The culture of “user friendly” interfaces that helped popularize computers for almost three decades now, and which underlines the dominant role of .docx, .pdf and .epub files today,
This is becuase there are more resources out there for computers to be user friendly which makes more people want to use it more.
“what do we need?”
When they ask what do we need is important for scholars when doing humanities; what do we need to do the research for it to be useful.
In this sense, we aim to understand ways of building that could be referred to as “architectures of necessity”
Architecture of necessity provides a means of housing based on the persons needs.
Oursources alone in the future will be almost entirely digital—instant messages, e-mails, doc files, pdfs, digital video, podcasts, and databases. Their scale and com-plexity will demand that historians use tools and techniques not yet a part of ourpractice to create their own digital sources and employ those created by others.
More tools are required since everyting else would be using technology and historians need to be trained in that. It makes sense because the world is evolving.
Thissecond stage will require interdisciplinary collaboration, the likes of which mosthistorians have yet to embrace; cooperative initiatives that involve historians,programmers, information architects, designers, and publishers.
Libraries need to collaborate to put together in digital history because they are the source for archives.
On one level, digitalhistory is an open arena of scholarly production and communication, encompass-ing the development of new course materials and scholarly data collection ef-forts.
Digital history allows for easier access to information for scholars to use. It is mostly helpful for research projects.
The “vital voices” of those “living with HIV/AIDS” — whether they have the virus themselves or are caregivers to those who do — are centered in the navigation of the site.
It advocates for those living with HIV/AIDS by interviewing people suffering with it
This is one face of DH Activism. It is not a workshoppable, immediately-produced, immediately-reproducible, lightning-fast-results form of activism, but it is nevertheless one attempt at redressing a social inequality and generating positive social change.
DH Activism helps to shed light on social inequalities
It also allows for the stories of and from members of this community to be relatively accessible to those of us outside said community, both within and without Jamaican borders
Stories were accessible in the Caribbean borders and worldwide
he characteristics of future digital history works might be computational/algorithmic, large-scale, and visual.
Overtime, digital history would expand and improve to shcowcase more of traditional methods
Their scale and complexity will demand that historians use tools and techniques not yet a part of our practice to create their own digital sources and employ those created by others.
The demand for new tools would be larger and it may be something that the scholars are not familiar with
For history, the future digital environment might challenge some of our traditional methods, perhaps even the craft-oriented practices of our discipline.
The digitization of historical documents can affect them in a certain way especiallly the methods used traditonally
The traditional cycle of document transfer as conceptualized before the advent of digital documents (King and Bryant 1971) required publishers and libraries to take documents through most steps of the process.
Data needs to extracted before putting it into digital form
Hypertext has been a monumental advancement in the functionality of collections, and many current projects are working toward extensive interlinking among aggregated materials.
Hypertext made it easier to link data with anothe
ollections of all kinds can be open-ended, in that they have the potential to grow and change depending on commitment of resources from collectors. Most thematic collections are not static. Scholars add to and improve the content, and work on any given collection could continue over generations.
Collections can be changed overtime by anyone who wants to contribute or collect resources
students were asked to gather a number of posts from popular media sites on the topic of their social movement. Students were then asked to enter these sources en masse to Voyant Tools so that they could search for trends in the data that were not evident during a preliminary reading.
It was easier to find trends in the text using Voyant to determine what was not mentioned in previous research
Students gravitated towards social media, believing that their contributions to public knowledge could help alleviate the widespread dissemination of misinformation
It is important to put the correct the misinformation online with the students' contributions
Digital humanities similarly values the processes of making and breaking.
It involves putting information together and the breaking of data in its simplest form
Newspapers have proved to be a popular subject for topic modeling, as it provides a way to get at change over time from a daily source.
The topic model allows for interpretation and using newspapers for that is a great way to put data together. It provides past events which could be useful for digital humanists
One way to understand what the program is telling you is through a visualization, but be sure that you know how to understand what the visualization is telling you. Topic modeling tools are fallible, and if the algorithm isn’t right, they can return some bizarre results.
Using a topical model, it is important to know what the visuals are sayiing so that results can be clear
If you wanted to topic model one fairly short document, you might be better off with a set of highlighters or a good pdf annotation tool. Topic modeling is built for large collections of texts.
A topic model is useful for larger documents when you need to highlight notes and important words to group them together. this is why annotation tools are more useful than highlighters
This may include a general description of all materials, a description of series or groups, and a description of files or items.
I understand that EAD describes groups, files and items.
It is important have a DTD that is appropriate for the project. The DTD defines the structural rules of a type of document. These rules include a complete list of allowable elements and attributes, special character entities, rules for external files (such as images), as well as the hierarchical structure of all elements.
DTD and TEI go hand in hand because TEI is easily customizable for the specific needs of the project while DTD has structural rules for certain elements
XML is not limited to a specific set of tags, because a single tag set would not adapt to all documents or applications that may use XML.
Unlike HTML XML is more useful and flexible when adapting to other applications while HTML is restricted to only one set of tags
Fifth, we have a desperate need for help with data-modeling — and here is another place where I think libraries could really play a big role.
i believe this is true because the digital humanities is sourced from books and they use that information to make it into something useful. Especially when there is a large amount of data, digital humanists have to turn large bulky data into smart data
It’s a tremendously important resource, and without it museums couldn’t share and network information; we’d never be able to figure out who holds what
The reason why museums have data is because digital humanists and librarians put these information together to put on display
With a source, like a film or a work of literature, you’re not extracting features in order to analyze them; you’re trying to dive into it, like a pool, and understand it from within.
this analogy is similar as to how to deal with data when collecting it; in other words, making an inference to the data itself
Finally, the idea of “variety” of big data means that heterogeneous sources and formats of data are being used together, taking advantage of the links and overlap between such heterogeneous datasets to allow all kinds of inferences.
This is why many markets and industries rely on big data because it is different and in that way they are able to make it into their own
Areas as diverse as online marketing, stock exchange trading, health care, and political campaigns are driven by big data.
Big data is important for different industries especially in the stock market since the big data in the market is moved around quickly which is due to its velocity
database
an example of smart data
Administrative
It makes sense since the administrative metadata determines how files are organized in a webpage
Dublin Core Example
This example has descriptive metadata because it has the author name and title
Metadatais often called data about data
Metadata can describe data as well
nline programs should encourage openness and sharing, while working to educate students about the various ways they can protect and license their data and creative work
students can feel valued when there work is displayed and credited
We believe that online learning represents a powerful and potentially awe-inspiring opportunity to make new forms of learning available to all students worldwide, whether young or old, learning for credit, self-improvement, employment, or just pleasure.
anyone should have access to education so that there could be innovative students
Books are and will be supported with digital sources and verifiable links to the elements that went into the study.
books should be accessible to anyone
we can and should celebrate and inquire into the difference.
i agree because what we build can be better than what we think we build
He tells us that that with which we conclude is only a shadow of the desired object
thats true because we dont know what that object will become unless we see it
Image searches for “gorilla” turn up photos of African-American people. Looking for “black teenagers” returns police mug shots. Searching “professional hairstyles” returns images of white women wearing ponytails and French braids while “unprofessional hairstyles” features black women.
Its very sad to see that black people are put into a category that degrades them.
Coders need critical race theorists, suggests Noble, or at least workers who understand that frictionless digital infrastructures aren’t frictionless for everyone. Diversifying the technological workforce is an important first step toward building an internet that accounts for power and privilege at the level of code itself.
We need to have people who are open minded about cultures and how content posted online can offend people especially those in minority groups. There NEEDS to be representation in the workforce to make a contribution to putting an end to the racial and mysogynistic perceptions presented on the Internet.
Black girls matter only for the role they play in the racist and misogynist fantasies of Google’s majority client: the white American man. Not so coincidentally, suggests Noble, this is the demographic most likely hired by Google to build their algorithm in the first place.
White males have more privilege than other races which results in them having racial stereotypes built into the algorithm to make the Internet oppressive and racist
Everyone should have the right to learn: traditional students, non-traditional students, adults, children, and teachers, independent of age, gender, race, social status, sexual orientation, economic status, national origin, bodily ability, and environment anywhere and everywhere in the world
No matter your background, everyone has a right to education