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New UCLDH Director and Deputy Director appointed
At the end of this year Prof Julianne Nyhan will be stepping down as UCLDH Director to focus on her new AHRC-funded project, The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections. Our Deputy Director, Prof Tim Weyrich also stepped down earlier this year as he became Professor of Digital Reality at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
New article ‘Encoding the haunting of an object catalogue’
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird and Julianne Nyhan have co-authored a new article on ‘Encoding the haunting of an object catalogue: on the potential of digital technologies to perpetuate or subvert the silence and bias of the early-modern archive‘
The article, published in the the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities on 19 October 2021, is available by open access.
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.
Call for presentations: ‘Art and Digital Technology’ show and tell
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and the UCL Slade School of Fine Art are coordinating a virtual show&tell on Wednesday 16th February, 5-7pm, via Zoom.
Job Advert: Digital Humanities Lecturer/Associate Professor
The Department of Information Studies at UCL is currently advertising a permanent post, Lecturer/Associate Professor in Digital Humanities. The closing date for application is 21 November 2021.
Please email Professor Elizabeth Shepherd for any questions related to the post at e.shepherd@ucl.ac.uk
Full details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CKK702/lecturer-associate-professor-in-digital-humanities
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.
UCLDH research activity June 2021
The UCLDH team have been busy as ever, despite continuing COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s just a few examples of recent activity:
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