Humanities Datasets

We have created a list of humanities datasets that includes context about their file format, their origins, and the possible uses.

The list is available here as a spreadsheet or below as a PDF.

Curated List of Humanities Datasets

Additional Datasets

• The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton published datasets
• Rutgers University Libraries Datasets datasets distinctive or unique to Rutgers
• humanitiesdata.com Matthew Lavin's list of datasets
• Datasets list maintained by Melanie Walsh including example uses and tutorials for each dataset
• University of California, Irvine list of datasets for text analysis
• Alan Liu's DH Toychest list of text corpora

Campus Resources

• Princeton Research Data Service
• Data and Statistical Services Princeton University Libraries
• Art Museum API Documentation Princeton University
• Education and Training events run by Research Computing

External Resources

• Journal of Open Humanities Data, peer-reviewed forum for reports on the curation and publication of new datasets
• UC Berkeley Library's Text Mining & Computational Text Analysis web portal with tutorials, sources, etc.
• Jupyter Notebooks for digital humanities curated by Quinn Dombrowski