Please vote for the following resources from 2021 in the DH Awards 2021. Anyone is allowed to vote (once). Have a look over the resources in each category and then fill out the form linked to at the bottom of the page in order to vote. For frequently asked questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2021/faqs/ for more information. We are sorry if your nominated resource wasn’t passed by the committee, all decisions are final once voting opens. We may also have moved it to a different category.
Note: Nominations are not filtered for quality and resources may self-nominate. If you own the resource and there are errors in your title or URL please email james at dhawards.org and we will correct these.
BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS (e.g. an article/post on why a project failed, or problems with DH)
- “Are We There Yet? Diversity and Mobility in the Digital Humanities.” by Nabeel Siddiqui https://nabeelsiddiqui.net/digital-projects/are-we-there-yet-diversity-and-mobility-in-the-digital-humanities/
- “DH and the Climate Crisis” Manifesto https://dhc-barnard.github.io/dhclimate/
- “Katia and the Sentiment Snobs” by Katherine Bowers and Quinn Dombrowski https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc11.html
- “Digital Humanities auf dem Weg zu einer Wissenschaftsmethodik: Transparenz und Fehlerkultur” by Charlotte Schubert https://doi.org/10.11588/dco.2021.7.82371
- “Seeing Things Through” by Dr Kim Martin (keynote at first annual conference honoring Stéfan Sinclair) https://youtu.be/kE1iDAUmZQQ?t=782
- “When to Kill Your Darlings” by Abby Mullen https://abbymullen.org/when-to-kill-your-darlings/
BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data)
- Alternative Budapest https://terkep.alternativbudapest.hu/index.html
- Atlante Calvino. Literature and Visualization (the project has multiple authors) https://atlantecalvino.unige.ch/?lang=en
- Cartografía de la Literatura Digital Latinoamericana https://www.cartografiadigital.cl/
- DivineComedy.digital https://divinecomedy.digital
- Explore Mindfulness without Deflection: A Data Art Based on the Book of Songs http://wangyifang.top/the-book-of-songs/
- ExploringSHUA – Socioeconomic History of Urban Areas https://exploringshua.com/
- George Eliot’s Chronology https://georgeeliotarchive.org/chronology/
- Kitchener’s Survey of Cyprus 1878-1883. A web-based interactive historical map https://kitchener.hua.gr
- Kompakkt https://kompakkt.de
- Mosquito Monitor Hungary https://szunyogmonitor.hu/index.php/szunyogmonitor-english/
- PoemMetaVis: poetry metadata visualization and exploration https://pmvis.datavix.de
- “Relación de un viaje al Río de la Plata” Edición digital del Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales del CAICYT (Argentina) http://hdlab.space/Relacion-de-un-viaje/
- The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/
- The Knowledge Database/ Graph of “China-studies” https://ntnu2021.herokuapp.com/
- The Moseley Homestead Digital Heritage Preservation Project https://dhhc.lib.usf.edu/moseley/
- 真·人类高质量男性苏东坡 https://datamuse.guokr.com/sdp
BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN (e.g. something that uses DH for purposes of enjoyment)
- Civil War Twin http://www.civilwartwin.com
- Colorscape : Worldbuilding Thru Color, Senses and the World Around Us https://colorscape.illestpreacha.com/
- QR Code Quilt https://arcg.is/XL8X00
- Rigas’ Charta AR application https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kosmad.rigasmap
- @satzomat https://twitter.com/satzomat
- The Method Detective https://webyarns.com/fight/fight.html
BEST DH DATASET (e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, or similar used for DH research)
- Catalogo del Cuento Mexicano https://www.catalogodelcuentomexicano.com/
- Detecting Relict Charcoal Hearths across Pennsylvania using Mask R-CNN https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4593787
- dLOC as Data: A Thematic Approach to Caribbean Newspapers https://dlocasdata.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/
- European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/
- George Eliot Archive https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
- HMML Authority File https://haf.vhmml.org/
- La fiebre del banano/Banana Craze https://bananacraze.uniandes.edu.co/
- Mnemosine. Biblioteca Digital de La otra Edad de Plata http://repositorios.fdi.ucm.es/mnemosine/
- Mulingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD) https://africanelit.org
- Poetry in Translation https://poetryintranslation.com
- Shakespeare and Company Project https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/
- State Funding for Social Movements https://database.statefunding.ca/
- The American Soldier in World War II https://americansoldierww2.org
- The LiLa Knowledge Base of Interoperable Linguistic Resources for Latin https://lila-erc.eu/data-page/
- Trismegistos People website https://www.trismegistos.org/ref/
- Zizhitongjian Digital Humanities Knowledgebase http://www.dhbase.com/zztj_special/
BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH)
- Ancient World Online http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/
- Blog of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/blog/
- Cinco preguntas a humanistas digitales. Un podcast de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales https://anchor.fm/asociacin-argentina-de-humanidades-digitales
- Cuenta de twitter de la Revista de Humanidades Digitales https://twitter.com/revista_hd
- Digital Ottoman Projects https://digitalottomanprojects.org/
- ECHO: a journal of music, thought, and technology https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/musicians-networks-in-early-modern-venice
- Encoding the haunting of an object catalogue https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/llc/fqab065/6401182
- Option Aesthetics: How TV Adaptations Are Changing Fiction https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/tv-adaptations-fiction/619442/
- Public Humanities https://publicdh.hypotheses.org
- Uncovering censorship in the 16th century with Transkribus and Python (I-VI) https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/2022
- Terminal Imaginaries https://terminalimaginaries.com
- We are geeks, and we are not guys: digital, technology-based and new media art for gender liberation https://issuu.com/amyiona/docs/final_neon_digital_art_zine_we_are_geeks_and_we_ar
- Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight? https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1r7878x.9 (text) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFy50iccms (playthrough video)
BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS (e.g. something used to build a DH resource)
- ALICE: the Aggregate Line Inspector & Collaborative Editor (for use with Zooniverse text transcription project data) https://alice.zooniverse.org
- CollectionBuilder https://collectionbuilder.github.io/
- MapReader https://living-with-machines.github.io/MapReader/
- RecogitoJS/Annotorious https://github.com/recogito
- VCEditor https://viscoll.org/help/
- World Historical Gazetteer https://whgazetteer.org
BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, or how-to guides in any form)
- Auburn University Digital Literacy Initiative Support: Creative Space in the Library and Online https://lib.auburn.edu/irc/adobe.php
- BERT for Humanists http://www.bertforhumanists.org/tutorials/
- Collaborative Poetry Encyclopedia https://sites.google.com/view/wabash-poetry-encyclopedia/
- Connection Established (examines university teaching, life, and governance during the COVID-19 pandemic) https://connection.scholarslab.org/
- Data-Sitters Club 10: Heather Likes Principal Component Analysis https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc10.html
- forTEXT https://www.fortext.net
- IGNITE OERs: Design Thinking & Maker Culture for the Arts & Sciences https://youtu.be/DVr9RUnEzII
- Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python https://melaniewalsh.github.io/Intro-Cultural-Analytics/
- Pixel Datascapes https://youtu.be/7Fc3k7x-IiM?list=PLbkhiRA2P3qLPvRFc79a3yPPNAOyLP3xY
- The DH Toolkit https://dh.sites.gettysburg.edu/toolkit
- The LaTeX Ninja Blog https://latex-ninja.com/category/digital-humanities/dh-tools-and-techniques/
- TTHub https://tthub.io/
- Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom https://undiscipliningvc.org/index.html
- VisDepot: An Introductory Resource for Data Visualization https://necote.github.io/VisDepot/
SPECIAL CATEGORY: BEST DH RESPONSE TO COVID-19 (e.g. something using DH methodologies to deal with challenges of the pandemic)
- 3D Cartography of COVID-19 Research https://ars.electronica.art/solutions/en/3d-cartography-of-covid-19-research/
- Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/acndh
- Chatty Bench Project+Festival https://sites.google.com/urbaninformatics.net/chatty-bench-project/home
- COVID Black https://covidblack.org/
- Crafting Communities: A Digital Humanities Resource https://www.craftingcommunities.net/about
- CUNY Distance Learning Archive (published in 2021) https://cdla.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
- Digital Narratives of COVID-19 https://covid.dh.miami.edu/
- Erbario Vaccinale – Daily updates on vaccinations in Italy https://www.instagram.com/erbario.vaccinale/
- Historical Site Local Walking Map during COVID Travel Restrictions https://github.com/jeffblackadar/sensation
- Indisciplinadxs: Lingüística Feminista https://linguisticafeminista.com/
- Living with Covid-19 in SEA http://ec2-54-169-180-248.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com/omeka-s/s/living-with-covid-19-in-sea/page/welcome
- “Pandemic Elegies” of Wabash Medievalists https://sites.google.com/view/wabashmedievalists/pandemic-elegies
- PrisonPandemic https://prisonpandemic.uci.edu/
- The COVID Collection: Coping with Quarantine https://covid3d-umfasos.nl/
- The Lothian Diary Project https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3866
- The Pope and COVID-19: Digital Humanities on the Roman Catholic Church https://www.thepopeandcovid19.utakhenyo.com
- The Transcription Challenge Framework http://tcf.lauramorreale.com/
- TransHuman Saunter https://research.qut.edu.au/morethanhuman/projects/thsp/
- Virtual Reality and 3D Tour of the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument https://dhhc.lib.usf.edu/project/castillo-de-san-marcos-national-monument/
- Visionary Futures Collective: The Campus Caregivers Project https://visionary-futures-collective.github.io/caregivers/