The Biblical Hebrew Learning Suite is an indispensable resource for all students of biblical Hebrew. It offers a collection of interactive resources for students, including the Learning Tool, the Hebrew Bible with Analytical Keys, and the Frequency Dictionary.

The Brigham Young Papers is a project for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Part of the preliminary project development is to collect all of the writings related to Brigham Young, such as journals and speeches. There are usually multiple sources or transcripts for the same writings, so editors need to have a way at looking all sources at the same time. These writings are being housed in WordCruncher due to its ability to synchronize the scrolling of multiple documents and its search features.

For various reasons, family histories are uncommon in Cambodia. Many of the few records that did exist were destroyed during the Khmer Rouge period (1975 to 1979). With up to one-third of the adult population killed during the purges, the population is young and the remainder of the older generation’s stories are being rapidly lost. Many of Cambodia’s younger generation hardly know their families’ backgrounds. Formally launched in January 2016, The Cambodia Oral History Project seeks to capture these stories by engaging local youth in the process. Youth and young adults in Cambodia interview family members to learn about their lives and stories. To date, we have collected over 5,000 interviews. Most of them are available as audio on the project website, and the team is transcribing and translating them. The project is led by Prof. Dana Bourgerie in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Studies. ODH designed the data model, as well as the websites for both entering and accessing those data.

These tutorials and diagnostic tests are used to teach beginning Mandarin Chinese students the fundamentals of tone discrimination and Pinyin transcription. Developed with Dr. Dana Bourgerie of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, this project has been in near continuous use since 1991, having undergone several migrations to newer technologies.

A database of more than 4,000 advertisements taken from Women’s Exponent, a newspaper that was published in Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1872-1914. The advertisements are categorized by industry and vendor, and searchable by date and full text.

The Office of Digital Humanities maintains an eye-tracking lab for researchers in the college. Currently, the lab is equipped with an EyeLink 1000 Plus. The most notable ongoing projects in the lab are related to eye behavior of readers at various L1 and L2 proficiency levels.

Fairy Tales are some of the most well-known forms of folklore. They were cross-cultural artifacts well before the advent of mass media. With the appearance of broadcasting, however, fairy tales became even more visible: tropes that were familiar and that could be subverted in interesting ways—to say nothing of being free of copyright concerns. Led by Jill Terry Rudy, the Fairy Tale on TV (FTTV) database categories television episodes that use one or more fairy tale tropes. Students in Rudy’s class as well as several research assistants have worked to categorize fairy tales that appear in shows as predictable as Grimm or Once Upon a Time, as well as less tale-centric shows like Sesame Street or The Bachelor. To date, the project has amassed nearly 2,000 television episodes that draw on fairy tales. The data can be browsed by genre, date, and the type of fairy tale being used. Team members write about what they have learned through their research on the site’s blog. And the site features two interactive visualizations—a time series and a network graph—to help users better understand how tales are used over time and in connection with one another.

Form-focused Language-Aware Information Retrieval (FLAIR) is a web search tool for finding texts on a given topic with particular grammatical constructions. Originally developed by Maria Chinkina et al. (https://purl.org/icall/flair) for English and German, we extended FLAIR with modules for Arabic and Russian.

The FLATS testing program allows students all across the United States to take the FLATS test at a college or university in their area, and receive up to 12 college credits.

H-MEGs support student-centered, faculty-driven research experiences up to $10,000 for year-long and $5,000 for short-term grants.

ODH facilitates and maintains online services for Humanities faculty funding requests, including research, travel, leave, and equipment. These processes usually involve the department chair of the applying faculty member, as well as final approval by the dean and subsequent processing by the financial controller and administrative secretary.

Through the generous donations of alumni and friends, the College of Humanities supports experiential learning an integral part of an undergraduate career.

We resurrected three old Flash-based Japanese courseware websites in a mobile-friendly, future-proof framework. The websites are static HTML, generated from XML files and accompanying audio files. Similar websites could easily be generated for anyone willing to generate content.

LiveCode University is an electronic, interactive textbook developed for use in the Digital Humanities & Technology (DigHT) 210 course. DigHT 210 is designed to teach students from non-technology backgrounds the fundamentals of programming and “algorithmic thinking”. LCU has also been distributed worldwide. In 2021 Devin Asay received the BYU Creative Works Award for LiveCode University. This award recognizes faculty who “demonstrate outstanding achievement in the development of creative works that have had wide acceptance and national or international distribution.”

Web interface that streamlines LDA topic modeling with MALLET and the generation of network diagrams in Gephi.

A growing collection of work by women authors on the Iberian peninsula from the early modern period onward. It includes English translations and a massive annotated bibliography.

A site that automates the administration of an annual essay contest for the the American Council of Teachers of Russian. Each year hundreds of college students at dozens of colleges and universities submit essays for consideration in the contest. The website organizes the submissions by the students’ ability level, and compiles the essays for scoring. It also generates certificates of participation and accomplishment based on the contest results.

Devin Asay created a scheduling application for scheduling the various labs, special technology rooms, and seminar rooms controlled by the College of Humanities. The Scheduler has been in continuous use since 2005.

A writer on Russian policy, a publicist, a cosmopolitan Pan-Slavic lobbyist, a femme politique, a brilliant Russian woman, one of the most interesting women in Europe, one of the most cultured of Russian ladies, a Russian socialite, a Russian nationalist oligarch, that redoubtable Russian patriot, an orthodox Russian without any sympathy with revolutionary Russia, a Portia a la Russe, a Russian siren, and–perhaps this one had stuck the most–an M.P. for Russia. In this digital edition we have collected approximately two hundred of Novikoff’s essays that were published in the British press between 1872 and 1925. Where available, we provide reader responses, most of which tend to disagree with Novikoff, sometimes in very strong terms. These instances of public disagreement, and even the very fact that Olga Novikoff, a Russian conservative monarchist, was given a platform in British newspapers, serve as a testament to the late Victorian freedom of expression that, in Eric Barendt’s apt observation, was “weak in principle, robust in practice.”

The OpenScripture project aims to create digital editions of old print editions of the Book of Mormon that are not freely accessible on the web. The initial scope of this project is to digitize the 1837, 1840, 1841, 1879, and 1920 editions of the Book of Mormon. Future projects may include more editions of the Book of Mormon and also editions of the Doctrine and Covenants. The aforementioned editions are being digitized by the Office of Digital Humanities, and they are projected to be finished by the end of August 2022. These data are expected to be used for research projects by Scott Howell (Education), Lareina Hingson (Linguistics), Brooke Anderson (MA Student), and more. We welcome any and all to use our data once we have finished our digitization. An interactive website for displaying the changes throughout editions is available at OpenScripture.org; however, the data is continually being reviewed and updated on a weekly basis. The data is available for free on GitHub here.

A tool for writing pangrams

Quechua Real Words is a multimedia resource to learn and study ideophonic constructs of Ecuadorian Quechua.

Russian Mentor for Orthographic Rules (RuMOR) is a free and open-source intelligent tutoring system that automatically diagnoses learner errors and provides succinct explanations to help the learner correct the errors. The learner-language analysis depends on a specially built finite-state transducer that uses mal-rules to model and tag learner errors. Explanations are available in English and Norwegian.

Russian Language Assessment a searchable database of student work in several categories in Russian capstone course. Faculty uses submitted papers as part of regular assessment activities.

The Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (SSCS) exists to promote research and dialogue within the community of persons interested in the field of spirituality. The SSCS is ecumenical and strives to be inclusive of the widest possible range of expressions of Christian spirituality. Its work is interdisciplinary, encouraging the application of diverse critical approaches to the study of spirituality. This project will assist them in their mission by redesigning their website.

TrackEDT is a tool that extracts editorial changes and comments (and other metadata associated with the changes and comments) from edited Word documents. The changes and comments are exported to a spreadsheet for easy analysis.

The Victorian era witnessed a flourishing of print trade journals but they have left little trace. Many of them are no longer extant, and those that are typically need to be consulted in the British Library. While some bibliographic scholarship has attempted to record details about these journals, our examination of them quickly uncovered discrepancies between details. The Victorian Print Trade Journals Database is an attempt to provide all known information about this wildly popular genre. We collect as many details about journals and individual issues as possible, including highlighting conflicts between different bibliographic records.

A student-curated, peer-reviewed collection of works from Victorian periodicals. Accredited by NINES.

The aim of this program is to get you reading normal everyday Russian out loud with correct word stress and so improve your speaking fluency. This program is for speakers who are at least at the intermediate level. A web app to assist learning of conversational Russian stresses and conjugation

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WebCLIPS is a web-based tool for assessing learners’ abilities and providing remedial learning modules. Courses exist for Spanish, Portuguese, English Writing, English as a Second Language. WebCLIPS is a re-implementation of CLIPS, which is itself a re-implementation of TICCIT, one of the first computer-based learning platforms in the world. In a sense, this makes WebCLIPS one of the oldest continuously maintained pieces of software in the world.

Search for the word Jesus in the scriptures (1,286 hits), identify key words and phrases of Shakespeare (heaven, soul, and heart), generate word frequency lists in the TED Talk Corpus, or read your favorite talks from General Conference. Deepen your study with WordCruncher, a desktop app currently available on Windows.

The Office of Digital Humanities maintains and implements over 100 WordPress sites, ranging from conference sites to custom research apps and headless WordPress back-ends.