ENGL 481: Digital Humanities

In this article Kevin Fitchard confronts the negative aspects in collaborating recipes online and explains the specific problems in applications made for recipe sharing. For instance, a recipe library and cooking forum called KeepRecipes is easily accessible when a person wants to share a recipe, but has a weak scraping function. Moreover, other applications such as MacGourmet and Paprika require users to pay instead of allowing free access. Fitchard also argues that there are too many recipe databases competing with each other, which at the end, is quite similar to having too many cookbooks in one bookshelf. For Fitchard, recipe sharing online needs many improvements.

In her blog Erin Bell discusses a digital humanities project called the Cuyahoga County Archives, a collection that focuses on sharing the history of Cuyahoga County. It mainly explores the transportation and infrastructure of Cuyahoga county, but also contains police report documents dealing with the Kent State Shootings in 1970. Undergraduate interns collaborated together to scan and search for these items to share, all for free access.

This website is for the American Heritage Vegetable project, a digital humanities program dedicated to documenting the cultivation practices and cookery of vegetables in the American kitchen. It also shares what kind of vegetables are in the market during different time periods. The information is collected from sources such as agricultural journals, gardening encyclopedias, and even horticultural manuals. With the American Heritage Vegetables project people can learn how we eat, what we eat, and the way American cuisine has changed throughout history.

In China scientist are rewarded with cash for publishing an article in a prestigious general. The more prestigious the journal, the larger the sum. So because of the limited international circulation of Chinese journals, there is a real push to have one's work appear in an international index, such as the science citation index, Engineering index, or the index to scientific & technical proceedings. The author of this article Does the Chinese Model Make Sense, Phil Davis, questions wither or not this model is authentic. He believes that the need for money will eventually exceed the need to produce valid, and original work. Davis is able to justify is argument by mentioning previous works that were written by the chinese that had an extreme amount of plagerism and unoriginal work. From this evidence he was able to persuade readers that the Chinese Model did not make sense nor did it have any valid points. His commentary was a critque of the article The outflow of academic papers from China: Why it happening and can it be stemmed, written by Shao Jufang and Shen Huiyun.

We all have had classes were there is a grade distrubtion and although there maybe a huge distrubtion of A's ultimately we can not determine who has actually retained the information. The article Show Me Your Badge written by Kevin Carey helps us better answer this question. In this article Carey introduces us to this idea of digital badging. Digital badging are portals that leads to a large amount of information about what the bearers know and can do. This new invention has helped to communicate detail information about college graduates.

The article explores the visions and expectations associated with the digital humanities. The author also explains how the digital humanities often becomes a laboratory as well as a means for thinkining about the state and the future of the humanities. It has been argued that this forward sentiment comes from both inside and outside the field of the humanities. This idea creates an important leason for the attraction. The author outlines a visionary slope for the digital humanities and he also offers a personal visionary statement at the end of the article to make it more serious.

This article describes the end to Microsoft's Live Seach Team. This team has indexed the contents of 750,000 books and 80 million scholarly journals. The project scanned books and put them into a database that allowed the contents to come up in a diiferent area online when the content was being searched for. This effort comes as a dissappointment due to its ending of the project.

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 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.

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.

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.