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Rothschild Foundation are seeking applications for Jewish Studies research project grants: Projects that employ digital humanities tools and methods to conduct original research related to the wealth of material pertaining to Jewish history, literature, and culture, which is found in European archives, libraries, and memory institutions. Projects that utilise established digital humanities approaches such as...
The DCCH is appointing 10 Student Interns to work on year-long projects in 2023-24. Applications are open to undergraduate students in Arts Humanities and Cultures (AHC) OR Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). Drawn from the art and humanities and data science/computing, successful applicants will work in matched pairs on one of 5 potential strands: Welcoming...
There are two upcoming opportunities for researchers to get support using the GALE Digital Scholar Lab, a set of no-code tools for exploring, visualising and analysing the wealth of resources available through University of Leeds Libraries' subscription to GALE Primary Sources, as well as new tools to upload your own texts. To find out more...
**Update: Please note amended date for "Ways of Linking Data" workshop*** The Digital Horizons in English Seminar series kicks off with two events this autumn focussed on digital humanities research methodologies. The first seminar of the series will take place on 8th November 2023, 12-1.30pm (online), at which Professor Ruth Ahnert (QMUL) will give a...
A recently-acquired rare manuscript has been made available to all as a digital object by the University of Leeds Libraries. A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same by Clement Fisher, believed to date from around 1580, is the oldest known manuscript about British cheesemaking and now forms...
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...