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The projects listed below are affiliated with the Center for Humanities and Digital Research and share its goal of pursuing collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities computing research.

The work here is supported by a variety of public and private funding agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Florida Humanities Council, and the University of Central Florida.

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Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition

http://www.brockdenbrown.ucf.edu

The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition is an editorial collective that is preparing an MLA-CSE approved print edition of Charles Brockden Brown's (1771-1810) personal letters, poetry, and periodical writings. When complete, the six volumes will be fully integrated with a digital version of the Bicentennial Edition (1977-1987) of Brown's novels at the Kent State University Institute for Bibliography and Editing, and searchable alongside a larger archive of Brown's works.
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ChinaVine

http://www.chinavine.org/

ChinaVine is a collaboration between the UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance, the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy at the University of Oregon, and the Folk Art Research Institute at Shandong University of Art and Design in Jinan, China. ChinaVine's mission is to educate English-speaking audiences about the material and intangible culture of China.  The first effort focuses on Shandong Province.
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Come Back to the Fair

http://virtualheritage.ist.ucf.edu/wf64/

Come Back to the Fair returns virtual Fairgoers to the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair where individuals can access digitized photographs, documents, and archival film footage pertaining to the Fair and era as they explore the 3D environment.

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Folkvine

http://www.folkvine.org

Hosted by the UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance, Folkvine is an interactive website that focuses on ten Florida folk artists and their communities. Tour guides lead participants through humanities concepts, and the game room provides students with a variety of educational experiences. Using an arts-based research approach and new media, the project seeks to raise questions about folklore and ethnographic practices.
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PeruVine/PeruDigital

http://www.dm.ucf.edu/~nunderberg/perudigital.html

A Digital Ethnography lab project, PeruVine seeks to develop a multi-lingual, interactive, and immersive website in both English and Spanish. When completed, the site will contain a front end ethnographic storytelling environment and a back end searchable database for accessing a large archive of Peruvian festivals, dance, and related folk arts housed in the Institute of Ethnomusicology in Lima, Peru.
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Shadows of Canaveral

http://www.mcl.ucf.edu/shadowsofcanaveral/

Shadows of Canaveral examines the application of virtual reality to history. The online experience permits visitors to explore historically significant Cape Canaveral launch complexes as they appeared in the 1950s and 1960s. Shadows goes beyond an accurate architecture recreation of the Cape, and places events at the Cape into the context of the period.
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Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive

http://www.zoranealehurston.ucf.edu

Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida. The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive is an academic website that serves as a repository of biographical, critical, and contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work.
   

Other Projects - Websites to Come

  • Digital Narrative Research Group (Rudy McDaniel, Steve Fiore)
  • Networked Art (Craig Saper)
  • National Folkvine (Craig Saper)