DH Awards 2024 Results

The winners of the DH Awards 2024 are as follows. Once duplicates were removed, the ballots as cast by members of the public for more than 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) on their websites. Since this is a DH awareness activity, if lots of people saw your favoured resource, then we all win!

DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data)

• Winner: From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113398
• 1st Runner Up: Tree and Forest Data Visualizations: https://arvore.ilcml.com/en/main/
• 2nd Runner Up: Classroom reading (Systemniy Block media): https://sysblok.ru/literary-canon/
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • Bestselling Books Project: https://books.dariakoshkina.com
  • Bibliotheca Eugeniana Digital: https://demo.mindfactor.at/eugeniana/
  • Catasto Chronicles: https://vittoriotonini.github.io/catastochronicles/
  • Frankenstein Variorum: https://frankensteinvariorum.org/
  • Grand Playbill: Uncovering Peking Opera’s Collective History: https://zeelabscom.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/grand-playbill-uncovering-peking-operas-collective-history/
  • The Sign of the City: https://hongqianli101.github.io/signageproject/
  • “Таймлайн жизни русских писателей XVIII века”: Timeline of Russian writers of the 18th century: https://nevmenandr.github.io/18cent-timeline/
  • Uralic Historical Atlas (URHIA): Interactive Web App for Spatial Data: https://www.urhia.fi
  • When May Day was an Exhibition. Pavilions of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1fxojNaNNlHq5m17UgAt9jn-UaxPZR8I&usp=sharing

DH DATASET OR MODEL (e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used for DH research)

• Winner: Petitioning for Freedom: https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/
• 1st Runner Up: Film Programming in the USSR: A Case Study of Moscow Cinemas (1946–1955): https://brill.com/view/journals/rdj/9/1/article-p1_007.xml
• 2nd Runner Up: Archaeological Artefact Database of Finland (AADA): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03602-8
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • CATMuS (Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts) diachronic and multilingual HTR datasets & models : https://huggingface.co/CATMuS
  • Femiber: https://femiber.upf.edu/
  • Florentine history data set annotated with standoff and hypergraphs: https://github.com/argimenes/codex-data
  • Geocoding of Russian prose of the 19th century: https://osf.io/cavu9/wiki/Readme.md/
  • PhytoLex. Ethnobotanical database: https://phytolex.eusp.org
  • Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places: https://pleiades.stoa.org
  • Pulse of time (Puls vremeni); Платформа «Пульс времени»: https://puls-vremeni.ru/
  • The Antikythera Mechanism: https://www.thomasweibel.ch/antikythera/
  • The Bioleksipēdija (Biolexipedia) system is a multifunctional tool for storing, saving and researching the special lexis of biology: https://www.bioleksipedija.lv/
  • Top 500 “Greatest” Novels (1021-2015): https://www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/top-500-novels/top-500-novels.html
  • Viral Texts Database: https://clusters.viraltexts.org/about
  • XunziALLM: https://github.com/Xunzi-LLM-of-Chinese-classics/XunziALLM

DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH)

• Winner: Mukherjee, P. and Menon, N. “Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India”, Front. Sociol. 9:1450773: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1450773
• 1st Runner Up: Orekhov B. “You shall know a piece by the company it keeps. Chess plays as a data for word2vec models”, arXiv:2407.19600 [cs.CL]: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.19600
• 2nd Runner Up: Velasco Trujillo, R. “Cultural Ecologies of Memory”: https://culturalecologies.com/cases/fabrics-of-memory
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • Bamman, D., Chang K.K., Lucy, L., and Zhou, N. “On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics”, CHR 2024: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper119.pdf
  • Horváth, A., van Lit, C., Wagner, C., and Wrisley, D.J. “Centring Multilingual Users: Thinking through UX Personas in the DH Community”, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 13(3): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.9608
  • Knoth, B. “Harnessing Audio-Based Augmented Reality for Digital History and Cultural Heritage Experiences”, in Decoding Cultural Heritage. Springer: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p1fbsaqnlrxn7jze13lq8/Knoth_Harnessing-Audio_Digital-History.pdf?rlkey=wfwnl2zf1z1len3k3oq50kv31&st=gjwxedkr&dl=0
  • Miller, A. “Inclusive Design: A Method and Craft of Transforming Digital Humanities with User Experience”, in Digital Humanities in the Library, 2nd ed., ACRL: https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/7396
  • Orekhov, B. “Does Burrows’ Delta really confirm that Rowling and Galbraith are the same author?”, arXiv:2407.10301 [cs.CL]: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.10301

DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS (e.g. something used to build a DH resource)

• Winner: Corpora: A Dataset Studio for the Digital Humanities: https://bptarpley.github.io/corpora/
• 1st Runner Up: Dédalo: http://dedalo.dev
• 2nd Runner Up: Longshui OCR system （IPA and 7 important low resource languages, Tibetan, Yii, Uyghur, Tangut, Ancient Yii, Manchu, Uigur): http://lssz.vurls.cn/
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • DH Koten OCR Lite: https://github.com/ndl-lab/ndlkotenocr-lite
  • Easy Dataset Explorer: https://plant-fasos.shinyapps.io/data-explorer/
  • escriptorium: https://gitlab.com/scripta/escriptorium
  • HKUST DS CoLab: Chinese Named-Entity Recognition (NER) Tool: https://library.hkust.edu.hk/ds/project/p001/
  • Liiive: https://liiive.now
  • Recogito Studio: https://recogitostudio.org/
  • TEI viewer for East Asian / Japanese: https://candra.dhii.jp/nagasaki/tei/tei_viewer/?file=iwashimizu_app_20240104_pics.xml
  • Text Pre-Processing Tool for Data Analysis & Visualization: https://eus4020.streamlit.app/

DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos, or how-to guides in any form)

• Winner: Play With Your Data: https://works.hcommons.org/records/6t6ag-2ag20
• 1st Runner Up: Archaeological Data Query and Map Visualisation training material in R: https://zenodo.org/records/11257952
• 2nd Runner Up: Computer Text Analysis: HSE Master’s Degree Course ‘Digital Humanities’ (2024/2025): https://locusclassicus.github.io/text_analysis_2024/
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • 《数字人文实战:网络数据库编程技术》(Digital Humanities in Practice: Web Database Programming Techniques): https://github.com/GoThereGit/textbooks
  • HKUST Digital Humanities tutorial articles: https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/tutorials/
  • Literaturwissenschaft und Informatik: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven, digitale Methoden und selbstlernende Algorithmen: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7003-5/literaturwissenschaft-und-informatik/?number=978-3-8394-7003-9
  • Source code and slides for teaching humanities students Web development using Python for humanities projects: https://github.com/hkust-dh/streamlit-demo-20240322
  • Stay up to date with digital humanities: https://bik.sfu-kras.ru/elib/view?id=BOOK1-%D0%91%D0%91%D0%9A71/%D0%91%20903-289731
  • Texaco Wiki: https://iris.siue.edu/texacowiki/

DH RESOURCE (e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)

• Winner: Soils Museum of the Caribbean: https://suelosdelcaribe.org/en/inicio
• 1st Runner Up: Yellow Nineties 2.0: https://cdh.rula.info/y90s-launch
• 2nd Runner Up: Digital Humanities, или Цифровые методы в гуманитарных науках: точка входа: https://sysblok.ru/dh/
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey: https://dri.ie/os200/spotlight/os200
  • Books and Borrowing 1750-1830: https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/
  • Close Reading Archive: https://www.closereadingarchive.org
  • DH Asia Webinar Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKY1ApGbWpOsFI2jpzFpoqVTbTTNkjH_l&si=DRkBXb-DGV1IQhIL
  • Digital Humanities’ journal in Russian: https://pushkinskijdom.ru/zhurnal-tsifrovye-issledovaniya/
  • Edhiphy – A Database for Mention-Based Bibliometric Analysis in the History of Philosophy: https://edhiphy.org/
  • George Eliot Archive Text Explorer: https://georgeeliotarchive.org/textexplorer
  • Goet gevonden: https://goetgevonden.nl/
  • Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica – Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica Second Edition: https://igcyr2.unibo.it/en/
  • Interactive Media Exhibition – Experimental Ways of Curating and Remediating Old New Media: https://interactivemediaexhibition.net/
  • Knowledge Commons Works: https://works.kcommons.org
  • Moneda Iberica: https://monedaiberica.org
  • My Gulag (Мой ГУЛАГ) — an archive of video interviews with victims of soviet political terror (1930s–1950s): https://mygulag.ru/
  • Novel Generator Machine: https://blacklitnetwork.org/novels
  • Points Like A Man: The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue 1660-1900: https://pointslikeaman.com
  • Recovery Hub for American Women Writers: https://recoveryhub.siue.edu/
  • Responsible Datasets in Context: https://www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/
  • The Winnifred Eaton Archive: https://winnifredeatonarchive.org
  • TheTheatreTimes.com – is an open-access global theatre and performing arts portal: https://thetheatretimes.com
  • Transgender Media Portal: https://www.transgendermediaportal.org
  • Vtuzgorodok: Russia’s first complex of higher education, science and production: https://vtuzgorodok1930.ru
  • Zine Bakery: https://zinebakery.com

USE OF DH FOR FUN (e.g. something that uses DH for purposes of enjoyment)

• Winner: Cantonese Master Challenge 廣東話達人挑戰: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftNvAKn8IwvlxxQcL8PgGEQM9qg91dghH5fjC7-Wri7dIVSA/viewform
• 1st Runner Up: Slava Ukraini: https://www.decameroncollective.com/slava-ukraini
• 2nd Runner Up: Thread of Time: genealogy digital platform: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/Xl2L8wfQby_GNw
• Other Nominees (alphabetically):
  • Babylon Redux: https://zmuhls.github.io/babylon-redux/
  • DHmakes Methodz Talks: https://amandavisconti.github.io/DHMakesMethodz/
  • Lines of Flight: https://richardacarter.com/LOF/index.html
  • New Sun — a prosocial digital game about resilience and family: https://jag.itch.io/newsun
  • Visual novel about modern digital tools “Sycamore and the Secret Life of Scientist Cats”: https://readymag.website/u667000655/5210182/