ENGL 481: Digital Humanities

In this short description, reCAPTCHA is described as a free service that aims to digitize media, such as books, radio shows, and newspapers. With the ability to determine if the user is actually human, the archive is attempting to archive basic human knowledge and make information more accessible.

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.

This short description is an overview of how race can be incorporated into the digital Humanities. This description gives input on the seminar in which our very own professor Amy Earhart is currently partaking in! This seminar will give a brief survey of the emerging field of race and the Digital Humanities, introduce the audience to a variety of digital projects informed by race, and provide links to resources for people interested in working in this field. Topics covered will include: the genealogy of these debates the theortical assumptions that inform them, and issues to consider while constructing a race and digital humanities project.

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.

In the article Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities Marche explains how literature will at some point become data and how we will soon be able to read anything, anywhere, at anytime. Marche argues that literature is not data, and that it cannot be meaningfully treated as data. Instead, he believes that literature is the opposite of data and that data precedes written literature. Marche develops this "idea" that literature is terminally incomplete, and that you can not record even most of literature, even English literature. He assumes, that huge swath of the tradition are absent or in ruins.

the article summarizes the principles of analysis and compares the potentioal with the digital tools. This article gives a textual comparison of several kinds of search for texts though different archives and programs for a new method of analysis.

This text offers the process and conversion of texts in another language for the digital age. THe XML coding is showcased as a converter not only for latin but other languages. Viewing this example of coding, we can replicate the human experience onto the web.

This link leads to a letter from Don Rodrigues, a doctoral student in English at Vanderbilt University. Rodrigues serves as the HASTAC Scholar for Vanderbilt's Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy. This letter addresses the HASTAC community and outlines the purposes and goals for the Curb Center and what Rodrigues will be working on and reporting. These three main ideas are that the Curb Center seeks to identify and strengthen the public interest related to creative enterprise and expressive life, the Curb Center takes a broad definition of the system of creative enterprise and expressive life, and the Curb Center recognizes the importance of bringing different voices and perspectives together.

This news article by CBS news addresses the success of a digital newspaper archive that is used online by students, researchers, congressional staff and others. The Chronicling America project, the paper described previously, has posted 5 million pages from more than 800 newspapers in 25 states. The project was launched in 2007 by the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities with 32 state partners. It is notable that the success of this project has been praised by large news companies like CBS.

In this article Lee Bessette discusses the challenges that teachers find in digital Humanities. He believes, that most contingent faculty already feel, to a certain extaint, like super-humanists, expected to be able to teach just about any sub-area of their field at the drop pf a hat. Adding DH to the overlaod can become a burdern to those teachers who are not on tenure and can not afford to learn DH because of time, research, and funding.

With the use of digitizing media, NASA and Internet Archive are teaming up to scan films and photographs into an online database where their information can be stored and accessed with easy use. Making this kind of information available online, NASA believes, is important to catagorizing information and storing it for effiecient use. Internet Archive will be using a new system where the media catagorized by historical significance.

After making millions from his internet inventions, this article from Forbes, discusses how Brewster Kahle and Google are constantly butting heads. Brewster Kahle believes that his open access of books restricts Google from having optimum control over data, such as texts. Most of the scans that are available in Kahle's Archive, are from Google. Although Kahle has been compiling his library since 1996, Google was not incorporated until 1998. Kahle's Archive is now offering a service called Bookserver that allows anyone to upload their literary texts and loan it to others.

After playing around on the Wayback Machine website in class, I wanted to know more about the site. In this article, we see the man behind the creation of the Wayback Machine site and what exactly the site contains. This archive allows for users to browse through over 160 billions webpages, going as far back as 1996, and keeps the internet past preserved in his online archive. This storage system is reliable and effiecient for users and is really quite interesting to browse through some of our favorite and popular sites today.

With the advancement of Digital Humanities and the ability to digitize text, this article talks about Brewster Kahle, the creator of Internet Archive and the home to thousands of books, journals, media, etc. Claiming to be a digital librarian, Internet Archive is an online database, much like Wayback Machine, where users can access out-of-print and out-of-copyrighted works. Kahle believes it is important to digitize these texts because one day they may not be available to the public anymore.

This article explains the dispute between Google and publishers here in the United States. As we have seen in class, Google Books offers internet users the ability to search through their database of scanned books. Publishers are fighting that Google is violating copyright laws by scanning these books and letting people have free open access. Although the project itself is causing an uproar, publishers as well as authors are being given the opportunity to decide what books are included in this project.

This article focuses on the internet users means for obtaining media via an online archive. The Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making an array of media immediately available as onBitTorrent for downloading content. By using this means of getting media and other data, users are offered a faster delivery regardless of internet connection.

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.

BMJ is an open online, open access general medical journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and the therapeutic areas. The journal publishes a wide variety of different types of studies, from protocols, to phase 1 trail, to meta-analyses, including small or potentially low impact studies. The publishing procedures are fully open peer review and continuous publication which allows research to published online as soon as the article is ready. BMJ main goal is to promote transperency in the publication process by publishing reviewer reports and previous versions of manuscripts as pre-publication histories.

The Howard Hughes medical institute, Max Plank Soceity, and the welcome Trust are interested in opening a top-tier open access journal for biomedical and life science research. However, the journal lacks a name, an editor-and-chief, and even a business model. Although this is the case, the journal is intended to attract the very best reseach and make contributions that will extend the boundaries of scientific knowledge. This process is very similar to the BMJ Open which allows unpublished work to be posted on an open access website.