DH Projects

Visualizing Time and Space: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr

MIT’s Aga Khan Archive created an epxerimental geo-temporal tool to visually represent the travels of Ibn Jubayr from February 4th, 1183 until May 3rd, 1185. https://archnetmaps.herokuapp.com/spacetimemaps.html

Another attempt to visualiaze the same information has been undertaken by using the Neatline tool: http://ibnjubayr.neatline-uva.org/neatline/fullscreen/boundaries#records/897

Trove is a crowd-sourced archive primarily built around digitized Australian newspaper sources. Developed and maintained by the National Library of Australia, the collection is searchable and continually growing thanks to an active community of contribtutors.

Perseus is an online library containing a vast trove of texts from the ancient Greco-Roman world and beyond. A project of Tufts University since the mid-1980s, Perseus has evolved into a web-based collection reaching from the classics into many other parts of the humanities, augmented by advanced research tools. You can browse and search the Perseus collections here.

The Old Bailey collection is “A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.” You can view it online here.

These three DH projects were completed by student teams for 2014’s iteration of CMS.633.

Around the World

Around the World—created by Parul Batra, Christian Landeros and Bethany LaPenta—uses an array of realtime analysis tools to construct an augmented record of contemporary news media across the globe. Read the group’s design brief here.

Art Annotator

For their final project, Megan Gebhard, Eric Fisher Jepsen and Evan Moore conceived and prototyped a platform for adding a community layer to art museum experiences. Their project uses annotation technology to expand the modes of interaction available to art historians and other viewers. Read their design brief here.

Arttract

Ari Vogel, Dohyun Bae and Nick Nigam also turned their attention toward augmenting the art museum experience: their project allows users to cement what might otherwise be fleeting encounters with art by drawing these viewings into a process of documentation and curation. Read their final design brief here.

The Venice Atlas is a multifaceted historical document of the city developed collaboratively by students in a digital humanities course. The atlas uses tools including timelines, mapping, and 3D modelling to present aspects of Venice history ranging from geographical evolution to musical traditions.

The Republic of Letters was an international correspondence network including many of the Enlightenment’s major intellectual figures. The Stanford Humanities Center compiled data from this huge set of exchanges and, through an extensive series of case studies, crafted interactive visualizations to illuminate the movements and relationships behind them. View more about the project at republicofletters.stanford.edu.

Provoke is a collection of projects which use sound in pushing the boundaries of scholarly presentation. In addition to the sonic documentation of their research areas, the authors of these projects also —as the name “Provoke” suggests—challenge existing modes of research and presentation, uniting the forwarding-thinking agendas of the digital humanities and of sound studies. Read more about the collection at soundboxproject.com/about.html.

The Comédie-Française Registers Project collects and makes available to scholars more than a century’s worth of historical data from the archives of a royal theater in Paris. CFRP is led by Jeff Ravel of MIT’s history department and has been a long running project of HyperStudio. Right now, the contents of registers spanning from 1740 to 1793 are accessible through a faceted browser, which quickly filters and aggregates data across multiple categories and also links to scans of the original documents themselves. You can explore the data at app.cfregisters.org/registers.