Why is it so hard to find "one" digital project database?
Ask Quinn Dombrowski, author of “The Directory Paradox” (2021) and “What Ever Happened to Project Bamboo?” (2014).
Project lists
Collections projects
At Cornell
The AI for Humanists Project
(Mimno, Wilkens, Walsh, Thalken & Team)
“In the last several years, natural language processing research has been revolutionized by a new technology known as large language models, or LLMs. The AI for Humanists project (formerly the BERT for Humanists project) is developing resources to inform, empower, and inspire humanities scholars to use LLMs in their disciplines in creative new ways.”
The AI for Humanists Project
National Zoning Atlas
Sara C. Bronin & team
"The National Zoning Atlas aims to digitize, demystify, and democratize information currently hidden within ~30,000 U.S. zoning codes. "
National Zoning Atlas
Freedom on the Move Project
(Baptist & team, Cornell University)
This extensive digital project was originally sparked from a collaborative classroom effort between Cornell University Library and an undergraduate course. It is now a full, text-searchable database of over 30,000 of historical advertisements for freedom-seekers, the result of the efforts of nearly 14,000 contributors.
Freedom on the Move
The Gardens of the Roman Empire
Wilhelmina Jashemski, Kathryn Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, Amina-Aïcha Malek & team
We present this evidence for the garden culture of the Roman Empire in a searchable encyclopedic format. Scholars, students, and the interested public internationally can explore a wide array of topics to address contemporary questions about imperial power, daily life, the environment, garden art, and religion across the diverse cultures of the Roman world.
The Gardens of the Roman Empire
At museums, libraries, and other institutions
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Computational text projects
The Goodreads "Classics": A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism
Melanie Walsh & Maria Antoniak
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Topic Modeling Vogue
Lindsay King, Peter Leonard, & Team
By Cornell students
Periodical Poets
Charline Jao (Cornell University, Literatures in English)
A collection of over 700 poems printed in New York-based, nineteenth-century periodicals run by Black editors. See also: Charline's article about the project in American Periodicals: a Journal of History and Criticism.
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A collection of over 700 poems printed in New York-based, nineteenth-century periodicals run by Black editors. See also: Charline's article about the project in American Periodicals: a Journal of History and Criticism.
HIST 2391 Images and Manifests
Digitized maps from the Cornell undergraduate course "From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps"
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John Mandeville and the Hereford Map
John Wyatt Greenlee (Cornell University, Medieval Studies)
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Electrical Metaphors, 1788 - 1798
Electrical Metaphors, 1788 - 1798
Sam Wesner (Cornell University, History)
Visualizes the use of metaphorical language about electricity in writings about the French Revolution over time and space.
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Visualizes the use of metaphorical language about electricity in writings about the French Revolution over time and space.