One of the goals of the Digital Humanities Initiative is to grow the Duke communities of faculty, students, and staff that are developing on Duke's campus around some aspect of digital humanities. By organizing the field into these community topics and connecting them to representative projects, workshops, and other resources on campus, the DHI supports those looking to get involved with some aspect of the DH at their own pace.
Concept: Scanning and Modeling real and imagined dimensional objects and environments for critical, historical, and creative purposes. This includes… read more » about 3D Modeling / Visualization
Concept: Using web technologies to make digital objects publicly accessible on the internet. These digital objects may include, but are not… read more » about Archives and Digital Publishing
Concept: Data visualization encompasses a wide range of practices focused on the transformation of quantitative or otherwise segmented information… read more » about Data Visualization
This theme focuses on the range of approaches to creating narrative and interactive experiences using digital tools and hybrid media systems. … read more » about Digital Storytelling and Exhibitions
Concept: Using simulated spaces, virtual worlds, and hybrid media annotation systems to reconstruct sites, explore counterfactual concepts, and offer… read more » about Extended Reality and Games
Concept: Applying geospatial information system tools and… read more » about Mapping/GIS
Concept: Exploring relationships and connections between objects commonly studied in the Humanities. This process involves breaking information into… read more » about Networks
Concept: Applying project management principles and best practices to digital projects in the Humanities. This includes learning about: project… read more » about Project Management
Concept: Using social media or crowdsourcing to collect information from past or present events to make that history or the objects that make up that… read more » about Social Media and Crowdsourcing
Concept: Projects related to the making and unmaking of sound. Sound Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that explores the idea… read more » about Sound
Concept: Using technology hardware and software to convert, explore, and visualize common Humanities text-based information. This area… read more » about Text
Although taken up by many communities, "Digital Humanities" is a complicated and sometimes contested term. Theorists, practitioners, and critics… read more » about Theoretical and Critical Approaches