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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.

This is the official website for the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities. Everything and anything that deals with the partnership of these to disciplines is presented and linked this website. The website features four main sections that include public and digital history, teaching and learning, collaborative projects, and oral history. The website seems to be maintained by the Department of History at Cleveland State University.

This website has been created which will serve to scholars in the United States that will provide free information that pertains to the history of women's education. The material off their website can be used for teaching, research, or other interests. They also have work that undergraduate students have compiled such as lesson plans and digital scrapbooks. On their website they also announce upcoming exhibitions and events that pertain to Digital Humanities and also essay contests.

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.

This website describes what hybrid pedagogy is and how it is useful for classrooms. It gives article and forums that also allow other people to add to their website if it pertains to digital pedagogy. The articles are divided up by subjects such as: hybridity, digital pedagogy, online learning, and collaboration. It also gives opportunities for digital writers.

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.

This is an interactive question and answer website by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. The question this link leads to is more of a request by Inna Kizhner, a member of this website, for help with DH projects with strong visual/non-linear components. This website shows that in the field of Digital Humanities, many people reach out to each other and collaborate.

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 website is used to "help liberal arts colleges integrate, pedagogy, and technology." Established in 2001, the NITLE is the leading organization for colleges who are wanting to integrate technology into their liberal arts department. The website feature articles to keep researchers up to date in the field. The main headquarters are located at Southwestern University.

This website is the main website for UCLA's Digital Humanities department and area of study. Here you can navigate between the programs the school offers, research projects, and many other aspects of the digital humanities through the school. The website is well thought out and very organized, which makes their program look streamlined and well done.

The EBBA Archive is a website with a specific goal in mind in regards to 17th century broadside ballads. The site seeks to make 16th-18th century fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records. Basically the main objective of the EBBA is to transcribe these broadside ballads into usable means that are open, accessible, useful, and applicable to the public.

The English Broadside Ballad Archive is a database of 17th century ballads. These ballads are made available on the website in the form of texts, art, music, and cultural records. The purpose of the database is to preserve the estimated 8,000 surviving ballads from this era for future generations to discover and study again. Several universities have teamed up to work on this archive, include the University of Texas at Dallas.

This link takes you to the Digital Humanities certificate and some department information for Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The website offers information for different job offerings, blog posts, and classes offered in the field at Texas A&M. The website looks to be mostly run by the faculty for the department at Texas A&M.

This is an government website detailing resources and practices that fall into digital preservation. Digital preservation is a growing area with the advancement of technology. The website features sections that include partners, collections, tools showcase, multimedia & publications, meeting & events, and education & training.

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 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 website, arts-humanities.net, aims to support and advance the use and understanding of digital tools and methods for research and teaching in the arts and humanities by providing: information on projects creating and using digital content, tools and methods to answer research questions, information on tools and methods for creating and using digital resources, a listing of expert centers and individual researchers, a library documenting lessons learned through case studies, briefing papers, and a bibliography. The website encourages people to become members and to contribute.

This website called Humanist is an "international electronic seminar on humanities computing and the digital humanities." The goal of this website is to create a forum where people can log on and discuss any issues with the digital humanities and share thoughts and ideas. Humanist is a publication of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC) and an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

This website is used to archive any information, like personal work, including texts, websites, pictures, audio, and video. I recently used this site for a Tech Comm project and it stores anything you want. to put onto the internet. It allows fellow users to access the things you want to archive and share.

This online website is a guide that serves as an introduction to the the field of Digital Humanities. On this website hosted by the University of Delaware, there are plenty of resources and links for "topics and discussions about defining and describing DH, tools for projects, and links to the DH community such as blogs, open access journals, and conferences and events."

This website, ThinkingCulture, aims to exercise the cultural imagination. Figure/Ground conducts a series of interviews for the website, continued here with Miriam Posner. Miriam Posner teaches Digital Humanities at UCLA. The interview with Posner focuses on the her path into her academic post. Posner explains her struggles with tenure and her early career in academics. The interview continues on to discuss Posner's teaching, digital humanities work and her writing plans.