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Crowdsourced Knowledge: How to Read a Wikipedia Article
Growing up in the early 2000s, I was taught that Wikipedia was not a credible source to be used independently in my papers. I had to use scholarly articles, papers, books, etc. Now in 2018, Wikipedia probably still has that stigma but I think that it is becoming more accepted if at least a reference while conducting scholarly research. When a person living in the past 17 years, wants to find out more information about a topic, say Digital Humanities they Google it. One of the top five results will be a Wikipedia article. A person in 2018 might ask how did Google but most importantly in this case, Wikipedia…
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Why Metadata Matters
Using this example from the JSTOR database, Equilibrium in the Jungle: The metadata describes the object image, title, authors, object type, object’s tags, publisher, and abstract. The metadata of this object does not describe the location or when it was originally published. It allows me to ask why this item was digitized, what was its importance? I believe that metadata is important because it gives the user more information about an object. They can then use it for various reasons, i.e. academic, personal, etc. The JSTOR example references some of the standard metadata fields but I would like to be able to have more data and other ways of viewing the…
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A Definition of Digital Humanities
I believe that defining what Digital Humanities (DH) is can be complex. The best way that I can describe it as, knowing who is doing the work, what technologies being used, and what do they want to accomplish and why. From the early 2000s to present-day, those involved in this field have been struggling to define what it is that they do and how. This field has begun to standardize what technology is used and how but it is mostly by trial and error. What can they do to make their subject enjoyed by the public? In order to accomplish this there has been a shift of how the information…