We have collected a list of projects that represent a range of possibilities for digital scholarship in The Ohio Five. All of the projects listed below, to varying degrees, take the scholarly exercise of curation further.
We should also use this space to direct you toward Miriam Posner’s excellent blog post, “How did they make that?,” wherein she provides us with a helpful list of seven exemplary, typical digital projects (as if there were a “typical” project) and she elucidates what goes into building that particular (exemplary) project.
There are a great many sites that aggregate resources of scholarly digital projects (chief among them might be libraries’ sites or Digital Humanities centers). You can take a gander, for example, at this list from the Digital Scholarship Lab (University of Richmond), this from the Digital Humanities Initiative (Hamilton College), this from Scholars’ Lab (University of Virginia), this from DH@Stockton (Richard Stockton College), or even The Ohio Five’s own Digital Projects Portal.
Mapping Projects
Literary New Orleans
This is developed out of a course at Univ. of Richmond. Is a good example of integrating the spatial dimensions of research into a web-based platform. You can also see Professor Jones’s similar Americans in Paris course.
Soweto Project
The primary objective of the Soweto Historical GIS Project (SHGIS) is to build a multi-layered historical geographic information system that explores the social, economic and political dimensions of urban development under South African apartheid regimes (1904/1948-1994) in Johannesburg’s all-black township of Soweto.” (from the site.)
Redlining Richmond
Focusing on the late 1930s in Richmond, VA, this project uses government surveys and maps to allow users to understand the ways in which race (and class) influenced the political–and literal–landscape of the city.
Multimodal Projects
Visualizing Emancipation
This large scale project, which allows users to see the end of slavery through time and space, was funded in part by the NEH.
Slave Revolt in Jamaica: 1760-1761
The notion of “a cartographic narrative” is a brilliant way of shaping this project. It is a crafted digital presentation that ultimately tells the story at its in root in the fullest possible manner.
The Roaring Twenties
Focusing on the late 1930s in Richmond, VA, this project uses government surveys and maps to allow users to understand the ways in which race (and class) influenced the political–and literal–landscape of the city.
Text-centered Projects
Milton Reading Room
An annotated collection of John Milton’s works.
Grinnell Beowulf
Student-faculty collaboration to create an annotated, translated edition of Beowulf.
Civil War Letters
Deeply searchable (because richly encoded) collection of 456 civil war letters held at Hamilton College.
Collections/Archives
Comparative Japanese Film Archive
Under development, this will grow into a database of early twentieth-century film and audio clips. It is a space for international collaboration between scholars of Japanese film for both research and instruction.
Perspectives on Women
Exemplary union of Digital and Social Humanities. A wonderful project centered on a course that “locates women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.” Digital components include students’ creation of podcasts and, by using the simple WordPress interface, the creation of an archive for this material.
East Asia Image Collection
A collection that allows users to build their own virtual collections, which are open to quantitative analyses. The project also involves students with a variety of specialties from translating to programming.