# Digital humanities

Digital archives, datasets, research tools and AI workflows built by Frédérick Madore: 17 entries. The [web page](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities) shows the same projects a page at a time. Each title links to the project's Markdown record, with its full description. The same records are available as JSON at https://www.frederickmadore.com/api/digital-humanities.json.

- [Islam West Africa Collection](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac.md) · Since 2023
  An open-access archive of nearly 21,000 newspapers, Islamic publications, recordings and documents on Islam and Muslims in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.
- [Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/amira.md) · 2026
  The research-data platform of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence: one place to search, map and connect thousands of research items, projects, people, publications, podcasts and videos from partner centres in Africa, Brazil and Germany.
- [Genocide at the Security Council](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/genocide-at-the-security-council.md) · Since 2026
  A reproducible pipeline and interactive dashboard tracing how the word genocide was used across 167,642 UN Security Council speeches, 1946–2024, with every figure traceable to the script that made it.
- [IWAC MCP Server](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-mcp-server.md) · Since 2026
  An open-source connector that lets AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT search, read and analyse the Islam West Africa Collection, with every answer linked back to its sources.
- [Live Translation and Subtitles](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/live-translation.md) · 2026
  A Windows app that puts live captions and translations over meetings, video calls and slides, offline with Whisper or through Gemini, OpenAI and Mistral. Built for a bilingual workshop at STIAS, now in the Microsoft Store.
- [Omeka S Docker Template](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/omeka-s-docker.md) · 2026
  A self-installing Docker template that lets research teams run their own Omeka S digital archive, secure, easy to update and backed up, without being system administrators.
- [RAIS Publications](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/rais-publications.md) · 2026
  Embeddable visualisations of the publications of the University of Bayreuth's Research Center for AI in Science and Society (RAIS): a semantic map, keyword and co-author networks, and a dashboard, rebuilt every week from the university repository.
- [Global Heshmat](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/global-heshmat.md) · 2026
  An interactive map and archive following the public artworks of the Egyptian sculptor Hassan Heshmat across ten countries, and the people who shaped his career. Developed for the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO).
- [IWAC AI Pipelines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-ai-pipelines.md) · 2026
  Open-source Python pipelines that use AI models to transcribe, index, summarise and analyse the Islam West Africa Collection, with every result traceable to the model that produced it.
- [Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/dh-ai-african-studies.md) · 2025 – 2026
  The website of a VolkswagenStiftung scoping workshop held in Hanover in February 2026: its programme and 26 participants, a bibliography of over 200 works, a concept map of the literature, six filmed interviews and the position paper it produced.
- [IWAC Sentiment Analysis](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-sentiment-analysis.md) · 2025 – 2026
  An interactive dashboard comparing how five AI models read the tone of more than 12,000 West African press articles on Islam, where they agree, and where they part ways.
- [ZMO AI Pipelines](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/zmo-ai-pipelines.md) · 2025 – 2026
  Google Colab notebooks that let researchers transcribe interviews, read scanned and handwritten documents, and summarise sources with AI, with no installation and a record of how every result was made.
- [ZMO Visualisations](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/zmo-visualisations.md) · 2025 – 2026
  Two web apps built from data scraped monthly from the ZMO website: a word explorer showing what each research unit writes about, and a dashboard of the institute's complete publication record since 1994.
- [Remoboko Visualisations](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/remoboko.md) · 2018 – 2024
  Interactive maps, a timeline and charts for the Remoboko research group: companions to my book on religious activism on campuses in Togo and Benin, and a portrait of the group's publications and collaborators.
- [IWAC Bibliographic Data on Wikidata](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/iwac-bibliographic-data-wikidata.md) · Since 2023
  The bibliography of the Islam West Africa Collection on Wikidata: nearly all of its 867 references, open to SPARQL queries and drawn as automatic Scholia profiles of the field.
- [Digital Exhibits on Islam in West Africa](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/burkina-faso-digital-exhibits.md) · 2021 – 2026
  Four digital exhibits that open thematic paths through the Islam West Africa Collection: the hajj and Muslim student activism in Burkina Faso, intégrisme in Côte d'Ivoire, and the debate over secularism across the region.
- [Islam Burkina Faso Collection](https://www.frederickmadore.com/digital-humanities/islam-burkina-faso-collection.md) · 2018 – 2023
  The open-access database of over 2,900 documents on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso that I launched in 2021, and the foundation of the Islam West Africa Collection. Now archived.
