Digital Humanities: Research

Histories of the National Mall is a digital public history project developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This guide details each phase of creating Histories of the National Mall, mallhistory.org, including planning, interpretative approach, user experience and design, testing, and outreach efforts of the project team.

Publications and applications to define digital humanities for a new generation of scholars, librarians and museum professionals from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

Courses from MIT available free, online for everyone.

Cinemetrics is a DH tool that extracts statistical data from movies to reveal their inner workings. The project also saves gathered data into an open, searchable database.

Provoke! creates a home for creative-critical projects by makers, documentary artists, and sound scholars whose work presses at the boundaries of scholarship. Envisioned as “provocations” to existing forms of publication, these projects relate to one another through their deep engagement with sonic materials and innovative formal presentation.

A listing of various GIS DH projects.

A GIS project created by the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library.

A crowd-sourced digital collection created by Northeastern University's Libraries related to the Boston Marathon bombing.

The Mark Twain Project offers access to a variety of Mark Twain's writings, including texts, exhaustive notes, recently discovered letters, and documents relating to the author. Tools used in this project are: XML, STF, TEI, METS, MADS, MODS, DTD

The Walt Whitman Archive makes available resources relating to Walt Whitman including images, and manuscripts. The tools used are: TEI, NoteTab, oxygen, GNU, emacs, XML, Validator, Zoomify

A compilation of the various digital scholarship guidelines and resources from different institutions and professional organizations.

From the Modern Language Association (MLA), revised 2012.

From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.

From the Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012.

Learn about h-index, journal impact factors, and other metrics.

Where Digital Humanities and Libraries meet.

Public humanities focused blog

Blog focusing on digital scholarship advances in University of College, London.

Quinn Dombrowski is the Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University. The blog contains information on a wide-array of topics and processes in Digital Humanities in accessible language

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is the Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University

Gaming theory, criticism, and design.

Blog of the Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America.

Explores how fields of literature, history and philosophy can be impacted by computers and the Internet; blog of Research Assistant Professor and THATCamp Coordinator at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University,

Strategist, thinker & consultant in how the digital domain relates to library, museum, archiving & media digital strategies.

Blog of DH PhD student Scott Weingart, which also includes an excellent curated list of DH syllabi geared towards the computational and ‘making’ aspects of DH.

DevDH.org provides the intellectual and strategic scaffolding to aid researchers in successfully completing their research endeavors. Responding to the increasing number of first-time digital humanists who are initiating projects, as well as the growing mandate from Universities and Colleges to undertake digital humanities-based research and teaching, DevDH introduces a series of resources to aid those who might be seeking assistance.

A 2014 blog post from the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Collaboratory) blog.

Publishes digital texts in the field of media studies.

open access publishing from the UT Libraries

Omeka is a free, open source content management system for creating rich narratives or online digital collections that is easy to use. Create online exhibits, projects, and teaching tools and more.

Publishes open access e-books.

Sponsors open source publishing environments, including Open Journal Systems and Open Monograph Press.

Platform for born-digital, open source, media-rich scholarly publishing.

A digital archive of published and unpublished works by faculty, students, departments, programs, research centers, and institutes.

Author's Rights Retention Support, including negotiating with publishers on copyright transfer, Creative Commons, and the UT Open Publishing Support Fund and Open Access publishing.

Publishing support for authors and researchers, with information on publishing agreements, evaluating publishers, and Open Access.

1. Click "Login" on the top right of the page.
2. Under "Select Your Institution," select "University of Tennessee."
3. Log in with your NetID and password.
5. Now you can create Data Management Plans.

Contact Chris Eaker (ceaker@utk.edu) for assistance and with questions.

Guidelines for creating the 2-page data management plan required for all NEH DH proposals and grants

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organization whose goals are to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond, in all areas reflected by its diverse membership.

From the blog of Lisa Spiro.

As part of the Office of Research & Engagement’s Faculty Development Initiative (FDI), the Grantseeker’s Toolkit was developed to provide members of the Knoxville campus research community with information they can use to identify an effective strategy for writing successful proposals.

A comprehensive listing of new funding sources compiled by PBS.