Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC)

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Critical Humanities Commons logo with a subititle that reads "Rooted in care. Driven by ideas."

Critical Humanities Commons

Located at the heart of the Faculty of Humanities, the Critical Humanities Commons is a space where interdisciplinary scholarship unfolds through creativity, conversation, and commitment to social justice. 

Commons
Illustrated rendition of a map of London during the Early Modern Era

Map of Early Modern London

Provides a hyperlinked atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the "Agas" woodcut map of the 1560s.

MoEML
"Lord Mayor's Water Procession on the Thames" and City of London Coat of Arms

MoEML Mayoral Shows (MoMS)

Offers the world’s first anthology of all the surviving commemorative pageant books of London mayoral shows between 1585 and 1639.

MoMS
Painting of Keats with his initials

Mapping Keats's Progress

Follows Keats's life and provides a complete digital collection of his poetry.

Mapping Keats's Progress
Illustration of the Norse God Loki

MyNDIR: My Norse Digital Image Repository

Houses digitized images of Norse myths and legends.

MyNDIR
Letter describing the sale of a dispossessed person's piano

Landscapes of Injustice project

Provides archives and resources toward recovering the history of displaced and dispossessed Japanese Canadians during WWII.

Landscapes of Injustice
Map of Port Simpson to Nass Village, from the Admiralty survey of 1868

The Colonial Despatches project

Houses comprehensive digital archives representing the colonial history of Vancouver Island from 1846 to 1871.

Colonial Despatches

Japanese Canadian Monument

A project of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society, the Monument honours Japanese Canadians who were forcibly uprooted from their homes and communities on British Colubmia's coast during WWII. 

Monument

Welcome to the HCMC!

 

We are a permanent digital humanities research and development unit, and we create digital projects in collaboration with researchers and instructors from the Faculty of Humanities at UVic. We have an international reputation and are experts in the creation of accessible, stable, and long-lasting digital resources in the humanities.  

If you are a member of the Faculty of Humanities and wish to incorporate a digital component into your research, we are here to help. 

We have worked with researchers across the humanities to create websites for knowledge mobilization, digital editions of primary texts, interactive maps, repositories of complex datasets and archival objects, Indigenous language dictionaries, and much more.  

To see examples of our work, check out our Projects page. For more information, visit our About us and Services and resources sections.  

If you have questions (big or small) about working with us, please get in touch. 

 

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.