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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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Archival Justice for the Enslaved

Decolonizing the archive by shifting the narrative from slaveholder to enslaved

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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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Citing Marx

Identifying Marx citations within Die Neue Zeit

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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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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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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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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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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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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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MUSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings)

Linking concepts in music-theoretical texts across languages

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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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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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Simulating risk, risking simulations

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

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The Ends of Prosody

Discovering patterns in poetry’s data with machine learning

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The Monastery, the Bridge and the River

Mapping mobility in a mountainous terrain

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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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