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| Project | Description | Academic field | Collaboration type |
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| DH Curation Guide |
The DH Curation Guide is a compilation of articles and annotated resources that address aspects of data curation in the digital humanities. The goal of the DH Curation Guide is to direct readers to trusted resources with enough context from expert editors and the other members of the research community to indicate to how these resources might help them with their own data curation challenges. |
Digital Humanities, Data Curation | Other | 22 Feb 2012 |
| Time, Routes, and Places of Nineteenth-Century Travelers: A Dynamic Interactive Map of Spain as an International Destination |
"Time, Routes, and Places of Nineteenth-Century Travelers" is dedicated to compiling, querying, visualizing, and interpreting the narratives by men and women who traveled to Spain from over ten countries of Europe and the Americas over the course of the “long” nineteenth century (1789-1914). We are mapping the itineraries of these travelers and developing a conceptual map of Spain as nineteenth-century travel destination, as visitors from different countries saw it. |
European History, Travel Literature;, Digital Humanities, Spain, Spanish culture and civilization, Spanish history, museum history ; | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review | 15 Feb 2012 |
| Mapping Art Activism |
I'm currently mapping feminist art activism in '70s and '80s Los Angeles |
History, Art History | Data entry | 8 Feb 2012 |
| Chicana por mi Raza: Mapping Chicana Feminist Praxis (1960-1990) |
Chicana por Mi Raza is a digital humanities project that involves the collection, digitization, and display of archival materials and oral histories related to the development of Chicana Feminist thought and praxis over the long civil rights era. |
American Studies, Women's Studies, Latina/o Studies | N/A | 7 Feb 2012 |
| Edmonton Pipelines Project |
Edmonton Pipelines is a collection of digital maps and literary provocations by four collaborators: Daniel Laforest, Heather Zwicker, Maureen Engel and Russell Cobb. |
Digital Humanities, Digital Urbanism | N/A | 3 Feb 2012 |
| Digital Thoreau |
The core of Digital Thoreau will be a TEI-encoded text of Walden enriched by scholarly annotations, links, images, and social tools that enable users to create conversations around the text. The annotations from Walden: An Annotated Edition, edited by Thoreau biographer Walter Harding, together with digital assets from the the Thoreau Society’s Harding Collection (curated by the Thoreau Institute Library at The Walden Woods Project) provide a base layer of context on which future layers will be built. |
English Language and Literature, American Literature, American Studies | Data entry, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review | 2 Feb 2012 |
| The Colonial Despatches of BC and Vancouver Island |
This digital archive contains the original correspondence between the British Colonial Office and the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. This project aims to digitize and publish online a complete archive of the correspondence covering the period from 1846 leading to the founding of Vancouver Island in 1849, the founding of British Columbia in 1858, the annexation of Vancouver Island by British Columbia in 1866, and up to the incorporation of B.C. into the Canadian Federation in 1871. |
Colonial history, Canadian history, BC history, First Nations history | Other, Peer review, Proofreading | 26 Jan 2012 |
| Kanon |
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! |
literature | Beta testing, Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Programming | 25 Jan 2012 |
| The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters |
The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters project is an initiative of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University in collaboration with several partners. We aim to collect, preserve, and make accessible as much of the digital record of the disasters as possible, to enable scholarly research and analysis of the events and their effect. |
East Asian Studies, History, anthropology, Sociology, crisis archiving | Data entry, Programming | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Virtual Harlem/Virtual Montmartre |
The Virtual Harlem Project is one of the oldest and most established projects related to African American literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance in a virtual environment that currently exists. |
African American literature, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Age Studies, Visual Studies of the early 20th century | Design, Other | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Civil War Washington |
Civil War Washington examines the U.S. national capital from multiple perspectives as a case study of social, political, cultural and medical/scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War. The project draws on the methods of many fields—literary studies, history, geography, computer-aided mapping—to create a digital resource that chronicles the war's impact on the city. Troops, fugitive slaves, bureaucrats, prostitutes, actors, authors, doctors, and laborers were among those drawn to the capital by a sense of duty, desperation, or adventure. |
American history, Nineteenth-century American Literature, Historical geography, Digital Humanities | Beta testing, Proofreading | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Walt Whitman Archive |
The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman, America's most influential poet and one of the four or five most innovative and significant writers in United States history, is the most challenging of all American authors in terms of the textual difficulties his work presents. |
Nineteenth-century American Literature, Digital Humanities | Proofreading | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Global Shakespeares |
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse. |
Shakespeare, performance studies, globalization, translation studies | Beta testing, Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Programming | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone: a hypertext research platform |
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is one of Italy’s most acclaimed poets and intellectuals, whose interpretation of the crisis of modernity gained him recognition already among his 19th century contemporaries Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, but it was not until the publication of his intellectual diary, the Zibaldone, at the turn of the 20th century that Leopardi’s thought began to reveal its depths and to gather due critical attention. |
Italian Studies, Romanticism, Enlightenment, fragment | Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Programming | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Digital Humanities Initiative, Hamilton College |
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. |
Digital Humanities | Beta testing, Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Peer review, Programming, Proofreading | 20 Jan 2012 |
| Cinema and New Media Studies Minor |
The goal of Hamilton's Cinema and New Media Studies Program is to blend study in film history and theory while providing students opportunities to pursue their own artistic visions through the uses of new technology. |
English, Comparative Liteature, Art History, Fine Art, Pedagogy, Creative Writing, Film Studies | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Programming | 20 Jan 2012 |
| Mapping Modernism / Modernist Letters Project |
This project, currently under development, is developing social and spatial maps of modernist correspondence, with a specific initial focus on the Bloomsbury Group and global modernism. Supported by the Scholars' Lab R&D Group at the University of Virginia, as well as collaborators in Library Science and twentieth-century literary studies, the project employs Omeka's collaborative data collection features alongside the exciting new visualization tool Neatline, due to be released soon. |
English literature, Digital Humanities, Modernist Studies | Beta testing, Data entry, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Programming, Proofreading | 17 Jan 2012 |
| Lynchings in Georgia (1875-1930) |
Faculty: Roberto Franzosi, Sociology Department |
Sociology, literary studies, Southern Studies, African-American History | Beta testing, Proofreading | 11 Jan 2012 |
| The Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project |
The Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project is an ongoing digital research project that explores different theoretical arenas within postcolonial studies. “Postcolonial Studies” encapsulates a series of theories and methodologies that have impacted disciplines as diverse as history, literature, anthropology, sociology and political economics. Its roots stem from an intellectual imperative to radically reinterpret the histories, cultures and representation of formerly colonized peoples, a call pioneered in the 1980s by critics such as Edward Said, V.Y. |
Postcolonial Studies, African Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Southeast Asian Literature, Comics, Graphic Novels, Feminism, Digital Humanities, Pedagogy, Global Feminism | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Programming, Proofreading | 10 Jan 2012 |
| Denison Digital Archive |
We are currently at the planning stage for a feminist digital archive. The archival material derives from the Ella Strong Denison library, which includes significant collections of suffragette ephemera, 19th century women’s work, book arts from antiquity to the present, and an extensive interdisciplinary teaching collection. We hope to develop a program that utilizes the archive as an opportunity to explore a range of questions within digital humanities. In particular, we are interested in developing a specifically feminist encoding paradigm that will allow us to integrate feminist theoretical insights on archival formation, digital technology, and user interfaces. We also plan to develop a digital archive that maximizes the pedagogical impact of digitizing the Denison materials. |
19th century Literature, 20th-century literature, 20th-Century Print Cultures, Feminst Theory, American history, Digital Curation, Women's Studies | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Programming | 10 Jan 2012 |
| The Intermedial Zoom |
The project focuses on the technique of zoom and its approaches across different media, from a comparative perspective. We are interested to compare the particularities of zooming in cartography, photography, film and textual materials, trying to identify patterns of expressivity on the level of meaning, aesthetic and cognitive reflection, and their possible uses in creating new digital paradigms. |
computer software, intermediality, literary studies, Pedagogy | Beta testing, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Peer review | 10 Jan 2012 |
| Alcott Archive |
We are interested in the creation of an online "Alcott Archive," a site for scholarly editions of the works of Louisa May Alcott, for personal papers related to Alcott and her circle (including her father Bronson), for scholarship and reference related to the study of Alcott, her writings, career and cultural context. The site would be a one-stop location to access all of Alcott's texts from the well-known (such as Little Women) to the recently re-discovered or uncollected or out-of-print. |
Nineteenth-century American Literature | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Programming, Proofreading | 9 Jan 2012 |
| History Engine |
The History Engine (http://historyengine.richmond.edu) is a pedagogically oriented project that captures and organizes “episodes”—concise narratives about often local events (e.g. the burning of abolitionist literature in Charleston in 1836 or the reaction of Chinese immigrants in New Orleans in 1911 to an imperial decree instructing them to cut off their queues)—about the past written by undergraduate students. Instructors at any university are welcome and encouraged to use the site in their courses. |
American history and culture | Other | 9 Jan 2012 |
| The Comics Grid |
The Comics Grid is a collaborative, peer-edited online academic journal dedicated to comics scholarship. Its purpose is to make original contributions to the field of comics scholarship and to advance the appreciation of comic art within academia and the general cultural mediascape. Our ISSN is 2048-0792. |
comics studies, comics scholarship, Popular Culture, cultural studies, Digital Humanities | Data entry, Peer review, Proofreading | 9 Jan 2012 |
| Macromedia / Adobe Director PAD (Preservation, Access, Dissemination) |
I am a professor and researcher on electronic literature, and I'm interested in developing a critical edition of a work of electronic literature titled Arteroids (http://vispo.com/arteroids). This is an important work of electronic literature, written by Canadian poet and multimedia artist Jim Andrews initially with Macromedia Director 8 and later with upgraded versions up until reaching Adobe Director MX 2004 (version 10.1). |
English Language and Literature, Digital Curation, Digital Humanities | Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Programming | 6 Jan 2012 |
| The DigiBahn Project |
The Digital Bahnhof (DigiBahn) Project is an interdisciplinary software development initiative seeking to program a 3D digital game-based learning environment for the teaching of the German language, vocabulary, and culture to beginning university and advanced high school students. |
German language and culture, second language acquisition, video game studies | Beta testing, Design, Peer review, Programming | 5 Jan 2012 |
| American Studier--Online resource for American Studies |
American Studier is an online resource and nexus for all students and scholars of American culture, history, literature, and more. It's still very much in development, and any and all collaborators and ideas (for content, for additional pages and focal points, for your own American Studies work and resources) will be very welcome. |
American Studies, American history, Western American literature | Beta testing, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review | 5 Jan 2012 |
| T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) |
T-PEN is a web-based application that permits users to transcribe unpublished documents that are available from a digital repository. T-PEN autormatically identifies the location of each line in the page image, and this allows the user to transcribe line by line (this line parsing can also be manually adjusted). T-PEN also supports XML encoding as you transcribe and any XML schema (RNG format) can be linked to a project. Transcription projects can be shared with 1 or more other T-PEN users. |
Scholarly Editing, paleography, Manuscript Studies, Medieval Studies | Beta testing | 5 Jan 2012 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay Personal Library Catalog |
When Edna St. Vincent Millay died in 1950, her sister Norma moved in to her home, called Steepletop, in Austerlitz, NY. Ever since 1950, Millay's personal library has remained relatively undisturbed. Over the years, one or two casual inventories of the books were made, but they are filled with errors, and they've never been published nor put into digital form. This project aims to create an accurate digital catalog of the library and to record as much as possible of the inscriptions and marginalia in the works. |
20th-century literature, poetry, Library and Information Science | Data entry | 4 Jan 2012 |
| Poetess Archive |
The Poetess Archive constitutes a resource for studying the literary history of popular British and American poetry. Much of it composed during what can be called the “bull market” of poetry's popularity(1), late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular poetry was often written in what came to be designated an "effeminate" style, whether written by men or women. Writings in the poetess tradition were disseminated in myriad collections: miscellanies, beauties, literary annuals, gift books. They achieved a place of prominence in virtually every middle-class household. |
American and British 18th- and 19th-century Literature | Other | 4 Jan 2012 |
| Guide to Evagrius Ponticus |
The Guide to Evagrius Ponticus provides definitive lists of Evagrius's works, of editions and translations of those works, and of studies related to his life and thought. The Guide includes an inventory of relevant ancient sources that refer to Evagrius and a display of imagery from the ancient world. Updated quarterly, the Guide will gradually introduce a manuscript checklist, images of manuscripts, transcriptions of those manuscripts, and open source critical editions of Evagrius's writings. |
early Christianity, Philosophy, Religious Studies | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Programming, Proofreading | 4 Jan 2012 |
| Electronic Book Review |
Electronic Book Review (ebr) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emergent digital literary network. ebr threads include essays addressing a wide range of topics across the arts, sciences, and humanities. Our editors are particularly interested in critically savvy, in-depth work addressing the digital future of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts. |
literary studies, Critical Theory, 20th-century literature, 21st-century literature | Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Proofreading | 4 Jan 2012 |
| ELMCIP Knowledge Base |
ELMCIP's Electronic Literature Knowledge Base is a open acess research resource documenting activity in the field of electronic literature. It provides cross-referenced, contextualized information about authors, creative works, critical writing, and practices. The ELMCIP Knowledge Base depends on the active participation of a community of international researchers and writers working in and around the digital literary arts. |
electronic literature, digital poetics, digital literary arts, literary studies | Beta testing, Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Peer review, Programming, Proofreading | 4 Jan 2012 |
| Arab Film Heritage Project |
We have found over 800 cans of film in Amman, Jordan! With a small grant from King Abdullah, we were able to digitize 10 of them and found some very interesting content. The most exciting find was a film produced in Palestine in 1968, just after the Six-Day war. It has been confirmed by scholars and persons affiliated with the PLO that this film is the only surviving copy from what was the PLO film archive before it disappeared in 1985. |
Film, Cinema, Archives, Preservation, Database | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Programming, Proofreading | 4 Jan 2012 |
| The Eighteenth-Century Common |
I convene a faculty seminar in eighteenth-century studies that has been awarded a seed grant for 2012 from the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute to pursue external grants and develop The Eighteenth-Century Common, a web project that will provide a medium for eighteenth-century scholars to communicate with an eager public non-academic readership. |
Eighteenth-century studies | General digital humanities consulting, Other, Peer review | 3 Jan 2012 |
| Bamboo DiRT |
Bamboo DiRT (beta) is a tool, service, and collection registry developed by Project Bamboo. An evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mind-mapping software. Anyone can create an account and add new tools to Bamboo DiRT, or indicate which tools they use in their own work. |
Digital Humanities | Beta testing, Data entry, General digital humanities consulting, Other | 3 Jan 2012 |
| DHShare |
DHShare is a scholarly and pedagogical resource for sharing, organizing, and finding link sources pertinent to computers and writing and the digital humanities, and for discussing how these sources can be used in educational settings. At this stage of the site's development, the sources currently included are more specifically related to intellectual property and copyright, including resources on the history of copyright, remix culture, read-write culture, plagiarism, fair use, torrent communities, piracy, authorship/ownership, and copyright across cultures. |
computers and writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Digital Humanities | Beta testing, Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Programming | 3 Jan 2012 |
| Bulgarian dialect atlas (XML) |
This project takes the 1970's "Български диалектен атлас" and marks up the data to produce a website that shows the connection between various tokens and lexemes, and visualizes the data geographically. |
Linguistics, Dialectology, Slavic linguistics, Bulgarian | N/A | 25 Dec 2011 |
| Slavistics.org scholarly wiki |
This wiki aims to reduce the amount of time scholars spend on reference by providing both summaries of articles and overviews of the scholarly discussions on topics relevant to the field of Slavic linguistics. Initially populated by grad students preparing for exams or conducting their own research, the goal is for the wiki to grow into a resource relevant for all scholars. |
Linguistics, Slavic linguistics | Data entry | 25 Dec 2011 |
| Bulgarian dialectology as a living tradition |
This project features transcriptions, translations, and a linguistic analysis of conversations with people from rural Bulgaria collected in the field during the 1990's and 2000's. Excerpts from the conversations are transcribed, along with full linguistic glosses. Users can also listen to and download mp3's of the source data. Salient dialectal traits are highlighted, and texts are also tagged for salient cultural traits. All word forms from the conversations have been aggregated into a glossary, and maps showing the distribution of linguistic and cultural traits are available. |
Linguistics, Slavic linguistics, Dialectology, Bulgarian | Proofreading | 25 Dec 2011 |
| Digital Science Archive |
This archival project will provide an online multimedia collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific poems, novels, treatises, and illustrations. Covering the fields of botany, zoology, geology, chemistry, astronomy, etc., it will appeal to literary scholars and historians of science alike. The archive will be fully searchable, including effective pedagogical tools to help students understand the important overlaps of literature and science in this era. |
18c British literature, Romanticism, history of science | N/A | 18 Nov 2011 |
| Anne Finch Digital Archive |
This project constitutes an online accompaniment to The Complete Works of Anne Finch (Cambridge UP, 2013), edited by Jennifer Keith and Claudia Kairoff. It will be an open-access digital archive, meaning an online multimedia collection and organization of data, including high-quality digital facsimiles of original materials. The site will be fully searchable, providing transcriptions of poems as well as effective teaching tools and scroll-over maps. |
18c British literature, Pedagogy, paleography, prosody | N/A | 18 Nov 2011 |
| Cold War International History Project |
CWIHP has a Digital Archive of non-US documents from the Cold War era, focusing on copies of archival documents from the former Communist bloc. Most are translated and focus on military and diplomatic history. |
Cold War history, Archives, diplomatic history, military history | N/A | 17 Nov 2011 |
| SceneDEX - American Music Scenes Index |
This is a project that has not been started yet. It is a personal and academic interest of mine, and I'd like to gather a group of collaborators to get it started. There are plenty of archives that already exist that hold these sorts of objects and materials - I'd like to create a webspace to cull these collections and provide a way for materials to be submitted, organized and archived. |
American Studies, American history, Popular Culture | Data entry, Design, Peer review, Programming | 17 Nov 2011 |
| Athena Ruby |
Athena Ruby is a font for scholarly editions of Byzantine inscriptions, particularly those where transcribing the visual typology of the letters and symbols is critical, such as in seals and coins. The glyph set covers the major ideal types of letterforms, ligatures, punctuation, and symbols found in inscriptions from the Byzantine cultural ambit, fourth through the fifteenth century. It currently supports the Latin and Greek alphabets. |
Byzantine studies, epigraphy, numismatics, sigillography | Beta testing, Other, Programming, Proofreading | 14 Nov 2011 |
| 'Peterloo' and Percy Shelley's 'The Mask of Anarchy' |
This project explores the intersections of the social, literary, and graphic history of the 1819 massacre in St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, when cavalry under orders from local magistrates charged into a peaceful crowd of reform-seeking protesters. They killed fifteen and injured hundreds of men, women, and children. It later came to light that many of the cavalry were intoxicated. Outrage at the government filled popular media. |
literature, History | N/A | 14 Nov 2011 |
| Progetto Sonzogno |
This is a rough introduction to my inventory and analysis project for the production of Italian publisher Sonzogno between 1800 and 1943. |
Italian Studies, History of Publishing, Print Technology, European History | Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Peer review, Programming, Proofreading | 13 Nov 2011 |
| The Pulp Magazines Project |
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary and artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers. |
English, periodical studies, Popular Culture, 20th-Century Print Cultures | Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Programming | 13 Nov 2011 |
| The Pulp Magazines Project |
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary and artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers. |
English, periodical studies, Popular Culture, 20th-Century Print Cultures | Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Programming | 13 Nov 2011 |
| Introducing Research and Collaboration Methods to Undergraduate and Graduate Students |
Essentially, I'm designing a research methods class / workshop for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers that introduces them to the many rich digital tools available to the humanities. The aim, however, is not to diminish the importance of text-only papers or books in favor of showstoppers filled with links and videos. |
Humanities, Pedagogy | Design, General digital humanities consulting, Other, Peer review | 12 Nov 2011 |

