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A new Community Interest Group (CIG), co-convened by a University of Leeds researcher, has been launched as part of the recently-established UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. Digital Correspondence: transhistorical perspectives on language, materials and corpora is coordinated by Mel Evans (School of English), Rachel De Felice (Open University) and Helen Newsome (University College Dublin) explores the linguistic...
The University of Leeds Library is now a member of the International Image Operability Framework Consortium (IIIF-C), which unites a growing number of GLAM organisations and associated industries in the pursuit of a shared standards and technologies that enable interoperability between, and uniform and rich access to, digital image, audio and video resources in repositories...
Ian Jennings (Collections Officer, Leeds University Libraries) gives an update on some of the new resources available to staff and students for 2023-4. The Library seeks to respond to requests from all its users for new online resources. At the end of financial year 2022/23 we were fortunate to have extra money available to respond...
A survey has been launched by N8 Computing in Research (CiR) to identify people and active research areas in Digital Humanities across the consortium (the Universities of Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York). Interested researchers are invited to respond in order to contribute to an understanding of the Digital Humanities landscape of...
‘Digital Explorations’ was one of thirteen projects from across all seven faculties that was supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England under the Enhancing Research Culture funding stream in 2023. A collaboration between the Institute for Medieval Studies and the University of Leeds Libraries led by Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, the project set...
On 29-30 July DCCH team attending the inaugural annual meeting of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association at Senate House, University of London. The Association seeks to nurture the capacity for excellent research and teaching in Digital Humanities, to establish and sustain more effective connections with non-HE sectors (notably Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums as well...
In June 2023 the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub joined centreNet, an international network of Digital Humanities centres. centerNet was formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital humanities and allied fields, and enables staff in allied centres to share and build projects, tools, and expertise. centerNet is formally affiliated with the Alliance of...
On 8 June 2023 the University of Leeds hosted the N8 CiR consortium’s Digital Humanities community day at the Cloth Hall. Researchers from across the N8 institutions (Universities of Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) gathered at the University's Cloth Hall Court in Leeds city centre for a series of major research...
Dorka Tamás, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the library’s Open Research team, presented at the 2023 conference of DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure in the Arts and Humanities in Europe) on Cultural Heritage Data and Humanities Data. Dorka’s poster (which can be viewed here) explored humanities and cultural heritage data in the open research case studies at...
Archival material is being made accessible beyond the University through the use of specialist visualiser equipment in the Special Collections John Bedford Room. Recent events included a hybrid event to celebrate the life of the author Peter Robinson, at which online audiences were able to encounter material from Robinson’s archive in close detail, and the...