Projects
- 3D Modeling
- Data Visualization
- Database
- Digital Collection
- Exhibit
- GIS/Mapping
- Media
- Network Analysis
- Pedagogy
- TEI
- Text Analysis
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Everyday Empires
Created by Mia Swenson Everyday Empires, a proof-of-concept project, envisions maritime life and industry in early modern London through the diary of John “Ramblin’ Jack” Cremer. It offers a look at how Britain’s maritime economy shaped the lives of its citizens throughout the eighteenth century. As the locations on the map will suggest, the early…
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Saida: A City’s Urban History through its Inscriptions
Created by Khalil Sawan Saida: A City’s Urban History through its Inscriptions explores the history of Saida’s urban history by deciphering and analysing the historic inscriptions found on and in the old city’s historical buildings. The majority of inscriptions are door inscriptions found on the entrances of mosques, hammams, cafes, sufi lodges, and even residential…
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The Silent Spring Soundscape
Created by Kelly Gray The Silent Spring Soundscape: Lessons in Listening to the Land combines immersive field recordings in environmental soundscapes, ArcGIS interactive mapping, and interactive lesson plans for the high school or college classroom to tell the history of Rachel Carson’s work, Silent Spring, and to learn to read the environmental silences in texts.
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World Travelers Story Maps
The following story maps provide insight into 17th and 18th travel narratives through textual extracts, mapping, and contextualization. They were created by DH certificate students with teaching and learning in mind. Impressions of South Africa: Tracking the Descriptions of Viscount Born in 1838 in what is now Northern Ireland, James Bryce is highly regarded as…
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18th Century Scotland, as Observed by Daniel Defoe
Created by Brianna A. Reisbeck 18th Century Scotland, as observed by Daniel Defoe focuses solely on “That Part of Great Britain Called Scotland,” the first letter in Defoe’s fourth volume of A Tour of Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, and, more specifically on changes to the ecology and to the physical and built…
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Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College
Created by Alexander D’Alisera Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College is an open-access digital catalog of the McMullen Museum of Art’s Tellalian Collection, a stunning assemblage of more than 30 late antique textiles from Egypt. Created with public access in mind, the project’s creator sought to provide a digital space in which anyone, regardless…