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Digital Humanities: Projects, Centers & Tools
An introduction to issues and resources pertaining to digital humanities and text and data mining
Selected Projects in Digital Humanities
This is a selection of projects of interest to literary scholars:
- 18thConnect
- #alt-academy
- Blake Archive
- Dickinson Electronic Archive
- Nines: Nineteenth Century Scholarlship Online
- Orlando Project
- Piers Plowman Elelctronic Archive
- Rossetti Archive
- Shakespeare in Quarto
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- Walt Whitman Archive
- Willa Cather Archive
- Women Writers Project
In addition, there is a large list of TEI projects on the TEI website
Finding Projects
You can identify digital humanities projects by one of the following methods:
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Use the "advanced search" and limit to "websites only."
- GoogleSearch using the topic of interest with the term "database."
Digital Humanities Centers
Appendix B of Diane M. Zorich's Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States (November 2008) lists 32 Digital Humanities organizations. The following list is a selection of those and others not included in her list.
- Consortium of Humanities Centers and InstitutesAn arena for the discussion of issues germane to crossdisciplinary activity in the humanities and as a network for the circulation of information and best practices related to the organizational and management dimensions of humanities centers and institutes."
Tools
- DIRT: Digital Research Tools WikiCollects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.
- METSstandard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.
- MONKA digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study.
- SeasrSoftware Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a research and development environment capable of powering leading-edge digital humanities initiatives
- TAPorR: Text Analysis Portal for ResearchA gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.
- Text Encoding InitiativeA consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.