Varieties of digital humanities projects:
My fuzzy categories:
Texts
text encoding: The Walt Whitman Archive & Women Writer’s Project
text mining: Quantifying Kissenger
text collation: Vincent Van Gogh Letters
text analysis: The Viral Texts Project
topic modeling: Mining the Dispatch
Data visualization & Analysis
networks: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, Belfast Group Poetry|Networks
maps: Borderlands Archives Cartography, Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
timelines: Nelson Mandela’s Extraordinary Life: An Interactive Timeline, TimelineJS
story maps: Restoring Old Havana, Place | Poem
Embodied data viz: Dear Data, Data Cuisine
physical computing: “Pu Gong Ying Tu (Dandelion Painting)” by Jie Qi
metadata as research data: Using Metadata to find Paul Revere, Collections as Data
Data curation
digitization: Digital Public Library of America, NYPL Digital Collections, Digital Aponte
transcription: Smithsonian Transcription Center, DIYHistory, Transcribe Bentham, Zooniverse
collecting: Wearing Gay History, Curatescape, Boston Marathon Digital Archive, HistoryPin
refining: Curating Menus, DH Data Curation
linked open data: Pelagios – Recogito, LinkedJazz
Digital connections
pedagogy: Hybrid Pedagogy, The American Yawp
crowdsourcing: What’s on the Menu?, Beyond Words, Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
social media: Every Three Minutes, MobyDickatSea, Documenting the Now
oral history: StoryCorps, Bracero Archive
Wikipedia: Feminist Wiki-Storming, edit-a-thons
games: Reacting to the Past, ex: Greenwich Village, 1913
community archives: DC Punk Archive, Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal
Public voices
podcasts: Left of Black, Ben Franklin’s World
e-literature: game, game, game and again game by Jason Nelson, Twine, The Electronic Literature Lab Catalog
user interfaces/UX/design: Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,
digital exhibits: Mall History, Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”
blogging: Black Perspectives, The Junto
Data Viz Quick Tools
Palladio http://hdlab.stanford.edu/
Google Fusion Tables http://fusiontables.google.com
Data Visualization