Faculty Projects
TimeOnLine
UO History Professor Daniel Rosenberg Rosenberg is interested in time: how we perceive it, and the various means we use and have used to depict it. He also loves games, charts, graphs and ephemera from long-gone days. To share these passions with a wider audience, he teamed up with UO Libraries and created the digital archive TimeOnLine.
With the support of a prestigious Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the team developed digital tools that allow users to interact with centuries-old devices for representing, tracking, and keeping time. Ever heard of Mark Twain’s Memory-Builder? Or the Polish-American System of Chronology?
Learn-Static
UO Digital Scholarship Librarian Kate Thornhill is part of a team of researchers and technologists who were awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the (NEH) for their project Learn-Static.
Learn-Static is a hub for Digital Humanities-focused static web teaching modules and project templates. The two primary aims are to
- Offer learning modules that cover fundamental introductory concepts in static web development, such Markdown, HTML, CSS, and working with GitHub
- Provide templates and documentation that humanities instructors can use to develop static web projects in their own classes
Thornhill collaborated with Professor Mattie Burkert, Director of the DH Minor, and students in her spring 2022 Technologies and Texts capstone course to develop the Environmental Justice Research Repository using Learn-Static methods and tools.
The London Stage Database
This project, led by DH Minor Director Mattie Burkert, gathers together records from more than 52,000 theatrical events in London between 1660 and 1800, including information about performances of plays, prologues and epilogues, afterpieces, pantomimes, instrumental music, singing, and dancing. Funds from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities allowed Burkert’s team to recover damaged data and code from a 1970s database, the London Stage Information Bank, which was long assumed to be lost.
With a new round of NEH and UO support from 2024 through 2027, Burkert is working with graduate and undergraduate students, software developers, and librarians at UO and other institutions to extend the dataset and improve the user experience with new features.
Uncover the history of London’s public theaters
The Modernist Archives Publishing Project
MAPP is a collection of digitized archival texts, photographs, ephemera, and more that shed light on the business of publishing modernist literary works between 1900 and 1950. One of the project’s founding members, Professor Helen Southworth, teaches in the Department of English at UO and in the DH minor.