One of the earliest Digital Libraries. Housed at Tufts University and covers Greco Roman classics, Renaissance, Arabic, Germanic, and the Richmond Times.
Children can read books in multiple languages and create their own too.
St. Catherine University Digital Collections serves as the online home for unique collections on campus. These resources are made readily accessible to students, faculty, and the general public. Current collections include visual and textual materials; other collections will be added as they become available.
Minnesota Reflections brings you nearly 31,000 images and documents shared by more than 95 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students, and the public.
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than fifty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Created by the Library of Congress and supported by UNESCO
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
* Promote international and intercultural understanding;
* Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
* Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
* Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology since its founding in 1999.
The Scholars' Lab is a place where faculty and advanced students in the humanities and social sciences explore digital resources, find expert help, and collaborate on innovative research projects. We also host exciting events and we sponsor a graduate student fellowship in the digital humanities.
Our faculty, staff, and student consultants offer deep expertise in the use and creation of digital resources. We can assist in project development and digital research, electronic text encoding and qualitative analysis, digitization of texts and images (including OCR), and research computing in the humanities and social sciences.
Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
National aggregation of digital collections from Libraries, Archives and Museums funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Can browse by geography, subject or type of object (sound, video, text).
The work will focus on guidelines intended for works categorized as historical, cultural and/or archival. In addition to digital imaging and encoding, guidelines will be developed for the metadata that is embedded in digital image files, with a view to increasing the extent to which the files can be "self-describing."
Participants include IMLS, Library of Congress, NLM, NAL, NIST, GPO, NARA.
Blog section of the Digital Scholarship website run by Charles Bailey Jr. Includes sections on Digital Humanities and Library jobs.
as both digital humanities and librarianship develop in the 21st century, there are indications that these walls of separation are beginning to erode. In this panel discussion, NYPL Digital Curator for the Performing Arts, Doug Reside, and three digital humanists from very different backgrounds will discuss the future of libraries and the digital humanities and how these two related, but as yet mostly separate fields, may (or may not) finally converge.
CLIR extensive report from the digital librarian in charge of Perseus, one of the first digital libraries.
The author provides a summative and recent overview of the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East, and generally on the period up to about 600 AD. The report explores what projects exist and how they are used, examines the infrastructure that currently exists to support digital classics as a discipline, and investigates larger humanities cyberinfrastructure projects and existing tools or services that might be repurposed for the digital classics.
Lisa Spiro, director of NITLE Labs plans to explore how digital resources and tools are affecting scholarship in the humanities and consider the potential for digital scholarship. She’ll look at tools and methods, reporting on the ongoing conversation about digital scholarship as well as her own efforts to transform her dissertation on nineteenth-century American bachelorhood from a fairly conventional print-based work to a piece of digital scholarship that makes use of digital tools and resources.
Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative is a platform for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in the domain of Cultural Heritage Informatics at Michigan State University. In addition, the initiative strives to equip students with the practical and analytical skills necessary to creatively apply information and communication technologies to cultural heritage materials, influence the current state of cultural heritage informatics, and become thought leaders for the future of cultural heritage informatics
Great list of resources on the Digital Humanities by Miriam Posner from UCLA.
Posted on March 14, 2012 and includes suggestions for how libraries can support and establish digital humanities efforts in their libraries.
Stanley Fish article from December 26, 2011 on the rise of digital humanities and its context in the literary profession in relation to the rise of postmodernism. Some issues he includes as digital humanities issues:
"the organization and administration of libraries, the rethinking of peer review, the study of social networks, the expansion of digital archives, the refining of search engines, the production of scholarly editions, the restructuring of undergraduate instruction, the transformation of scholarly publishing, the re-conception of the doctoral dissertation, the teaching of foreign languages, the proliferation of online journals, the redefinition of what it means to be a text, the changing face of tenure"
Office created in 2008 to pursue the research agenda for the emerging topic of Digital Humanities.