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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.