Digital Humanities Resources

Coptic Scriptorium is a platform for digital and computational research in Coptic language and literature (the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language family). It publishes digital editions of Coptic texts, a searchable database of richly annotated texts, natural language processing tools, and other resources. With partners in Germany, CS has produced the first comprehensive Coptic dictionary (including Egyptian and Greek vocabulary) in print or online; it is fully linked with our database of texts and is available at https://coptic-dictionary.org. 

Researcher: Caroline T. Schroeder

Collaborators: Amir Zeldes, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University; full team listed here.

Funding: The National Endowment for the Humanities (Office of Digital Humanities and Division of Preservation and Access); the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; partner project KOMeT); the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University; the Institute for German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt University in Berlin; the University of Oklahoma; the University of the Pacific; Canisius College.

Project Website: Coptic SCRIPTORIUM

This project serves three main purposes:

1. Publish and curate critical editions of Latin texts, of all types, from all eras; 

2. facilitate an ongoing scholarly conversation about these texts through open collaboration and annotation;

3. Facilitate the finding and, where openly available and accessible online, the reading of all texts written in Latin.

Researcher: Sam Huskey

Collaborators: June Abbas, Chris Weaver, Hugh Cayless, and Tom Elliott

Funding: the project received nearly two million dollars in funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, now known as the Mellon Foundation.

Project Website: Home | Digital Latin Library

Based at the University of Oklahoma, the Indigenous Media Portal will be an interactive website that co-curates Indigenous media in collaboration with tribal heritage communities.  We will incorporate historic photographs, radio, and other audio media starting with the OU Western History Collections, which contain invaluable oral histories and traditional singing from nearly forty tribes across the state.

Researcher: Amanda Minks

Collaborators: Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Joshua Nelson, and Lina Ortega.

Funding: Developmental support provided by the University of Oklahoma VPRP Grant Incentive Program, and the University of Kansas Public Digital Humanities Institute.

Project Website: None

This project serves to host the digitized content from the Carl Albert Center's archives.

Researcher: Michael Crespin

Collaborators: JA Pryse

Funding: The Center’s Digital Archive has been made possible with a generous gift from Ambassador James R. Jones.

Project Website: | The James R. Jones Carl Albert Center Digital Archives (preservica.com)

The Monte Albán Virtual Reality Laboratory (MAVRL) is a virtual reality project that falls under the umbrella of the Monte Albán Digital Archaeology Project. MAVRL allows users to experience, explore, and learn about the beauty and monumentality of Monte Albán, the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site in Oaxaca, Mexico. The entirely immersive 3D environment of the Prehispanic capital brings an accurate representation of the archaeological site into virtual space.

Research Team: Marc Levine (OU), Alex Badillo (Indiana State U)

Funding: National Geographic, OU Arts & Humanities Forum

Project Website: MAVRL

Funded by the National Park Service, the Black Homesteaders in Oklahoma project is dedicated to research, education, public programming, and preservation of history and legacy.

Researcher: Kalenda Eaton

Collaborators: Heidi Dodson, Ph.D.; Elizabeth Thomas; Carlen Jones (2021-2022); Kris Murray (2022)

Funding: National Park Service; University of Oklahoma; Center for Great Plains Studies

Project Website: https://www.unl.edu/plains/oklahoma-black-homesteader-project 

The Native American Languages Collection at the Sam Noble Museum is building new archival and public-facing digital infrastructure to provide culturally appropriate online access to the collections for the first time. We are working with our community and academic partners to create a framework for user-oriented design that will allow users to browse and freely download unrestricted collections materials in intuitive ways. The collections include over 7,000 items in ~1,300 languages, including audio and video recordings, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, games, field notes, teaching and learning materials, descriptive materials, reference resources, ethnobotanical field guides, translations, transcriptions, story books, media productions and more in Indigenous languages from around the world.  

Through the grant we have gained new digital infrastructure and we are building a custom website with the OU Digital Innovations Group. We are also developing a new archival content management system that we hope other similar archives, museums, and collections will be able to adopt and adapt for their own purposes.  

PI: Raina Heaton

Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant (PW-285221-22)

Website: forthcoming

A collection of podcasts and audio resources created by the Arts & Humanities Forum. This initiative was funded in part by the historic NEH American Rescue Plan Grant that the Arts & Humanities Forum was instrumental in bringing to OU.

Researcher: Anna Reser, Kimberly Marshall

Collaborators: None

Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Plan Grant "New Stories of the West"

Project Website: https://www.ou.edu/humanitiesforum/OUAHFM

This project retraces the migrations and settlements, as well as the formation, of black communities on the North American Great Plains.

Researcher: Kalenda Eaton

Collaborators: Sally Johnson, Tara Carlisle

Funding: University of Oklahoma

Project Website: Eaton Dev – Black Plains Literature (oucreate.com)