Immersion Program for Humanities & Social Sciences Graduate Students: Digital Scholarship

Look over the list of projects below. Depending on your interests, choose (a) one or two of the Large Team Projects, and (b) one or two of the projects created by the students.

For each of your chosen projects,

1. Interact with the site and its tool(s) until you have a good feeling for the project’s scope, goals, and capabilities.
2. Read any associated “About” information to get a sense of the who the project’s creators are (and how many of them there are), what tools were used in the creation, what its data sources are, and any sources of funding.

A few questions you might want to consider:

• What's the purpose of the project, and who is the intended audience? Scholarly researchers, students, general public, a combination?
• Is the project primarily meant as a secondary source -- in other words, is it meant for the presentation of original research, much like an analog book or article? Or is it meant to be used as primary material for others’ research or creative work? Or is it some combination of these two types?
• How might the project be used to generate new research questions -- or answers? For the project's creator? For other researchers or students?
• Can you identify the source of the project's underlying dataset? (Remember that text and images and other information can be used as "data"!) How was the dataset created or where was it found?
• If the underlying data is still being compiled, how is it being compiled? Are the creators using crowdsourcing or public engagement methods for collecting data?
• Are the project’s creator(s) writing (or have they already written) published works derived from their digital project?
• In what ways do find the project successful or unsuccessful?
• What are your questions?

Large Projects

Maps

Primary Sources and Digital Publishing

• Colored Conventions Project
  P. Gabreille Foreman, Jim Casey, & Team

• Plant Humanities Lab
  Team at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections

• The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China
  Thomas Mullaney & Team

• Claude McKays Early Poetry 1911-1922; A Digital Collection
  Amardeep Singh & Students

Datasets & Databases

• Photogrammar (Photos taken by U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information, 1935-1945) (Be sure to check out the "Labs" section.)
  Laura Wexler, Lauren Tilton, Taylor Arnold, & Team

• Investigating Indentured Servitude
  Team at the American Philosophical Society

• Freedom on the Move: A database of self-liberating people from American Slavery
  Ed Baptist & Team

• Shakespeare and Company: Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris
  Joshua Kotin, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, & Team

Text

• Assessing Language Patterns: A Look at Texas Newspapers, 1829-2008
  A Collaboration of The Texas Digital Newspaper Program, University of North Texas & The Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University

• The Goodreads "Classics": A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism
  Melanie Walsh & Maria Antoniak
  (This one is a little different from the rest, as it's actually a peer-reviewed academic article. With interactive visualizations.)

• Vogue N-gram Search & Topic Modelling Vogue, part of the larger Robots Reading Vogue project.
  Lindsay King, Peter Leonard, & Team

• Viral Texts
  Ryan Cordell, David A. Smith & Team

Projects by Graduate Students

• Visualizing Joy in 19th-Century Black Studio Portraiture: A Digital Collection of Photographs
  Victoria Baugh (Cornell, Literatures in English)

• The Global Poetics Project: Bringing the terrain of poetry to the World Wide Web
  Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu (Cornell, Literatures in English)

• Virtual Cartographies: Visualizing Mass Grave Recovery in Contemporary Spain
  Wendy Perla Kurtz (UCLA, Spanish and Portuguese)

• Mapping Mobility: Spatial and Class Change in the Gilded Age Wall Street Workforce
  Atiba Pertilla (If you can't view the embedded maps, click on the "Source File" links.)

• John Mandeville and the Hereford Map
  John Wyatt Greenlee (Cornell, Medieval Studies)

• De raptu meo
  Anna Waymack (Cornell, Medieval Studies)

• Parthian Sources Online
  Jake Nabel (Cornell, Classics)

• Editorial Networks of the Antebellum African American Press
  Jim Casey (University of Delaware, English)

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