LibGuides: Introduction to Digital Humanities (DH): Selected DH Projects

Below are some interesting digital humanities projects that are selected to give some hints and insights for humanities researchers. For other detailed examples of GIS projects as well as data visualisation projects, you can visit our Selected Projects page in LibGuides on GIS and Digital Scholarship Research and LibGuides on Data Visualisation and Digital Scholarship Research.

CUHK Digital Scholarship Projects

URL: https://dsprojects.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/

CUHK Library started the first digital scholarship project in 2017. This platform showcases the digital humanities projects being conducted with faculty members as well as utilizing CUHK Library's digital collection (e.g. CUHK Digital Repository) to demonstrate Digital Scholarship/Humanities research. Welcome CUHK community to work with us.

Transcribing The West: Gold Rush & Overland Diaries and Letters, 1849-1877

URL: https://teachwithcollections.princeton.edu/transcribing-the-west-gold-rush-overland-diaries-and-letters-1849-1877/

Transcribing the West is a student-based transcription project conducted by Professor Martha A. Sandweiss from Department of History, Princeton University. The Princeton University Library has started the digitization of 16 gold rush and overland diary and letter collections. Professor Sandweiss has led the undergraduate students to transcribe more than 375 pages of the texts since 2014. The project aims to create keyword search functionality for the digital collection.

Animal City

URL: https://www.facebook.com/bohk1941spatialhistory

Research project by Dr. KWONG Chi-man and his research team on various aspects of the 1941 battle of Hong Kong in resisting Japanese invasion.

Other Examples

Robots Reading Vogue
URL: http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/

Robots Reading Vogue is a joint project by Haas Arts Library and Digital Humanities Lab, Yale University. They have conducted text mining over 400,000 pages of Vogue magazines and performed topic modeling, n-grams, and color analysis.

America's Public Bible
URL: https://americaspublicbible.org/

This is a text analysis project launched by Professor Lincoln Mullen, Geroge Mason University, The project investigates trends and frequency in use of biblical quotations in in the nearly 11 million newspaper pages. The data is mined from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America. collection.

臺灣百年歷史地圖 (Historical maps in 100 Years in Taiwan)
URL: https://gissrv4.sinica.edu.tw/gis/twhgis/

A collection of historical maps in Taiwan which can be overlaid to current Google Map for comparison and illustration. Project developed by Center for GIS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica of Taiwan.