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We collaborate with faculty, students, and staff to design and develop world-class projects that generate critical discussions about data, technology, and the human experience

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ABC Books

Showcasing an interactive digital archive of rare children’s alphabet books.

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African_UD: Universal Dependencies Treebank for African Languages

Increasing the representation of African languages in NLP by creating quality datasets for eleven African languages

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Archival Justice for the Enslaved

Decolonizing the archive by shifting the narrative from slaveholder to enslaved

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Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism

A database that includes images and objects relating to the issues of colonial medicine, artistic representation and race

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Beyond Beauty

Scarifications as testaments of life and death

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bitKlavier

A software tool for exploring the prepared digital piano, an instrument at the charged border between body and computer.

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Bringing HTR to the HPC

Customizing the eScriptorium HTR software for use on Princeton high performance computing hardware

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Building a Comparative Database for the Study of the Old and New Tang Histories

a comparative database that will allow scholars to visualise and analyse two historical chronicles of Tang China

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Chang’an: A Deep Map

Illuminating the geography of China’s medieval metropolis

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Chinese Archival Handbooks

Investigating the structure of state archives in China

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Chinese Exchange Poems

A Social-Network Analysis of Late Medieval China.

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Citing Marx

Identifying Marx citations within Die Neue Zeit

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Colored Conventions Project

Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

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Common Readers

A Database of Annotations in Early Modern Playbooks

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Computational Approaches to Nigerian Literature

Experiments in NLP for texts in Yoruba and Efik

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Computer-Assisted Pattern Analysis of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonatas

Enabling new research on the Baroque composer by facilitating quantitative approaches

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Critical Studies in Gaming Lab

Digital gaming to experiment with how we think, talk, play, and create.

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Dallas: Wealth and Inheritance in a Population of Elites, 1890-1950

Examining the interaction between Dallas elites’ economic behavior and their social world

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Data Beyond Vision

experimental physical representations of humanities data

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Interactive, Iterative Schema Documentation

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Derrida’s Margins

An online research tool for the philosopher’s annotations that provides a behind-the-scenes look at his reading practices and the philosophy of deconstruction.

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Designing Empire

Unlocking the Atlantic-wide origins of the British and French colonial city to develop the paradigm of “circulatory urbanization.”

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Digital Oulipo: Programming Potential Literature

Using electronic versions of Oulipian texts to disrupt any traditional linear modes of reading.

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Digital Intertextual Resonances in Early Chinese Texts

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Exercises in Literary Style

Investigating the capacity of LLMs to discern and classify literary styles through a series of controlled experiments

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Finding the Fifth Century in Britain

A database of graves and cemeteries in use between 350–550 CE

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From Map to Dataset

Creating teaching resources from historical spatial data

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Geography of Taste

Mapping borrowing patterns in the Shakespeare and Company library

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Global Networks of Cultural Production

A network analysis and mapping project focusing on Victoria Ocampo’s impact and influence on Latin American literature.

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Grassroots Minstrelsy in Bronzeville

Unmasking the lost archives of two minstrelsy institutions that dominated South Side society for 50 years.

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Hale/Eliot Letters

Recovering Emily Hale's voice by cataloguing T.S. Eliot's letters to her

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Healing, Water, and Art

Visualizing and mapping the Byzantine and post-Byzantine cult of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege

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History Books and the History of the Book in the Middle Ages

Applying computational tools to learn about the “history of histories” in medieval Europe

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(In)Visible Princeton

highlighting lesser-known histories of Princeton using virtual reality web apps

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Languages of Art Writing

A database of keywords from artists’ statements, manifestos, and art-critical works published in Western Europe since the late 1940s

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Lunaapahkiing Princeton Timetree

interwoven histories of Princeton University community and Lenape peoples of Lunaapahkiing, “the land of the Lenape.”

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Mapping Iranian Migrants and their Networks in Bahrain, 1920-1950

Highlighting the multiple communities of Iranians immigrants to Bahrain and the networks that connected them.

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Mapping Medieval Metadata

Illuminating communication in the medieval Byzantine Empire through a geo-dataset of lead seals

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Mapping Phono-Post

Exploring maps and visualizations of the first ever online audio-visual archive of individually recorded audio letters.

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Mapping the Suffrage Metropolis

Mapping suffrage sites in NYC 1870-1917 to explore the relationship between urban landscapes, gender, and political movements.

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Mondrianify

Transforming images into Mondrian paintings

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MUSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings)

Linking concepts in music-theoretical texts across languages

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New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities

Diversifying NLP by teaching humanists to create data and models for new languages

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Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade

This project uses digital mapping and data visualization to explore the role of maritime commerce in American settlement of the Pacific Northwest.

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Pages of Early Soviet Performance

Using machine learning to transform Soviet performing arts periodicals into data

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PARECT

Puns, Alliterations, and Rhymes in Early Chinese Texts

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Pastoral Discourse After a Mass Shooting

Collecting and analyzing Christian and Jewish religious discourse following the Uvalde school shooting

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Philly Community Wireless

Building community-controlled networks in Philadelphia.

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Playing Soviet

Toying with the visual languages of Early Soviet children's books.

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Pope Manuscripts Online

Reuniting Pope's manuscripts in order to examine and learn from his revisions.

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Princeton and Slavery

Acknowledging the impact and legacy of slavery at Princeton through a multimodal archive and research environment.

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Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project

Folklore about How the Virgin Mary Helps Believers in Ethiopian Literature and Art

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Princeton Geniza Project

Accessing the medieval Islamic world through digital tools

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Princeton Open HTR Initiative

Establishing research infrastructures to support Princeton use of HTR for manuscripts and archival documents in a variety of languages and scripts

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Princeton Prosody Archive

Inviting users to rethink poetry's past through a collection of historical prosodic works

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Reconstructing the Past

Developing software to document historic structures today, enabling digital reconstruction and dissemination of VR models.

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Remedies Across Contexts

Oral histories of healthcare access by queer and trans health activists of color

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Rhizomatic Reading

Developing and moderating a communal digital space to read Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus.

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Segmenting Paratextual Material in Arabic Scientific Manuscripts

Computational methods for classifying and analyzing visual aspects of the manuscript folio

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Selling Menthol

Visualizing Big Tobacco’s Targeted Market Strategies

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Shakespeare and Company Project

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris

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Shen Nanpin and the Problem of Authenticity

Compiling datasets for the thousands of works attributed to Shen Nanpin (1682–1760?) to explore the circulation of painting between China and Japan

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Simulating risk, risking simulations

Simulating risk attitudes in group interactions and putting computational philosophy in conversation with digital humanities

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Soviet Journals Reconnected

Mapping the networks of co-publication in the Soviet “thick” journals to show interrelations between cultural forms and social groups.

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Startwords

A journal for experimental humanities research, irregularly published by the CDH

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Taking Note

Building a database of manuscript annotations to examine book culture in medieval Cairo

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The Justinianic Plague

a standardised, open-access repository of data on the plague

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The Monastery, the Bridge and the River

Mapping mobility in a mountainous terrain

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The Pliny Project

Making the world of Pliny the Younger accessible

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The Serge Prokofiev Archive as Data

Using DH tools to explore archival collections

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The UNOW Oral History Project

recording the history of Princeton’s affiliated nursery school

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The Victoria Press Circle

Graphing the community of the Victoria Press to reconstruct feminist print networks.

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The Winthrop Family on the Page

Developing a web platform to provide a dynamic sense of how colonial readers interacted with texts and each other.

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Willing Prosperity

Exploring how to analyze deathbed gifts to and from women in medieval Cairo

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