Please vote for the following resources from 2020 in the DH Awards 2020. 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/dhawards2020/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.
Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts
- Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton Updates https://cdh.princeton.edu/updates/2020/
- DH Lab at the Leibniz Institute of European History https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/
- Gerastertes Wissen. Pixel in Kultur und Technik https://pixel.hypotheses.org/
- Mapping the Scottish Reformation http://mappingthescottishreformation.org
- Meeting in Virtual Reality: Conferences and gatherings while working from home https://kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/meeting-virtual-reality/
- MetoDHology https://metodhology.anu.edu.au/
- Multilingual Jekyll: How The Programming Historian Does That https://matthewlincoln.net/2020/03/01/multilingual-jekyll.html
- Peopling the Past https://peoplingthepast.com/
- Reviews in Digital Humanities https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/
- The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Blog https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/dont-elect-me/
- The LaTeX Ninja Blog https://latex-ninja.com/2020/
- The Real Percy Bysshe Shelley https://mailchi.mp/210e42a6f1d6/graham-henderson
- Ticha Project, 2020 Blog Series http://ticha.haverford.edu/en/updates/
- Two Days of Shadowing Going on Thirty https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/shadowing/
Best DH Data Visualization
- Am I a Descendant of a Royal Family? https://www.zeelab.xyz/Ancient-Family-Tree-Am-I-a-Descendant-of-a-Royal-Family
- Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/
- ConGraCNet http://emocnet.uniri.hr/congracnet/
- COVID19 Cartography https://rodighiero.github.io/COVID-19/
- Data Beyond Vision https://startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/1/data-beyond-vision/
- David Bailie Warden Papers: Mapping a Transatlantic Network https://warden.atnu.ncl.ac.uk/home
- Gaoqian Digital Memory Website http://gqjy.bjjy.cn/
- GenoGraphiX-LOG 2.0 https://www.ggxlog.net
- Jiam Diary http://jiamdiary.info/
- Proyecto Musivaria HD: Investigación y difusión de la musivaria romana en Hispania desde las Humanidades Digitales https://musivariahd.com/
- Press Picker https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/press-picker-visualising-formats-and-title-name-changes-in-the-british-librarys-newspaper-holdings/
- Shipwrecks of the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal https://padlet.com/jaime6simons/fnkkvgdz99pr7l1e
- Tudor Networks http://tudornetworks.net
- Using Palladio to analyze historical migration patterns in Chinese Headtax data https://saharazh.github.io/Palladio-Networking/
Best DH Dataset
- Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata https://www.digitisednewspapers.net/dhawards/
- Broadsides printed in Scotland 1650-1910 https://data.nls.uk/data/digitised-collections/broadsides-printed-in-scotland/
- Chinese ceramics http://www.dh.ketrc.com/
- Circulating American Magazines https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/circulating/
- Digital El Diario http://digitaleldiario.com/
- DraCor: Drama Corpora https://dracor.org/
- Ministerratsprotokolle Habsburgermonarchie, 1848–1918, Digitale Edition https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/
- Newspaper Navigator Dataset https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
- NovelTM Datasets for English-Language Fiction, 1700-2009 https://github.com/tedunderwood/noveltmmeta
- Runor https://app.raa.se/open/runor/
- Shakespeare and Company Project Dataset: Lending Library Members, Books, Events https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu/about/data/
- Sketchfab Public Domain 3D Collection https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-launches-public-domain-dedication-for-3d-cultural-heritage/
- SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE) https://osf.io/4jfrm/
- The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences http://dh-abstracts.library.cmu.edu/
Best DH tool or Suite of Tools
- A Humanist’s Cookbook For Natural Language Processing In Python https://github.com/walshbr/humanists-nlp-cookbook/blob/release/toc.ipynb
- CorpusExplorer http://CorpusExplorer.de
- DeezyMatch https://living-with-machines.github.io/DeezyMatch/
- Digital Mappa 2.0 https://www.digitalmappa.org/
- Documentos y colecciones especiales – Red de bibliotecas del Banco de la República https://www.banrepcultural.org/visor-colecciones/
- EVT – Edition Visualization Technology http://evt.labcd.unipi.it/
- Manifold http://manifoldapp.org
- Multi-dimensional Image Smart System http://miss.newwenke.com
- NLS Data Foundry Jupyter Notebooks https://data.nls.uk/tools/jupyter-notebooks/
- Old English Online https://oldenglish.info/
- tei-publisher-vscode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=e-editiones.tei-publisher-vscode
- The open-cbgm library https://github.com/jjmccollum/open-cbgm
- The UniDescription Project https://unidescription.org/
- Tone Perfect https://tone.lib.msu.edu/
- Transcription chain https://oralhistory.eu/oh-portal
Best Exploration of DH Failure/Limitations
- Data Fail: Teaching Data Literacy with Digital Humanities https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/data-fail-teaching-data-literacy-with-african-diaspora-digital-humanities/
- Data-Sitters Club 8: Text-Comparison-Algorithm-Crazy Quinn https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc8
- Databases, Revenues, and Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680-1793 https://cfrp.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/digital-technology-and-theater-history/release/1
- Fading Away… The challenge of sustainability in digital studies http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000484/000484.html
- History, Digitized https://hist-digitized.netlify.app/
- Jim McGrath’s cautionary tweet thread on crowdsourcing COVID-19 materials for digital public humanities / digital archive projects https://twitter.com/JimMc_Grath/status/1239724671324557312
- Talking about Viral Texts Failures https://ryancordell.org/research/VT-database-fail/
Best Use of DH for Fun
- 100DaysofDH Challenge https://twitter.com/100DaysofDH
- Animal Crossing: New Digital Humanities https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/acndh
- Aventura.js (A JavaScript library for creating Biterature) https://github.com/srsergiorodriguez/aventura
- Climatophosis by Yohanna Joseph Waliya https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/mediaartsexhibits/ClimatesOfChange/Waliya/waliya.html
- DH in a Mug https://twitter.com/dh_mug
- ImprovBot – the worlds first AI generated Arts Festival https://improvbot.ai
- Shakespeare and Company, 100 Years Ago twitter bot https://twitter.com/ShakesCoAt100
- TEI Pelican https://twitter.com/TEI_Pelican
- The Data-Sitters Club Multilingual Mysteries https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/books#mystery
- The Image Du Monde Challenge https://imagedumonde.wordpress.com/
- Your Digital Humanities Peloton Instructor https://twitter.com/dhpeloton
Best Use of DH for Public Engagement
- An AR Story Map of Japanese Comfort Stations in Nanjing during World War II http://armapper.cn
- Ars Electronica Garden of … Knowledge for Humanity https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/knowledge-for-humanity/
- ArtyHum Revista Digital de Artes y Humanidades https://www.artyhum.com/
- Bans, Raids, Walls, Sanctuary https://naomipaik.com/bookresources
- Blood Libel: On the trail of an antisemitic myth https://thebloodlibeltrail.org
- Cork LGBT Archive Interactive LGBT History Tour http://corklgbtarchive.com/items/show/348
- What was a ‘machine’? Crowdsourcing ‘Living with Machines’ https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bldigital/living-with-machines/
- DHARTI: Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations https://dhdharti.in/
- Digital Holocaust Memory https://digitalholocaustmemory.wordpress.com
- Diskursmonitor https://diskursmonitor.de/
- Feral Atlas https://feralatlas.supdigital.org
- Hands on Reading https://hands-on-reading.atnu.ncl.ac.uk/
- I conti con la Storia: Le leggi razziali tra televisione e storiografia https://www.iconticonlastoria.it
- Investigating Indentured Servitude: Visualizing Experiences of Colonial America https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/indenturedata/
- Just How White Is the Book Industry? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/11/opinion/culture/diversity-publishing-industry.html
- Life Stories Virtual Exhibition https://lifestories.uvic.ca/
- Lit(e)Lat Antología, Volumen 1 http://antologia.litelat.net
- Locating Queer Memories https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/512dbf55af5647fba8ef7ea629d353cd
- Mapping Memories of Africville https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/561e07e0d0504b2b918a1230fe554918
- Modeling Mesoamerica: Origins and Originality in a Teaching Collection https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/75f4d95bb7b44808b7eafa808b266d58
- NY 1920s: When We Became Modern https://www.ny1920.com
- Raising the Volume: Amplifying Soul of Reason https://nyu-dss.github.io/soul-of-reason/
- Smarthistory https://Smarthistory.org
- Startwords https://startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/
- Storia dei Carabinieri https://www.spreaker.com/show/storia-dei-carabinieri
- The Papers of Martin Van Buren http://vanburenpapers.org/
- The Resemblage Project https://resemblageproject.ca/
- TIDE Salon http://www.tideproject.uk/tide-salon/
- Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project https://tribesourcingfilm.com
- Wabash Medievalists https://sites.google.com/view/wabashmedievalists/
Special Category: Best DH Response to COVID-19
- Coronarchiv https://coronarchiv.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/projector/s/coronarchiv/page/willkommen
- Corona Archive @ Kansai University – コロナアーカイブ@関西大学 https://www.annex.ku-orcas.kansai-u.ac.jp/s/covid19archive/page/covidmemory
- DARIAH Virtual Exchange Event https://www.virtualexchange.dariah.eu/
- DHall Discord Server https://torstenroeder.github.io/dhall/
- Digital Art History Summer School 2020 http://historiadelartemalaga.uma.es/dahss20/
- Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/
- Important Public Health Messages from the Data-Sitters Club about COVID-19 https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/covid19
- Map of museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus pandemic https://digitalmuseums.at
- Pandemic Religion: A Digital Archive https://pandemicreligion.org
- Point of Equilibrity https://www.cultural-representation.com/pointofqquilibrity/
- Twitter Conference “DH in the Time of Virus” https://www.dariah.eu/2020/05/07/reflections-on-the-twitter-conference-dh-in-the-time-of-virus/
- Social Distancing in a World of Memes https://sdmemes.mystrikingly.com/
- Sounds of COVID https://sammyholmes.wixsite.com/website
- Storyhaven https://storyhaven.app/schools/
- The Epidemic Flow: Cases and Places http://zeelab.cn/WuhanCircleGraphEnglish/
- Trans Media, Digital Humanities, and World Literature Project of NRF-GRN https://www.facebook.com/ellak21/posts/3676162542414042
- Vaxxers: A space for the vaccine hesitant and the vaccine confident to discuss COVID-19 https://vaxxers.net/
- Visionary Futures Collective https://visionary-futures-collective.github.io/
- WARCnet Papers https://cc.au.dk/en/warcnet/warcnet-papers/