Sources for Humanities Data

Given the complexity and nuance of our sources, it used to be a challenge to find high-quality data in the humanities. But with the recent proliferation of journals devoted to the peer-reviewed publication of humanities data, that is no longer the case.

Sources for humanities data, organized by discipline and annotated with information about data format and collection practices, can be found through the resources below:

• Responsible Datasets in Context, eds. Fernandez, Posner, Preus, Singh, & Walsh
• Post45 Data Collective, eds. Walsh, Manshel, Porter.
• Amanda Wyatt Visconti, “Interesting digital humanities data sources,” UVA Scholars Lab Blog, (August 26, 2025).
• Matt Lavin’s Humanities Data
• Journal of Open Humanities Data
• Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Is Plural archive
• The Pudding’s data repository
• List of Selected Datasets and Corpora for the Humanities, maintained by CUNIL Notes in the Computational Humanities
• Datasets at the Library of Congress: A Research Guide also paired with Digital Scholarship at the Library of Congress: A Research Guide and Data for Exploration
• TextGrid Repository, “an extensive searchable and adaptable corpus of XML/TEI encoded texts and images.”
• CDH-curated list of humanities datasets
• You can also see the annual DH Award nominees and winners for Best DH Dataset or Model.