Digital Humanities : DH Communities

Tap into one of the many DH networks and communities that exist at UW-Madison, online, and at institutions around the world

Featured Projects

• Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond - A growing resource of short stories of enslaved people who attempted to seize their own freedom by escaping, many in revolutionary America but others in the British Caribbean, Canada, and Great Britain itself between the mid-seventeenth century and the end of the revolutionary era in 1815. 
• Digital Mappa - An open-source digital humanities platform for open-access workspaces, projects and publications. Directed by Martin Foys.
• Media History Digital Library - A free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound. Tools include Lantern, MHDL's search platform, and Arclight, a data analytics and visualization app. Led by Eric Hoyt. 
• PodcastRE - An online project that preserves podcasts and provides an interface for researching, analyzing, and visualizing them. Led by Jeremy Morris. 

Campus Centers, Institutes, and Programs

• Digital Studies Certificate - From web design to video production, to data visualization and more, this certificate provides hands-on experiences that prepare students for their future careers while becoming more savvy users of digital technologies in their everyday lives
• Center for the Humanities - Lectures, panels, workshops, seminars, a postdoctoral fellowship, a graduate certificate and graduate fellowships in Public Humanities, and a Computational Humanities lab.
• Institute for Research in the Humanities - Seminars, conferences and symposia, lecture series, summer humanities research fellowships, humanities faculty mid-career mentoring, grant writing camps for graduate students, and other events.
  • The Uncertainty and AI Group - An interdisciplinary research team at UW-Madison studying artificial intelligence with the tools of the humanities and social sciences. 
• Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (CHPDC) - Annual colloquium series and lecture, biennial conference, and support for interdisciplinary research on print and digital culture history.
• Field Day Learning Games - Research lab at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research that designs learning games to bring contemporary research to the public and analyzes the game data to understand how people learn. 

DH Support Services

• Research Data, Public Access and Digital Scholarship  - Supports researchers from all disciplines in planning, managing, and sharing their digital research outputs and projects, as well as navigating compliance with federal public access requirements.
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (UWDC) - Works collaboratively with UW System faculty, staff, and librarians to create and provide access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and provide access to rare or fragile items of broad research value.
• Oral History Program - In addition to collecting interviews related to all aspects of the University's history, the program also offers guidance and training for those embarking on an oral history project. 
• DesignLab - A digital media design consultancy service for students at UW-Madison, located in College Library, that offers one-on-one and small group consultations to help students work effectively in digital media.
• Student Technology Training - Offers free technology training and project support for UW-Madison students, with regular classes, custom workshops, and one-on-one consultation appointments. Also works with instructors to provide custom workshops for students.
• Open Source Program Office (OSPO) - The use of open-source software is an important component of making digital humanities scholarship broadly accessible. The OSPO's mission is to collaborate with key stakeholders and community members to provide open source learning opportunities, promote best practices, facilitate the use of open source software in research, and make open source–fueled connections between practitioners and adopters on campus and beyond.
• Data Science Hub - The Data Science Hub in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery collaborates closely with the Data Science Institute to provide data science training and implement data science into research practices across campus. The Data Science Hub offers consultations, community events and co-sponsored seminars, and regular trainings (including Carpentries workshops) around fundamental data science and computational skills.