Explore and consider DH projects
Choose a project listed on this page. Explore its site and consider:
- What does the main goal of the site seem to be?
- Are there any explicit research questions mentioned?
- What types of digital tools does the project employ?
- Digital exhibits and archives
- Databases
- Data visualizations
- Maps
- Network analysis
- Computational text analysis (distant reading)
- Do you think the project is effective in its approach to its goal/research question?'
Cornell-based projects
- Freedom on the Move Project (Baptist & team, Cornell University)
This extensive digital project was originally incepted from a collaborative classroom effort between Cornell University Library and an undergraduate course. It is now a full, text-searchable database of over 30,000 of historical advertisements for freedom-seekers, the result of the efforts of nearly 14,000 contributors. Also check out the data extraction tool site: https://app.freedomonthemove.org/. - National Zoning Atlas (Legal Constructs Lab, led by Sara Bronin)
The National Zoning Atlas is a collaborative of researchers digitizing, demystifying, & democratizing ~30,000 U.S. zoning codes. It is housed at the Cornell University Legal Constructs Lab, led by Professor Sara Bronin, and has team members working on regional and statewide atlases around the country.
Summer Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship projects
The Digital CoLab at Olin Library hosts an annual Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (SGFDH). Every year, this program hosts a cohort of eight PhD candidates for a six-week, intensive deep-dive in trainings on digital humanities methodologies. Fellows benefit from the mentorship of Cornell University Library staff and collaborative work sessions. The primary deliverable of the fellowship is a digital project, often in support of the fellows' dissertations.
The following links are just a few examples of final projects from recent Fellows.
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