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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.
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...
The Digital Humanities Research Group and the Institute for Medieval Studies are delighted to welcome you to a seminar by Liz Hebbard, Assistant Professor of French/Francophone Studies in the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University, and founding co-director of the Indiana University Book Lab. Dr Hebbard is a specialist of the music and...
Since 2019, 3841 volunteers from around the world helped transcribe 11,416 pages of Sir Humphry Davy’s notebooks and lecture notes, most of which are held in the Royal Institution in London. In this talk, Professor Sharon Ruston will discuss the highs and lows of a crowdsourcing project and reflect upon some of the findings that...
Corpus Linguistics Online Talks Winter Spring 2024 - spanning education, taboo language, language change, language in older age, and fake news