The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a cross-faculty research centre of
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
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. It brings together
digital humanities
Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...
work being done in many of the university's different departments and centres, including the library services, museums and collections.
The Centre counts among the "most visible"
in the field and facilitates various opportunities for study at post-graduate level, including th
MA/MSc in Digital Humanitiesdoctoral study an
short coursesas part of the
Department of Information Studies.
History
The centre was opened on 1 February 2010, with a launch party on 20 May.
At the launch party the inaugural Centre for Digital Humanities Lecture was given by
James Murdoch
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He was the chairman and CEO fo ...
, the
EMEA
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Chief Executive Officer
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of
News Corporation
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.
The speech attracted considerable media coverage due to its criticism of the British Library's plans to digitise its national newspaper collection.[
The centre was introduced to the Digital Humanities community at large by ]Melissa Terras
Melissa Mhairi Terras (born 1975 Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is a leading international figure in the field of Digital Humanities. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, and director of its Centre ...
in her keynote address at the Digital Humanities conference
The Digital Humanities conference is an academic conference for the field of digital humanities. It is hosted by Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and has been held annually since 1989.
History
The first joint conference was held in 198 ...
in London on 10 July.
The centre hosts the annual Susan Hockey
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...
br>lecture series
which was inaugurated in May 2015.
Research
A number of research projects at UCL are associated with UCLDH:
* Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe - this new digital humanities research initiative explores historical reading practices through the lens of manuscript annotations preserved in early printed books.
* Assyrian Empire Builders and State Archives of Assyria Online - study the mechanisms of communication between the top levels of authority in an ancient empire.
* CELM: Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts - is preparing a free on-line record of surviving manuscript sources for over 200 major British authors of the period 1450–1700.
* DHOER: Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources - is creating a range of introductory Digital Humanities teaching materials and making them freely available.
* Digital Lives - focuses on personal digital archives and their relationship with research repositories.
* eSAD: e-Science and Ancient Documents - aims to use computing technologies to aid experts in reading ancient documents.
* Humanities Information Practices - studies the range of information behaviors in the humanities.
* INKE: Implementing New Knowledge Environments - proposes to design new digital environments for reading and research in the humanities, and for the general public.
* LinkSphere - is creating a single virtual interface for searching across the repositories and collections held by the University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...
.
* Livingstone Online provides access to the medical and scientific writings of the missionary, doctor and African explorer David Livingstone
David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of t ...
(1813–1873).
* Open Learning Environment for Early Modern Low Countries History - aims to turn a comprehensive survey course in Early Modern Low Countries history into an educational online resource.
* Reassembling the Thera Frescoes - assists archaeologists and conservators by digitising excavated fragments of wall paintings which have been preserved in volcanic ash since the sixteenth century BCE.
* Mapping Sitelines - studies how rapid map authoring can support recovery after brain injury.
* TEI by Example - is developing an online resource for teaching TEI (Text Encoding Initiative
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and main ...
).
* The Bentham Project is preparing a new definitive edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
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, the utilitarian philosopher, jurist, economist, political theorist and social reformer.
* Transcribe Bentham - an effort to aid the transcription of Jeremy Bentham
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's work by allowing volunteers to contribute.
* The E Curator project - explores the use of 3D colour scanning and e-Science technologies to capture and share very large 3D colour scans and detailed datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment.
See also
* Digital Classicist
The Digital Classicist is a community of those interested in the application of digital humanities to the field of classics and to ancient world studies more generally. The project claims the twin aims of bringing together scholars and students w ...
References
External links
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
website
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Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Research institutes established in 2010
University College London
History organisations based in the United Kingdom
Digital Humanities Centers
2010 in London
2010 establishments in England