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Digital humanities projects

Digital humanities is an incredibly amorphous, hard-to-define, and capacious term that encompasses a wide range of research methods, theoretical and practical approaches, and digital and analog tools. The following projects are a selected list of examples from across DH, but by no means represent the full range of what is possible when working with digital tools to answer humanities research questions. For more projects, explore the project lists and databases below.

Project lists

Black DH projects
Digital humanities projects by/about Black people
Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities
Interactive and searchable map of digital and public humanities projects related to Black history & culture
DH projects by discipline (Cornell)
Digital humanities projects organised by Cornell University academic department/discipline
Digital Art History Directory (DAHD)
Open-access publication containing a database of digital art history projects
European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) projects
Projects undertaken during the last five years that contribute meaningfully to Digital Humanities in Europe
Directory of Digital Scholarship in Music
Open-source bibliography of specialized digital resources and born-digital scholarship in music
Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian Studies (LACLI)
Repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
Free and open access database for Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research materials held in archives, libraries, museums, private collections, and other institutions of memory
Latin American, Caribbean, [and Latinx*] Digital Humanities Projects & Resources
Crowdsourced list of projects, resources, events, and anything else
A Directory of Caribbean Digital Scholarship
Open-source bibliography of digital resources resulting from—and meant for—the study of the Caribbean
Caribbean Digital : Media + Arts + Culture Projects
Crowdsourced list of projects, resources, events, and anything else
INSURRECT!
Online publication devoted to anti-colonial frameworks and critiques of racial capitalism in Early American Studies
List of DH Projects/Resources in Women’s and Gender History
Crowdsourced list of digital humanities projects and websites related to women’s and gender history
Digital Humanities Awards
Archive of the project nominees and winners for the annual Digital Humanities Awards
Digital Memory Project Reviews
Student-written reviews of digital memory projects as a way to develop critical evaluation skills of work happening in our field
H-France
A searchable database of French and Francophone Studies digital projects
Digital Resources and Projects on East Asia
English-language digital resources and projects on East Asia

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

Colored Conventions Project | P. Gabreille Foreman, Jim Casey, & Team
Global Poetics Project | Adwetewa-Badu & Team (Washington University in St. Louis)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | Elizabeth A. Weinfield, Philomena Mariani (Metropolitan Museum of Art) & Team
Cartographía de la Literatura Digital Latinoamerica | Carolina Gainza, Carolina Zúñiga, & Team
Photogrammar | Laura Wexler, Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold & Team
Monument Lab Proposals: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia | Monument Lab Team
Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum | Faya Causey & the J. Paul Getty Museum staff
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Computational text projects

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance

Amanda Henley & Team
On the Books

The Goodreads "Classics": A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism

Melanie Walsh & Maria Antoniak
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Textual Geographies

Matthew Wilkens & Team
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Topic Modeling Vogue

Lindsay King, Peter Leonard, & Team

Topic Modeling Vogue

Part of the larger Robots Reading Vogue project.
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The Viral Texts Project

Ryan Cordell, David A. Smith & Team
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What Every1Says

Alan Liu & team
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By Cornell students

Revisualize Archives
Victoria Baugh (Cornell University, Literatures in English)
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Visually Barkcloth
Iris Luo (Cornell University, Human Ecology)
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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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Parthian Sources Online
Jake Nabel (Cornell University, Classics)
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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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The Venesporan Artists Project

Waleska Solórzano (Cornell University, Romance 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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Museum of the Sea: Curating Ocean Worlds

ARTH 1154

A collaborative exhibit website created by students in the first-year seminar course Museum of the Sea: Curating Ocean Worlds
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Archivo Punto Final

Gorka Villar (Cornell University, History)

Una revista de izquierda revolucionaria en el Chile durante la Unidad Popular
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Fundamentals of Music

Marijke Perry (Cornell University, Medieval Studies)

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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). Not only does the wide-range of project types and formats make it difficult to collect everything in one interfaces and/or database, the nature of digital projects is inherently ephemeral. Links break, sites disappear, tools stop being maintained or simply stop work when PHP updates: technology is generally always shifting, and the existence of DH projects is thus also shifting. For every DH project that will be born today, five will die, and it is far beyond the scope of any one person (and indeed, beyond even one institution or working group) to collect and discard everything.

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