will most likely experience different conditions in rural France, and with DRO error codes (diagnostic read out data recorded in each car about performance and mechanical failures) collected through the Teradata system, analysts can figure out how certain mechanical failures connect to different locations. It is with this strategy in organizing digital information that Volvo can create large goals such as creating vehicles no one will be killed or injured in by 2020.

Digital Humanities 2012 was a conference held in July of 2012 with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. ADHO is an umbrella organization meant to promote digital research and teaching within the humanities disciplines. Originating in 1989, the Digital Humanities 2012 conference was held at the University of Hamburg in Germany this year. The website contains all of the conference activities as well as many of the presentations in the form of podcasts.

AHDO, or the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization offers this website to "promote and support digital research and teaching across all arts and humanities disciplines, acting as a community-based advisory force, and supporting excellence in research, publication, collaboration and training." The website organizes news and current events in the field of digital humanities, making it very user friendly and a valuable source for those wishing to keep up to date. There are also sections on the website for publications, other resources, conferences, awards, committees, and how to join ADHO.

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.

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities joined together with the Museum of the City of New York in October to put on a panel presentation. This presentation was over the museum's effort to create a massive collection of digitized photographs. The presentation also covered how using technology can help cultural heritage organizations to enrich an improve access to collections of cultural heritage items.

This article shows how creating an archive is kind of like baking a cake. First she says to identify your craving of what you want and why. The next step is finding a recipe that you have carefully researched that shows step-by-step how to build an archive and acquire the ingredients. This can include government documents, treaties, historical and medical records, letters written by historical and literary figures, ect. After getting these ingredients you must translate, transcribe, and digitize them into the archive. She also requires you to establish an order of organization to allow teachers and researchers to use and search the archive. The final step is to share the archive with others.

Bethany Nowviskie's article proposes an overhaul of modern graduate studies by replacing aging practices and methods of education with more modern and technology appropriate forms of education. One of Nowviskie's key points of criticism it that many of these more traditional forms of graduate education are producing humanities PhDs who do not fully understand how modern universities work and are impacted by the outside world. Nowviskie's main proposal for beginning to replace these aging methods is through the cooperation of funding agencies and respected humanities organizations, ones with a good history of inter-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration, to utilize grants to reshape graduate studies.

This article on the National Endowment for the Humanities website contains information on a project directors meeting for the Digital Humanities department that was open to the public. The meeting took place in Washington, D.C. on September 20th, and it included multiple aspects such as lightning-talks and roundtable discussions with librarians, researchers, and funding organizations.

This Dan Cohen blog discusses the weird relationship between the databases purchased by organizations and libraries and how they are utilized in the academic world. Many of these purchases are unwarranted. These buyers are over buying accumulating multiple software programs for more than one 'category". The main problem discussed is that since the buyer is not the user, ignored functional issues arise.

This webliography provides history and general information on the origin and growth of the field of Digital Humanities, including the Day of DH 2012. It provides many different organizations involved in Digital Humanities, and sorts them according to associations, collaboratories, and funding. There are also links and explanations on tutorials that teach researchers how to go about working in digital humanities, including tutorials on coding. The webliography comes to a close with information on conferences and institutions in the field of DH for researchers to find further information from.

Comment Press is an experiment into the organization of digital ext with a desire to promote social interaction within and around it. Comment Press offers us the oppurtunity to resituate the problem of electronic publishing in a potential producttive way.

The ARL is a nonprofit organization of 125 research entities in the US and Canada. The Association promotes the advancement of its members in various ways, but focuses on ideals often associated with the digital humanities, such as intellectual freedom, scholarly communication, and collaboration.

This program is used by the HathiTrust Digital Library to seek out "orphan works" that have no apparent benefactors, and make them available to the general public. This project's noble purposes have been called into question by organizations like the Authors Guild, who argue that it often fails to find those who are due compensation.

THATCamp stands for "The Humanities and Technology Camp." Its creators refer to it as an "unconference." They do this to distinguish themselves from typical humanities conferences, in which the reading of papers and overly-thick academia lessens the helpfulness and practicality of it all. The website gives a number of bullets describing the idea: THATCamp is "collaborative, informal, spontaneous, timely, productive, lightweight, inexpensive to organize, not-for-profit, small, non-hierarchical, non-disciplinary, inter-professional, open, online, fun, and engaging. It expresses its desire to not only attract scholars, but people with a broad diversity of backgrounds and skills.

centerNet defines itself as an "International Network of Digital Humanities Centers." It has added over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries since its foundation in 2007. Basically, they're attempting to centralize all of Digital Humanities into a single vast network. They aim to be inclusive and avoid defining digital humanities concretely. Instead, they only suggest that "a "center" should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence." The projects can be found by a keyword search, by region, or by clicking on an interactive GoogleMap. The network isn't as flooded as you think; only 200 entries exist on the site as of today, but each one is of very high quality.

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.

Beginning in 1971, Project Gutenberg is the first online catalog of electronic books. Claiming to be the largest collection online, Project Gutenberg aims to digitize all books and allow them to be organized and searched through their site. The website can be viewed in multiple languages and allows people to volunteer and donate for the continuation of this project. The site only uses books whose copyright has expired, which makes them free in the United States, and they are allowed to be downloaded and redistributed.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, the documents available on this website are ones released by the United States Government. The documents in this database are organized into an interactive archive where users can search through the contents of this site. Containing thousands of files, Project Star Gate aims to digitize documents and contains many resources for any user. The site offers individuals to purchase the 7 volumes of CD's to view this material and use for research or other purposes.

This bibliography of Lynn H. Nelson was written by virtual and close friends who felt the need to write about his life and his contributions to the World Wide Web. In 1998, the web was very young and it was still possible to imagine that a history network could have been monitored by a team of volunteers that coordinated. Lynn had also developed and organized hyperlinks structure of Bernies Lee's World Wide Web virtual library built in 1991. Lynn was a mentor in the field of transitional digital history and humanities computing in 1998 he wrote an essay for a mono graphic issue of the Italian contemporary history journal Memorie De Ricerca. Lynn created one of the first open Access Digital Library worldwide in Kansas and elsewhere.