Please vote for the following resources from 2023 in the DH Awards 2023. 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/dhawards2024/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.
Voting will be open until 2025-04-04
BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data)
- Bestselling Books Project: https://books.dariakoshkina.com
- Bibliotheca Eugeniana Digital: https://demo.mindfactor.at/eugeniana/
- Catasto Chronicles: https://vittoriotonini.github.io/catastochronicles/
- Classroom reading (Systemniy Block media): https://sysblok.ru/literary-canon/
- Frankenstein Variorum: https://frankensteinvariorum.org/
- From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113398
- 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/
- Tree and Forest Data Visualizations: https://arvore.ilcml.com/en/main/
- 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
- “Таймлайн жизни русских писателей XVIII века”: Timeline of Russian writers of the 18th century: https://nevmenandr.github.io/18cent-timeline/
BEST DH DATASET OR MODEL (e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used for DH research)
- Archaeological Artefact Database of Finland (AADA): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03602-8
- CATMuS (Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts) diachronic and multilingual HTR datasets & models : https://huggingface.co/CATMuS
- Femiber: https://femiber.upf.edu/
- 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
- 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/
- Petitioning for Freedom: https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/
- 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
BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH)
- Bamman, D. (et al.) “On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics”, CHR 2024: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper119.pdf
- Horváth, A. (et al.) “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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Velasco Trujillo, R. “Cultural Ecologies of Memory”: https://culturalecologies.com/cases/fabrics-of-memory
BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS (e.g. something used to build a DH resource)
- Corpora: A Dataset Studio for the Digital Humanities: https://bptarpley.github.io/corpora/
- Dédalo: http://dedalo.dev
- 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
- Longshui OCR system （IPA and 7 important low resouce languages, Tibetan, Yii, Uyghur, Tangut, Ancient Yii, Manchu, Uigur): http://lssz.vurls.cn/
- Recogito Studio: https://github.com/recogito/recogito-studio
- 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/
BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos, or how-to guides in any form)
- Archaeological Data Query and Map Visualisation training material in R: https://zenodo.org/records/11257952
- Computer Text Analysis: HSE Master’s Degree Course ‘Digital Humanities’ (2024/2025): https://locusclassicus.github.io/text_analysis_2024/
- 《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/
- Play With Your Data: https://works.hcommons.org/records/6t6ag-2ag20
- 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/
BEST DH RESOURCE (e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)
- 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, или Цифровые методы в гуманитарных науках: точка входа: https://sysblok.ru/dh/
- Digital Humanities’ journal in Russian: https://pushkinskijdom.ru/zhurnal-tsifrovye-issledovaniya/
- Edhiphy: 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
- 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
- Moneda Iberica: https://monedaiberica.org
- My Gulag (Мой ГУЛАГ): 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/
- Soils Museum of the Caribbean: https://suelosdelcaribe.org/en/inicio
- 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
- Yellow Nineties 2.0: https://cdh.rula.info/y90s-launch
- Zine Bakery: https://zinebakery.com
BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN (e.g. something that uses DH for purposes of enjoyment)
- Babylon Redux: https://zmuhls.github.io/babylon-redux/
- Cantonese Master Challenge 廣東話達人挑戰: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftNvAKn8IwvlxxQcL8PgGEQM9qg91dghH5fjC7-Wri7dIVSA/viewform
- 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
- Slava Ukraini: https://www.decameroncollective.com/slava-ukraini
- Thread of Time: genealogy digital platform: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/Xl2L8wfQby_GNw
- Visual novel about modern digital tools “Sycamore and the Secret Life of Scientist Cats”: https://readymag.website/u667000655/5210182/