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Digital Humanities

This guide provides an introduction to digital humanities (DH) theory and practice and an overview of DH methods, tools, and resources.

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DH Project Examples

 

This project uses data visualization to illustrate the most cited research in four high-impact Philosophy journals and how they are connected to each other. This project was created in 2013, so the data now may have changed. 

This project analyzes declassified state documents relating to Henry Kissinger using text analysis and data visualization. 

This is an animated archive of the history of the town of Franklin, North Carolina. 

This project functions as both an archive, a data visualization project, and a linked data project illustrating the history of jazz and jazz artists in their own words and the words of those who knew them. 

This project employs text analysis and topic modeling to illustrate and uncover patterns in a small set of Modernist texts. 

This link leads to an archive for the project Metadata Games, which served as an open source gaming platform dedicated to educational games made from Humanities data from different cultural institutions. The games created on the original Metadata Games website are available on this archive. 

Mining the Dispatch uses data from the Richmond newspaper, The Daily Dispatch to chart and explore the changes in Civil War Richmond. The data used spans from the election of Lincoln until the eventual evacuation of the city almost five years later.