By Anne Welsh, on 26 January 2012
Claire Ross has won the student category of the Provost’s Awards for Public Engagement.
There is a guest blog post by Hilary Jackson (UCL Public Engagement Unit) on the student blog.
By Claire Ross, on 26 January 2012
Decoding Digital Humanities London (DDHL) is back and it is bigger than ever! The series was founded at here at UCLDH and has now grown to include a larger number of institutions across London. PhD, MA students and staff at UCL, King’s College London and Goldmisth’s University of London are amongst the organizers this year. It’s going to be great to see what all the new faces and perspectives bring to the conversation.
DDH is a series of informal monthly meetups ( in the pub of course) for anyone interested in research at the intersection of computational technologies and the humanities. These gatherings provide an opportunity to discuss readings and raise questions, but also to chat and share ideas with others in the field of digital humanities.
The first meeting of 2012 will be on: 31st January at 6.30pm
Location: The Plough (upstairs), 27 Museum st, WC1A 1LH.
The topic up for discussion is the Digital Humanities Manifesto
Hope to see you there!
By Claire Warwick, on 23 January 2012
Tomorrow I’m giving my inaugural lecture: “The monologue in a crowdsourced world: have digital resources rendered the inaugural lecture obsolete?” It’s in the UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at 6.30. This link provides more details about me and what I’m going to be talking about, as well as a link to the registration page. I’ve also discussed some of the thinking behind it on my own blog.
As befits UCLDH there is also a party afterwards in the Grant Museum, which will, I’m sure, be more fun than the lecture. All welcome!
By Melissa Terras, on 20 January 2012
Infographic: Quantifying Digital Humanities
You may remember that back in December, I (Melissa Terras) gathered some stats about Digital Humanities. I turned these into an infographic, which is available in full technicolour and much higher res than this blog will allow, over at the UCLDH Flickr account. The infographic is courtesy of UCLDH as it generously paid for the graphic design to allow this to happen.
Wait! You want a print version? Well, find a 300dpi CYMK version here.
We at UCLDH are also going to get some printed up as posters -more about that soon, hopefully, once we figure out the costs involved.
Just a few words on the process. This was an inclusive, not an exclusive, attempt at trying to pull together available statistics on Digital Humanities. I’m aware there are a lot of things that dont appear on the infographic – major individual projects, for example. But it was the best that we could do, with the information available. I’m still collecting statistics, and interested in anything else that comes to light – I need to dig out the subscription numbers for LLC in the early 2000s, for example – but if you are not represented here, and have some statistics to share, do let me know via @melissaterras. Depending on reception, we may do an updated version of this.
Additionally, I’d love to hear your comments and suggestions on other things we can do in this vein to scope out and promote our field. Its been fun to put together – even if snow in Seattle stopped play for a week or so in the round of final edits with the designers – and after I’ve done some serious academic work we plan on doing some more of these.
We hope you like it!
By Claire Warwick, on 18 January 2012
I’m looking forward to hearing Robert Bud talk today about digital museums. The Science Museum has been doing some really interesing work on the integration of digital resources into the physical museum expeirnce. It will be fascinating to hear more about this, so join us if you can.
Details are below:
Visitor experience and the digital museum
Malet Place Engineering Building, Room 1.20
Wednesday 18th January 2012, 5.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
Industry Seminar hosted by UCL EngD VEIV & Centre for Digital Humanities
Speaker: Dr Robert Bud, Principal Curator, Science Museum, London
Dr Robert Bud is an historian of science, technology and medicine and Principal Curator of Medicine at the Science Museum. His research interests include the social and cultural history of penicillin and understanding of the place of science in post-war Britain. His seminar, co-hosted by UCL’s EngD VEIV Centre and Centre for Digital Humanities, considers the role of interactive media in constructing museum visitors’ learning narratives.
By Anne Welsh, on 13 January 2012
the academic web has been atwitter with #tweetyourthesis. It all started at a dinner for UCLDH research students.
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