This is a digital project focusing on the creation of “Asian Victorians” in Southeast Asia under British colonialism. It focuses on the digitization and annotation of the Straits Chinese Magazine, a journal produced by the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Cultural Atlas of California Wine uses relational database technology, mapping, and GIS to show the historic and contemporary distribution of wineries and vineyards across California. It provides researchers with the ability to locate and track the geographic and historic distribution of grape varietals, wine styles, wine price points, winery architecture themes, and other cultural markers for wine. It will serve as tool for food and cultural scholars and others working in consumer studies in cultural sociology by providing data on how consumer society marks place.

We are building a social digital library where it is easy to discover, enjoy and learn about art and literature. We will use crowdsourcing and editorial curation to provide relevant information and search results to users. We will begin with public domain content from Gutenberg and other sources. We would be very grateful for any assistance and consulting from individuals with knowledge and expertise in digital humanities initiatives. Please feel free to write me at zacharysdavis@gmail.com or reach me on skype at zacharysdavis. Thank you!

The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) at Hamilton College is a collaboratory – digital parlance for a research and teaching collaboration – where new media and computing technologies are used to promote humanities-based teaching, research, and scholarship across the liberal arts. See our projects list at http://www.dhinitiative.org/projects/

DHi challenges the ways in which teachers and students interact, use, and create digital collections (archival holdings) through the design and implementation of new digital tools.