Digitizing Vietnam (DV) is the first joint web platform project following the establishment of the Columbia University - Fulbright University Vietnam partnership. The DV web platform is a free and open-to-public-use digital Vietnam Studies platform that aims to be the well-integrated hub for digital humanities research.

Functioning as a digital resources hub in the form of a virtual exhibition hall maintained by Columbia University (CU) and the Vietnam Studies Center (VSC) at Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV), DV makes available an extensive archive of digitized premodern manuscript collections and provides a selective catalog for archival and library collections of the modern era originating from Vietnam. DV also serves as a platform for developing advanced digital humanities tools for analysis, beginning with a labeling tool that facilitates the annotation and translation of the pre-modern digital repository to enhance scholarly research.

With the built-in relationship between Vietnam Studies and Computer Science at FUV, DV supports the development of innovative tools to bring historical preservation in Vietnam to a new level. Founded on the value of collaboration, primarily through the joint initiatives put forward by CU-FUV, DV facilitates cooperation networks and aligns distinct “digitizing Vietnam” efforts, which will transform the field of Vietnamese Studies on a global scale.

In addition to functioning as a digital workbench and repository containing new digital resources and new digital humanities tools, DV during its second and third phases of development will succesively launch the Vietnam for Educators platform and the Understanding Vietnam platform. The former will provide the production of translations, curated images, lessons, and other resources for teaching Vietnam, while the latter will offer online mini-lectures, podcasts, and other materials designed to introduce Vietnam to mainstream audiences.

In August 2023, the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University was awarded a LuceSEA grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support Digitizing Vietnam: The Virtual Future of Global Vietnam and the Vietnamese Studies Project.

The Digitizing Vietnam Collections consist of the digitized pre-modern Han-Nom manuscript collections, modern era Vietnamese Studies collections including but not limited to history studies content, linguistics, ethnology/cultural anthropology, Vietnamese early-20th-century journals as well as collections of Vietnamese contemporary music and folk music.