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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 Information Studies and related departments, an Industry Advisory Panel, as well as visiting and affiliated contributors.

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Study Digital Humanities

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

UCLDH Research Projects

Research

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

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Consulting

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

Events

Events

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

Collaborations

Collaborations

UCLDH cultivates close working relationships across the university and beyond, with international institutions, culture and heritage sectors and industry partners.

Facilities

UCLDH works in conjunction with a range of departments at UCL, whilst also supporting initiatives to help others.

Press and Prizes

UCLDH has won a variety of awards, and has had many mentions in the international press

UCLDH Community

There is much more going on at UCLDH than study and research. This page outlines a few of our other activities.

 
 
 

Books

Books authored at UCLDH include the following.

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UCLDH News

Listed below are updates from the blog maintained by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

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.

Mapping the state of the art of Named-Entity Recognition for early modern documents. New Publication.

[posted by Julianne Nyhan on behalf of Marco Humbel]

This blog post reports on our recent paper: Humbel, M., Nyhan, J., Vlachidis, A., Sloan, K. and Ortolja-Baird, A. (2021), “Named-entity recognition for early modern textual documents: a review of capabilities and challenges with strategies for the future”, Journal of Documentation, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2021-0032

UCLDH to participate in £14.5m Towards a National Collection

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded £14.5m to 5 research projects to connect the UK’s cultural artefacts and historical archives in new and transformative ways. The announcement today of the five major projects forming the largest investment of Towards a National Collection, a five-year research programme, reveals the first insights into how thousands of disparate collections could be explored by public audiences and academic researchers in the future.

Long View Seminar – Reflecting on our First Year

In a year dominated by a global pandemic and both remote working and teaching, we lost many of the traditional ways that we as scholars could stay connected. One of those, the traditional extra-curricular seminar series that was a coming together space for people at different stages of their career, had to go online. And that’s just where we went.

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