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Digital Humanities Data
A broad definition of digital humanities is the use of technology to explore art, music, literature, history, architecture, and more. In terms of data searching and collection, digital humanities often uses text mining, primary sources, and digitized archives to study trends and concepts over time and across disciplines.
Digital Humanities data will work differently than a traditional data portal. Instead of searching for secondary data, you will find the links below take you to digitized collections of primary sources, archives, public domain literature, and more. From there you may have to use specialized tools and software to extract data and create visualizations.
- Canada Council for the ArtsThe Canada Council for the Arts provides the public with detailed statistical data about its grants in both formatted Excel documents and machine readable format (.csv).
Digital Humanities Portals
- ICPSRICPSR has datasets from National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC). The University of Regina has institutional access to ICPSR. Make sure to log-in to access more data. ICPSR does have open data available.
- JSTOR Text MiningJSTOR provides researchers access to datasets allowing them to track trends in language, map author networks, create visualizations, and trace concepts across disciplines.
- Perseus Digital LibraryA collection of classical texts that have been digitized. Searches can be done in English, Greek, Latin, Old English, German, and Old Norse.
- PapyriWith two key features, papyrological navigator and papyrological editor, researchers search and browse papyrological documents and scholarly texts, translations, commentary, metadata, and images.
- PleiadesPleiades allows users to access, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. Pleiades currently covers the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography.
- Canadiana HeritageFree digital library that contains thousands of books, journals, and primary sources in Canadian history from the first European contact to the early 20th century. The collection is particularly strong in Indigenous Studies.
- Library and Archives CanadaLibrary and Archives Canada (LAC) acquires, processes, preserves and provides access to key Government of Canada historical and archival resources.
- EuropeanaDigitized collections from European museums, galleries, libraries, and archives.
- Internet ArchiveA non-profit library of books, movies, television, music, software, and websites. Contains digitized access to many public domain works.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaContains over 40 million images, texts, sounds, and videos from across the United States, including digitized primary sources.
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsSearchable digital archive collected and curated by the Library of Congress.
