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UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

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UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
Established2010
AddressUCL Centre for Digital Humanities

Department of Information StudiesUniversity College LondonGower Street

London WC1E 6BT
Location,
WebsiteUCL Centre for Digital Humanities

TheUCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a cross-faculty research centre ofUniversity College London. It brings togetherdigital humanities work being done in many of the university's different departments and centres, including the library services, museums and collections.[1][failed verification] The Centre counts among the "most visible"[2] in the field and facilitates various opportunities for study at post-graduate level, including theMA/MSc in Digital Humanities,doctoral study, andshort courses as part of theDepartment of Information Studies.[1][2]

History

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The centre was opened on 1 February 2010, with a launch party on 20 May.[3][4][5] At the launch party the inaugural Centre for Digital Humanities Lecture was given byJames Murdoch, theEMEAChief Executive Officer ofNews Corporation.[5][6][7] The speech attracted considerable media coverage due to its criticism of theBritish Library's plans to digitise its national newspaper collection.[5][6][7]

The centre was introduced to the Digital Humanities community at large byMelissa Terras in her keynote address at theDigital Humanities conference in London on 10 July.[8][9]

The centre hosts the annualSusan Hockeylecture series, which was inaugurated in May 2015.[10]

Research

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A number of research projects atUCL are associated with UCLDH:[11]

  • 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 theUniversity of Reading.
  • Livingstone Online provides access to the medical and scientific writings of the missionary, doctor and African explorerDavid Livingstone (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 Bentham Project is preparing a new definitive edition of The Collected Works ofJeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, jurist, economist, political theorist and social reformer.
  • Transcribe Bentham - an effort to aid the transcription ofJeremy Bentham's work by allowing volunteers to contribute.[12][13][14]
  • 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

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References

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  1. ^abTerras, Melissa (2012). "Understanding Jane".IT Now.54 (1):50–51.doi:10.1093/itnow/bws019.ISSN 1746-5702.
  2. ^abCaraco, Benjamin (1 January 2012)."Les digital humanities et les bibliothèques".Le Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France.57 (2). Retrieved12 April 2012.
  3. ^Andrews, Robert (20 May 2010)."James Murdoch Lecture: Celebrating Copyright's 300th Birthday".Paid Content. Retrieved16 August 2010.
  4. ^"James Murdoch launches UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities".UCL News. 21 May 2010. Retrieved30 July 2010.
  5. ^abc"James Murdoch attacks British Library for digitising newspapers".The Guardian. 21 May 2010. Retrieved31 October 2010.
  6. ^ab"Sky is not the limit for ambitions of James Murdoch". London Evening Standard. 16 June 2010. Retrieved31 October 2010.
  7. ^ab"James Murdoch criticises British Library's digital newspaper archive plan". New Statesman. 21 May 2010. Retrieved31 October 2010.
  8. ^Cunnane, Sarah (15 July 2010)."As a discipline, we suck online".Times Higher Education. Retrieved29 July 2010.
  9. ^Welsh, Anne (15 July 2010)."UCLDH (and DH) in the news".DH Blog. Retrieved31 July 2010.
  10. ^"The Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities". 14 January 2019.
  11. ^"Projects".UCL Centre of Digital Humanities. 2010. Retrieved9 August 2010.
  12. ^Kaya, Travis (13 September 2010)."Crowdsourcing Project Hopes to Make Short Work of Transcribing Bentham".The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived fromthe original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved14 September 2010.
  13. ^Cohen, Patricia (27 December 2010)."For Bentham and Others, Scholars Enlist Public to Transcribe Papers".New York Times. New York. Retrieved9 April 2011.
  14. ^Mroz, Ann (15 July 2010)."Leader: Members-only code is outdated".Times Higher Education. Retrieved12 April 2012.

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