Wikipedia article on UCLDH
Hot off the press: Wikipedia has an article on UCLDH now, which we hope to bulk up over time. While starting the article, we also introduced the new Digital Humanities Centers category, a short but...
View ArticleClaire Warwick on "culturomics"
Claire Warwick gets quoted in The Guardian on a new project in which Harvard University and Google open millions of digitised books to quantitative analysis: Claire Warwick, director of the Centre for...
View ArticleTranscribe Bentham makes the New York Times
UCLDH’s very own Transcribe Bentham project gets written up in the New York Times: Starting this fall, the editors have leveraged, if not the wisdom of the crowd, then at least its fingers, inviting...
View ArticleUn interview avec Claire Warwick, Directrice du Centre UCLDH
Corinne Welger-Barboza, rédactrice en chef de L’Observatoire Critique, une publication en ligne dédiée à l’étude des ressources numériques pour l’histoire de l’art, vient de poser quelques questions à...
View ArticleQRator is Wired
Well actually it works on wireless. But we are feeling very chuffed indeed that UCLDH’s and CASA’s QRator project is featured in Wired UK today in a report on the opening of the new Grant Museum at...
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Live Chat: Open Access in Higher Education (Guardian Higher Education...
After a talk point and a poll, the Guardian Professional Higher Education Network wants to give the subject of open access the full consideration it deserves. To coincide with Open Access Week, on...
View ArticleDigital Humanities on YouTube
One of our PhD students, Greta Franzini, has put together this YouTube playlist of DH videos and made it available. I’ve been looking through and see there are some familiar names there! This is a good...
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Day of Archaeology 2012
Posted on behalf of Lorna Richardson. Following on from the success of 2011, we are happy to announce that this year’s ‘Day of Archaeology’, the public archaeology mass blogging project, is scheduled...
View Article"Big data and the death of the theorist", article in Wired
UCLDH co-director Melissa Terras is quoted in an article on the effect big data is having on academic disciplines. Read the whole article here:...
View ArticleThe Great Parchment Book article in the THE
Melissa Terras, UCLDH Director, talks to the THE about the work being done at UCL to create a digital version of the fire-damaged Great Parchment Book.
View ArticleThe Digital Music Lab: A Big Data Infrastructure for Digital Musicology
A paper describing the infrastructure of the Digital Music Lab framework has been published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). The paper is available to download from UCL...
View ArticleThe E17 Art Trail
Two UCLDH related events are picked out in local press coverage as highlights of the E17 Art Trail, 3 – 18 June 2017: ‘Painting with Light’ (9th June) is being delivered by Martin Zaltz Austwick and...
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UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants (UCLAiC) undertake imaging projects on a...
Chiddingstone Castle ancient Egyptian coffin lid, probably 25th Dynasty. It’s been about a year and a half since UCLDH announced the establishment of UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants (UCLAiC, with a...
View ArticleWill Big Data kill the Census? Financial Times, 11 April 2018
Dr Oliver Duke-Williams (UCLDH team member, and Senior Lecturer in Digital Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCL) has been giving his thoughts on proposed changes to how...
View ArticleUCLDH research activity June 2021
The UCLDH team have been busy as ever, despite continuing COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s just a few examples of recent activity: Adam Crymble has published a monograph, Technology & the Historian:...
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UCLDH to participate in £14.5m Towards a National Collection
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded £14.5m to 5 research projects to connect the UK’s cultural artefacts and historical archives in new and transformative ways. The announcement...
View ArticleUCLDH co-authored article nominated for Digital Humanities award
An article co-authored by UCLDH team member, Prof Julianne Nyhan and co-author, Dr Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, has been nominated for a Digital Humanities award. As explained on the Digital Humanities...
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