Digital Projects

DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity)

Stephen Wittek (Department of English), Matthew Milner, Stéfan Sinclair

DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity) is a text analysis and text archive project that opens up new possibilities for working with the collection of early modern texts in the EEBO-TCP collection, through a mirror of Voyant tools (an open-source, web-based application for performing text analysis).

Print & Probability

Sam Lemley (CMU Libraries), Chris Warren (Department of English)

Print & Probability is an interdisciplinary, NEH- and NSF-funded project at the intersection of book history, computer vision, and machine learning. The project develops tools and methods for discovering letterpress printers whose identities have eluded scholars for several hundred years, including: a stopgap English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), a Coloring Book Paper Analysis Tool, and a Catalog of Distinctive Type.

Uniting the States with Telegraphs, 1844-1862

Edmund Russell (Department of History), Lauren Winkler

One of the biggest problems facing the United States in the nineteenth century was uniting a vast nation. To solve this problem, Americans placed their faith in two new technologies: telegraphs and steam engines. But neither of these technologies united the nation overnight. This project is an interactive (geographic and temporal) map of the emerging telegraph system across the 19th c. United States.

The Banned Books Project

Kathy M. Newman (Department of English)

The Banned Books Project is a course-built directory on the histories of controversy and censorship, created with the help of students.

Shakespeare-VR

Stephen Wittek (Department of English)

The Shakespeare-VR project uses virtual reality technologies to enrich students’ understanding of Shakespearean drama and the conditions of performance in the early modern theater.

National Neighbors

Matthew Lincoln, Golan Levin (School of Art, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry), Sarah Reiff Conell, Lingdong Huang

National Neighbors is is an interactive tool for displaying near “visual neighbors” of artworks across a museum’s collection.

Traub-McCorduck Collection

Samuel Lemley (CMU Libraries)

The Traub-McCorduck Collection online is a virtual catalogue and online exhibit of books and objects related to the history of computing.

Mapping Gandhi

Nico Slate (Department of History), Daniel J Evans, Di-ay Tesoro Battad (CMU Video Producer), Scott Weingart

This digital scholarship project on Gandhi’s relationship to Indian geography was produced in collaboration with the Bajaj Rural Development Lab.

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Christopher Warren (Department of English), Daniel Shore, Jessica Otis, Scott Weingart, et al.

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is an interactive visualization of social networks in early modern Britain, mining text from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

LPS has also contributed to the development of legacy projects now maintained by partner organizations, including: