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The benefits of high-resolution photography for research and education are well known. Institutions are now expanding their offer with multispectral, photometric stereo and 3D imaging for enhancing research capabilities in the Heritage sector. Tony Richards will talk about his experiences at the John Rylands Research Institute & Library and how they are using these techniques for research, teaching and engagement.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Historical and Scientific Analysis of Premodern Sacred Books is a major research project generously funded by the UK’s Art and Humanities Research Council. It brings together historians, scientists, technicians, curators and conservators to develop new methodologies in the study of premodern books. Innovative technical analyses have been employed by conservators and art historians.
This participatory workshop will explore tools for textual analysis and data mining available through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. You may already be familiar with the Gale online archives – such as Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the Times Digital Archive or the Archives of Sexuality and Gender, all of which are available through the Brotherton Library....
Reconstructing the Ancient Past is a UKRI-AHRC funded project in collaboration with the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, the University of Liverpool, and National Museums Liverpool. It is part of Tranche 1 of the Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) programme. This project aims to make the distributed archaeological collection of John Garstang more...
Don’t just show your results, let people play with them! Create responsive web apps where users can toggle variables and uncover new insights in real-time. This workshop will explore visualization with web apps through ‘Vibe Coding’, an approach where you focus on the ideas and logic, letting AI handle the programming and front-end. This session is designed specifically for non-technical scholars and PGR students who work with language, text,...
Back by popular demand, this workshop, designed for beginners, is a short ‘taster’ session that aims to showcase the value of Social Network Analysis (SNA) – in which the relationships between individuals and/or groups that interact with each other are examined – with humanities research in mind. It furthermore functions as an introduction to the...
Are you interested in immersive cultural heritage environments? Do you want to translate a physical space into a digital world? Join Yuan Gao and Christopher Birchall from the School of Media and Communications and Simon Popple from DCCH to learn about easy-to-use immersive technologies that can scan entire spaces. Attendees will see how several heritage...
This interactive workshop, with Prof. James Baker (University of Southampton), will examine how those involved in digital research infrastructure, whether researchers themselves, Research Software Engineers, GLAM professionals or others, can take decisions and actions to reduce the environmental impact of their infrastructure. This workshop will take place in person only in Edward Boyle Library, level...
Join Wikimedia and Open Research Adviser Lucy Hinnie alongside us in DCCH, to learn how you can build Wiki into your arts and humanities research. Wiki isn't just Wikipedia: from Wikidata to Wikimedia Commons, Wiki promotes open and reproducible research across disciplines, including the arts and humanities. This session will discuss some of the basics...
Are you planning a research grant proposal involving an IT or digital element? Join us in the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, supported by LAHRI, for a discussion of the possibilities for specialist in-house collaboration with Research IT. This session is designed to be introductory, so we will briefly discuss how AHC researchers can work...