This page contains a non-comprehensive list of digital projects in a variety of formats. This page is intended to provide inspiration for future projects using digital methods and tools. Projects are divided into rough categories by scale (large, grant-funded to personal) and method (text analysis and collections) If you have questions, please contact digitalcolab@cornell.edu. Happy browsing!
Cornell-Affiliated, Funded Projects
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
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
Large, Funded Collections, Databases, & Exhibits
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One- or Two-person Collections, Databases, & Exhibits
East Bay Punk Digital Archive
Stefano Merello
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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Postcards from the Global South: Porfirio Mexico and Japanese Occupied Korea (1910-1932)
Kent Dickson & Hyeryung Hwang
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Margaret Cavendish: Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1663 edition) Marcy Lascano
Marcy Lascano
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