Projects

Ole Molvig, assistant professor of history and assistant professor of cinema and media arts, will use machine learning and virtual reality to make 19th- and early 20th-century stereo photography more accessible to 21st-century viewers.   Stereoscopy is a technique, popular during the Victorian era, that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth… Read More

Marcus Watson, a software developer in the Multisensory Research Lab directed by Mark Wallace, the Louise B. McGavock Professor of Psychology, will study multisensory integration-how the brain combines and integrates acoustic, visual and touch signals.  The Wallace lab is constructing a “cave” environment to study multisensory integration. This includes three… Read More

Thomas Scherr, research associate professor of chemistry, will develop a user-friendly web interface for creating image processing pipelines to allow for the analysis of biomedical images.   Biomedical research is increasingly reliant on sophisticated image analysis to unravel complex biological processes and enhance diagnostic accuracy. However, the complexity and need for extensive technical… Read More

Play Nicely is an educational tool designed to prevent violence and mitigate toxic stress in children based on research conducted by physicians at Vanderbilt University Medical College (VUMC) and was made into a website in the early 2000s. The Digital Lab managed this project to create a new version of… Read More

In collaboration with faculty and student partners, the Libraries publishes 8 open access journals. These range from undergraduate research and creative writing to scholarly fora on religious communications and American studies. The Lab is enthusiastic about launching additional publications and welcomes inquiries from interested potential partners. Read More

VUIR is a digital repository of Open scholarship and creative works produced by the Vanderbilt community. VUIR preserves and disseminates these works, broadening access to them to anyone with an internet connection. The project is hosted by the Vanderbilt University Libraries and led by Shenmeng Xu. Visit site… Read More

The Builders and Defenders Database is a resource for primary source information about the nearly 19,000 enslaved and free Black people who built Nashville’s Civil War defenses and fought for our nation in the Battle of Nashville (December 1864). The database is a co-creation between scholars and students at Vanderbilt… Read More

Architectura Sinica is a research portal for the study of China’s traditional architecture, consisting of four parts: A site archive of historic monuments, an encyclopedic dictionary and thesaurus of technical terminology used to describe traditional Chinese architecture, a bibliography of sources, and photographs and transcriptions of epigraphic information found at… Read More

The Sesame Street Archive is an interactive, research-driven database that catalogs over 4,500 episodes and thousands of labeled stills, leveraging computer vision and machine learning to annotate visual content. The platform supports interdisciplinary studies in child development and neuroscience by combining advanced ML models (e.g., YOLO) with curated metadata and… Read More

A dialect of Aramaic, the Syriac language was widely used in the first millennium. As such, documents in Syriac hold immense value for increasing our understanding of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Asia during key moments in the development and interaction of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Syriaca.org is a collaborative… Read More