Digital Humanities Projects

These projects exemplify the interdisciplinary nature of Digital Humanities scholarship. These dynamic (and often interactive) projects reflect the possibilities in this growing field.

	National Endowment for the Humanities: Office of Digital Humanities The Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) supports projects that employ digital technology to improve humanities research, education, preservation, access, and public programming. To that end, ODH works with the scholarly community, and with other funding agencies in the United States and abroad, to encourage collaboration across national and disciplinary boundaries. In addition to sponsoring grant programs, ODH also works collaboratively with the field, participating in conferences and workshops with scholars, librarians, scientists, and other funders to learn more about how to best serve digital scholarship.
	18thConnect A sister organization for NINES, 18thConnect is an online finding aid and scholarly community in the field of eighteenth-century literary and historical studies. Similar to NINES, 18thConnect provides peer-reviewing and cataloging of digital resources, offering a kind of table of content to the best online resources in 18th-century studies.
	NINES – (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) NINES is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. NINES: Serves as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American; Supports scholars’ priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials; Develops software tools for new and traditional forms of research and critical analysis.
	Ancient World Mapping Center The Ancient World Mapping Center is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Center promotes cartography, historical geography, and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach activities.
	Blake Archive A free site on the web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of William Blake (1757-1827) – visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. The Archive now contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of many copies of all of Blake’s 19 illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic information about each image, scrupulous “diplomatic” transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, extensive bibliographies, a searchable electronic version of the standard printed edition, and other essential scholarly information, plus a steadily growing representation of Blake’s works in other artistic media. This extended Archive aims to set a new standard of accessibility to a vast array of visual and textual materials that are central to an adequate grasp of the British art and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
	Elizabeth Barrett Browning Project The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Project was created at the University of North Dakota. Encoded in XML format of the Text Encoding Initiative, the portion that is now available, “Substantially Revised Poems,” presents known versions of five poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with users able to navigate to note revisions of the texts. The site is a valuable not only for those studying Browning but also for textual studies, where the presentation of multiple textuality has been a crucial issue for decades.
	Willa Cather Archive The Archive is a product of a partnership between the Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, The University of Nebraska Press, and the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska. The project originated in 1997, and over the years has digitized and published hundreds of thousands of words of Cather-authored texts and Cather scholarship. It now includes, in a fully-searchable format, digital transcriptions of eight Cather books (copyright law forbids digitally republishing her post-1922 works); all of her short fiction pre-1912, many of which are presented in their original periodical publications; her interviews, speeches, and public letters; her uncollected periodical nonfiction from the 1910s; the first five volumes of Cather Studies; the back issues of Teaching Cather; a large, searchable gallery of photographs; multiple biographies; announcements and news from the Cather scholarly community, virtual tours of Cather-related locales, and much more.
	Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Search America’s historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Chronicling America is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress.
	ChronoZoom Released in beta in the Spring 2012, ChronoZoom provides a visual voyage from the origins of the universe to the present. The highly interactive timeline is divided into five regimes: Cosmos, Earth, Life, Human Prehistory, and Humanity. ChronoZoom is an open source, community collaboration between UC Berkeley, Moscow State University, and Microsoft Research, and the first timeline tailored to understanding all of the past—from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, to today. Currently displays timelines and exhibits, but more enhancements are forthcoming.
	HyperCities HyperCities is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. Bringing together the analytic tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and traditional methods of humanistic inquiry, HyperCities publishes research that critically maps and interprets a wide-range of cultural, historical, and social dynamics. The central theme is geo-temporal analysis and argumentation, an endeavor that cuts across a multitude of disciplines, including history, geography, sociology, architecture, cultural studies, urban planning, archaeology, and new media studies. Crucial to such scholarship is the reliance on new forms of visual and cartographic, time/space-based narrative strategies. Just as the turning of the page carries the reader forward in a traditionally conceived academic monograph, so the visual elements, spatial layouts, and kinetic guideposts guide the “reader” through the argument situated within a multi-dimensional, virtual cartographic space.
	Imaging the French Revolution A project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles for the American Historical Review. Imaging the French Revolution—an experiment in digital scholarship—is organized in three sections: Essays – seven scholars analyze forty-two images of crowds and crowd violence in the French Revolution, a shared on-line archive that provided the starting point for the project Discussion – highlights an effort by those same scholars to consider issues of interpretation, methodology, and the impact of digital media on scholarship. Images – allows readers to consider the work of the scholars and to draw their own conclusion. The section includes an “image tool” that permits close study and comparison of the images.
	The Newton Project The Newton Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing in full an online edition of all of Sir Isaac Newton’s (1642–1727) writings – whether they were printed or not. The edition presents a full (diplomatic) rendition of all the amendments Newton made to his own texts, but also offers more readable (normalized) version. The project will include not only Newton’s mathematical and optical works, but also his extraordinary ‘non-scientific’ writings.
	Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles is an online cultural history generated from the lives and works of over 1200 writers, and for readers with an interest in literature, women’s writing, or cultural history more generally. With almost eight million words of text, it is full of interpretive information on women, writing, and culture. Orlando currently features 1012 British women writers – listed twice in cases of multiple, shifting, or contested nationality; 13,495 free-standing chronology entries; 25,616 bibliographical listings; 2,438,588 tags; 7,861,990 words (exclusive of tags).
	The Valley of the Shadow The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown’s Raid through the era of Reconstruction. In this digital archive users may explore thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The Valley Project is a part of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
	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. He left behind an enormous amount of written material, and his major life work, Leaves of Grass, went through six very different editions, each of which was issued in a number of formats, creating a book that is probably best studied as numerous distinct creations rather than as a single revised work. His many notebooks, manuscript fragments, prose essays, letters, and voluminous journalistic articles all offer key cultural and biographical contexts for his poetry. The Archive sets out to incorporate as much of this material as possible, drawing on the resources of libraries and collections from around the United States and around the world. The Archive is directed by Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ed Folsom (University of Iowa).The Walt Whitman Archive is published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
	Women Writers Project The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electrhttp://www.wwp.brown.edu/onic text encoding. The goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. The Project supports research on women’s writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. The Project is part of the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University,