We foster an open community of digital humanities dabblers, novices, and practitioners who can share new and developing projects, discuss strategies for addressing the challenges of beginning and continuing digital humanities work, and find collaborators and colleagues across campus. This group will address practical and intellectual concerns equally, with time devoted to topics that are likely to include publishing creative and critical research in multimodal formats, digital mapping, analyzing textual data, crowdsourcing, geolocation, computational analysis, and any other topics that might be raised by participants.
Want to hear more? Join the Humanities Collaborative or the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship listservs to get updates on meetings and workshops.
Questions? Please contact organizer Kate Boyd at boydkf@mailbox.sc.edu.
Campus Resources for Digital Projects
Below are tools and services available for starting and sustaining digital humanities projects.
Where to start?
- Set up a consultation with Kate Boyd, Libraries’ Director of Digital Research Services and Collections, to discuss project planning.
- Set up a consultation with Vandana Srivastava to talk about text mining or text analysis with your data.
- Thinking about data visualization, geospatial data mapping, or web hosting? Talk to Glenn Bunton to discuss next steps.
- University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship site offers beginner guides and tools for planning and practicing digital humanities.
- Interested in a WordPress, Scalar, or Omeka website?
- Thinking about a long-form open educational resource? Consider Manifold.
- See the Digital Projects Showcase for examples of what others on campus have done.
- The Libraries’ learning sessions and workshops are also a great place to get started and meet others doing similar work.
Where to store?
USC Columbia faculty can use up to 1TB for digital storage through Research Computing.
Funding Your Digital Project
- Internal grant programs, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, can provide start-up support for digital projects.
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers competitive grants that support projects at early and advanced stages.
Spring 2026
- January 23, 2026, 1:30–4:30 p.m. — Digital Tools Workshop
Spring 2024
- January 16, 2–3 p.m. Brian Jabarian — Potential for Large Language Models in Experimental Research
- February 21, 3:30–4:30 p.m. Greg Wilsbacher — Virtual Bench: Deep learning models and custom software for the study of motion picture films
- March 14, 11 a.m.–noon. Marcelo Hazan — “The Complete Songs of Cândido Inácio da Silva (1799/1800–1838)”: Challenges and Rewards of a Hypertext Edition
- April 18, 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Kate Boyd, Glenn Bunton, Amie Freeman and Stacy Winchester — Getting Started with Digital Humanities Tools
Fall 2023
- Friday, October 6, 11 a.m.–noon. Amie Freeman — Digital Publishing with Scalar
- Friday, October 27, 11 a.m.–noon. John McCullough — Mapping the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Tour: Academic and Touristic Considerations
- Thursday, November 2, 1–2 p.m. Kate Boyd, Axton Crolley and Vandana Srivastava — Practicing Text Analysis and Machine Learning
- Tuesday, September 26, 9–10:30 a.m. — Coffee Drop-In
- Thursday, September 28, 10–11 a.m. Sarah Williams — Singing the Archives: A Digital and Musical Collaboration
Spring 2023
- Friday, January 27, 3–4 p.m. Jason Porter, USC College of Information and Communications — Piranesi’s Worlds through Virtual Reality
- Thursday, February 9, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., and Friday, February 10, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Malcolm Williamson and Dr. Carla Klehm, University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies — Applications of Photogrammetry
- Tuesday, February 21, noon–1 p.m. Dr. Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod, College of Arts and Sciences — Digital Campaigns Project
- Friday, March 24, 11 a.m.–noon. Dr. Stan Dubinsky and Dr. Michael Gavin, College of Arts and Sciences — The Language Conflict Project
- Thursday, April 6, noon–4:30 p.m. Kate Boyd, Amie Freeman and Stacy Winchester — Getting Started with Digital Humanities Tools
Fall 2022
- Wednesday, September 21 at noon — DH Meet and Greet
- Thursday, October 6 at 2:45 p.m. — Kristin Harrell
- Thursday, October 20 at 11:40 a.m. — Stacy Winchester and David Reddy
- Friday, October 28 at 11 a.m. — Amie Freeman, Karen Gavigan, Kelly Goldberg and Hayden Smith
- Thursday, November 3 at 1:15 p.m. — Tessa Davis, Kate Boyd and Vandana Srivastava
- Thursday, November 10 at 11:40 a.m. — Adam Schor
- Thursday, December 1 at 3 p.m. — Matt Simmons and Mark Smith
Spring 2022
- Friday, January 28 at 11 a.m. Amie Freeman, Scholarly Communication Librarian — Digital Content Management with University Libraries
- Friday, February 4 at 11 a.m. — Hannah Alpert-Abrams
- Wednesday, February 9, 3:30–4:30 p.m. — Meet and Greet
- Wednesday, February 16 — Lydia Mattice Brandt
- Friday, February 25 at 11 a.m. — Herrick Brown
- Friday, March 4 at 11 a.m. — Jason Porter and Evan Meaney
- Friday, March 18 at 11 a.m. — Amanda Wangwright
- Friday, March 25 at 11 a.m. — Research Computing talk on storage
- Friday, April 1 at 11 a.m. Christian Cicimurri — Historic Southern Naturalists: Six Years of Digitizing Natural History
- [CANCELLED] Friday, April 8 at 11 a.m. — Stan Dubinsky
- Friday, April 22 at 11 a.m. — Heather Heckman
- Friday, April 29 at 11 a.m. — Second Meet and Greet (tentative)