Listing of Digital Humanities Centers and Institutes

United States

Academic Commons

http://www.academiccommons.org

With Academic Commons, we seek to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education. Academic Commons aims to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology. If successful, this site will advance opportunities for collaborative design, open development, and rigorous peer critique of such resources.
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)

http://www.digitalhumanities.org

ADHO is an umbrella organization representing constituent organizations in digital humanities. The effort to establish ADHO began at the 2002 ALLC/ACH conference. Activities include an active publishing program, oversight of an annual conference, and presenting models for humanities computing.
American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)

http://www.theaahc.org/

Dedicated to the reasonable and productive marriage of history and computer technology, the AAHC sponsors a number of activities, including an annual meeting , annual prizes , an electronic journal, a continuing publication series , and a variety of summer workshops.
Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future , University of Southern California

http://www.digitalcenter.org

The Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future was founded on the belief that the best communication policy flows from high-quality and rigorous research on the structure and impact of mass media and new technology. The Center is committed to working closely with members of all policy communities ranging from government, industry, academia, journalists, parents, and concerned national and international citizens to ensure that good policy comes from a rational and reasoned set of assumptions based on meaningful research.
Art & Art History Department, Duke University

http://www.duke.edu/web/art/index.html
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

http://www.ach.org/

ACH is an international professional organization. Since its establishment, it has been the major professional society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials. The ACH is devoted to disseminating information among its members about work in the field of humanities computing, as well as encouraging the development and dissemination of significant textual and linguistic resources and software for scholarly research.
Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)

http://aoir.org/

An academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies, the Association of Internet Researchers is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. The website includes a good resource link list for associations, conferences, and journals.
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)

http://www.allc.org/

ALLC was founded in 1973 with the purpose of supporting the application of computing in the study of language and literature. As the range of available and relevant computing techniques in the humanities has increased, the interests of the Association's members have necessarily broadened to encompass not only text analysis and language corpora, but also image processing and electronic editions. The ALLC's membership is international, is drawn from across the humanities disciplines, and includes students and established scholars.
Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH), Univ. of Washington

http://www.washington.edu/cartah/

As part of the Digital Arts and Experimental Media program, CARTAH is a research center that serves faculty, staff, and students across the College of Arts and Sciences. It is a project-based research lab, providing unique resources for artists and scholars engaged in technology-based work.
Center for Computer Analysis of Texts , University of Pennsylvania

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/teachtech/about-ccat.html

The Center for Computer Analysis of Texts provides advice and information in support of humanities research and distribution of its electronic products and byproducts. Historically, the main foci of CCAT have included creation and electronic publication of relevant materials, including some specialized software.
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities , Stanford University

http://www.ccarh.org/

The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities is engaged in the development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance.
Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), UIUC

http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/description.html

The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities is engaged in the development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance.
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture , Virginia Polytechnic Institute

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/index2.html

As part of the College of Arts and Sciences and working with faculty in the Virginia Tech Cyberschool, the CDDC provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. At the same time, it supports the continuation of traditional research practices, including scholarly peer review, academic freedom, network formation, and intellectual experimentation.
Center for Digital Humanities , University of California , Los Angeles

http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/

The Center for Digital Humanities seeks to advance the teaching, research, and public service mission of the Humanities Division by the use of computing technology and new media; assist academic projects by locating personnel and funding, discovering partners both inside and outside the university, and managing the projects over time; and facilitate use of the Web in teaching.
Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS), Georgetown University

http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/info/cepacs.html

CEPACS was founded in 1994 to coordinate and develop a range of electronic projects related to interdisciplinary studies in the culture and history of the United States .
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) , Rutgers University

http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/

Established in 1991, CETH provides a national focus for the development of electronic text applications for scholarship and teaching.
Center for History and New Media , George Mason University

http://chnm.gmu.edu/

The Center for History and New Media produces historical works in new media, tests the effectiveness of these products in the classroom, and reflects critically on the promises and pitfalls of new media in historical practice.
Center for Literary Computing , West Virginia University

http://www.clc.wvu.edu

CLC rethinks literary studies for the digital age, developing interdisciplinary research projects in the poetics of new media and the media ecology of literary institutions, using web technologies, multimedia, hypertext, audio/video, and virtual environments.
Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/index.html
Computers and the Humanities Program , Brigham Young University

http://chum.byu.edu/

Jointly supported by the Department of Linguistics and the Humanities Research Center , the Computers and Humanities Program offers courses on the use of computer technology in humanities disciplines, with two intersecting minor programmes.
Digital Promise

http://www.digitalpromise.org/
Electronic Culture and Communications (ECC)

http://www.eccforum.org/

Founded in 1996 under the auspices of the Popular Culture Association, the ECC is a multi-disciplinary, international group of scholars, activists, artists, and others, both affiliated and independent, working to understand the complex and ever-shifting relationship between people, culture, and emerging communication media and practice.
Humanities Computing Group , New York University

http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/

The Humanities Computing Group provides support for the use of technology in teaching and research in all humanities subjects at NYU.
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities , University of Virginia

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/

As a research unit, the goal of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is to explore and expand the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research by providing its research fellows with consulting, technical support, applications programming, and networked publishing facilities. IATH also cultivates partnerships and participates in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and others interested in the intersection of computers and cultural heritage. A Master's Degree in Digital Humanities is a new curricular area at the u niversity. For online access to IATH publications see http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/publications.html .
Leonardo/International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology , San Francisco , CA

http://www.leonardo.info/

The Leonardo/International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists. Projects include art, science, and technology publications including a compact disc series, a book series, a website, and a web journal, as well as digital reviews. All Leonardo/ISAST publications are produced in collaboration with the MIT Press. A sister organization in France, the Association Leonardo, publishes the Observatoire Leonardo (OLATS) website.
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities , University of Maryland

http://www.mith.umd.edu/

MITH plays a leadership role in developing innovative technological resources for revitalizing, reinventing, and expanding humanities research and education. Exploring the profound effects of the new opportunities presented by digital culture, MITH serves college and pre-college faculty and students, as well as members of the local, national, and international communities with technical resources, project consultation, and a broad array of programs.
Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online , Michigan State University

http://www.matrix.msu.edu/

Matrix is devoted to the application of new technologies in humanities and social science teaching and research. The Center creates and maintains online resources, provides training in computing and new teaching technologies, and creates forums for the exchange of ideas and expertise in new teaching technologies. It offers a Humanities Computing Certificate to those who complete its program.
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Humanities Informatics Initiative , Texas A&M University

http://www.tamu.edu/chr/Programs_Activities/humanitiesinformatics.html

The Humanities Informatics Initiative brings together scholars from around the university for the purpose of advancing research in the application of information technology to scholarly activities in the humanities and the exploration of the human record. Its goal is to develop innovative computing tools, digital collections, and hypertextual archives of broadly significant academic and educational value to the humanities. The consortium builds on interdisciplinary collaboration between current projects and existing research centers and aims to expand in a synergistic manner the role of information technology research at Texas A&M. Programs include a Working Group in Humanities Informatics, Humanities Informatics Grant Programs, a website, and a Humanities Informatics Lecture Series.
National Science Foundation (NSF)

http://www.nsf.org/
New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy

Launched in the fall of 2001 with initial grants from the Colorado School of Mines and the National Science Foundation, New Directions has received support from NASA, USGS, EPA, NEH, NCAR, and the Geological Survey of Canada, as well as a consortium of universities (numbering 11 to date). New Directions seeks to develop the theory and practice of wide interdisciplinarity, integrating the values-dimensions of our societal challenges with on-going scientific research and education.

http://www.ndsciencehumanitiespolicy.org/index.html
Research in Computing for the Humanities , University of Kentucky

http://www.rch.uky.edu/

A "collaboratory" of computer scientists and humanities scholars investigating humanities research problems, Research in Computing for the Humanities provides intriguing challenges for computer science in developing new applications of computer technology to research in the humanities and sponsors a lecture series in conjunction with the UK Center for Computational Sciences.
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies , University of Washington

http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C)

http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/

TEI-C is a non-profit corporation established in 2000 to sustain and develop the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Initially launched in 1987, the TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent. The TEI began as a research effort cooperatively organized by three scholarly societies (the Association for Computers and the Humanities , the Association for Computational Linguistics , and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ), and funded solely by substantial research grants from the NEH, the European Union, the Canadian Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and others. The Consortium has executive offices in Charlottesville , Virginia in the USA , and hosts at Brown University , Oxford University , the University of Virginia , and a collaborative group based in Nancy , France .
Virginia Center for Digital History , University of Virginia

http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/

An outgrowth of the popular Valley of the Shadow American Civil War project, the Virginia Center for Digital History's goal is to develop high-quality, well-researched, and reliable history materials for the World Wide Web and deliver them to schools, colleges, libraries, historical societies, and the general public.

United Kingdom and Canada

Arts and Humanities Data Service , King's College, London

http://ahds.ac.uk/

The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a national service aiding the discovery, creation, and preservation of digital resources in and for research, teaching, and learning in the arts and humanities. Five subject areas are presently covered: history, visual arts, literature/languages/linguistics, archaeology, and performing arts. Organized via an executive at King's College London and five AHDS Centres and hosted by various Higher Education Institutions, the AHDS is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and Humanities Research Board .
Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College, London

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/

CCH fosters awareness, understanding, and skill in the scholarly applications of computing. It operates in three main areas: as a department with responsibility for its own academic programme; as a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research; and as a unit providing collegial support to its sister departments in the School of Humanities . As a research centre, CCH is a member of the Humanities Research Centres, the School's umbrella grouping of its research activities with a specifically interdisciplinary focus.
Centre for Technology and the Arts , De Montfort University , Leicester

http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/

The Center for Technology and the Arts carries out multi-disciplinary research on the use of computer methods in the arts and humanities; creates specialized computer tools for researchers, including electronic publishing systems; teaches new computer-based methods and tools, with research degree work at the M.Phil and Ph.D. level; and engages in collaborative research and publishing projects nationally and internationally.
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities (COCH/COSH), Canada

http://www.coch-cosh.ca/

The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986. Its objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada .
Creative Media and Information Technology , University of Exeter , Devon , UK

http://pallas.ex.ac.uk/pallas/

Formerly known as Pallas, CMIT operates as an academic department providing major and minor academic programmes in humanities computing at introductory, honors, and postgraduate levels. The programme includes a BA in Information Technology, operates departmentally-based computer teaching classrooms, supports collaborative research projects, and manages its own research programme in video conferencing and digitization.
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology , Montreal , Quebec

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/

The Daniel Langlois Foundation's purpose is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technology. The Foundation seeks to nurture a critical awareness of technology's implications for human beings and their natural and cultural environments, and to promote the exploration of aesthetics suited to evolving human environments. The Centre for Research and Documentation seeks to document history, artworks, and practices associated with electronic and digital media arts and to make this information available to researchers in an innovative manner through data communications.
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute , University of Glasgow

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/index.html

The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute actively encourages the use of information and communication technology to enhance research and teaching in the arts and the humanities; offers an academic programme in humanities computing at introductory, honors, and postgraduate levels and organizes a summer school on digitization for heritage professionals; operates departmentally-based computer teaching classrooms and laboratories of the Faculties of Arts and Divinity; and supports collaborative research projects and manages its own research programme.
Humanities Media, Audio/Visual Resource & Computing Centre , McMaster University , Ontario

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hmc/

The Humanities Media, Audio/Visual Resource & Computing Centre offers academic courses in humanities computing; provides support for administrative, research, and instructional computing within the Faculty of Humanities; introduces and encourages initiatives for instructional and research computing; and represents the Faculty of Humanities on University and external committees.
Humanities Research Institute , University of Sheffield , UK

http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/

The Humanities Research Institute is a consortium of technology-related research projects from within the Faculty of Arts, with an independent steering group dedicated to driving, maintaining, and overseeing the development of the Institute.

PROJECTS AND RESOURCES

Please note that list does not include projects listed on the HASTAC website at http://www.hastac.org/projects.html

ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences

http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm

The commission's charge is to d escribe and analyze the current state of humanities and social science cyberinfrastructure; articulate the requirements and the potential contributions of the humanities and the social sciences in developing a cyberinfrastructure for information, teaching, and research; and recommend areas of emphasis and coordination for the various agencies and institutions, public and private, that contribute to the development of this cyberinfrastructure.
ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37 (1997)

http://www.acls.org/op37.htm

"Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges-The United States Focus" surveys the various applications of information technology to research in the humanities. The report includes as appendices an alphabetical list of projects and links as well as a brief bibliography.
Alternatives in Humanities Computing

http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/AltHumancomp

Alternatives in Humanities Computing is a listserv dedicated to finding new niches for humanities computing.
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project , University of Chicago

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/
ARTFL, a cooperative project of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago , offers a full-text database of nearly 2,000 works in French dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Included are works of literature, literary criticism, history, philosophy, and economics.
American Corpus Project

http://americannationalcorpus.org/

ANC is creating a massive electronic collection of American English, including texts of all genres and transcripts of spoken data produced from 1990 onward. The ANC seeks to provide the most comprehensive picture of American English ever created and to serve as a resource for education, linguistic and lexicographic research, and technology development. When completed, the ANC will contain a core corpus of at least 100 million words, comparable across genres to the British National Corpus (BNC).
American Verse Project , University of Michigan

http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of primarily 19 th -century American poetry.
ArchivesUSA

http://archives.chadwyck.com/

Archives USA is a current directory of 5,550 repositories and 149,218 collections of primary source material housed across the United States . Powerfully integrated with detailed subject indexing, this research tool is a central collection of descriptive archival information.
Computers and the Humanities Journal (CHum)

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T he official journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities, CHum has for over thirty years been the premier international journal for publications on language, text, and humanities-related research.
Cultural VR Lab , University of California at Los Angeles

http://www.cvrlab.org/

The Cultural VR Lab creates authenticated 3D computer models of culturally significant sites around the world and researches ways of utilizing computer models in teaching, research, and commerce.
Digi-arts UNESCO Knowledge Portal

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1391&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

One of UNESCO's major initiatives aiming at the development of interdisciplinary activities in research, creativity and communication in the field of media arts, Digi-arts aims to disseminate historical, theoretical, artistic, technical, and scientific research in the field of electronic and digital arts, including interdisciplinary study of the arts and the sciences; to promote information exchange, dialogue, and communication among artists, scientists, and technicians from different geo-cultural regions, especially enabling developing countries to develop their own approaches and practices in various disciplines and fields of knowledge connected to media arts; and to support existing institutions and networks throughout the world in the transfer of knowledge.
Digital Resources for the Humanities

http://www.drh.org.uk

Digital Resources for the Humanities is a series of annual conferences whose goal is to bring together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the humanities. The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, postgraduate students, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, use, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities.
eServer , Iowa State University

http://www.eserver.org

Founded in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server , eServer attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities . Now based at Iowa State University , eServer offers 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture , race , Internet studies , sexuality , drama , design , multimedia , and current social issues . In addition to electronic texts, streaming audio and video recordings are published.
Feminist Humanities Project , University of Oregon

http://fhp.uoregon.edu/

The Feminist Humanities Project is building, testing, and modeling methods for creating a comprehensive digital materials collection of primary texts and images for research on women and gender in history with an initial focus on a) women and gender in ancient Mesoamerica and b) medicine and childbirth in medieval Europe . It is also assisting faculty in developing digital teaching units on a wide range of topics related to women and gender.
Fibreculture , Australia

http://journal.fibreculture.org/index.html

Fibreculture is a network of critical Internet research and culture in Australasia . The journal provides a new online forum for intellectual debate about internet, networks, and new media-related issues.
Humbul Humanities Hub , University of Oxford

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

Part of the Resource Discovery Network ( http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ), the Humbul Humanities Hub aims to be UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources. It is dedicated to discovering, evaluating, and cataloguing online resources in the humanities by providing online access to a growing collection of records.
Humanist , Princeton University

http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

Humanist is an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities that provides a forum for discussion of intellectual, scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues and for exchange of information among members. Humanist is allied with the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. It is an affiliated publication of the American Council of Learned Societies and a publication of the Office for Humanities Communication (UK).
Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies , Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Labyrinth is a clearinghouse for Medieval Studies materials from around the Internet including electronic texts, bibliographies, lectures, and professional information.
The Labyrinth Project , Annenberg Center , University of Southern California

http://www.annenberg.edu/labyrinth/

Under the direction of cultural theorist Marsha Kinder since 1997, this research initiative and art collective works at the pressure point between theory and practice, focusing on producing interactive narratives and installations in collaboration with visual artists and writers known for their experimentation with nonlinear forms. The Labyrinth Project also has a strong educational dimension and produced the first scholarly CD-ROM published in film studies as well an experimental e-learning course.
Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

http:// www.nines.org

Nineteenth-Century Scholarship is a project to found a publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies, British and American. NINES is promoting the means and a way for excellent work in digital scholarship to be produced, vetted, published, and recognized by the discipline. A key goal of NINES is to go beyond presenting static images or transcriptions of manuscripts on-screen. It also seeks to create or offer software tools that aid collation, comparative analysis, and enable pedagogical application of scholarly electronic resources.
Project Bartleby , Columbia University

http://www.bartleby.com/

Project Bartleby is a hypertext literature project that includes the near complete works of Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth and others as well as a searchable Bartlett 's Familiar Quotations.
Project Gutenberg , Oxford , MS

http://www.promo.net/pg/

Project Gutenberg is a collection of thousands of electronic texts generated by volunteers worldwide.
Project Muse , Johns Hopkins University

http://muse.jhu.edu/

Project Muse is an initiative that enables worldwide access to over 40 Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly journals online.
ReSoundings

http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound//

ReSoundings is a collaborative effort among an international group of scholars publishing in electronic form on the Internet. The journal is innovative in comprising music, visual art, and verbal texts while allowing readers to engage these texts with their own multimedia commentary hotbuttons which become part of the journal. The scope of this peer-reviewed journal is the humanities.
Rossetti Archive

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/

The Rossetti Archive is a hypertextual research archive designed to facilitate the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It aims to provide students and scholars with access to all of Rossetti's original works, pictorial as well as textual.
Sera Monastery Project , University of California , Santa Barbara

http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/collections/cultgeo/sera/

The Sera Monastery Project is a research and pedagogical initiative employing digital technology in the service of creating the most comprehensive, interactive, multimedia database of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery ever attempted. The Sera Project is a collaborative venture between the University of California , Santa Barbara (the hosting institution), the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences, the University of Virginia , Charlottesville , and the monks of Sera (in Tibet , India , and in various centers throughout the world).
Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment (December 2001)

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub104/contents.html

Scholarly Work in the Humanities is a study that examines how humanities scholars conduct and collate their research in order to suggest ways in which academic libraries can adapt to and develop resources for humanities scholars in a rapidly changing environment.
UPENN Humanities Computing and the Internet Calls for Papers

http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Computing-Internet/
Virtual Humanities Lab , Brown University

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/

With the support of the NEH, Brown's Virtual Humanities Lab plans to develop diverse digital resources into an experimental model for collaborative scholarship and pedagogy. The lab envisions a highly interactive website where educators, scholars, students, and other interested users will find not only a wealth of information about the civic experience and the literary and intellectual culture of Early Modern Italy, but also a variety of tools for collaborative teaching and research-specifically, annotation and discussion of primary texts-organized as a multidisciplinary "virtual laboratory" for the humanities.
Voice of the Shuttle , University of California , Santa Barbara

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Voice of the Shuttle is a searchable website/database/aggregator for humanities research. "Alan Liu's superb collection of electronic resources for the humanities. The best place to start, bar none."-Jack Lynch, Rutgers