The winners of the DH Awards 2021 are as follows. Once duplicates were removed, the ballots as cast by members of the public over two weeks voting for one or more of the categories chose the winners. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win — open public votes are popularity contests not necessarily a measure of worth and some of the resources campaigned more successfully than the others.
Note: Resources may self-nominate and are not filtered for quality. Winning should not be taken as a measure of importance or quality of resource. Winners may use the icons (if they want). Since this is a DH awareness activity, if lots of people saw your favoured resource, then we all win!
BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS (e.g. an article/post on why a project failed, or problems with DH)
- Winner: “DH and the Climate Crisis” Manifesto https://dhc-barnard.github.io/dhclimate/
- 1st Runner Up: “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/
- 2nd Runner Up: “When to Kill Your Darlings” by Abby Mullen https://abbymullen.org/when-to-kill-your-darlings/
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- “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
BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data)
- Winner: The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/
- 1st Runner Up: Kitchener’s Survey of Cyprus 1878-1883. A web-based interactive historical map https://kitchener.hua.gr
- 2nd Runner Up: Cartografía de la Literatura Digital Latinoamericana https://www.cartografiadigital.cl/
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- Alternative Budapest https://terkep.alternativbudapest.hu/index.html
- Atlante Calvino. Literature and Visualization (the project has multiple authors) https://atlantecalvino.unige.ch/?lang=en
- 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/
- 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 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)
- Winner: Colorscape : Worldbuilding Thru Color, Senses and the World Around Us https://colorscape.illestpreacha.com/
- 1st Runner Up: Rigas’ Charta AR application https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kosmad.rigasmap
- 2nd Runner Up: Civil War Twin http://www.civilwartwin.com
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- QR Code Quilt https://arcg.is/XL8X00
- @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)
- Winner: Catalogo del Cuento Mexicano https://www.catalogodelcuentomexicano.com/
- 1st Runner Up: Trismegistos People website https://www.trismegistos.org/ref/
- 2nd Runner Up: La fiebre del banano/Banana Craze https://bananacraze.uniandes.edu.co/
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- 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/
- 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/
- Zizhitongjian Digital Humanities Knowledgebase http://www.dhbase.com/zztj_special/
BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH)
- Winner: Ancient World Online http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/
- 1st Runner Up: ECHO: a journal of music, thought, and technology https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/musicians-networks-in-early-modern-venice
- 2nd Runner Up: Cinco preguntas a humanistas digitales. Un podcast de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales https://anchor.fm/asociacin-argentina-de-humanidades-digitales
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- Blog of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/blog/
- Cuenta de twitter de la Revista de Humanidades Digitales https://twitter.com/revista_hd
- Digital Ottoman Projects https://digitalottomanprojects.org/
- 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)
- Winner: World Historical Gazetteer https://whgazetteer.org
- 1st Runner Up: MapReader https://living-with-machines.github.io/MapReader/
- 2nd Runner Up: CollectionBuilder https://collectionbuilder.github.io/
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- ALICE: the Aggregate Line Inspector & Collaborative Editor (for use with Zooniverse text transcription project data) https://alice.zooniverse.org
- RecogitoJS/Annotorious https://github.com/recogito
- VCEditor https://viscoll.org/help/
BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, or how-to guides in any form)
- Winner: Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python https://melaniewalsh.github.io/Intro-Cultural-Analytics/
- 1st Runner Up: Collaborative Poetry Encyclopedia https://sites.google.com/view/wabash-poetry-encyclopedia/
- 2nd Runner Up: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom https://undiscipliningvc.org/index.html
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- 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/
- 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
- 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/
- 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)
- Winner: Crafting Communities: A Digital Humanities Resource https://www.craftingcommunities.net/about
- 1st Runner Up: Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/acndh
- 2nd Runner Up: The Pope and COVID-19: Digital Humanities on the Roman Catholic Church https://www.thepopeandcovid19.utakhenyo.com
- Other Nominees (alphabetically):
- 3D Cartography of COVID-19 Research https://ars.electronica.art/solutions/en/3d-cartography-of-covid-19-research/
- Chatty Bench Project+Festival https://sites.google.com/urbaninformatics.net/chatty-bench-project/home
- COVID Black https://covidblack.org/
- 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 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/