Digital Humanities Projects at SJSU
DH is happening at SJSU! from cultural mapping to curriculum & pedagogy, from archiving to artificial intelligence, and from virtual & augmented reality to critical making,SJSU faculty are incorporating DH methods and tools into their research and pedagogy. Visit our list of faculty research projects to find out more.
If you have a project of your own, we would love to add it to the list!
Selected Digital Humanities Projects
This is a revolving, growing, list of projects we think may be of interest to the SJSU community. If there is a project you'd like to see featured here - particularly if it's a project you reference in your own teaching — let us know!
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Humanizando la Deportación / Humanizing Deportaion
Humanizando la Deportación es un proyecto comunitario en narrativa digital, el que documenta las consecuencias humanas de los regímenes contemporáneos de control fronterizo y migratorio en Estados Unidos y México.
Humanizing Deportation is a community based digital storytelling project that documents the human consequences of contemporary regimes of migration and border control in the United States and Mexico. -
Digital Transgender Archive
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. -
PANDiT: Prosographical Database for Indic Texts
PANDiT is a digital humanities project with a unique and ambitious task: to create a database for the vast world of South Asian letters. The name stands for the Sanskrit title of a virtuoso scholar with full mastery of traditional knowledge systems, but as an acronym it also states the project’s main objective: the creation of a Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts. Broadly stated, PANDiT seeks to store, curate, and share reliable data on works, people, places, institutions, and manuscripts from premodern South Asia, in addition to relevant secondary sources, and to do so across period, language, discipline and subject matter. It is designed as an interactive web-based repository that scholars of every South Asian specialty and interest can contribute to and as a basic tool on which they will routinely come to rely. -
Linked Jazz
Linked Jazz is a research project investigating the application of Linked Open Data technologies to digital cultural heritage materials. The project draws on jazz history materials in digital format to expose relationships between musicians and reveal their community network. New modes of connecting cultural data have the potential to open up new and unprecedented avenues of research and community engagement. -
The William Blake Archive
Over the course of two centuries, respect for the prints, paintings, and poems of William Blake (1757-1827) has increased to a degree that would have astonished his contemporaries. Today both his poetry and visual art in several media are admired by a global audience. In the broadest terms, the William Blake Archive is a contemporary response to the needs of this dispersed and various audience of readers and viewers and to the corresponding needs of the collections where Blake's original works are currently held.
A free site on the World Wide Web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. A growing number of contributors have given the Archive permission to include thousands of Blake's images and texts without fees.
DH Awards
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Digital Humanities AwardsDigital Humanities Awards are a set of annual awards where the public is able to nominate and vote on resources for the recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community. To see the winning projects, choose the DH Awards [Year] Results link under the year you are interested in.