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Requirements

The PhD in Digital Humanities, run by Cambridge Digital Humanities and based in the Faculty of English, is a research-intensive programme that will enable students to engage at doctoral level with projects demanding the use of digital methods, tools, or adopting critical/theoretical orientations. The programme expands the humanities offering at research postgraduate level at Cambridge by offering a route for cross-disciplinary engagement, responding to the growth of the field of Digital Humanities as a research area.

The programme is designed to enable students from many areas of the arts and humanities to develop practical skills and knowledge and to generate the necessary critical literacy to understand and engage with digital research, and digital cultures, and to respond to questions arise around the ethics of automation, algorithmic analysis, privacy/surveillance, virtual cultures, data sharing, intelligent agency and creativity, archival justice and digital histories, and to explore work in relation to collections and heritage issues.

Through supervisions and technical support from a research software engineer, contextualised by a research culture providing research led seminars and lectures, guest seminars, and practice-driven workshops, CDH provides the conditions for original PhD research in Digital Humanities or in other arts, humanities, and social science disciplines that make a significant intervention into shaping the field.

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Digital Humanities is an intrinsically interdisciplinary field: we therefore will consider candidates from almost any academic field. You might have a grounding in History, Archaeology, Literature, Linguistics, Art History, Economics, Computer Science, etc. The degree itself involves working with a range of materials from Cambridge Libraries, Museums and Collections and other disciplines.

Academic qualifications

Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK Master’s (Merit).

If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.

University Minimum Academic Requirements

MPhil students in Digital Humanities from Cambridge who wish to continue to the PhD may apply to do so, subject to meeting certain conditions. The expected standard for continuation to the PhD at Cambridge is normally:

• An overall mark of 70 or more for the MPhil course.
• A mark of 70 or more for the dissertation/portfolio submitted as part of the MPhil course.
• Other conditions may also be imposed as deemed necessary.

See general entry requirements for the University of Cambridge

2025-2026 fees TBC

2024 Home students: £9,387

2024 Overseas students: £28,401

Anyone who applies to a postgraduate course at Cambridge can also apply to be considered for funding.

Every year the University of Cambridge awards over £100m in scholarships to new postgraduate students. This money comes from many generous University and College endowments, as well as government Research Council (UKRI) funds . A lot of our students also fund their studies from external sources such as charities or government schemes and loans.

Our major internal sources of funding are:

• Cambridge Trust
• Gates Cambridge Trust
• Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme (HDPSP)
• Research Councils (UKRI)
• Colleges and departments

Find a general funding overview here

European Funding Guide

The  European Funding Guide  is the largest online-platform in the EU for finding financial aid. The platform contains over 12,000 scholarships, grants and awards across the whole EU worth more than 27 billion Euros per year. Over 4,000 of these are specifically targeted at UK students.

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Applications for PhD entry in the academic year 2025-26 will open on 4 September 2024 . The deadline is usually early January.

Applications for entry via Gates (US) scholarships   in the academic year 2025-26 will open in September 2024.

For more information and a link to the application portal, look up Digital Humanities in the Postgraduate Course Directory after applications open.

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Research areas and supervision

Do i need to contact my prospective supervisor to discuss my proposal.

Doctoral applicants need not send enquiries to potential supervisors prior to application. Supervisors are allocated after the admissions process and allocation depends on a number of factors in addition to research interests.

What are the main research areas covered at CDH? What research areas will CDH develop in the future?

Our aim is to further an expansive form of Digital Humanities that encompasses work with collections, literature as digital humanities, global digital humanities, critical media theorisation, digital media, methodological advancement, future and emerging technologies including AI and machine learning, and much more. You can find out more about our research activities at cdh.cam.ac.uk/research and a general statement about our research areas at cdh.cam.ac.uk/about .

My research looks at a topic that isn’t fully covered by the supervisory team at CDH. Can I still apply to the programme?

Research proposals that move beyond the specialisms of our supervisory team may still work within CDH, however, you may wish to consider applying to a PhD programme in another department. You will be able to engage with our programme and graduate training opportunities as a Cambridge student even if you aren’t based in CDH.

How can I better evaluate whether my research would fit with Cambridge Digital Humanities?

If you are unsure whether your intended research fits with the research specialisms available at CDH, please contact us at [email protected]

Application

When is the deadline to apply.

The general deadline for autumn 2025 entry will be early January 2025 (date to be confirmed in September). US citizens, who are based in the US, and are applying for a Cambridge Gates Scholarship must submit their application by early autumn – date to be confirmed soon.

To be notified when further information becomes available, subscribe to the postgraduate mailing list .

What should the research proposal look like?

A PhD research proposal should be 800 words long. It needs to give those assessing your application an impression of the strength and originality of your proposed research, and its potential to make a contribution to knowledge. It should be written in clear, jargon-free, and unexceptionable prose. Grammatical mistakes and typographical errors give a very bad impression. You should make sure you cover the following areas (without explicitly dividing the proposal into headings).

• the research topic: briefly outline the area and topic of your research.
• the research context: relate your proposed research to other work in its field or related fields, and indicate in what ways your research will differ; you might mention monographs on the subject, as well as important theoretical models or methodological exemplars. This is a chance to show your understanding of the background against which your research will be defined.
• the contribution you will make: this is your chance to show how you have arrived at your position and recognised the need for your research, and what it is that makes it both new and important; you should indicate what areas and debates it will have an impact on, what methodological example it sets (if appropriate) – in short how it contributes to knowledge and to the practice of our subject. Give examples of the sort of evidence you might consider, and of the questions it might help you to raise. Show that you are already thinking about the area in detail and not only in outline.
• your methods: in some cases there will be little to say here, but if there is something striking about your methodology, you should explain it.
• the sources and resources you will use: you should delimit your field of enquiry, showing where the project begins and ends; in certain cases, Cambridge will have unique collections and resources of central relevance to your project, and you should mention these.
• how the project will develop: you might indicate some of the possible ways in which the project could develop, perhaps by giving a broader or narrower version depending on what materials and issues you uncover

What is an eligible ‘sample of work’?  

The sample of work can be one long piece or several shorter essays (max. 5) amounting to around 5,000—7,000 words in total. You will also need to provide an 800-word research proposal. Find the full list of materials required for PhD applications.

Do you accept applicants who already hold a PhD?

Yes. However, applicants who do not hold a PhD are not at a disadvantage.

If we are currently awaiting results from our Master’s studies, should we wait for these results to be released before applying, or should we apply beforehand?

You can apply before you have been awarded your marks for your Master’s, but you will have to have your marks before you are administered to the PhD course. You would simply add a predicted grade to your application form e.g. ‘Merit predicted’.

Can we apply for part-time studies at CDH?

Yes, you can apply for part-time study.

Where can applicants find details relating to the word count and format for the covering letter, the proposal, and writing sample?

To apply for this course, you’ll need to prepare a number of materials. Please see the full list of requirements on the ‘How to Apply’ section of the application portal: postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/elelpddgh/apply .

• Two academic references 
• Transcript 
• Evidence of competence in English: If required – you can  check using our tool
• Covering letter: Applicants need to submit a single page covering letter explaining their rationale for wishing to undertake the course and justifying their case for a place.
• Research proposal: Please submit a 800-word research proposal
• Sample of work (max. 5): Please submit a sample of work which can be one long piece or several shorter essays amounting to around 5,000–7,000 words in total.

If you wish to be considered for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship you will also need to provide the following:

• Gates Cambridge Reference 
• Research Proposal (PhD applicants only)

See  Gates Cambridge  for more information.

If we have mitigating, contextual circumstances that have impacted our grades (e.g. health issues, family situations), how can we best share this context with the department on our applications?

There is room on the application form to include contextual circumstances.

How do I find funding?  

The main way to find funding is via the University’s  Postgraduate Funding Search , which contains:

• University funding opportunities
• Funded studentships and research projects
• Research Council (UKRI) studentships

A lot of our students also fund their studies from  external funding sources such as charities or government schemes and loans. Anyone who applies for a postgraduate course at Cambridge can also apply to be considered for funding to help cover their  fees and costs . There are also specific funding opportunities available to applicants from underrepresented backgrounds from both UK households and abroad, including application fee waivers. Normally ‘full’ funding covers everything (including fees and living expenses), but there are sometimes opportunities for partial funding though this is less common.

For general information about postgraduate funding visit: postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding

For contextual data and widening participation funding, visit: postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding/contextual-data

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please email us with any questions at [email protected]

Is there a difference between funding opportunities for part-time and full-time PhD applicants?

Tuition fees are essentially the same, just divided up into more years. We don’t control funding directly, so you should check with the specific funder you are targeting.

For more information about postgraduate funding, visit: postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding

Have a question we didn’t answer? Contact us at [email protected]

Supervisors.

Dr Anne Alexander

Senior Research Associate; Learning Director

Professor Caroline Bassett

Director, Cambridge Digital Humanities; Professor of Digital Humanities

Dr Ryan Heuser

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities

Dr Leonardo Impett

University Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities

Dr Hugo Leal

Teaching Associate

Dr Matt Mahmoudi

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3-4 years (full-time); 5-6 years (part-time)

The PhD by Practice offers a distinctive opportunity to conduct doctoral research by developing a body of creative work alongside a written critical component. Unlike a traditional PhD, you'll be assessed on the creative output of your research in addition to a shorter written thesis.

Key features

Join a unique scholarly community.

The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study offers a supportive and stimulating environment for pursuing interdisciplinary research. The Hub’s multidisciplinary team has strong connections to subject areas including Classics, English, History and Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as researchers and practitioners with technical backgrounds.

Be assessed on your creative outputs

The PhD by Practice offers a distinctive opportunity to conduct doctoral research by developing a body of creative work coupled with a written critical component, rather than the traditional, longer written thesis. For example, you could produce an exhibition, a body of code, data visualisations, or an art installation.

Enjoy access to unparalleled resources

The Digital Humanities Research Hub's outstanding resources include the Senate House MakerSpace, equipped with a range of tools for working with cultural heritage objects, 3D imaging and printing, and computational experimentation. You'll also have access to the world-class Senate House Library and those of the University of London federation members.

Fit your studies around your life

Enjoy flexibility in terms of where and how you study. Supervision is available on campus or online, so you can research from home in your own time; and as the PhD can be completed part-time in up to six years, there's no need to put your life on hold.

Course overview

Digital humanities at the school of advanced study show.

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together eight internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK's national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research in the humanities.

Digital Humanities (DH) is an interdisciplinary subject area that brings a range of computational, quantitative and other innovative and collaborative methods to the study of texts, images, histories, languages and cultures, while also being critical about methodology, disciplinarity and pedagogy.

Digital Humanities in the School of Advanced Study demonstrates the value of digital research to the wider humanities community and fulfils the School’s remit to promote and facilitate digitally enabled research across the disciplines. The School’s multidisciplinary DH team comprises academics with strong connections to subject areas including Classics, English, History and Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as researchers and practitioners with technical backgrounds.

The Digital Humanities Research Hub conducts cutting edge research and collaborates on a number of well-established digital projects. These include a number of online databases; directories; bibliographies; catalogues; and collections. The Hub also runs the Senate House MakerSpace, which provides facilities for 3D imaging and printing, digitisation, and computational experimentation.

Course structure Show

PhD by Practice students are based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub , which has strong connections with the Institutes and Centres in the School . Academic staff in the Hub has expertise in Classics, English, History and Modern Languages and Cultures. Students will also have the opportunity to work with technical experts and other digital humanities practitioners. It is also possible to secure co-supervision from a supervisor based elsewhere in the School who can offer additional disciplinary expertise.

You will have access to a range of resources to support your degree, including research software, expert technical advice, and connections to national and international scholarly and professional organisations. They will also have opportunities to use the Senate House MakerSpace, which provides facilities for 3D imaging and printing, digitisation, and computational experimentation.

Full-time study for the PhD degree entails three or a maximum of four years' independent research, culminating in the writing of a thesis of not more than 100,000 words. Part-time students complete the same programme in five, or a maximum of six years.

After submission of the thesis, you will attend an oral examination conducted by an internal examiner, from the University of London, and an external examiner, normally from another British university.

There is no formal coursework, but you will be expected to participate in a weekly seminar on Work in Progress and to present a paper every year from your second year onwards. In your first year you are required to attend a weekly class on Techniques of Scholarship. You are also encouraged to participate in the regular seminars held at the Institute during the academic year.

All of the digital research in the School has a strong humanities focus and brings together technical expertise with a strong foundation in specific disciplinary approaches. 

Recent research in the Hub has included:

• Humanities approaches to the archived web
• Analysing COVID misinformation on social media
• The transnational comparison of parliamentary proceedings
• Computational text analysis of the 1921 Census records
• The application of digital methods to papyrology
• Digital resources in cultural heritage institutions
• Multilingual analysis of contemporary news coverage using natural language processing

Before submitting an application you are advised to contact a member of academic staff who has interests in your proposed field of study to discuss your proposal.

Supervisors Show

Before submitting an application you are advised to contact a member of academic staff who has interests in your proposed field of study to discuss your proposal. Please speak first to  Valerie James , manager, Central Academic Initiatives, School of Advanced Study.

Professor Jane Winters Professor of Digital Humanities (On research leave through September 2024) Research interests: Communications, Contemporary History, Culture, Digital resources, Digitisation, History, Medieval History.

Dr Naomi Wells Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages and Digital Humanities Acting Director, Digital Humanities Research Hub Research interests: Culture, Digital resources, Language and Literature (Italian), Language and Literature (Spanish).

Dr Kaspar Beelen Technical Lead, Digital Humanities Research interests: computational methods for digital history, the study of bias in big historical data, the politics of big data, and the computational analysis of political text.

Dr Gabriel Bodard Reader in Digital Classics Research interests: Ancient History, Archaeology, Classics, Digital resources, Digitisation.

Dr Christopher Ohge Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature Research interests: Digital resources, Digitisation, English Literature, History of the book, Manuscript studies, Modernism, Palaeography, Philosophy, Romanticism.

Distance learning Show

Distance learning offers you a more flexible way to study for a postgraduate degree in the humanities – combining innovative learning and teaching techniques with the ability to study from anywhere in the world.

We offer three master’s courses and a range of PhD supervision via distance learning. Our research degrees via distance learning allow you to study for a University of London MPhil or PhD degree from anywhere in the world. The programme is run on the same basis as campus-based programmes.

The School of Advanced Study will offer students with an appropriate topic and level of local resource the opportunity to undertake a PhD by distance learning. These students are required to attend our London campus at set intervals to complete an intensive research training module, for upgrade, and for the viva but will otherwise study at their own location. This option is available to UK, EU and international students on the same basis as our on-campus PhD programmes (three years full time, six years part time). Fees are the same as for our on-campus PhD programmes. 

Important note: It may not always be possible for all institutes and supervisors to offer the option of distance learning, as some topics are not appropriate to be studied this way. As such, we strongly recommend that you check first - before applying.

If you would like to be considered for our Research Degree programme via Distance Learning, please download and fill out the Research Degrees by Distance Learning form , to attach to your online application.

Opportunities and facilities Show

The Hub hosts a lively intellectual environment that includes an active seminar series and visiting research fellows. Students are also welcome to participate in digitally-focused seminars hosted by other Institutes within the School. Members of the Hub are also active in digital humanities organisations including the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association .

The  School of Advanced Study  itself offers excellent resources for inter-disciplinary research by bringing together  eight internationally renowned research institutes  that support the promotion of research in the humanities. The Hub also has strong relationships with  Senate House Library , which runs a number of digital programmes in addition to its range of historic library reading rooms and collections. 

The School offers a broad range of  events, seminars and conferences  that we encourage our research students to engage with. This includes opportunities to participate in the annual Being Human Festival , the flagship festival of the humanities in the United Kingdom.

Our research students can also take advantage of a varied and challenging  research training programme , with general research skills training and research methodologies courses provided through the School and subject-specific training provided within the institutes.

How to apply Show

Before submitting an application, you are advised to discuss your proposal with a member of the academic staff who has interests in your proposed field of study. You can find our academic staff's contact details and areas of expertise in the Supervisors section.

Before agreeing to accept you, the School will require you to submit a research proposal, so it is worthwhile to have drafted this before formally applying. See the Guidelines on drafting your research proposal .

Candidates will normally receive an initial response to their application within 28 working days. Those who have been formally interviewed will normally be informed within one week as to whether they are to be offered a place.

Note: in accordance with regulations research students will be registered for the MPhil degree in the first instance. Upgrading to PhD will be considered in the second year for full-time students and in the third or fourth year for part-time students.

Fees, funding and payment

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Fees are set annually and cover registration, tuition, and (in the case of research students) supervision.

Fees are quoted per annum -- that is, you will need to pay at least the fee quoted below for each year of your studies. Please note that tuition fees are subject to annual uplift. The University of London reserves the right to alter or withdraw courses and amend other details without prior notice.

See the Tuition Fees for 2024-25 - listed by Institute.

Funding opportunities Show

Our students fund their studies in a variety of ways including scholarships, bursaries and fellowships, as well as government loans and postgraduate loans. 

We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries that you don't need to pay back and are awarded based on personal circumstances or academic achievement. Funding at postgraduate level is competitive so it’s a good idea to plan financially before starting your course. 

For information about fees and funding from the School of Advanced Study, please visit the SAS Fees and Funding page .

Career opportunities

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The  SAS Careers Service  works with students and graduates of all ages and at all stages of career development across all the institutes. Our mission is to provide high-quality information about careers and skills, and professional advice and guidance. We help students with their career development, either within their current field of work or in something completely new. 

SAS students can access 1-2-1 guidance appointments throughout their studies and for up to 2 years after graduating, to help them plan their next steps, whatever they might be. We also offer CV, cover letter, and application advice as well as mock interviews with the SAS Careers Consultant who will empower you to feel more confident in your interview performance. 

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Fully funded PhD in Digital Humanities

Applications are invited to apply for a PhD candidate position to perform research in the field of digital humanities methods at the Ghent Centre of Digital Humanities in collaboration with LT³ - Language and Translation Technology Team at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University. Ghent CDH specializes in the field of Digital Humanities bringing together experts in geography, history, literature, linguistics and cultural studies, working on DH research projects, teaching activities and infrastructure projects. LT³ conducts fundamental and applied research in the domain of language and translation technology and has extensive expertise in the use of machine learning for a wide range of language technology problems, int.al. part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization, anaphora resolution, word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition. Job description You will be embedded in the Horizon 2020 INFRA Research project - Computational Literary Studies . This European project will develop a shared resource of high-quality data, tools and knowledge needed for literary studies using artificial intelligence and other computational methods. The PhD candidate will research new natural language processing toolchains to facilitate research in literature and history. Specifically, the candidate will address the development of digital humanities methods in the following ways: Research the development of a NLP toolchain in literary research with enhanced multilingual workflows; Develop with a team of researchers a suite of workflows and prototypes to facilitate common research tasks within literary studies using NLP enrichments; this includes: named entity recognition, relational extraction, and sentiment analysis; Work to optimise the availability of fundamental NLP tools within a workflow for historical literary texts using case studies from KBR (the Royal Library of Belgium) multilingual serial publication collection. The candidate will perform academic research in preparation of a doctoral dissertation. You will be enrolled in the doctoral training program of Ghent University. The PhD student will have the opportunity to attend international conferences and to spend a research stay abroad in other research labs.

Job profile

Given these tasks, we are searching for a candidate with a background in computer science or computational linguistics, with an interest in literature and cultural heritage.

• You hold a Master’s diploma or certificate that is recognized as equivalent (Article V.20 Codex Higher Education) in computational linguistics, computer science or in information and library sciences OR a Master’s diploma in human or social sciences with additional certifications in computer science by 01/09/2021. (When assessing a foreign (non-EU) diploma, an equivalence certificate may still have to be requested from NARIC; we advise you - if necessary - to start the recognition procedure at NARIC as soon as possible. You must have this recognition no later than the date of appointment. You have a proven interest or experience in working in the digital humanities and implementing digital workflows using cultural heritage resources.)
• You have interest in improving your knowledge of the intellectual, cultural or literary history of the 19th and 20th century in Belgium specifically.
• You have technical and digital literacy, for example in-depth knowledge of programming languages ​​used in the humanities (Python, R, etc..), or web and metadata standards, interoperability and data exchange.
• You have good oral and written communication skills in English, as well as knowledge of Dutch, or French, or German, and a willingness to learn Dutch if not spoken.
• You take initiative in searching for new research ideas.
• You are not afraid to be critical about your own work.
• You are a highly motivated, hardworking, flexible, able to face complex issues and you have an appropriate problem-solving attitude.
• You are able to take on responsibilities, work independently but also as part of an interdisciplinary research team.
• You have strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Conditions of employment This position after approximately four years of successful research results in a PhD title in Digital Humanities. We offer a position for 4 years with yearly evaluations, in an exciting research environment, working on the intersection between theory and application in the multi-disciplinary research environment of the Faculty Arts and Philosophy at Ghent University. Remuneration will be determined according to salary scale AAP3 (more information about our salary scales). All Ghent University staff members enjoy a number of benefits, such as a wide range of training and education opportunities, 38 days of paid leave, bicycle commuting reimbursement, ecocheques, etc. The exact start date of the position is negotiable, preferably as soon as possible but no later than 01/09/2021. Candidates that will graduate soon (before the starting date 01/09/2021) are encouraged to apply.

How to apply

How to apply To apply please send your full application before 25 June 2021 to Prof Dr. Julie M. Birkholz -  [email protected] ) and Prof Dr. Christophe Verbruggen -  [email protected] , which includes the following documents as pdfs and with appropriate file names (i.e. FAMILYNAME_FILETYPE): - Your application letter in English (max. two pages) that indicates why you wish to pursue a PhD? And why in digital humanities? What is your -if any- prior experience?; - Your curriculum vitae, including two referees; - A copy of your Master’s thesis; - A copy of your Master’s diploma. After an initial screening, interviews will take place online in the week of 5 - 9 July 2021 through Zoom or MS Teams. For more information about this vacancy contact: Julie M. Birkholz, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium & Lead of the Royal Library of Belgium's Digital Research Lab  [email protected]

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Digital Humanities (PhD) Taming Big Data with digital tools

The field of Digital Humanities responds to the challenges and opportunities arising from digitalization in humanities research. The subject’s interdisciplinary character is twofold: On one hand, Digital Humanities operate at the intersection between information/computer technology and knowledge in the humanities; on the other, they deal with the cross-disciplinary similarities in the use of technologies, approaches and methods for processing digital project and research data within the humanities. The aim is to make the content of digital sources available and networkable for research in the humanities, to generate digital data and finally to archive this data sustainably. This involves creating virtual research environments and database systems, and developing computer-assisted procedures to systematically work  with large amounts of data from various sources over long periods.

This innovative field, which is constantly gaining in importance, requires new specialists and a dedicated training program. The University of Basel’s doctoral program in Digital Humanities was created to fill this gap. By offering a suitable platform and a network of experts and research groups from various disciplines, it provides broad support for doctoral students. Programs such as this one are not only important for the training of future researchers – they also make an important contribution towards meeting the increasing demand for interdisciplinary specialists in various areas of the private sector and in memory institutions, archives and museums.

Research at the University of Basel’s Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) focuses on developing new digital tools and methods and evaluating their implications for research and research results in a reflective and interdisciplinary discourse. The DHLab specializes in various research and application areas, including:

• Analog and digital photography
• Image processing and restoration
• Digitization of image collections
• Digital archiving, data hosting, data migration
• Digital infrastructures (e.g. editions, collections, RDF databases)
• Computer-aided analysis of media, culture and society
• Digital editing and corpus building
• Computational and experimental analysis of literary texts (e.g. reading studies)
• Theory and methodology of digitization
• Digital imaging, computational photography
• Long-term archiving of digital knowledge 

Application & admission

In addition to the information below, we recommend students from abroad to read the information sheet  step by step – Preliminary information for international PhD candidates at the University of Basel .

Admission and matriculation

To be admitted to a doctorate, applicants must hold a master’s degree in a field related to the desired subject of doctoral research with an average grade of at least 5.0 rounded to the nearest tenth (the Swiss system awards grades from 1 to 6 with 6 being the highest grade and 4 being a “pass”). Other degrees from a higher education institution recognized by the University of Basel may be deemed partially or fully equivalent on the condition that the applicant acquires any missing credits. Acontinuing education program qualification from a university (e.g. Master of Advanced Studies) does not entitle an applicant to be admitted to a doctorate.

Application

Admission applications must be submitted online to the university’s Student Administration Office. Applications can also be submitted after the official application deadline has passed. However, there is no guarantee that the application will be processed in time for the desired semester, or that the applicant will be able to attend courses in the current semester.

Admission to a doctoral program

Before you can be accepted onto a doctoral program, you must successfully apply for admission to doctoral studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Basel. Once you have been admitted, you can begin your search for a place on a doctoral program. For application information, please see the website of the relevant doctoral program .

Cotutelle de thèse

The  University of Basel website provides information about how to conduct a doctoral project at the University of Basel and at a second university in a foreign country, leading to a double doctoral degree or “cotutelle   de thèse”.

Language requirements

The main languages of instruction in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are German and English (with the exception of the Department of Languages and Literatures). To ensure your studies are successful, you should be proficient in the languages of instruction for your doctoral subject to at least C1 level as defined in the  European Framework of Reference . The Language Center at the University of Basel helps students to attain the required level of proficiency.

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Process for doctorate.

A doctorate usually lasts between three and five years and includes a dissertation, curriculum-based courses, and the doctoral examination. Curriculum-based courses make up at least 12 credit points in individual doctorates and at least 18 credit points in doctoral programs. First, however, a doctoral committee must be formed that will define the framework for the doctorate and work with you to draw up a Doctoral Agreement including an individual study plan.

Doctoral committee

Structure and tasks

Every doctorate is supported by a doctoral committee. This committee usually consists of a first and second supervisor but can also include a third person. The first supervisor is primarily responsible for making sure that the doctoral project is conducted correctly and that suitable supervision is provided. The doctoral committee defines the curriculum-based courses to be completed and provides the doctoral candidate with feedback on the quality and progress of his or her work during regular supervisory meetings. All members of the doctoral committee produce an independent, graded evaluation report on the dissertation submitted.

Forming and appointing the committee  

The first supervisor must be appointed when the application for admission to a doctorate is submitted. The application to act as first supervisor must be submitted to the Student Administration Office together with the application for admission. Ideally, all other supervisors should be appointed by the time the doctorate begins. However, the doctoral committee must be named and appointed by the doctoral board at the latest 12 months after the start of the doctorate. The deadline by which the doctoral committee must be appointed is provided to the doctoral candidate along with their admission letter.

Any Group I professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Basel can serve as first supervisor. Members of Group II (assistant professors without tenure track, honorary professors who hold a doctorate, and private lecturers with a postdoctoral qualification from the faculty) can serve as first supervisor provided the second supervisor is a Group I professor. In this case, the second supervisor must be named in the first supervisor’s application when the application for admission to a doctorate is submitted. Upon request to the doctoral board – the doctoral agreement shall suffice in this case – honorary professors from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences who hold a doctorate and Group I members from a different faculty at the University of Basel may be deemed equivalent to Group I members from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in matters concerning the doctoral committee. Any of the Group I and II faculty members mentioned above may serve as second supervisor. Upon request – the doctoral agreement shall suffice in this case – the doctoral board may also permit a second supervisor to be appointed from outside the faculty or outside the University of Basel. This person must hold a comparable qualification and position as internal second supervisors and hold the right to confer doctorates at their home institution. All contact details for the external second supervisor requested must be specified in the doctoral agreement (connection to their university, postal and email addresses). The doctoral board decides whether to approve the external second supervisor. The doctoral candidate may apply to the doctoral board to add a third supervisor to the doctoral committee. In the case of a three-person committee, either the second or third supervisor does not need to hold the right to confer doctorates; however, this person must have a demonstrable link to a higher education institution or possess a high level of expertise in the doctoral topic. An informal application letter must be submitted to the doctoral board explaining why the supervisor has been chosen and providing details of their position, institutional connection, and addresses (postal and email address). The application must be supported by the first supervisor. The doctoral board decides whether to approve three-person committees.

For more information about the process for completing a doctorate , visit the website of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Graduation & publication

Registering for the doctoral examination.

Once doctoral candidates have written their dissertation, passed all curriculum-based courses, and fulfilled all other requirements, they can apply for admission to the doctoral examination. Each candidate must complete the following steps:

• Submit a copy of the dissertation manuscript to each supervisor. The faculty does not bear any of the costs incurred in sending out dissertation manuscripts.
• Submit a written application for admission to the doctoral examination (via  Phil App  or  email ) containing all documents specified in the information provided about registering for the doctoral examination .

Candidates should register for the doctoral examination at the latest four months before the desired oral examination date. Doctoral examinations cannot be held during master’s examination sessions. Doctoral candidates are admitted to the doctoral examination once their dissertation has been accepted by the supervisors. The Dean’s Office must be informed of their decision to accept or refuse the dissertation within the four months after the dissertation was submitted. The candidate will be provided with confirmation that the dissertation has been accepted and they have been admitted to the exam when they receive their examination invitation and schedule.

Exam organization and doctoral examination

The examination is held at the latest within two months of acceptance of the dissertation. Doctoral candidates must remain matriculated until the exam takes place. The examination is organized by the Student Administration Services of the Dean’s Office. The doctoral examination is accepted by the supervisor who is chiefly responsible; where possible, the other supervisors on the doctoral committee should always take part in exams. Examiners may participate via Skype upon request, provided that they are participating from a foreign country and that the first supervisor and the candidate attend in person. For an examiner to participate via Skype, all exam participants must provide informal, written consent to the Student Administration Services of the Dean’s Office. The candidate is responsible for the technology required. The Dean’s Office is usually able to provide the necessary devices and internet access. 

Doctoral examinations last for 60 minutes and are not usually open to the public (exceptions must be arranged beforehand with the Student Administration Services of the Dean’s Office). The exam includes a dissertation defense based on the evaluation report provided in advance. The defense starts with a presentation lasting around 15 minutes followed by a discussion, which can cover the wider subject area to which the dissertation belongs. Once the candidate has passed the doctoral examination, the examination chairperson confers the provisional doctorate. Until the doctorate becomes legally binding, the candidate may use the title Dr. phil. des. (Doctor philosophiae designatus).

Doctoral degree transcript and graduation ceremony

The degree transcript is presented at the graduation ceremony. Candidates who pass their exam between February 1 and July 31 attend the ceremony held the following September; candidates who pass between August 1 and January 31 attend the ceremony held the following March. Candidates who are unable to attend the ceremony in person may receive their graduation documents by post upon request.

Publication, doctoral certificate, and right to bear title

The doctoral process is not deemed complete until the candidate has fulfilled their duty of publication and the certificate has been presented. The candidate is obliged to deliver the dissertation in the format specified in the faculty publication guidelines within three years of the doctoral examination. The university library’s instructions for printing and binding dissertations must also be taken into account. Detailed instructions on how to publish dissertations in electronic format can be found in the E-Dissertation  section of the university library’s edoc document server.

Once the candidate has fulfilled their duty of publication, the doctoral certificate will be issued, ideally within two months. The doctoral certificate entitles the bearer to use the academic title «Dr. phil.», or «PhD» in English. The doctorate will be announced in the Kantonsblatt Basel-Stadt.

Financing options for doctorates

A doctorate usually lasts between three and five years. It is important to start thinking about financing for a doctorate at an early stage and to work with your first supervisor to find a solution before you start your studies. 

Doctoral students should consider preparing a competitive application for a scholarship or a project position during the first project phase in order to continue and successfully complete their doctorate within the framework of third-party funding. Information on funding opportunities (Doc.CH, Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Basel research fund, foundations, etc.) and the University of Basel advisory services can be found on the relevant webpage of the Career Advancement Office . The  Research Professional database is anotherstructured tool for identifying suitable financing options.

Printing cost contributions for dissertations

The Max Geldner Dissertation Fund grants contributions to the printing costs of dissertations at the Faculty of Philosophy and History. In addition to costs incurred in the printing of monographic dissertations, contributions are also made for articles published in the open access procedure for cumulative dissertations. Furthermore, applications for language editing can be submitted if the dissertation was not written in the author's first language or if the author's language skills are not sufficient for a high-quality final editing.

The application form (see below) must be submitted together with a recommendation from the first supervisor before going to press.

Applications received by the Office of the Dean of Research by February 15 or September 15 at the latest will be considered at the following meeting in February/March or September/October respectively. For more details, please see the information sheet . 

Applications and documents should be sent to: Max Geldner-Dissertationenfonds Dekanat der Phil.-Hist. Fakultät Bernoullistr. 28 4056 Basel Schweiz

Subsidies for doctorate printing costs can also be requested from the Vice President’s Office for Research at the University of Basel.

• Monograph application form (PDF, 264.27 KB)
• Open Access articles application form (PDF, 258.18 KB)
• Language editing application form (PDF, 254.29 KB)
• Max Geldner Dissertation Fund information sheet (PDF, 164.33 KB)
• Stiftungen und Fonds für Druckkostenzuschuss der Dissertation

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Teaching committee, become a phdigital, educational program.

The Digital Humanities PhD at University of Basel accepts differentiated patterns and possible combinations with regard to the range of subjects. We encourage our candidates to get involved in colloquia, workshops, summer schools, junior conferences, lecture series, lecture series, research seminars and internships. 

The doctoral programme is designed to last at least 6 semesters, during which 12 credit points can be earned. 

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Doctorates at UCLDH

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities facilitates the work of students carrying out PhD or EngD research, both from the UK and abroad.

PhDs at UCL are normally extend over three years full-time or five years part-time study (there are no taught components prior to writing a thesis). General information on pursuing a PhD at UCL, and what it entails, can be found in the UCL Doctoral School pages . View our UCLDH-affiliated students on our People page.

How to apply

Most PhDs at UCLDH will, depending on their supervisor, be based in the Department of Information Studies (DIS), and UCL DIS provides further information about research degrees . 

Those interested in more technical areas should also look at the UCL Engineering Doctorate (Virtual Environments Imaging and Visualisation) pages, where funded EngD places will be advertised.

Funding for PhDs is limited and competitive, and potential students are expected to pursue all avenues themselves in attracting funding. The Graduate School provides further information about fees, costs and funding , and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) website lists their current  postgraduate funding opportunities .

UCL is a partner in the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, an AHRC funded Doctoral Training Partnership offering studentships. Please see the LAHP website  for further information and details on how to apply.

UCL is also a partner in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) , which offers studentships to those interested in pursuing a PhD in heritage science.

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Four PhD Positions in AI, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage

Do you want to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage?

Our experts from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation ( ILLC ) and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture ( AHM ) are looking for four talented and ambitious PhD candidates. Your research will be part of the Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities unit of the ILLC (Projects 1-3) or the Digital Heritage research group of the AHM (Project 4).

We are working with leading universities, key technology partners, and core archives, libraries, and museums in the national NWO NWA project HAICu , to realise a very ambitious multidisciplinary research agenda together. Are you ready to become part of this exciting ecosystem, and take your career to the next level? If so, we would like you to apply for one of our four PhD positions described below.

What are you going to do?

You are an ambitious PhD student working on one of the four projects:

Project 1 : LLMs for Cultural Heritage Access

Your focus will be on large language models for information access. How can we search specific collections, including full text, metadata, and multimodal content? How can we support complex search tasks and practices, such as scholarly research on cultural data, and the research and workflow of investigative journalism?

Supervisors: Jaap Kamps (ILLC)

Project 2: XAI from Artificial Intelligence to Digital Humanities

Your focus will be on applying AI explainability (XAI) in digital humanities and examine its value for the analysis of cultural-historical collections. How can we aggregate evidence in order to explain AI decisions but also how do AI models use evidence and uncertainty? How do we need to modify current XAI to meet the needs of humanities research?

Supervisors: Tobias Blanke (ILLC), Jaap Kamps (ILLC)

Project 3: XAI from Digital Humanities to Artificial Intelligence

Project 3 is complementary to project 2 but focuses on XAI from a historical-cultural perspective to analyse changes to humanities practices and epistemologies. How can we aggregate evidence to explain (past) human decisions and what are the limitations of current XAI techniques to do so? What are the cultural and theoretical conditions of XAI to explain historical materials?

Supervisors: Tobias Blanke (ILLC), Julia Noordegraaf (AHM)

Project 4: Constructing Polyvocal Cultural Heritage Narratives

Your focus will be on “polyvocality,” the current movement towards the inclusion of multiple perspectives in and on cultural heritage collections. Can we obtain reliable data to capture perspectives of different stakeholders and the relationships between them? What theoretical framework do we use to define perspectives and their relations with the underlying data sources (i.e., who created the data: experts? citizens? AI?). What perspectives are missing?

Supervisors: Julia Noordegraaf (AHM), Tobias Blanke (ILLC)

These four PhD students will be part of the digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Heritage (HAICu) project, a large national science agenda project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO NWA funding 10.3 million euros, hiring 27 PhDs, Postdocs, and other researchers). HAICu deploys artificial intelligence (AI) to make digital heritage collections more accessible. It allows users to more easily interpret events from different perspectives and assess them for authenticity.

In HAICu, AI and Digital Humanities researchers collaborate with various partners and interested citizens on scientific breakthroughs to unlock, connect, and analyse extensive digital heritage collections. The extraordinary challenges of cultural heritage provide a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of AI. Future techniques must be able to be used outside the laboratory, learn from as few examples as possible and continuously learn from users. These techniques must take into account the societal demand for accountable and explainable methods for creating multimodal narratives of our cultural heritage that extend beyond current major language models.

Your tasks and responsibilities

You are expected:

• to perform research on artificial intelligence, digital humanities and/or cultural heritage;
• to publish and present the results in leading international conferences and journals;
• to complete a PhD thesis submitted within the period of appointment;
• to participate in meetings of the four PhDs, the hosting research groups, and the broader national research project (also with work package groups);
• to participate in knowledge dissemination activities with external stakeholders;
• to contribute to our teaching activities by (co-)teaching courses at the BA-level in the 2nd and 3rd year of the appointment and/or guiding students in their thesis work (max. 0,2FTE per year).

What do you have to offer?

We seek ambitious PhD candidates to work on a dynamic area of research, where new opportunities are expected to arise during the projects.

Your experience and profile

We are looking for a candidate with:

• a completed master's degree in artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and/or cultural heritage. You may apply if you have not yet completed your master's degree only if you provide a signed letter from your supervisor stating that you will graduate before September 1, 2024;
• a demonstrable interest in socio-technical research, and affinity with cultural heritage;
• a strong academic performance in university level courses in the relevant subjects (see below), and excellent research skills demonstrated by an outstanding master's thesis;
• a strong cooperative attitude and interest in working collaboratively with other researchers and external stakeholders;
• a professional command of English and good presentation skills.

A candidate with cross disciplinary background (or interest in developing this) is a clear plus. Demonstrable interest and experience:

• with artificial intelligence, natural language processing and information retrieval is crucial for Project 1 and desirable for Project 2;
• with science and technology studies and digital humanities is crucial for Project 3 and desirable for Project 2;
• with cultural-historical research and/or critical heritage studies is crucial for Project 4 and desirable for Project 3.

Please note that if you already hold a doctorate/PhD or are working towards obtaining a similar degree elsewhere, you will not be admitted to a doctoral programme at the UvA.

What can we offer you?

We offer a temporary employment contract for the period of 48 months. The first contract will be for 16 months, with an extension for the following 32 months, contingent on a positive performance evaluation within the first 12 months. The employment contract is for 38 hours a week. The preferred starting date is as soon as possible.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and relevant experience, ranges from € 2,770 up to a maximum of € 3,539. This sum does not include the 8% holiday allowance and the 8,3% year-end allowance. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

What else do we offer?

Apart from your salary and employee status (no tuition fees) and an inspiring research environment, we offer you many fringe benefits:

• 232 holiday hours per year (based on full time) and extra holidays between Christmas and 1 January;
• multiple courses to follow from our Teaching and Learning Centre ;
• a complete educational program for PhD students, including those offered by the Dutch National Research Schools ;
• multiple courses on topics such as time management, handling stress and an online learning platform with 100+ different courses;
• 7 weeks birth leave (partner leave) with 100% salary;
• partly paid parental leave;
• the possibility to set up a workplace at home;
• a pension at ABP for which UvA pays two third part of the contribution;
• the possibility to follow courses to learn Dutch;
• help with housing for a studio or small apartment when you’re moving from abroad.

The University of Amsterdam is the Netherlands' largest university, offering the widest range of academic programmes. At the UvA, 42,000 students, 6,000 staff members and 3,000 PhD candidates study and work in a diverse range of fields, connected by a culture of curiosity.

The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research with a strong international profile in a large number of disciplines in de field of language and culture. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the faculty maintains close ties with many cultural institutes in the capital city. Research and teaching staff focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and are active in several teaching programmes.

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute at the UvA in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. Its central research area is the study of fundamental principles of encoding, transmission, and comprehension of information. Research at ILLC is interdisciplinary and aims at bringing together insights from various disciplines concerned with information and information processing, such as logic, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, natural language processing, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, music cognition, and philosophy.

The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) is a research institute and doctoral school at the UvA’s Faculty of Humanities, committed to the analysis of the remnants and narratives of the past in the present, as well as of the remaking of pasts into heritage, memory and material culture. Research at AHM seeks to integrate all branches of research focusing on the material and intangible remains of the past, the reciprocal relations between objects and meanings, and the dynamics of memory, from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, concept-oriented, object-oriented, and user-oriented approaches.

Want to know more about our organisation? Read more about working at the University of Amsterdam.

Do you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact:

• Dr.ir. Jaap Kamps: [email protected]

Job application

If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the link below. The deadline for applying for this vacancy is May 15, 2024 .

Applications should include the following information (submitted in one .pdf by uploading in the required field ‘CV’):

• A detailed letter of motivation, explaining which project(s) interest you, why you are interested in that position, and how your background and experience fits the project.
• A detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience.
• A list of all university courses you have taken, with an official transcript of grades.
• A list of publications (in case of joint authorship, clearly indicate your own contribution) and/or a link to at least one writing example available online (e.g., your master’s thesis in a university repository, or a direct link).
• The names, affiliations, and email addresses of two references, including your advisor, who may be approached by the selection committee (please do not include reference letters in your application).

Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered.

The interviews will be held in the course of May and June 2024. A trial assignment or presentation may be part of the application procedure.

The UvA is an equal-opportunity employer. We prioritise diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We value a spirit of enquiry and perseverance, provide the space to keep asking questions, and promote a culture of curiosity and creativity.

Application form: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Four-PhD-Positions-in-AI%2C-Digital-Humanities%2C-and-Cultural-Heritage/792167402/#footer

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Visual Correspondence: Analysing Letters through Data Visualisation

Visual Correspondence uses data visualisation to makes sense of a person's life through their correspondence. Who they wrote to, who wrote to them, when and where - these flashes of detail unveil a rich narrative about people and our past through...

I.Sicily is a project to create and make freely available online the complete corpus of inscriptions from ancient Sicily. The project includes texts in all languages (Greek, Latin, Phoenician/Punic, Oscan, Hebrew, and Sikel), from the first...

Mapping Manuscript Migrations

The Mapping Manuscript Migrations project is linking disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Researchers will be able to analyse and...

de Heresi: Documents of the Early Medieval Inquisition

de Heresi is home to the digital edition of BM Toulouse MS 609, the oldest extant original document from the first generation of public inquisition (inquisitio heretice pravitatis). This massive manuscript contains the depositions of over 5,500...

Bretez is a transverse and transdisciplinary project which takes “the sensitive dimension” as a complementary vector to recontextualization. It's designed for a very large audience (including museums and research) - by proposing a model with a...

In Search of the Drowned: Testimonies and Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust

https://lts.fortunoff.library.yale.edu/

This open-access digital monograph and edition of 2700 oral history testimonies aims to document the Holocaust from the victims’ perspective. It...

This project systematically applies selected methods of formalized modeling and computational simulations to the study of the diffusion dynamics of religious ideas and forms of behavior. As such, the project strives to integrate a specific...

Lviv Interactive

Lviv Interactive (LIA) is a web-accessible, interactive historical map of the city of Lviv. The map seeks to present the contemporary, living city in its historical dimension rather than reproducing a static picture of the past. This concept sets...

Railway Work, Life & Death

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk

Exploring accidents to British and Irish railway workers before 1939, working with teams of volunteers to make accident records more easily available...

Emotive is an EU-funded heritage project that aims to use emotional storytelling to dramatically change how we experience heritage sites.

For heritage professionals, the Emotive application will provide a powerful storytelling engine and a...

Digital Orientalist

The Digital Orientalist is a weblog-styled website about engaging with Islamic and Middle East Studies on your computer. The focus is on students' and scholars' everyday workflow. It provides theoretical reflections and practical examples. It is...

MWW Research Association: Digital Research Infrastructure

Computer-based methods have now become indispensable in humanities research. Primary and secondary sources can be accessed as originals or as substitutes in digital form. Accordingly, digital techniques suggest themselves for analytical processes...

Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives

Many handwritten and illustrated archives contain a wealth of information, but are largely underexplored because they are complex and difficult for computers to decipher. The aim of this project is to develop a digital environment that resolves...

DARIAH-DE - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

DARIAH Germany started in 2011 as one of the first partners in the DARIAH-EU network. DARIAH-DE supports digitally based research in the arts and humanities. The services of DARIAH-DE adress both technical infrastructure (storage, software, tools...

Cappelli online

Adriano Cappelli's «Lexicon abbreviaturarum» is one of the most renowned collections of abbreviations. In a very successful crowd sourcing project, Ad fontes ( www.adfontes.uzh.ch ), an e-learning platform...

MUSACCES-CM

"Museología e integración social: la difusión del Patrimonio Artístico y Cultural del Museo del Prado a colectivos de especial accesibilidad" is structured around three focal points of attention: the first will detect the specific needs and...

The Historical Thesaurus of English

The Historical Thesaurus of English contains almost 800,000 words from Old English to the present day arranged into detailed semantic hierarchies. It is primarily based on the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and its Supplements,...

Illuminated Dante Project (IDP)

The project aims to provide a systematic survey and accurate description the earliest manuscript illustrations of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” (14th-15th century) revealing up to the smallest meaningful reference to the poem. The web portal will...

FRANKOSTRUKCIJA

FRANKOSTRUKCIJA: the reconstruction of the literary-historical and cultural circle of the Alps-Adriatic in the Early Modern period in the context of the activities of the noble families Frankopan or Frangipane. Previous studies have shown that in...

Burckhardtsource

Burckhardtsource.org is a semantic digital library created within the ERC project “The European correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt” coordinated by Prof. Maurizio Ghelardi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa). The time span 1842–1897 witnesses a...

VVV - Verbo-Visuale Virtuale

In the VVV project, the “Archivio di Nuova Scrittura” (ANS), an archive of about 4000 verbo-visual artworks, was first digitized and enriched with documentary and bibliographic information, and then an online platform was implemented to search...

Private Ducal Correspondences in Early Modern Germany

Private correspondences of early modern Saxon dukes and duchesses since John Frederick the Magnanimous (1503-1554) were digitized, transcribed in full text and annotated, their metadata were recorded in a database. By means of the xml-based...

GLODIUM (Glossario di Informatica umanistica)

GLODIUM (ISBN 978-88-942416-9-3) is an Italian glossary that defines terms and concepts related to the world of digital humanities. The entries are continuously updated.

https://centre-for-humanities-computing.github.io/fabula-net/

We aim to develop computational tools for quality assessment and automated narrative analysis of...

elib.at eLibrary Project

The eLib Project is a free online-text repository for scientists and students. Since 2006 we digitize and provide access to public domain content as well as content still under copyright protection (rights granted for scientific and private use...

Pedrolo Digital

This project sets out to construct a digital literary-historical map of 20th Century Catalan writer Manuel de Pedrolo’s production that feeds from his complete digital corpus. This corpus is compiled and XML-tagged through a groupsourcing...

Historical Music of Scotland

At HMS.scot you can find the details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of fiddle music from before 1850. There also images and indexes of 22 whole books from the University of Glasgow and Perth's A K Bell Library...

A linked open data (LOD) based framework for keeping research data from the Humanities online for a indefinite amount of time (that is, keeping the research data really accessible on the long run). An important part is a complete timestamp based...

Attic Inscriptions Online

Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) is a resource structured around annotated English translations of the inscriptions of ancient Athens and Attica. In addition to translations, AIO includes links to images and Greek texts of the inscriptions, and...

SmartLibrary

In recent decades European libraries have taken a giant step towards the mass digitization of their historical collections and the opening of their contents for the use of the global digital society. However, researchers and teachers experience...

Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE) aims at making available textual and contextual data of book epigrams (or: metrical paratexts) to be found in Byzantine manuscripts (seventh to fifteenth century). Book epigrams are poems in...

https://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/cordon/menu/eng/start.html

The project “Digital Old Lithuanian: Corpus of Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714–1780)” (CorDon) has...

The Arhuacos, film, and the politics of representing the 'Other' in Colombia

This project focuses on the politics of representation and intercultural communication using film and video productions.  The project explores the significance and consequences of self-representation practices in Colombia as a response to...

Deciphering the Dynamiter

Deciphering the Dynamiter is a hub of research on authorial issues surrounding Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Stevenson, and their complex collaborations. The project focuses on attributing the authorship of The Dynamiter: More New...

Fuel is an online writing and social interaction network that rethinks the way children and young people receive literary classes by injecting a deeply humanistic component into online education, allowing users to engage in fiction and safely...

Wardrops' Collection Online

Wardrops' Collection Online (WCO) is a digital repository and research project devoted to the Wardrops' Collection of Georgian manuscripts preserved at the Bodleian Library. The repository aims to stimulate different approaches to linguistic,...

Romanceiro.pt

Romanceiro.pt, a project coordinated by Pere Ferré and Sandra Boto, at University of Algarve - Center for Research in Arts and Communication (Portugal), consists on a digital web-platform that opens to the general public the Portuguese Romanceiro...

Romans 1by1

Romans 1by1 is a population database recording people identified in Greek and Roman epigraphy. At the moment, the provinces of Moesia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Dacia and Pannonia Superior are covered (6 C. BC - 4 C. AD). We have intended it to...

The eTalks are a new digital multimedia editing plaform developed at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (VITAL-IT, Lausanne): their application is implemented via an easy-to-use editor interface, designed for the use of researchers themselves...

Palimpsest Project

The Palimpsest Project, initiated by Miranda Anderson and generously funded by the AHRC, enables users to explore the dimensions of literary Edinburgh through their encounters with geolocated extracts of literary works either via the web resource...

1914-1918-online

"1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War" is an English-language online reference work on World War One. Launched in October 2014, the multi-perspective, public-access encyclopedia is a collaborative project by the...

The National Virtual Reality Museum for Modern Art - Lebanon

The Digital Humanities Section, together with the Lebanese Ministry of Culture, and the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, has developed the first virtual reality museum in Lebanon. It includes more than 500 works of art (Paintings and sculpture...

Artificial Intelligence has unlocked the access to the text of medieval manuscripts! The partners of the European research project HIMANIS (Historical MANuscript Indexing for user-controlled Search) implemented, for the first time, the indexing...

Tropos is a Digital Creative Writing Library that focuses on new digital tools and creative writing to teach literature. We try to take into consideration the “pedagogy of routine” (Roman Gubern) and student’s creativity in order to support...

OMNIA allows a user to explore repositories such as Europeana or the Digital Public Library of America through one user-friendly interface. It provides tools for searching/browsing by collection, by map, by years or via a standard search. It...

Ursus Project

An experimental scholarly digital edition of section "De nomine" (folia 1r-11r) of the "Adbreviatio artis grammaticae" by Ursus from Benevento from codex Casanatensis 1086 (IX century), edited by Paolo Monella within the ALIM Project (2017).

Iberian Books

Iberian Books offers a foundational listing of all books published in Spain, Portugal and the New World or printed elsewhere in Spanish or Portuguese during the Golden Age, 1472-1700. Bringing together information on 131,000 items, surviving in...

The project COURAGE will create the first digital database of both online and offline private and public collections in Europe which testify to the survival of various forms of cultural opposition in the former socialist countries; these...

Mitologia em Português

Our humble project is all about presenting a Portuguese-speaking audience with unusual myths and legends from around the world, along with long-forgotten, and yet culturally-significant, books. Occasionally, we also release free translations of...

MEDIATE (Middlebrow Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors, and Texts in Europe, 1665 - 1830)

MEDIATE seeks to study the circulation of books and ideas in eighteenth-century Europe by drawing on a unique corpus of 2000 - 3000 eighteenth-century private library catalogues. Developing an interoperative, Open Access database, and in close...

Black Modernism: Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic

https://www.blackmodernism.com/index.html

The purpose of this digital poster is to analyze the way literary movements and black little magazines influenced canon development in Black...

Deutsches Textarchiv

The DFG-funded project Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) started in 2007 and is located at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) in Germany. The DTA digitizes a large cross-section of printed works in modern New High German...

PhiloBiblon

PhiloBiblon is a bio-bibliographical database of the primary sources for the study of the medieval Iberian literatures. It picks up the baton from one of the oldest DH projects, the Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (BOOST). PhiloBiblon consists...

The PROPYLÄEN project offers access to Goethes Biographica. His diaries, correspondences and evidences of meetings and conversations will be presented digitally for the first time beside the traditional printed editions on an integrated web site...

TXM is a free and open-source cross-platform Unicode & XML based text/corpus analysis environment and graphical client, supporting Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It can also be used online as a J2EE standard compliant web portal (GWT based)...

As an index of biblical references found in both Western and Eastern Christian literature, at present covering the first four centuries but with the intention of extending over the whole of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, BIBLINDEX aims...

Manart: a database of manifestos in literature and arts

The Manart database gathers data about manifestos produced from the end of the 19th century onwards, in all geographical and artistic areas. Resolutely interdisciplinary, Manart has two long-term objectives: first to make available online...

ReNom: Navigating the Works of Rabelais and Ronsard in Search of People and Places

ReNom is an initiative developed by the BVH team (Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes) of the CESR (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance) in...

The aim of Mnemosyne. Digital Library for Rare and Forgotten Literary Texts (1868-1936) is to select, categorize, and make visible in digital format literary texts that belong to a forgotten repertoire in order to allow a historical review of the...

PAVONe is an online digital corpus of the Gospels in Arabic. This online database includes both explicit and implicit verses of the Gospels with different layers of metadata (textual, paleographical, codicological, linguistic, etc.). Over time,...

CLiGS (Computational Literary Genre Stylistics) is a junior research group in which researchers from Literary Studies and Computer Science work together. We study, use, adapt and develop quantitative methods of text analysis to investigate French...

Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 Interview Archive

The interview archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945” commemorates more than twenty million people forced to work for Nazi Germany. In this digital oral history platform, nearly 600 former forced laborers from 26 countries tell their life stories in...

Europeana Newspapers

https://www.prisms.digital/

PRISMS is a flexible Open Scholarship platform, with the potential to aggregate all digitised primary source material, and the associated scholarship, in a semantic...

In Codice Ratio

http://www.inf.uniroma3.it/db/icr/

In Codice Ratio is a research project that aims at developing novel methods and tools to support content analysis and knowledge discovery from large...

The Senses in Polish Culture

The Senses in Polish Culture. Representations of the Human Senses in Language, Literature, and Art from the Middle Ages to the Present.

The project is devoted to the issues of sensuality interpreted as a historically variable set of forms...

The Pinkassim Project

IMPACT: A Tool for Transcribing and Commenting on Oral Data, for Teaching, Learning, and Research.

The development of IMPACT began in 2011 with the goal of helping students, teachers, and researchers to share, transcribe, and comment on...

Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps

The DMMapp (Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App) links to more than 500 libraries in the world. Each one of these contains digital medieval manuscripts that can be browsed for free. The DMMapp aims at facilitating access to these resources and...

https://pero.fit.vutbr.cz/

The project aims to create technology and tools which would improve accessibility of digitized historic documents. These tools, based on state of the art methods from...

The project MEPAD (Mapping European Performing Arts Data) aims to set up an inventory of existing databases and research projects on film, theatre and music (1600-present), while also identifying key research and valorization partners. By doing...

Switzerland’s institutional landscape 1933–1980

One of the aims of the Independent Expert Commission (IEC) is to produce quantitative studies of the institutional landscape that will provide a more precise picture of the facilities that were used and the authorities that issued administrative...

Distant Reading for European Literary History

The COST Action "Distant Reading for European Literary History" is a European networking project bringing together scholars interested interested in corpus building, quantitative text analysis and European literary history. It aims to create a...

Métrique et vers libre

Through the annotation and statistical analysis of a large corpus of French free verse, this project seeks to pinpoint recurring patterns specific to free verse, the very name of which bears an immediate contradiction. The apparently unregulated...

SALSAH stands for System for Annotation an Linkage of Source in Arts and Humanities. It is a virtual research environment for the humanities.

Ereticopedia

The Ereticopedia project involves the construction of an online dictionary of heretics, dissidents, and inquisitors in the Mediterranean world, together with a free discussion space and an online journal. The main language of this website is...

Mapping digital actors of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France

The protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO is ensured by a complex network of actors: institutions, associations, groups and individuals. The goal of this project is to understand which are the main actors in France and monitor...

The MADDLAIN project aims to analyse the behaviour and needs of different audiences with regard to digital access to the collections offered by the CegeSoma, the Royal Library of Belgium and the State Archives of Belgium.

The project...

Talmud Yerushalmi - Digital Critical Edition

https://talmudyerushalmi.com/

A Digital Critical Edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Palestinian Talmud), with amended base text, direct and indirect textual witnesses, parallels and citations.

Hethitologie-Portal Mainz

The Hethitologie-Portal Mainz (HPM) is a digital research infrastructure for Hittitology and related fields of study. HPM provides research materials, such as text sources (e.g., critical editions of Hittite cuneiform texts), reproductions (e.g...

Online collection of Swiss Law Sources

The Swiss Lawyers Society has been publishing historical Swiss legal texts for over a century. The retrodigitization project made available over 100 published volumes, containing source material and comments from the early middle ages until 1798...

PLUGGY is a brand new social networking platform and a suite of smartphone apps, designed to promote citizens’ active involvement in bringing out their local cultural environment and in safeguarding and enriching the European cultural heritage...

Visual Analysis of Language Change and Use Patterns

The project "Visual Analysis of Language Change and Use Patterns" is an interdisplinary project at the University of Konstanz between the Lingustics (Prof. Miriam Butt) and the Computer Science Department (Prof. Daniel Keim). The aim of the...

WissKI is a Virtual Research Environment meeting the needs of museum documentation, object-based research, and interoperability. It is deployed as a modular extension of the Drupal CMS. Its intention is to support innovative forms of research...

Monasterium.net

Monasterium.net is a virtual archive, a community and a research platform on medieval and early modern charters. About 60 archival institutions from 10 European countries and research projects from all around the world make more than 450.000...

Historical soundscapes

This platform is designed to explore historical urban soundscapes, aided by the outreach potential made possible through new technologies. It will allow users to recreate music of the past in historical locations through the use of online...

Culture & Tecnology European Summer University in Digital Humanities

The European Summer University in Digital Humanities was created in 2009 and has been running ever since. It seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which...

EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy) is a best practice network co-funded through the ICT Policy Support Programme of the European Commission. By creating a seamless and centralised online database, EAGLE is providing...

The Programming Historian

The Programming Historian offers novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research. We regularly publish new lessons, and we always welcome...

A bibliographic database of four areas referred to medieval Catalan literature, collecting bibliographic references (primary and secondary sources) since the eighteenth century to the year 2011. These four areas are: Ausiàs March; Tirant lo Blanc...

@note is a collaborative annotation system developed under the auspices of the Google’s 2010 Digital Humanities Awards program. It is developed by ILSA (Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications) and LEETHI...

Spearheading CyI’s contribution to the rich cultural heritage of Cyprus the creation of the digital library Dioptra provides the necessary advanced technological framework to support the management and international dissemination of an array of...

Donatism. Online Dynamic Bibliography

“Donatism. Online Dynamic Bibliography” is a collaborative group library of the Donatism, containing more than 3000 items relevant to specific aspects of the African schism occurred at Carthage between 312 and 411. It treats primary sources and...

Humanities in the digital age

The project is aimed at

• Studying organization forms and infrastructures of the research devoted to Digital Humanities in the leading world centers;
• Studying methodological foundation for DH development;

correspSearch

With correspSearch you may search within the metadata of diverse digital or printed scholarly editions of letters. The web service assembles and analyses files in the "Correspondence Metadata Interchange format“ (CMIF) that has been (and will...

Linguistica Forense

https://silf.hypotheses.org/

La Società Italiana di Linguistica Forense (d’ora in poi SILF) vuole pubblicare un carnet de recherche (scientific blog) per iniziare a raccogliere le riflessioni...

Polo digitale degli istituti culturali di Napoli

http://www.polodigitalenapoli.it/

The "Pole of cultural institutes of Naples" was born in July 2013, when the Italian Institute for Historical Studies, the Pio Monte della Misericordia, the...

/DH.arc projects

The Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (/DH.arc) is part of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT) of the University of Bologna, that connects students, researchers, IT staff, and professors from FICLIT and...

Cultures of Knowledge

Since 2009, the Cultures of Knowledge project, based at the University of Oxford, has been using a variety of research methods to reassemble and understand early modern correspondence networks.

During our first phase of activities, between...

DHow - Digital Humanities How

DHow (Digital Humanities How) is a database and interactive problem solving platform, on which will be reported or ex novo loaded tutorials related to the most used software in the field of humanistic research. Everything will be accompanied by...

Flooding in the Low Countries 1570-1588

This exhibit provides a brief account of the natural and military inundations during the Dutch Wars of Independence. Along with providing a general overview of the nature of the inundations, it examines the strategic floods during the encounters...

The Charles Dickens Letters Project

This project makes available all the correspondence of Charles Dickens which has come to light since 2002, the year in which the final volume of the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens (OUP) was published, with scholarly annotations...

The ARTECHNE database

The ARTECHNE research database contains fully searchable digitized sources on artisanal techniques, such as recipes, books of secrets, and artist handbooks, from the period 1500-1900, in Latin, Dutch, German, English, French, Italian and Spanish...

Earlier Latin Manuscripts

Our database is founded on E. A. Lowe's Codices Latini Antiquiores and thus focuses on non-documentary texts written before the year 800. All of the manuscripts in Lowe's corpus and its supplements will be found in our database, along with...

Engineering Historical Memory (EHM)

https://engineeringhistoricalmemory.com/

Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) is an ongoing initiative supported by about 130 scholars and engineers in collaboration with international...

INTAVIA: In/Tangible European Heritage Visual Analysis, Curation & Communication

https://intavia.eu/

The InTaVia project aims to overcome the obstacles in the scientific, expert and non-expert processing of the transnationally collected cultural and historical data with a deliberate...

Mapping Yiddishland

https://sreyfe.github.io/mapping_yiddish_publishing/

CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, which provides easy and sustainable access for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to digital language data (in written, spoken, or multimodal form), and to...

Conimbricenses Encyclopedia

http://www.conimbricenses.org/

Conimbricenses.org is the first digital project on the Aristotelian tradition of Coimbra. It organizes peer-review encyclopedia entries, bibliographies and...

Germania Sacra Online

Germania Sacra provides an Online-Portal with databases of clerics and monasteries, convents and collegiate churches of the Old Empire. The databases are linked to the project’s monographs. Digitised versions of these publications are freely...

ARIADNE brings together and integrates existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research...

Research One of LINHD’s cornerstones as a center for innovation is interdisciplinary and team research through large areas and projects that combine humanities and technology at the same level of importance. This approach is...

Regesta Imperii

The REGESTA IMPERII (RI) chronologically record all activities evidenced by documents or anything else of the Roman-German kings and emperors from the Carolingians up to Maximilian I (ca. 751-1519) as well as of the popes of the early Middle Ages...

The am of this project is to study both graphic representation and scale models of territories, cities and fortifications, and machines. It also analyses other buildings made by military engineers in the service of the Spanish Monarchy, whose...

Ciberia Project

This project intends to function as a platform for a community interested and/or specialized in new creative forms of literary publishing, using the Ciberia database as the confluence point and origin of collective interaction, creation and...

Scaffolding the Media for Intellectually Humble Public Discourse

The motivating insight of this project, which is generously supported by a grant from the Templeton Foundation via the University of Connecticut, is that, to the extent that we rely on (social) media to enhance our knowledge of important events,...

Key Documents of German-Jewish History. A Digital Source Edition

The online source edition highlights central aspects of local, regional, and general German‐Jewish history providing approximately 150 digitized key documents. We consider Hamburg to be a “magnifying lens”; with reference to a tangible example,...

Vectis Scenery

An 1830s Pleasure Trip to the Isle of Wight, U.K.

This cartographic journey features 41 copperplate engravings depicting scenic landscapes and buildings on the Isle of Wight (Latin: Vectis). The engravings, the overview map and the written...

Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ERNiE)

http://ernie.uva.nl

Mapping the culture-borne international spread of nationalism in Europe’s "Romantic Century," 1789-1914. ERNiE contains analytical articles on persons and themes, as well as multimedia...

http://ricis.huma-num.fr/exist/apps/RICIS/index.html

Ricis is an application that collects inscriptions concerning Isiac cults, namely the cults of Egyptian deities that...

Rhythmicalizer. A digital tool to identify free verse prosody

At least 80 per cent of modern and postmodern poems have neither rhyme nor metrical schemes such as iambic or trochaic meter. Does this, however, mean that they lack any rhythmical features? According to US research on free verse prosody, the...

The history of archaeological computing

The international research project on the history of archaeological computing, conducted in cooperation with the Italian National Research Council and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, was designed to retrace the development of a boundary...

The documentation for Bouvard et Pécuchet

The project publishes on line a complex patrimonial set (combining manuscripts, printed and mixed materials) of high scientific and cultural significance: the documentation files (now kept at the Rouen library) that Flaubert gathered to write his...

Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)

The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) is a research project that collects, visualizes and evaluates biographical, social and cultural data of 60'000 university scholars of the Holy Roman Empire 1250-1550. The aim of the RAG is to...

The library publishes prose texts written in Latin in the late antiquity, annotated according to the XML-TEI standards, and offered in Open Access for reading and research. A complete canon of authors and works is also available.

Evaluation Metrics for Visual Analytics in Linguistics

Within linguistics, the use of large sets of data via a combination of rule-based and stochastic methods is now standardly part of the analysis of language structure. However, novel visual computation techniques have only just begun to be...

Polymath Virtual Library

Taking up an idea by Menéndez Pelayo, who coined the Spanish term for a signal polymath author in the sense of an author whose writings cover a broad subject and whose oeuvre marked an inflection point, the Foundation intends to make the thought...

Book of the Dead Project

The Egyptian “Book of the Dead” is a corpus of c. 200 spells in the form of texts and/or illustrations and witnessed in varying order and completeness by c. 3000 objects. Regarding data standards and techniques, the digital environment resides...

Archaeologists and epigraphists have made formidable progress over 100 years to decipher the writings of the ancient Maya culture, yet a proportion of the hieroglyphic corpus remains open for interpretation. This effort can be accelerated through...

Data Foundry

The Data Foundry is the National Library of Scotland's data-delivery platform, and forms part of the Library's Digital Scholarship Service. Launched in September 2019, the website makes the Library's collections data available, including...

A team of linguists, information scientists and political scientists embarks on the question when political negotiations are successful and why they are successful. In particular, we want to develop automatic tools that analyse political...

Archive Alert

“Archive Alert” is an online platform that allows individuals, entities, groups, and organizations to report on archives and/or other cultural material which promotes cultural heritage (audiovisual material, maps, photographs, printed material,...

The Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic (DigiPal) aims to bring new methods in Digital Humanities to the study of medieval handwriting in its diplomatic and manuscript context by combining digital...

Interdisciplinary collaboration is the key for solving complex tasks. However, communication and working processes within such collaborations are also highly complex and dynamic. The ID+Lab seeks to explore the forms of interdisciplinarity in...

https://mark16.sib.swiss

MARK16 is a SNSF PRIMA project on five years (2018-2023) that develops a new research model in digitized biblical sciences, based on a test case found in the New Testament:...

Digitization, bibliographic description and research of texts written in Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic and Latin scripts until the end of the XIX century

The project goals include (1) digitization of Croatian Glagolitic manuscripts’ collections, (2) making of inventory lists and registration of Glagolitc manuscripts (3) machine-readable cataloguing of Glagolitic manuscripts (4) research of Zadar...

EVT - Edition Visualization Technology

EVT is a light-weight, open source tool specifically designed to create digital editions from TEI XML-encoded texts, freeing the scholar from the burden of web programming and enabling the final user to browse, explore and study digital editions...

Stylo R Package

The ‘stylo’ package provides easy-to-use implementations of various established analyses in the field of computational stylistics, including non-traditional authorship attribution, genre recognition, style development (“sty-lochronometry”), etc....

Niklas Luhmann Archive

Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) is one of the most famous and influential German sociologists of the 20th century, alongside Max Weber. His social theory, which has been developed continuously over more than thirty years, is internationally...

The CINEMAPS project aims to map cinema markets in the Netherlands and Flanders in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in a comparative study, combining a geospatial analysis of cinema density in both areas with data on pillarization, class and the...

CODECS is a collaborative web platform which draws heavily on data management technologies from Semantic MediaWiki and its spin-offs to accommodate resources for the benefit of scholars of Celtic studies worldwide. By far its most ambitious...

machiavellianotium.org

Welcome to the world of machiavellianotium! This website documents the research of a project dedicated to discovering a somewhat different side of Machiavelli: not the public servant engaged in Florentine politics and diplomacy, writing about the...

PARTHENOS aims at strengthening the cohesion of research in the broad sector of Linguistic Studies, Humanities, Cultural Heritage, History, Archaeology and related fields through a thematic cluster of European Research Infrastructures,...

Multilingual Knowledge Web platform for educational and research institutions using blockchain technologies

The continuous growth of produced data by research institutions and other knowledge generators rises the strategic question of how this data could be handled. When this question can be solved by using big data technologies appliance, the issue of...

Virtuonic Project

Virtuonic Project focuses on the potential role of new forms of immersive and interactive visualization technologies in Virtual Humans (VH) and the development of empathy and consequent social action. We will create multiple VH experiences in...

Jaina Prosopography Database

https://jaina-prosopography.org/

The database was created for the sociological investigation of the history of Jaina monastic lineages, the relationships between Jaina mendicants and...

Irish Translator Database

The database is a collection of names of translators and works of translation from nineteenth-century Ireland. Translators who were born in Ireland or who lived for a large part of their lives in Ireland are included. Translators who were born at...

Corpus Coranicum

The project Corpus Coranicum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2007-2024) is exploring the Qur'an from three different angles: (1) Textual History: databases of ancient manuscripts and variant readings give insights...

D-scribes: Digital Paleography of Greek and Coptic papyri

D-scribes project aims to develop computerized approaches adapted to Greek and Coptic papyri. Its goal is to be able to find joins between fragments, identify writers or handwriting styles and classify handwriting scripts according to...

Fasti Online

Fasti Online is a database of archaeological excavations since the year 2000, created by the International Association for Classical Archaeology ( www.aiac.org ). It contains over 3700 sites from 14 countries, many...

Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel)

https://demel.uni-rostock.de/

The Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel) is a semantically pre-structured and lemmatized database dedicated to the Medieval Spanish. The basis is the...

Exhibitium Project

The Exhibitium Project is a data-driven project that focuses on art exhibitions regularly held by galleries, museums and art centers. These art exhibitions are understood as complex cultural phenomena resulting from of a variety of relationships...

hermA – Automated modelling of hermeneutic processes

The use of annotation in social research and the humanities for analyses on health 

Bringing together researchers from the humanities, the social sciences, and computational linguistics, the collaborative research project hermA deals with...

The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project is focused on making archival material more accessible through the use of cutting-edge technologies. Building on research undertaken by the tranScriptorium project (...

BITRAGA - The Translation Observatory

The main aim of the “Digital Library of Galician Literary Translation” database, which began in 2003 run by the BITRAGA research group, is to provide a wider political and cultural forum for literary translations both from and into Galician. The...

tranScriptorium

tranScriptorium aims to develop innovative, efficient and cost-effective solutions for the indexing, search and full transcription of historical handwritten document images, using modern, holistic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology....

Digital humanities initiative at Linnaeus University

The core idea of our proposal at this first phase (12-15 months, starting in 2016) is to establish the foundations for the creation of a Digital Humanities initiative at the Linnaeus region, by combining some already existing expertise and...

travel!digital

Besides introducing a unique collection of German Baedeker travel guides, dating from the period between 1875 and 1914, key topics of the travel!digital project include linguistic and in particular semantic markup, domain-specific knowledge...

Version Variation Visualization with Shakespeare's Othello

VV's TransVis or Translation Array Prototype is an online system for exploring a corpus of translations of a work. Among various interfaces and outputs, the interface "Eddy and Viv" (E&V) enables users to see which passages in a translated...

Generating poetry from biometric data, Eververse literalises the abstract relations between self and art. Deploying tools and methods from poetic theory, data analysis, and Natural Language Generation Eververse uses data from a quantified self...

histograph treats large multimedia collections as networks and provides tools for their exploration and annotation. The underlying assumption is simple: if two documents mention for example the same person, place or institution, we assume that...

AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is a public institution that fosters and promotes culture through a wide-ranging programme of activities and initiatives designed to encourage the mobility of professionals and creators. We bring this same spirit...

Catalogue of Digital Editions

The Catalogue of Digital Editions has been gathering digital editions in an attempt to survey and identify best practice in the field of digital scholarly editing. Other cataloguing initiatives do not provide the granular analysis of features...

PELAGIOS stands for 'Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems' - its aim is to help introduce Linked Open Data goodness into online resources that refer to places in the historic past. Why do we want to do that? Well, we think it...

Kinsources is an open and interactive platform to archive, share, analyze and compare kinship data used in scientific research. Kinsources is not just another genealogy website, but a peer-reviewed repository designed for comparative and...

Thesaurus exemplorum medii aevi (ThEMA)

ThEMA is a database of over 12000 (and growing) exemplary anecdotes (exempla) from the Middle Ages giving special insight into the imagination of men and women in the Medieval West and beyond, from Russia and the Middle East to China and Japan....

Open Encyclopedia System (OES)

The main objective of the project „Open Encyclopedia System (OES)“ is to develop a standardized web-based open source platform for building and maintaining scientific online encyclopedias, which will be publicly available, free of charge on the...

Creative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective

CREATE is short for Creative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective, a research programme established in 2014. We are based at the department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and part of the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage...

The “Montaigne at work” project

The “Montaigne at work” project (MONLOE: MONtaigne à L’Œuvre, Montaigne at Work) is presented by the Virtual Humanistic Libraries in Tours (BVH: Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes), in cooperation with the IRHT (Institut de Recherche et d’...

Historia y Memoria Histórica on line

The project "History and Memory online. Challenges and opportunities for knowledge of the past on the Internet" (HISMEDI), tries to find out how historical knowledge is represented, how it is generated and by whom, how socializing takes place in...

Icelandic Saga Map

The Icelandic Saga Map is first and foremost intended as a resource to enable specialists and non-specialists alike to approach the Íslendingasögur (medieval Icelandic 'Sagas of Icelanders') from a spatial perspective. To this end, Icelandic and...

Time Capsule

Big data in digital cultural heritage present an unprecedented opportunity for historical research. However, information without context is of little use for historians. For this reason, the Time Capsule project set out to address the challenges...

Rescribe Latin OCR

Rescribe's Latin Optical Character Recgnition (OCR) software is aiming to provide a free and open source software package to enable individual researchers and libraries to convert scanned images of early modern printed books into machine-readable...

https://compositor.bham.ac.uk

Compositor is a database of eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments. Eighteenth-century books were highly decorated and decorative. Their pages were adorned with...

Forced Labour 1939-1945. Memory and History

The online archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" commemorates the more than twenty million people who were forced to work for Nazi Germany. The archive contains 590 life story interviews with former prisoners of concentration camps, prisoners of war...

Inscriptiones Graecae

The Inscriptiones Graecae are the oldest project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, being the successor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (CIG), founded in 1815. In the project’s publication series, the Greek...

Texts and Images. Digital Humanities and the Discourse of Modernity

https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/professuren/medienwissenschaft/theorie-medialer-welten/forschung/text-...

eCodicology

The aim of the joint project “eCodicology”, promoted by the BMBF, is the development, the testing, and the optimisation of new algorithms to automatically detect the macro- and microstructural elements of manuscript pages and embed them into the...

Peter Handke Notebooks. Digital Edition

https://edition.onb.ac.at/handke-notizbuecher

In this cooperation project between the Literary Archive of the Austrian National Library and the German Literature Archive Marbach,...

Italian Paleography

Italian Paleography is a Mellon-funded digital project on Italian vernacular Paleography, which provides digital tools to learn and teach how to read handwritten original sources dating from the late 1100s to the late 1700s, offering a wide range...

Sandrart.net

Sandrart.net (A net-based research platform on the history of art and culture in the 17th century) was a project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. While being located at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/Germany and the...

CAPERAM - acronym for CAtalogo PERmanente Artisti Molisani - is a public humanities project, within the cultural association "Lo Stilo di Fileta", aimed at mapping art and of the artists of Molise region.

Ogham in 3D

A project to digitise ogham stones and their inscriptions (the earliest writing in Ireland and the earliest written Irish), making them freely available on a searchable, multidisciplinary website, including 3d models of the stones. The website is...

Story Map Building and Visualising Tool (SMBVT)

https://dlnarratives.eu/tool.html

Story Map Building and Visualising Tool (SMBVT) is a semi-automatic tool to construct and visualise narratives, intended as semantic networks of events...

The Dalmatian School of Saints George and Tryphon, Venice

This virtual visit of the Dalmatian School, featuring a cycle of early Sixteenth Century paintings by Vittorio Carpaccio, consists of an in depth utilization of panoramic digital photography to first contextualize the artwork within its...

Les Cours d’Antoine Desgodets

Prononced at the french royal academy of architecture between 1721 and 1728, the lessons of Antoine Desgodets constitute an important milestone in the constitution and the normalization of the architectural knowledge in the classical age. We are...

Epigraphia 3D

Epigraphia 3D is an innovative project that aims to bridge the gap between research in the Humanities and technology research in engineering graphics. It offers a selection of Roman inscriptions digitized in 3D from the National Archaeological...

Interdisciplinary Multilingual Dictionary

Interdisciplinary Multilingual Dictionary is focused on the terminology of heritage protection, art restoration and related disciplines. The database contains more than 10,000 entries in English, Polish and German and an additional 4,000...

Artefacts is a digital online encyclopedia devoted to archaeological small findings. It gathers data from publications, museums and private collections to offer an image of objects forms, with a description, chronology and illustrations, as well...

The aim of CENDARI is to pilot the implementation of a virtual research infrastructure which will allow scholars to access historical resources across institutional and national boundaries.  At the core of the CENDARI environment are federated...

Translantis

The full name of the program is “Digital Humanities Approaches to Reference Cultures: The Emergence of the United States in Public Discourse in the Netherlands, 1890-1990.” The program uses digital humanities tools to analyze how the United...

https://database.factgrid.de/

FactGrid is a Wikibase installation offering its services free of charge to international projects in all the fields of historical research. The software...

The Art of Travel, 1500-1850

The Art of Travel, 1500-1850, is a database of European travel advice literature (Ars apodemica) from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The project aims to recover and reconstruct the transnational genre of travel advice literature,...

Garrettonline project

Garrettonline project seeks the critical and genetical digital edition of the 'Romanceiro' (a folk balladry collection) by the Portuguese writer Almeida Garrett (1799-1854). We refer to a very peculiar work he called "popular poetry", inspired by...

This project is centered around the richly annotated linguistic database of the Hebrew Bible created by the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer. In the SHEBANQ project a webinterface was developed that enables running and saving queries and...

Greek Fgramentary Tragedians Online (FragTrag.1)

https://fragtrag.upatras.gr/

The project is preparing an open-access Database on the life and fragmentary works (tragedies and satyr dramas) of 46 Greek tragedians of the 6th and the 5th centuries...

From Data to Wisdom. Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century)

From Data to Wisdom focuses on data treatment and visualisation according to a comparative and critical perspective. FDTW will be developed in four steps: a) Medieval and Early Modern data visualisations will be collected in a richly and...

Environment & Society Portal

The Environment & Society Portal is a gateway to open access resources about human participation in, and understandings of, the environment. It addresses the community of teachers and researchers in environment-related humanities, as well as...

Exploring Socioeconomic History of Urban Areas

ExploringSHUA created a method for turning text and media archives into engaging, informative stories using deep mapping, GIS and archive media to bring hyperlocal history to life. Redefining and reimagining how we interact with local history...

LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet

The LdoD Archive is a collaborative digital archive of the Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. It contains images of the autograph documents, new transcriptions of those documents and also transcriptions of four editions of the work. In addition...

Lectionary Database ThALES

Database of fixed liturgical readings in Late Antique and Medieval Jewish and Christian worship. The database contains currently ca. 15000 readings, from 34 lectionaries, on 4000 events and is growing further in order to study comfortably the use...

Digital Plato

The reception of Plato’s work in ancient times is characterized by a tremendous diversity and has not nearly been researched enough. The goal of the interdisciplinary project Digital Plato is to remedy these deficiencies and compile testimonies,...

Open Memory Project

The main aim of the Open Memory Project is the publication on the web of information and resources coming from the CDEC Foundation’s archives and library, using the Linked Open Data Technologies. The Open Memory Project has been realized by the...

Electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project

eTRAP (electronic Text Reuse Acquisition Project) is an Early Career Research Group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This interdisciplinary team studies the linguistic and literary phenomenon that is text reuse...

DASI – Digital Archive for the study of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions is an ERC project (2011-2016), led by Prof. Avanzini of the University of Pisa, that aims at getting the whole corpus of pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions inventoried and...

Isidore is a platform of search allowing the access to digital data of Humanities and Social Sciences. Open to all and especially to teachers, researchers, PhD students, and students, it relies on the principles of Web of data and provides access...

Bilicame. Digital bibliographic corpus of medieval Catalan literature

The main purpose of our database project is to compile an exhaustive, open-access bibliographical corpus of medieval Catalan literature, to be updated annually and accessible in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Une Balade au Merlan

La cité d’expérience of Noisy-le-Sec, experimental site of prefabricated houses created at the end of World War II, is today the subject of a controversial heritage. The district was registered at the “additional inventory of historical monuments...

From STEM to STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, ART, and Math.

Strategies to attract STEM students to World culture courses and engage them in their content. In the arts, as in science, meaning comes from perpetual inquiry, making the World culture classroom the ideal environment for connecting disciplines....

Literary Atlas: Plotting English Language Novels in Wales

Literary Atlas: Plotting English Language Novels in Wales, based at Cardiff University, and funded by the AHRC, is an innovative exercise in digital mapping. Its main feature is an interactive online atlas of digital deep maps of twelve English-...

DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) is an international network of high-profile public and private institutions that are actively involved in the creation and publication of digital editions. DiXiT offers a coordinated...

The Observatory of literary life is a Sorbonne Universities LabEx (laboratory of excellence) whose purpose is to create synergies between digital technologies and literature. This approach, which falls within the scope of digital humanities, can...

3DH – Three-Dimensional Dynamic Data Visualisation and Exploration for Digital Humanities Research

3DH is a 3-year pilot project funded by Hamburg’s Ministry for Science and Research. It focuses on the dynamic visualisation and exploration of Humanities data from a DH perspective. The 'third dimension' of the 3DH approach is not necessarily...

Polish Literature Newsletter

Polish Literature Newsletter is a project directed towards the community of Polish language teachers – institutions, researchers, educators, academics and students concerned with literature, linguistics and Polish culture. It aims to create a...

Transcribe Bentham

Transcribe Bentham is an award-winning participatory initiative which launched in 2010 and which is based in the Bentham Project at University College London. Its aim is to engage the public in the online transcription of original and unstudied...

Lemmatized concordances of Ausiàs March’s poems.

Lemmatized concordances of Ausiàs March’s poems. An open-acess, new approach to the lexicon of Ausiàs March’s poems through its lemmatized concordances, undertaken by Universitat d’Alacant’s Medieval Catalan Literature Research Group (LICATMED-UA...

GAMS (Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System, Humanistic Asset Management System) is an OAIS-compliant asset management system for the storage and administration of digital resources produced in a scientific context. It supports the...

The Riddle of Literary Quality

The Riddle of Literary Quality is a research project of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in collaboration with the Fryske Akademy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam). The Riddle...

Controversia et Confessio

The research and editing project Controversia et Confessio documents the theological disputes that broke out after the promulgation of the Augsburg Interim from 1548 and its conceptual alternative, the Leipzig Interim.

Contrary to the...

Field Acquired Information Management Systems Project

FAIMS Mobile is an open source, generalised and customisable system for digital data collection on Android, created by the FAIMS project. As a server-client system it facilitates simultaneous operation by multiple users. It is designed to work...

Art and Architecture in German Travel Accounts to Paris and Versailles in the Baroque Era

The project aims at scrutinizing the content of six substantial German travel accounts dating from 1685 to 1723, the earliest hitherto known, in which profound and reasoned judgements and opinions on French art and architecture have been rendered...

Coding the Past

Coding the Past is a project to disseminate short lessons on how to apply data science in humanities research.

PROgressive VIsual DEcision Making for Digital Humanities

The PROVIDEDH project (PROgressive VIsual DEcision-Making in Digital Humanities) aims to provide visual interactive tools that convey the degree of uncertainty of the datasets and computational models used behind, designed to progressively adapt...

Ossian Online

Ossian Online is a project to publish the various editions of the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of original manuscripts he had...

German Inscriptions Online

The Project Deutsche Inschriften (DI) aims at collecting and editing all Latin and German inscriptions of the Middle Ages and the early modern period up to the year 1650. The collection area covers Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. Every DI...

Great Parchment Book

The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish...

Ireland Illustrated, 1680 - 1860

Ireland Illustrated, 1680-1860, is a database of over 500 images of Ireland, with accompanying text, drawn from more than 50 manuscript and printed works, and highlighting several neglected or rarely accessible sources. It provides an opportunity...

ALCIDE is a web-based platform designed to assist humanities scholars in analysing large amounts of data such as historical sources and literary works. The system combines advanced text processing techniques, intuitive visualisations and close/...

Europeana Research

Undertaking research on the digitised content of Europe’s galleries, museums, libraries and archives has huge potential, especially for the digital humanities and social sciences. But issues of licencing, interoperability and access can often...

Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies

Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies (ReIReS) is a starting community that aims to create a unique and groundbreaking research infrastructure (RI) on religious studies within the European Research Area. It joins the major European...

The database will contain information of the repertoire of the City Theatre of Amsterdam since the new building at the Leidseplein in 1774. By collecting information from advertisements, yearbooks, programme books, etc. dates of performances,...

Early Modern Hands (1450-1700)

http://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/

The purpose of the database is to help identify early modern European hands and study them according to various criteria...

The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata

The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata is an open access guide to digitised newspapers around the world. Its initial selection is limited in scope, being comprised of the ten databases (including the aggregator Europeana) for which we...

The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Galen's On Simple Drugs and the Recovery of Lost Texts through Sophisticated Imaging Techniques

The project is focusing on the Syriac Galen Palimpsest (SGP), an extremely valuable multi-layered medieval manuscript containing a Syriac translation of Galen's main pharmacological treatise, 'On Simple Drugs', as the erased undertext. The...

PoLet500 - Polemiche Letterarie del Cinquecento

The project aims to develop the first database of literary controversies in the Italian Cinquecento. The PoLet500 archive will consist of a growing number of cards linked to each other by the quality of their intertextual components: the...

Julius Pflug - Die Korrespondenz (1510–1564)

The project visualises the correspondence of Julius Pflug (1499-1564), last bishop of Naumburg. It is based on the printed edition of Jaques V. Pollet.

Gluck Complete Edition

Gluck Gesamtausgabe (GGA) aims at a historical-critical edition of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck’s complete works for science and musical practice. Apart from the musical text and its text-critical annotation, the edition includes...

Legal Digital Scriptorium – Portugal

https://iusilluminata.fcsh.unl.pt/legal-digital-scriptorium-portugal/

This online image database of digitized illuminated legal manuscripts preserved in...

Oxford Text Archive

The University of Oxford Text Archive (OTA) develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. The OTA also gives advice on the creation and...

Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool

https://readit-project.eu/

READ-IT is a transnational, interdisciplinary R&D project that is building a unique large-scale, user-friendly, open access, semantically enriched investigation tool...

Lexicon of Scholarly Editing

The Lexicon of Scholarly Editing is a freely accessible multilingual academic resource that offers definitions for contested concepts in the field of Scholarly Editing and Textual Criticism. Rather than writing new definitions for theoretical...

Diálogo Medieval

The aim of this project is to develop a database of medieval Spanish dialogue poetry. It deals with a corpus which covers texts from the late twelfth century to the fifteenth century. From a pragmatic approach, it seeks to deepen the problem of...

Innovating Knowledge

https://innovatingknowledge.nl/

Innovating Knowledge project maps the reception of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, the most important medieval encyclopaedia, in the early Middle Ages. The...

The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project is a multi-institutional international collaboration between imaging scientists, humanities faculty, graduate students, and independent consultants. We work to recover damaged manuscripts and other heritage objects through the...

A World of Possibilities Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language

The SNSF-funded project A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language (WoPoss) aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings from the prehistory of the Latin...

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Deutschland

Corpus Vitrearum Germany is part of an international research project on medieval glass paintings. The German project team is divided into two workplaces located in Freiburg and Potsdam. They are funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature...

Ethica, work without obstacle

Ethica, work without obstacle, is a free internet application for internet and smartphones ( http://app.ethica-spinoza.net/en/text ) which proposes a digital and augmented edition of the Ethics by...

Filologia Risorse Informatiche

Filologia risorse informatiche / Philologie et ressources informatiques (abrégé FRI, url: https://fri.hypotheses.org , ISSN 2496-6223) est une revue scientifique et un carnet en ligne, fondée en 2014 par...

The TRACE (TRAnslation and CEnsorship) project deals with the coordinated study of censorship in the translation of different text types (narrative, poetic, theatrical and audiovisual) in Spain during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our...

Sagnagrunnur

Sagnagrunnur is a geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends. The database features a distribution map of published Icelandic legends, and displays both the homes of the original storytellers and...

PYTHIA: a deep learning model for the automatic restoration of Greek inscriptions

Pythia is the first ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. It offers an automated aid to the epigraphic restoration of fragmentary inscriptions, providing historians...

Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive

The Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) is a digital project in support of the teaching, study, and research of the poetry of the long eighteenth century. It comprises a full-text collection of richly-encoded digital texts and a research...

Biblissima is an Observatory for Medieval and Renaissance Written Cultural Heritage in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. It is a data facility for historians of ancient texts that is mainly focused on the study of the circulation of...

Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum

The database Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum makes available the files of a lexical project, intended to open up the lexicon of the medieval Arabic translations from the Greek. It contains about 100,000 Greek-Arabic word pairs, gramatically...

The “Center for Reflected Text Analytics” (CRETA) focuses on the development of technical tools and a general workflow methodology for text analysis within Digital Humanities. Of particular importance is the transparency of tools and traceability...

Emapic. Mapping your feelings

Emapic tries to facilitate the representation on maps of the knowledge, opinions and feelings of the citizens worldwide, respecting the privacy of their personal details. Through different geolocation methods, and always with the authorisation...

DanteSources

DanteSources is a Digital Library, based on an RDF ontology, which allows retrieving information about Dante Alighieri's primary sources, i.e., the works of other authors that Dante cites in his texts. DanteSources allows to visualize the list...

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EADH History

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) was founded in 1973 under the name Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) with the original purpose of supporting the application of computing in the study of language and literature. As the range of available and relevant computing techniques in the humanities increased, the interests of the association’s members have broadened substantially and encompass not only text analysis and language corpora, but also history, art history, music, manuscript studies, image processing and electronic editions. The association’s new name, which was adopted in 2012, reflects this significant widening of scope. Today the EADH’s mission is to represent European Digital Humanities across all disciplines. Since 2015 EADH is a member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH).

The European Association for Digital Humanities is a founding chapter - or ‘constituent organisation’ - of an international umbrella organisation, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). ADHO presently (6/2015) includes

• The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) ,
• the European Association for Digital Humanities and its Associate Organizations AIUCD , DHd , and DHN ,
• the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH),
• the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques ( CSDH/SCHN ),
• Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) ,
• Humanistica, L'association francophone des humanités numériques/digitales  (Humanistica),
• and centerNet , the network organization of DH centers.

ADHO has adopted the EADH journal DSH - Digital Studies in the Humanities (published by Oxford University Press ) as its main print publication. Two open access journals, namely DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly and Digital Studies / Le champ numérique , are also published under the ADHO umbrella.

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The MPhil in Digital Humanities is directed by Cambridge Digital Humanities, a research centre with links across a wide range of faculties and units at Cambridge.  The course is administered by the Faculty of English and runs from October to June. 

This exciting MPhil explores the ways in which the humanities engage with digital futures, digital research, and digital cultures, as questions arise around the ethics of automation, algorithmic analysis, privacy/surveillance, virtual cultures, data sharing, intelligent agency and creativity, archival justice and digital histories, collections and heritage issues. 

The course gives students critical/theoretical orientations and delivers a structured form of engagement with digital methods, tools, and approaches while enabling flexibility in terms of specialism.  Students may come from multiple disciplines and the course caters to different skill levels in DH methods. Students take two broad core courses – Digital Humanities Approaches and Methods, and Data and Algorithmic Analysis – and follow two courses from a basket of more specialist options. The course is assessed through shorter essays and a year-long dissertation or portfolio project.

This course aims:

• to give students a structured form of engagement with digital methods, tools, approaches and critical/theoretical orientations.  To expand the humanities offering at taught post-graduate level at Cambridge by offering a route for cross-disciplinary engagement and the development of new skills and knowledges for a cohort spanning humanities areas as broadly conceived. The course responds to the growth of the field of Digital Humanities both as a research area and as a teaching location;
• to enable humanities/social science trained students to develop the critical literacy and practical skills and knowledges to understand and engage with digital materials and digital methods for the study of matters relevant to the humanities; and
• to respond to the need for the humanities to grapple with emerging forms, practices, and social formations shaped in a digital age. 
• The course responds to the growing recognition that humanities engagement with digital futures is necessary particularly as questions arise around the ethics of automation, algorithmic analysis, privacy/surveillance, virtual cultures, data sharing, intelligent agency and creativity, archival justice, digital histories.
• The course responds to the pervasive shift to the digital, to the need to train postgraduates with an understanding of the stakes of new forms of mediated communication, cultural production, modes of social being, and epistemic cultures that these produce.
• The course responds to the needs of the creative industries/media industries/heritage industries for appropriately trained postgraduates able to address the transformations of the digital on their sectors.

The course will benefit:

• students seeking to stay with the field of DH at doctoral level and beyond – by enabling them to hone their critical and methodological skills, develop new approaches and test them out, and specialise;
• students who will take their learning back into home disciplines – by giving them the critical and practical digital literacy to inform future research at doctoral level and beyond; and
• students entering other careers – in GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), creative industries, digital media industries, media arts – by giving them the critical perspectives, practical digital literacies, and methodological insights to pursue these pathways.

Learning Outcomes

This course will enable students to:

• demonstrate an advanced general understanding of digital humanities and related topics by using a range of critical and theoretical approaches and methodologies;
• demonstrate a deeper expertise in chosen research areas or in particular approaches through optional courses in Lent term and by way of an extended dissertation or portfolio;
• acquire a critical and well-informed understanding of the stakes of digital transformation in contemporary society; and
• participate in the advanced research culture of the DH community at Cambridge and beyond by attending and contributing to research seminars, practical and methodological workshops, and reading groups.

MPhil students in Digital Humanities who wish to continue to the PhD must apply for admission through the University’s admission processes, taking funding and application deadlines into consideration. Readmission is not automatic and each application is considered on its own merits. The expected standard for continuation is an overall mark of at least 70% in the MPhil course.

The Postgraduate Virtual Open Day usually takes place at the end of October. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions to admissions staff and academics, explore the Colleges virtually, and to find out more about courses, the application process and funding opportunities. Visit the  Postgraduate Open Day  page for more details.

See further the  Postgraduate Admissions Events  pages for other events relating to Postgraduate study, including study fairs, visits and international events.

Cambridge Digital Humanities runs an online webinar for applicants in November each year. Please see the CDH website for information on how to register for the event.

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9 months full-time, study mode : taught, master of philosophy, faculty of english, course - related enquiries, application - related enquiries, course on department website, dates and deadlines:, michaelmas 2025.

Some courses can close early. See the Deadlines page for guidance on when to apply.

Funding Deadlines

These deadlines apply to applications for courses starting in Michaelmas 2025, Lent 2026 and Easter 2026.

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Meet the mellon fellows: dr. erin aoyama.

Dr. Erin Aoyama

Brown University PhD, American Studies

Host Site: High Plains Group ( Amache National Historic Site , Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site , Capulin Volcano National Monument , and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site ) Fellowship Title: High Plains Drifter: Inclusive Public Memory on the High Plains Project Description: Dr. Aoyama will explore the interconnection of trade, tragedy, and public memory that ties these four National Park units together. These histories include those of Indigenous peoples, European colonization, Westward expansion, trade, and agriculture leading to distinct moments of opportunity, tragedy, and persecution.

Dr. Aoyama (she/her) is an interdisciplinary historian and public humanities practitioner. Her work is rooted in Asian American studies, relational ethnic studies, and community and public memory. Erin serves on the Board of Directors of a community-based nonprofit called Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP), is co-director of a digital mapping and storytelling project titled "Seeing Memory: Landscapes of Japanese American Incarceration," and is a curatorial assistant at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Erin graduated with her PhD in American Studies from Brown University. Her dissertation engaged with the afterlives of Japanese American redress by focusing on Japanese American memory and community formation in New England and in Arkansas, grappling with the legacy of Nisei soldiers, and reckoning with how Japanese American historical storytelling can both hinder and strengthen movements for Black reparations and Native sovereignty. She holds an MA in Public Humanities, also from Brown.

Tell us about your research interests!

My research is driven by questions of memory, community, repair, and reckoning in the afterlives of wartime Japanese American incarceration and redress. My scholarly work traces how community and public memory about wartime Japanese American incarceration formed in the postwar period and in the early years of the redress movement. Through community engagement, oral history interviews, place-based study, and archival work, my research brings together foundational methods in Asian American studies, cultural and intellectual U.S. history, and public humanities to analyze how this memory formation contributed to what redress meant to Japanese Americans who received it, alongside what it meant within larger narratives of U.S. nationalism and identity. My approach to research is relational, in that my work seeks to place Japanese American histories within broader contexts of race and power in the U.S. to stitch together traditionally siloed histories through memory, place, and community. Beyond my academic work, I am interested in how ethical community-engaged research methods can help us to imagine and implement justice-oriented, decolonizing public humanities work.

How does your research connect to the mission of the National Park Service, which serves both parks and communities?

I approach my research through a strong commitment to community engaged public humanities methods that center ethical considerations and community priorities through a non-hierarchical model of knowledge production. In my dissertation work, I combined archival material with critical museum studies approaches and engaged research methods like place-based interviews at memorialization sites and collaborative work with community memory projects, to shift and broaden the histories of World War II and the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans. Beyond the specific questions that animated my work in grad school, my research more broadly is invested in how sites of public memory can facilitate expansive, empowering, and reparative storytelling through community gatherings, art, and other forms of remembering and creative practice. I look forward to learning from and alongside the communities connected to the NPS sites where I'll be working, and to bringing my own research experience and expertise with me as well.

What are you most excited about as you begin your fellowship?

I am so excited to join in on the challenging and meaningful work at the NPS sites where I'll be based. I'm also really looking forward to being part of a cohort of scholars and practitioners who are also committed to community engaged public work. Finally, I can't wait to meet new folks and communities and to get to know a new region!

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