Past Projects
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- R Lab for Historical Linguistics
- Prof. David Goldstein is collaborating with CDH to design and create a lab component for his Spring 2018 Linguistics...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Goldstein, Linguistics
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- African Languages Website Migration
- The African Languages Website Migration project is preserving the Chadic languages (Yobe, Miya, Musey, Hausa) digital resources created by...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Olga Ivanova, Linguistics
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- Archive of Ritual, Healing, and Transformation
- David Shorter is exploring how to publish cultural heritage material in a way that is respectful and empowering of...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Shorter, World Arts and Cultures
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- Evidence Locker
- Evidence Locker is a web application under development at CDH to help students learn critical reading and writing skills.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Dave Shepard, CDH; Dr. Chris Mott, English
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- A Digital Version of Prokosch’s Comparative Germanic Grammar
- Nick de Carlo is building a digital version of Prokosch's "A Comparative German Grammar."
- Principal Investigator(s): Nick de Carlo, Germanic
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- Yoruba Architectural Reconstruction
- Prof. Steven Nelson is experimenting with the 3D modeling of Yoruba house posts in their original environment, in order...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History
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- Mapping Indigenous L.A.
- Mapping Indigenous L.A. is building a website where members of the native communities in the greater Los Angeles area...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Maylei Blackwell, Chicano/a Studies; Prof. Mishuana Goeman, Gender Studies and Native American Studies; and...
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- Tweet Reader
- Dr. Dave Shepard and Jun Wan are exploring Twitter messages about major disasters to help improve scholars' understanding of...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Dave Shepard, CDH
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- Virtual Cartographies: Mapping Historical Memory from the Spanish Civil War and Postwar Period
- Wendy Kurtz is exploring how digital mapping can help her understand and communicate how contemporary representations of mass graves...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Wendy Kurtz, Spanish and Portuguese
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- Big Data and Big Novels: Text Mining the Prose of the Russian Revolution
- Dr. Sean Griffin is exploring how topic modeling can help his students better understand the literature of the Russian...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Sean Griffin, Slavic
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- Hebrew e-Workbook Public Pilot
- Dr. Nancy Ezer's Hebrew e-Workbook pilot will evaluate the possibility of allowing other Hebrew programs to share the learning...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Nancy Ezer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- LA in the Sixties
- LA in the Sixties uses digital maps to explore and teach about racial contestation and musical development in 1960s-era...
- Principal Investigator(s): Rosaleen Rhee, Musicology
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- Engaging Punk
- Engaging Punk seeks to create a more effective listening guide for Music History classes on the punk music genre,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Jessica Schwartz, Musicology
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- Diversifying the Classics
- Diversifying the Classics is creating new digital editions of classic Spanish comedias to help bring this rich theatrical tradition...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Barbara Fuchs, Spanish & Portuguese/English/Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies
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- Burton Holmes Digital Archive
- The Burton Holmes Collection has been archived and may be available through the UCLA art history department.
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History
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- Mickey Katz Digital Library
- The Mickey Katz Digital Library uses digital artifacts from the life of the ground-breaking musician to illustrate both his...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Mark Kligman, Musicology/Ethnomusicology
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- Metadata for African Art
- CDH and Prof. Nelson are testing the value of ArtStor's Shared Shelf to help UCLA Art History program better...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Steven Nelson, Art History
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- Sicalipsis
- Sicalipsis is a virtual museum or Wunderkammer thathouses erotica and popular culture produced and/or consumed in early Twentieth CenturySpain....
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Maite Zubiaurre, Spanish and Portuguese
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- Augustan Rome
- The first Roman Emperor, Augustus, allegedly claimed to have transformed Rome from brick to marble. Explorations of this statement...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Diane Favro, Architecture
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- WorldLiterature@UCLA
- WorldLiterature@UCLA originates in the desire to document translational networks of literature in the intersection of conventional humanistic methods and...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Kim, Germanic
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- World’s Columbian Exposition
- The Columbian Exposition model builds on the Urban Simulation Team’s experiencewith contemporary urban environments and cultural heritage sites. The...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Lisa M. Snyder, IDRE
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- VSIM
- VSiM facilitates the real-time exploration of highly detailed, three-dimensionalcomputer models in both formal and informal educational settings.
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Scott Friedman, Dr. Lisa M. Snyder, Dr. Elaine Sullivan, Eduardo Poyart, Franklin Fang, and...
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- Event Pulse
- “Event Pulse” is a digital humanities research project that brings together socialmedia data and broadcast news data in order...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Todd Presner, Digital Humanities; Prof. Francis Steen, Communication Studies; Dr. David Shepard, CDH; Yoh...
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- Seeing Sunset
- Learning Los Angeles is a joint project of the Los Angeles: The Cluster class and the UCLA Library to...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Jan Reiff, History
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- RomeLab
- RomeLab is a multi-disciplinary research group whose work uses the physical and virtual city of Rome as a point...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Christopher Johanson, Classics
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- Andean Narratives
- As part of the UCLA Digital Humanities program’s capstone course, students and a faculty member collaborated on a web...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Miriam Posner, Digital Humanities and Information Studies
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- LA Aqueduct Digital Platform
- In partnership with Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, UCLA Library Special Collections developed the Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform...
- Principal Investigator(s): Jillian Cuellar, UCLA Library
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- Digital Karnak
- The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors in the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Diane Favro, Architecture
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- Far From Moscow
- A database of new music, poetry, and regional songwriting from more than 3,000 independent artists in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. David Macfadyen, Musicology
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- Reverse Engineering History: Structural Analysis of the Lighthouse at Alexandria
- More than 2,000 years ago the ancient Pharos Lighthouse towered 129 meters over Alexandria, equivalent to a 35 story...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof Diane Favro, Architecture; Anthony Caldwell, CDH
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- Mapping Danish Population Change and the Railroads, 1860-1920
- An ongoing challenge for many historical GIS projects is the aggregation of data from disparate sources. In our project,...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Tim Tangherlini, Scandinavian
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- Urkesh: The Digital Invention of an Ancient Site
- The long-term goal of Professor Emeritus Giorgio Buccellati is to update his original archaeological database using current standards, while...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Emer. Giorgio Buccellati, Cotsen Institute of Archeology
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- Multimodal Communication
- Dr. Leigh Harris from UCLA’s Writing Programs is exploring solutions with CDH to enable media-rich writing projects for her...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Leigh Harris, Writing Programs
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- Mapping Literary L.A.
- The goal of this project is to contribute to the design and mock-up of a Mapping Literary Los Angeles...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Colleen Jaurretche, Writing Programs; Dr. Kelly Miller, UCLA Library; Doug Worsham, UCLA Library
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- Keys to Voice Studies
- A project, led by Professor Nina Eidsheim from UCLA's Department of Musicology, to build a website for the Keys...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Nina Eidsheim, Musicology
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- East Asian Studies Macroscope
- A Mellon-funded initiative to create an integrated set of computational tools for the analysis of digitized East Asian Studies...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Jack Chen, Asian Languages and Cultures; Tim Tangherlini, Scandinavian
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- Digital Mapping and Visualization of UCLA Service Learning
- This project aims to help UCLA's Center for Community Learning develop a geospatial display of their students' service learning...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Elizabeth Goodhue, UCLA Center for Community Learning
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- A Statistical Analysis of Canaanite Akkadian Texts
- The goal of this project is to provide hard data to clarify a debate on the linguistic characteristics of...
- Principal Investigator(s): Alice Mandell, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- UCLA Encylopedia of Egyptology
- The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology is an international cooperative project to provide high-quality, peer-reviewed information on ancient Egypt. It...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Willeke Wendrich, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- Online Encyclopedia of African Music
- With the cooperation of CDH, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, and the UCLA Digital Library, Professor Jesse Ruskin from the...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Jesse Ruskin, Ethnomusicology
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- Paris: Past and Present
- Professor Meredith Cohen's goal is to build a highly accurate 3D model of high medieval Paris (AD 1100-1300), to...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Meredith Cohen, Art History
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- Digital Anatolia
- This project pushes the boundaries of multimedia argumentation by offering a rapid, 4-D map-based approach to studying and exploring...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Christopher Johanson, Classics
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- Ancient Egyptian Coffins Project
- The goal of this project is to migrate Prof. Cooney's personal database of images and meta data pertaining to...
- Principal Investigator(s): Professor Kara Cooney, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- A Sense of Place
- A project to explore the relationship between space and narrative. We examine all aspects of this question, but will...
- Principal Investigator(s): Dr. John Lynch, CDH
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- American Labor Who’s Who Database
- This project aims to convert scanned pages of a 1925 directory of trade union, immigrant rights and radical activists...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Toby Higbie, History
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- CSANA/UCLA Celtic Studies On-Line Bibliography Project
- The Celtic Studies On-line Bibliography Project is the only ongoing bibliography of Celtic studies that attempts to cover all...
- Principal Investigator(s): Prof. Joseph Nagy, English; Karen Burgess, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies