Digital Humanities

The Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLab) offers space, community, and resources for Yale scholars who pursue DH research questions in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences. The DHLab  is a hub for consultations, training, and opportunities that support Yale students, faculty, and cultural heritage professionals in their engagement with digital tools and techniques. As part of Yale Library, the DHLab participates in global conversations around the analysis and use of large-scale digitized cultural heritage collections. Our physical collection covers technical and theoretical dimensions of digital humanities scholarship, including humanities computing, data visualization, network and text analysis, as well as programming, web development, and design.

Because digital humanities methods often draw on disciplines outside of traditional humanities fields and has cross-disciplinary implications, this collection also offers support for research and teaching in the social sciences (e.g. computer science, data science, and statistics).

Humanities and Social Sciences

The digital humanities collection is managed by the Program Manager for Computational Methods & Data.

Digital humanities including data visualization, digital mapping, and text and data mining

Academic and trade press monographs are purchased in print formats where required, but online formats are preferred for both monographs and serials.

• print books
• e-books
• print journals  
• electronic journals
• online databases
• reference materials: dictionaries, handbooks, encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographical materials   
• conference proceedings collected very selectively

Materials collected primarily in English.

Current materials are prioritized published primarily in the United States and selectively from other parts of the world.

• audiobooks
• streaming media and audiovisual materials
• manuscripts
• preprints
• software
• textbooks and workbooks
• dissertations