There is a growing number of digital humanities projects and initiatives around the globe which focuses on studying humanities with the use of emerging technologies.
The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia that allow scholars to ask questions of the interpretative history of the poem.
The Project Imperiia is a DH initiative that attempts to build a spatial history of the Russian Empire that brings maps and mapping into the process in which historians understands how the Russian empire was built and maintained overtime. It transforms historical atlas into digitized maps to use as a source of historical information and presenting it to the broader public.
The Lightbox Gallery of Harvard Art Museum is an interactive gallery that helps explore museum collections interactively. It is also considered as a social network of objects.
The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and students from all over the world can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. Unlike published prose, Six Degrees is extensible, collaborative, and interoperable: extensible in that people and associations can always be added, modified, developed, or, removed; collaborative in that it synthesizes the work of many scholars; interoperable in that new work on the network is put into immediate relation to previously studied relationships.
The Giza Project provides access to the largest collection of information, media, and research materials ever assembled about the Pyramids and related sites on Egypt’s Giza Plateau. It digitizes all archeological documentation from Museum of Fine Arts - Harvard Expedition to Giza, Egypt and make them freely available online to anyone for use.
Kindred Britain is a network of nearly 30,000 individuals — many of them iconic figures in British culture — connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation. It is a vision of the nation’s history as a giant family affair.
Selfiecity investigates selfies using a mix of theoretic, artistic and quantitative methods of five cities (Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and Sao Paulo). Uses geotagging in photos to tell stories about its location. This is also involves urban mapping and can be considered as a living sociology of different cities.
Visualizing Broadway is a digital humanities initiative that focuses on data about broadway production and examines theater as a field of cultural production.