Below you’ll find a collection of completed projects in the Digital Humanities that scholars have built around the world. You may select from the projects below when preparing for your Digital Show-and-Tells, but students who seek out projects not listed here will likely win some points for originality.
- The DH Awards showcases award-winning projects each year
- Understanding Shakespeare
- Map of Early Modern London
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Mapping the Republic of Letters
- Melville’s Marginalia
- On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
- Transcribe Bentham
- For Better for Verse
- Digital Augustan Rome
- Joy and Pain Map of the Twin Cities
- PastMapper
- What’s on the Menu?
- Mapping the Martyrs
- Civil War Washington
- Hypercities has links to many map-based DH projects
- The Association of American Geographers maintains a database of mapping projects.
- UNC’s VirtualCities contains a bunch of map-based projects.
- 9/11 Digital Archive
- The History Engine
- Historypin is a crowdsourced mapping project
- Six Basic Plots in Novels, according to a Computer
- Atlantic Networks Project contains maps and other visualizations of big data collections covering trade in the Atlantic in the early modern period.
- UCLA DH undergrads made this website as part a capstone project studying the Getty Museum’s holdings
Tips for finding other projects:
In general, finding suitable DH projects is not difficult, but it may require smart Googling. It might help to begin by thinking broadly about the category of project you’d like to find. For example, you might be interested in mapping, big data analysis, creative visualizations, 3D modeling, or augmented reality. Including one of these terms with “digital humanities projects” in a Google search can help narrow down your results. Additionally, are you looking for projects created by other undergraduates? Or, instead, those created by professional scholars at major research institutions? If the former, keep an eye out for class pages created by professors teaching specifically DH courses for undergrads.
Lastly, the following blogs regularly post links to interesting projects. Clicking through them will undoubtedly lead to great results: