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Founded in 2010, the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) is a cross-faculty research centre, bringing together a vibrant network of people who teach and research in a wide range of disciplines, in the heart of London.

 

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People

UCLDH is composed of a management team, a team of staff from across the College, an Industry Advisory Panel, as well as visiting and affiliated contributors.

Events

Events

UCLDH hold a variety of events that are open to the public, including a regular seminar series.

UCLDH Research Projects

Research

UCLDH supports and facilitates wide-ranging technological engagement across the Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage.

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Study

The Department of Information Studies offers various opportunities to study Digital Humanities at post-graduate level, as well as short courses.

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Digitisation Suite

A shared facility for teaching and research in digitisation technologies, fully set up with state-of-the art capture for both 2D and 3D objects.

Collaborations

Consultancy

UCLDH Team Members are available for consultancy work to help scope, plan, and execute digital projects.

UCLDH draws on UCL's world-class research strength especially in information studies, computing science, and the arts and humanities. It supports and coordinates work in many institutional settings throughout the university, including the library services, museums and collections. The research facilitated by UCLDH takes place at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities. It produces applications and models that make possible new kinds of research, both in the humanities disciplines and in computer science and its applied technologies. It also studies the impact of these techniques on cultural heritage, museums, libraries, archives, and culture at large. 

UCLDH is part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

 

 

UCLDH News

Vision for Art (VISART) Workshop for interdisciplinary work in Computer Vision and Digital Humanities

The VISion for Art (VISART) workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop held with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) on a bi-annual basis. The workshop is now on its 6th edition and has had great success over ten years since starting in Florence (2012), with the 2022 edition in Tel Aviv, Israel. The success has led to VISART becoming a staple venue for Computer Vision and Digital Art History & Humanities researchers alike.

Extending the history of digital humanities by 510 million years

UCLDH was fortunate to be awarded funds through UKRI’s Research Capital Investment Fund in 2019 in a bid led by our previous director Prof Simon Mahony. The bid funded the purchase of a Bruker Tornado M4+ x-ray fluorescence scanner. This is a unique system that uses x-rays to excite the atoms making up a substance which then emit x-rays that are characteristic of the elements making up the sample. The beam is narrow and scans across an object, allowing an image to be built up of the elemental composition.

Digital Humanities Longview Seminar – 2022 Programme Announced

We are very pleased to announce the programme for the 2022 Digital Humanities Longview (virtual) seminar series, co-hosted with our friends at CESTA (Stanford, US) and the Centre for Digital Humanities (Uppsala, Sweden). In this our second year of the series, our focus is on the idea that technology is global, but where we live affects how we apply digital solutions to humanities work. We all have what Roopika Risam described as a digital humanities (DH) “accent”. This seminar series explores those accents by looking at DH research here, and there, and over there too.

Job opportunity: Associate Professor in Information Studies

UCL Dept of Information Studies are seeking an innovative researcher and experienced lecturer to appoint to a full-time post beginning in March 2022.

They are particularly interested in applicants with demonstrable experience and expertise in cross disciplinary research which intersects with one or more of the broad areas represented in the Department, which includes Digital Humanities.

Sloane Lab project features in Financial Times article

The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections is one of 5 AHRC-funded research projects to connect the UK’s cultural artefacts and historical archives in new and transformative ways.

The project features in an article, ‘Search for a digital national collection‘, published in the Financial Times today, 22nd November 2021. Professor Julianne Nyhan, UCLDH Director and PI on the Sloane Lab project is quoted:

Research Fellow vacancies for The Sloane Lab – deadline extended

The Department of Information Studies at UCL is are seeking to appoint two Research Fellows to contribute to project “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections”, led by UCL in partnership with the British Museum and Natural History Museum.

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