This talk by Dr Bethany Rebisz examines the legacies of colonial detention in Kenya and considers the adaptive digital heritage practices used by the Museum of British Colonialism (MBC) to hold space for the individual experiences of survivors. The histories of British atrocities committed in colonial Kenya during its Emergency period have been contested, both...
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...
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,...
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...
Free event with creative duo Judi Alston and Andy Campbell who will share insights into their visually striking immersive games and digital storytelling experiences spanning three decades.
A free workshop to explore the future uses of person-matching technology in archival records.
The White Rose Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York are holding a training day in collaboration with Gale to explore the sources and tools available in the Gale Primary Sources database and the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. This free event will be held at the University of Leeds on Thursday 13 June 2024. In-person attendance...
What: This LAHRI/DCCH Digital Humanities 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 conceptual principles of transforming archival material into computer-readable text. The...
An evening of talks, discussion, wine and nibbles to explore the opportunities for open access monograph publishing available with White Rose University Press (WRUP), the open access university press for the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.
Screening of the first part of the documentary series Everything's a Remix, followed by chance to hear from an expert panel talking about the nature of authorship and creativity in the digital age, and a chance to discuss the film with other viewers.