Save the date for the second regional event of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association, bringing together practitioners, researchers and academics working in digital humanities & scholarship with or within the cultural heritage sector.
As part of DCCH's 'Research and Rescue' series, join us for a roundtable with colleagues from the School of English to discuss the life-cycles of digital projects, reusability, planning for the end, and how 'dead' projects can be reanimated with new methods.
Do you have a digitally-focussed arts and humanities project that could benefit from computing expertise, but don’t know where to start? Do you want to know more about how DCCH and Research Computing work together support project ideation, research bid costings, and even bespoke website or application development? Our new RSE in Residence @ DCCH...
What: This DCCH workshop will introduce a tool for annotating, analysing and visualising connections within large visual datasets using a tool called IMMARKUS, which works in combination with the International Image Interoperability Framework, a data and imaging standard widely adopted in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Academia (GLAMA). IMMARKUS allows you to compile datasets of...
Do you have a digitally-focussed arts and humanities project that could benefit from computing expertise, but don’t know where to start? Do you want to know more about how DCCH and Research Computing work together support project ideation, research bid costings, and even bespoke website or application development? Our new RSE in Residence @ DCCH sessions are a chance to drop in and chat with Dr Sorrel Harriet (Research Software Engineer Consulting Lead, Research Computing) and Dr Cassie Ulph (Digital Development Manager, DCCH) about your project ideas, next steps, and the cross-service support available.
What: This DCCH workshop, designed for beginners, will introduce two tools used for making ‘story maps’, that is, maps that tell a story from arts, humanities and cultures research: StoryMap.js (a free, open-source tool) and ArcGIS StoryMaps (available via your UoL staff or student account). Mapping has always played an important part in humanities research,...
Join us for the first event in our 'Research and Rescue' series, focussed on the life-cycles of digital projects in culture and creativity. Digitally approaching early medieval monastic archives: the cases of Farfa and Fulda Monastic Economies in the Carolingian Age (MonECA) is a collaboration between the Universität Tübingen and the University of Liverpool. The...
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....