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Chaco Digital InitiativeThough it has long been recognized as a sacred place by indigenous peoples, Chaco Canyon’s magnificence was recognized by later Anglo explorers. Since the founding of the Chaco Canyon National Monument in 1907, Chaco has been at the forefront of the historic preservation movement. The Chaco Digital Initiative is a collaborative effort to create a digital archive that integrates widely dispersed archaeological data collected from Chaco Canyon in the late 1890s and the first half of the 20th century.

URL: www.chacoarchive.org

Circus in America surveys the history of the American circus over a 150-year period. It promotes serious scholarly research of the significant role the circus played in the growth of American society and popular culture. The site contains artifacts from private collections, museums, archives, brought together for the first time for the use of scholars and students of history, popular culture, technology, business, drama, sports, art, and advertising.

The Circus in America: 1793-1940

URL: www.circusinamerica.org

An international public resource for the visual and literary works of William Blake. Over the course of two centuries, respect for the prints, paintings, and poems of William Blake (1757-1827) has increased to a degree that would have astonished his contemporaries. The William Blake Archive is a contemporary response to the needs of a dispersed and varied audience of readers and viewers and to the corresponding needs of the collections where Blake's original works are currently held. The archive’s reproductions are more accurate in color, detail, and scale than the finest commercially published photomechanical reproductions and texts that are more faithful to Blake's own than any collected edition.

URL: www.blakearchive.org/blake/

The William Blake Archive

Mapping the Dalai Lamas

A project to integrate digital copies of classical Tibetan-language biographies with digital animated maps, timelines, and images, so as to present significant events in the lives of the Dalai Lamas. This work will also search out previously unnoticed connections between biographical events, geographic locations, social and historical context, and literary and rhetorical expression.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/dalai_lamas/

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The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool for reading, studying, and teaching the Divine Comedy. It provides an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations.

The World of Dante

URL: www.worldofdante.org

Monument and Dust:

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/london/

A 4-dimensional project that draws from journalism, literary works, paintings, census data, maps, tracts, cartoons, sermons to create a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London. The web site includes a 3D fly-through model of the Crystal Palace from the 1851 Great Exhibition.

The Culture of Victorian London

Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting is an electronic archive dedicated to the Treatise on Painting. Renaissance artists and theorists did not have access to the artist's original manuscripts and knew Leonardo's artistic theory only through the so-called Treatise on Painting, a text that they regarded as an original book by Leonardo but that we know today was only a disorganized, selective compilation of his precepts on painting.

The archive gathers critical resource materials for art-historical scholarship on the legacy and reception of Leonardo's art theory from the mid-16th century through the early 19th century. These materials are manuscript copies of the Treatise on Painting, dating from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century, and printed editions of the text, from 1651 to the early 19th century. The archive makes it possible to analyze these materials systematically, comprehensively, and comparatively.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/leonardo/

Homer’s Trojan Theater

The battlefield sequences in Homer's Iliad present an exceptional challenge to a narrator. More than two hundred warriors are killed or wounded, yet the poet is remarkable in his ability to keep his characters on the battlefield straight. The action is visualized and described with such vividness that the audience can easily picture the Trojan plain and the bloody action. How does the text help the narrator?

This project takes the text of the Iliad as its script, paying particular attention to spatial indications such as for example “left” and “right,” and attempts to reconstruct the activity on the battlefield with the help of digital technology. Translating the poem’s verbal account into a visual medium demonstrates not only the coherence of its plan, but also reveals the role of spatial design in plotting its narrative.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/iliad/

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The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

A multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the 14th century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/seenet/piers/

Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/struct/pompeii/patterns/

An investigation into the reconstruction of a large market building on the Pompeii Forum following and earthquake in 62 AD, seventeen years prior to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried the city. The work is part of the Pompeii Forum Project, a multi-disciplinary study of the development of the Forum as the civic center of Pompeii.

The study is approached from the perspective of a structural engineer, applying engineering principles to interpret the currently visible areas of damage and repair, plus information available from historic records. The study employs a variety of computer-based technologies in the inquiry, in particular digital photogrammetry to document the geometry and construction of key areas of the building, plus three dimensional modeling to depict the state of the building in various states of damage and repair.

Rome Reborn 1.0From 1997 to 2007, the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVRLab), the UCLA Experiential Technology Center (ETC), the Reverse Engineering (INDACO) Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) of the University of Virginia collaborated on a project to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in late antiquity.

URL: www.romereborn.virginia.edu

The Rossetti Archive is a hypermedia archive of the complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It provides students and scholars with access to all of Rossetti's pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual corpus of materials, most drawn from the period when Rossetti's work first appeared and established its reputation (approximately 1848-1920), but some stretching back to the 14th century sources of his Italian translations. All documents are encoded for structured search and analysis.

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

URL: www.rossettiarchive.org

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aints' Lives (known collectively as "hagiography") are stories about people been who have canonized by the Catholic Church. The "Lives of the Saints" Project will focus on those Lives that were written in French (including Anglo-Norman but not Occitan), in verse or prose or both between c. 880 and c. 1500 of the Christian era.  When complete, the project will consist of two major components: an interactive database containing extensive textual, historical and material information about these works and their manuscript contexts, and a collection of hypertext editions and translations of Lives with images of their manuscripts. URL: www.frenchsaintslives.org

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

The Salem witchcraft episode began in late February 1692 and lasted through April, 1693. All told, at least twenty-five people died: nineteen were executed by hanging, one was tortured to death, and at least five died in jail due to harsh conditions. This project is an electronic collection of primary source material, including a new transcription of court records, related to the Salem witch trials, the aftermath, and the on-going efforts to clear the names of the condemned.

URL: www.salemwitchtrials.org

The Salisbury Project

URL: salisbury.art.virginia.edu

The Salisbury Project is an archive of color photographs designed for teachers, students and scholars to supplement visually books and articles published on the cathedral and town of Salisbury, England. The project consists of views of the exterior and interior of the cathedral, as well as of select buildings and sites in and around the town of Salisbury. Additional material includes a guide for teachers and students, related texts and essays, and an annotated bibliography.

Silk Road: The Path of Transmission of

AvalokiteśvaraA network of trade routes between east and west, the Silk Road was also a channel for ideas, technologies, art, and religion. A wide variety of religious faiths, including Nestorianism, Zoroastrianism, Manicheaism, Islam, and Buddhism in particular, moved through this network and had significant influences in many countries.

This project uses the Silk Road as a spatial template to create a digital presentation of the transmission of one of the most important Buddhist deities, Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/silkroad/

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English Medieval Architecture:A Model for Design Process

Analysis

A look at the effect of existing physical structure on the development of medieval architecture.

URL: www.medievalarchitecture.org

St. Gall Monastery Plan

The earliest preserved and most extraordinary visualization of a building complex produced in the Middle Ages, it was created at the monastery of Reichenau sometime between 819-26 A.D. Ever since, it has been preserved by the Monastic Library of St. Gall (Switzerland).

The web site, created with the financial assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by scholars at the University of California, Los

Angeles and the University of Virginia, presents the plan, its

origins, components, and notations, as well as four

centuries of scholarship on the plan within the context of 9th

century material culture. URL: www.stgallplan.org

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/

The Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture project looks at the relationship between Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American culture both before and after the book’s publication. The project provides digital versions of several editions of the book as well as 19th and 20th century responses to the book, in the form of books, images, songs, movies, poems, articles, plays, games, and commemorative objects.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture

Aquae Urbis Romae:

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/

An interactive cartographic history of the relationships between hydrological and hydraulic systems and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy. The study begins in 753 BC and will ultimately extend to the present day. Aquae Urbis Romae examines the intersections between natural hydrological elements such as springs, rain, streams, marshes, and the Tiber River, and constructed hydraulic elements such as aqueducts, fountains, sewers, bridges, conduits, etc., that together create the water infrastructure system of Rome.

The Waters of the City of Rome

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The Walt Whitman Archive

The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman, America's most influential poet and one of the four or five most innovative and significant writers in United States history, is the most challenging of all American authors in terms of the textual difficulties his work presents.

URL: www.whitmanarchive.org

Virtual Williamsburg

A project to create a 3D model of the entire area of Colonial Williamsburg, including the roads and public spaces and the exteriors, interiors, and furnishings of the buildings. The model also aims to correct physical restorations made in the 20th century that architectural historians of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation now consider to be erroneous. Ultimately, the project will feature a temporal 3D model showing how the town developed from its origins to the end of the 18th century.

URL: research.history.org/DHC/VW.cfm

The World’s Fairs in Italy ProjectThis will be the first digital archive devoted to analyzing the phenomenon of World's Fairs in Italy. The project will have three sections, corresponding to three distinctive phases of construction and beginning with the "fabulous exposition" of Turin 1911. Each section will have a real-time simulation model of the fairgrounds and an interactive database for materials and data related to that Fair. When finished, the World’s Fairs project will be a rich digital collection preserving the ephemeral world of Universal Expositions.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/worldsfair/

Traditions of Exemplary Women: Liu Xiang’s Lienü Zhuan

This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Traditions of Exemplary Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists of biographical accounts of female role models in early China and became the standard textbook for women’s education for the next two millennia. The Lienü zhuan offers important insights into the culture, politics, and social structure of early China, as well as the representation of women in various phases of China’s history. This project includes a translation of the text, a book-length study, and a digital archive that will serve as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly exploration (in both English and Chinese) of women’s social, legal, and ritual status as represented in the texts of specific periods in Chinese history.

URL: www.iath.virginia.edu/xwomen/