Early on, a lot of energy went into digitizing texts and creating online repositories like the Walt Whitman Archive. But second-generation projects are focusing on the interpretive possibilities offered by those digital resources. That has opened up lines of critical inquiry difficult to imagine in the predigital era.

An English professor describes a variety of interesting digital projects in the humanities.

The Bamboo Planning Project is an 18-month planning and community design program where through a series of conversations and workshops, we will map out the scholarly practices and common technology challenges across and among disciplines, and discover where a coordinated, cross-disciplinary development effort can best foster academic innovation. Input into the Bamboo process will be sought from individuals who come from a diverse range of institutions (small liberal arts colleges to research universities), organizations (consortia to content providers), professional backgrounds (faculty, librarians, researchers, IT leaders, and technical specialists), and regions. We will evaluate our findings through the creation of demonstrator software and pilot applications, which will in turn refine and inspire future discussions with a progressively diverse audience. As we lay the roadmap for shared services development, we will create a rich community wherein any faculty member, scholar, or researcher can use and reuse content, resources, and applications no matter where they reside, what their particular field of interest is, or what support may be available to them. The final outcome of our planning project will be a detailed argument and blueprint for the development of the Bamboo implementation program.

World mapper is a collection of world maps, resized according to the subject of interest. This resource is useful for looking at any issues from a global perspective. If you'd like to explore one region in more detail, there's Mapdango - a map mashup that brings together maps, flickr pictures, wikipedia entries, events and weather.

A"tourist map of literature". If you put in one author, it shows a map of other writers that people who like that author also read.