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...
The DCCH is a new Hub dedicated to supporting research that uses digital methods, cultural heritage collections and archives, explores digital creativity, and fosters critical approaches to emergent themes in digital research. We are able to help with the development of research ideas, provide training support in a range of methods and data use, showcase...