Staff are invited to join us for the Hamburg-Leeds lecture series, dedicated to the conditions of accessing, researching and representing cultural artefacts in the course of the latest developments in digitalisation. Through their digitisation, cultural artefacts are becoming more visible and accessible to a wider public. Digitisation also brings with it a drive towards standardisation,...
Doing a research project that requires text and data-mining work? Need to incorporate the use of digital tools and research methodologies in your project? Join Carolyn Beckford, Gale product trainer, in the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub on Thursday, December 12th from 11:30-2:30pm to get hands-on with the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. Learn how this...
As part of our series exploring the pedagogic applications of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), DCCH and Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA) are delighted to host colleagues from the IIIF Community Group for Education for an online talk sharing their hands-on experience of teaching with visual cultural heritage collections. Details are below; to...
Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse,...
In this illuminating talk Maitreya Shah, a disabled lawyer and researcher, will present his work that explores the complex intersection of disability rights and our increasingly data-driven governance systems. Drawing from his extensive experience at the forefront of tech policy, Maitreya will examine how the datafication of public services and social systems impacts disabled individuals....
Arrival and lunch from 12 for 12:30 start. At Research IT, we are dedicated to supporting you as you transform your innovative ideas and data into world class research. From the initial stages of pre-award bids to the final delivery and closeout of your project, we are here to support you every step of the...
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has been taken up as a global standard for viewing and sharing high quality images. It offers a means not only of standardising digital resources (books, archives, art) in libraries, galleries and museums, but also of innovatively and creatively re-purposing these materials for research, teaching and dissemination. This workshop, held...
NB: this is a repeat of the session held on 14 May 2024 What: This workshop, designed for beginners, is a ‘taster’ session which aims to demystify the practical process of transcription and markup of archival sources, and the role of these tools in undertaking digitally-informed archival research. The workshop will introduce the practical and...
Creating an animated video is one of the most powerful ways to communicate your research and share it with the world. But if you've never commissioned an animation before then the process can seem a bit daunting. In this 30 minute webinar Peter Barker, owner of Orinoco Communications - a digital content creation agency that...