ENGL 481: Digital Humanities

This extensive resource packet provides detailed information regarding the HathiTrust lawsuit. The writer is in favor of the defendants, arguing in various ways the lawfulness and usefuleness of the project.

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 editorial takes a more personal view of the HathiTrust verdict, and its application to the blind and print-disabled. The author gives personal accounts of genius he has witnessed in this community, explaining his excitement that they will now have access to millions of works rather than small collections.

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 article reports on the ruling by Harold Baer, Jr. which held that the HathiTrust's mass digitization is fair use. The judge explained in his opinion that the HDL's project is not only fair use in and of itself, but that its potential for text mining and the facilitation of access for print-disabled persons are transformative in nature, and can serve an entirely different purpose than the original works.

The HathiTrust Digital Library is a partnership of research institutions and libraries working to securely preserve historical collections to be accesible long into the future. These collections are open access, and include a wide spectrum of cultures across a variety of different time periods. The partnership has been recently engaged in legal disputes regarding alleged copyright infringement in their Orphan Works Project. In addition to basic access to many of the collections, the HDL offers search functions within the documents that allow for new uses of the texts, such as text mining.

Two scientist are able to identify a sound that an object makes specifially when it collides into something else. This article identifies the sounds and introduces the two nobel-prise wimming acientists work.

Are intelligence and pattern recognition the same thing? Do they go hand in hand? Or are the two completely unrelated? This article discusses the possibility of programs to either be intelligent or simply able to recognize a pattern.

This article explores our useage/dependance on technology. Could this be the machine/device that, in human history, we have been most attached to, most intimate with. A video comments and explores our intimate dependance of technology to connect us with the world.

This article describes a quitbit. It juxtaposes the new quantum computer with its quibits to the current ones we have now that une the simple bit and byte mode of operation. Basically a quibit is a much more deeply complex for of the 0 and 1, yes and no unit that computers use traditionally.