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The Research Computing Center supports many research projects in the digital humanities, including:
  • Niall Atkinson (Art History) The RCC is working with Prof. Atkinson to create an interactive 3D multimedia website to be used for mapping the soundscapes of bells and liturgical processions in Renaissance Florence. Development is currently in progress.
  • Robert Bird (Slavic Languages) The RCC assisted Prof. Bird's student develop a variety of interactive maps using the Tableau platform; we then helped her embed these maps directly in the project's WordPress website (still under construction), where they will function as interactive visualizations for users to explore on their own.
  • Diane Brentari (Linguistics) The RCC developed the Sign And Gesture Archive (SAGA), an new large-scale online interactive platform via which authenticated users can search for and view videos of children performing gestures and various sign languages, alongside associated annotation ("coding") files used for linguistic and psychological analyses. https://saga.rcc.uchicago.edu
  • Seth Brodsky (Music) The RCC reconfigured the “Music Browser” to use a different user-configurable dataset provided via the Google Sheets API.
  • Thibaut d’Hubert (SALC) The RCC assisted with the designing of data architectures and an interface for the “Hashiya” project, whereby users can explore corpora of programmatically linked Persian-Arabic texts, commentaries and lexica/dictionaries (linking at both the level of the allofam and morphology). Development is currently in progress.
  • John Goldsmith (Linguistics) The RCC is hosting two extensive digital corpora of American texts (COHA and COCA) purchased by Prof. Goldsmith, on Midway in /project/databases. In past years, the RCC also contributed to the development of Linguistica: linguistica.uchicago.edu .
  • Yung-ti Li (EALC) The RCC is working with Prof. Li on the development of a system for documenting and analyzing clan signs from ancient China, and on hosting a major data repository for the study of Early China in partnership with Academica Sinica, Taiwan.
  • Yoko Katagiri and Youqin Wang (EALC) The RCC consulted on the development of websites to showcase the Japanese and Chinese language programs. Development is currently in progress.
  • Hoyt Long (EALC) The RCC provided direct support for the MAPH DH course, including offering office hours and one guest lecture. The RCC also assisted a student programmer on the “10,000 American Novels” project to develop custom algorithms in R for literary analysis. novel-tm.ca
  • Christine Mehring / Michael Tymkiw (Art History) The RCC assisted on this project by adding 3D depth mapping information to historical photographs of art exhibits, to aid in the analysis of the phenomenological aspects of spectatorship in built environments.
  • Textual Optics (Robert Morrissey, Romance Langs/ARTFL; Hoyt Long, EALC; Haun Saussy, Comp Lit/EALC; James Sparrow, Sociology) The RCC has developed methods to adapt classical Chinese corpora for the textual analysis tools in Philologic4; this is a sister project to the "Aozora Bunko" Japanese corpus developed under Hoyt Long. Development is currently in progress. https://textual-optics-lab.uchicago.edu/ 
  • David Roy (EALC) The RCC, in partnership with Yale University, developed the “Digital Jin Ping Mei” project, hosted within Yale’s “10,000 Rooms” platform, allowing for multiple textual primary and secondary sources to be viewed and evaluated simultaneously. https://tenthousandrooms.yale.edu/node/336/mirador?canvas=31481
  • Victoria Saramago (Romance Languages) The RCC designed and developed the “Visual Text Explorer”, a user-customizable interactive digital visual interface designed for large-scale visualization of words and/or phrases in any user-provided source, allowing for simultaneous close reading and multidimensional visual data analytics. edoc.uchicago.edu/vte
  • Haun Saussy (Comp Lit/EALC) The RCC developed a system of algorithms for analyzing series of user-defined textual patterns and “text reuse” across an unlimited number of texts, with an interactive graphic interface designed for users with no experience with programming languages.
  • David Schloen (NELC/OI) The RCC has been assisting with the development of CRESCAT, a visualization system for the OCHRE data management system based in R and the D3 Javascript platform.
  • Richard Jean So / Jon Schroeder (English) The RCC assisted Dr. Schroeder develop his code to do historical analyses of the term “nostalgia” through literary history from 1800 to the present, mainly using the Google Books corpus.
  • Ulrike Stark (SALC) The RCC has designed a data-driven interactive map system to allow users to visually explore the advent and development of the printing press in South Asia. https://chapakhana.rcc.uchicago.edu/
  • Jacqueline Stewart (Cinema & Media Studies) The RCC is hosting the video sources used in Prof. Stewart's South Side Home Movie Project (SSHMP) on Midway, the university's HPC computing cluster. The web interface, designed and maintained by Humanities Computing, is accessible here: https://sshmpportal.uchicago.edu/
  • David Wellbery (Germanic Languages) The RCC assisted doctoral student Philip Sugg in the development of his code in connection with his dissertation project on the Bildungsroman and supported him in the running of this code on the HathiTrust Data Capsule system.
  • Rebecca Zorach (Art History) The RCC designed a website and prototype interactive map interface for archives of murals in Chicago.

For assistance with digital humanities projects, please feel free to contact the RCC computational scientist for the digital humanities, Jeffrey Tharsen.