The winners of the DH Awards 2012 are as follows. Once ‘accidental’ duplicates were removed there were 4101 ballots cast by members of the public over two weeks voting for one or more of the categories. The full list of sites nominated is still available. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win — open public votes are popularity contests and some of the contestants certainly did seem to campaign more than the others.
The website uses Google Analytics and so tracks a variety of usage data of the website. This data is stored anonymously and we make no use of it other than for aggregate statistics. We have released information on visits during the 2012 voting period of Countries (http://tinyurl.com/dhawards2012-country), Browser Language (http://tinyurl.com/dhawards2012-language) and Browser (http://tinyurl.com/dhawards2012-browsers).
Best DH tool or suite of tools
- Winner: Omeka http://omeka.org/
- 1st Runner Up: Paper Machines https://github.com/chrisjr/papermachines
- 2nd Runner Up: Isidore http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/
- Total votes in category: 877
Best DH blog, article, or short publication
- Winner: Digital Humanities Now http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/
- 1st Runner Up: Leonardo Flores: “I ♥ E-Poetry” http://leonardoflores.net/
- 2nd Runner Up: Will Self (et al.): “‘Kafka’s Wound’: Re-imagining the Literary Essay for the Digital Age” http://www.thespace.lrb.co.uk/
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Total votes in category: 1494
Best DH visualization or infographic
- Winner: A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualization for the Humanities http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/a-thousand-words
- 1st Runner Up: e-Diasporas Atlas http://maps.e-diasporas.fr/
- 2nd Runner Up: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World http://orbis.stanford.edu/
- Total votes in category: 1099
Best professional resources for learning about or doing DH work
- Winner: Digital Humanities Tool Box http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-humanities-tool-box
- 1st Runner Up: Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical Edition: Project History, pages starting from http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/initial_history.htm
- 2nd Runner Up: Bamboo DiRT http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/
- Total votes in category: 1048
Best DH project for public audiences
- Winner: CEISMIC: Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive http://www.ceismic.org.nz/
- 1st Runner Up: La Biblioteca Virtual de la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/indice
- 2nd Runner Up: Dickens Journals Online http://www.djo.org.uk/
- Total votes in category: 3161
Best use of DH for fun
- Winner: The Future of the Past http://newspapers.wraggelabs.com/fotp/
- 1st Runner Up: DigitalNZ magic squares http://wraggelabs.com/shed/magicsquares/
- 2nd Runner Up: 10 PRINT ebooks https://twitter.com/10print_ebooks
- Total votes in category: 911