Examples of DH projects that use Omeka

The links below offer a range of sites, from a variety of disciplines, that use Omeka to curate a collection or tell a story.

This site, Frost on Chickens, uses Omeka to prepare a handful of exhibits on Robert Frost's life as a chicken farmer and his writings on poultry.

This site, Roger Hayward: Renaissance Man, uses Omeka in a more linear and narrative way, telling a story about its subject.

A mostly visual catalog of senior art projects by students at Lewis and Clark College.

A site on the Boston Marathon bombing created by students at Northeastern University.

A variety of digital collections from Special Collections at Smith College's Library.

The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley combines transcriptions of original letters from this 18th-century traveler with maps of her locations in India, Brazil, etc.

A digital history project for the City of Wooster that includes interactive maps, photos, documents, etc.

Mapping Emotions in Victorian London

We're hoping to locate and post examples of digital humanities projects and take note of the computing tools they use in order to get a better sense of what's possible, how it's possible, and what we might be interested in learning more about and pursuing. Here's an example of a historical mapping project that uses Victorian literary texts:

The Stanford Literary Lab has a new digital humanities mapping project called Mapping Emotions in Victorian London. There is also a recent write-up on the project in the New York Times.

Digital Public History (UMD)

You can navigate around this History Department syllabus at the University of Maryland, College Park to see the course description and a variety of assignments. But the students' proposed digital and research projects are worth a particular look in order to see what kinds of research questions and digital tools they are using. Some involve mapping, others involve creating catalogs, others involve blogs and podcasts and videos.

Six Novel Plots: Digital Humanities Project at U Nebraska

This article in Motherboard magazine previews the research of Matthew Jockers, in the English Department at the University of Nebraska. Using the tools of digital humanities, Jockers built a model to read book plots and concluded that there are only six basic novel plots.

Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene

Bethany Nowviskie's keynote address planned for the DH 2014 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland is now posted online. Nowviskie considers DH in relation to ecological issues, social activism, and the planet Earth in "Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene."

Sustaining the Digital Humanities

Here's a useful resource on Sustaining the Digital Humanities, which can give you some idea of what kinds of DH projects are being done, by whom, and how they are being resourced on campuses. You can download the report by clicking the button to the right and access the toolkit by clicking on the big red toolbox icon. Thanks to Jennifer Nutefall for the link!

Ryan Cordell on Hawthorne's "Celestial Railroad"

"Taken Possession of": The Reprinting and Reauthorship of Hawthorne's "Celestial Railroad" in the Antebellum Religious Press" 

from Digital Humanities Quarterly 7.1 (2013)