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By Jackie Bishop, Location Register & WATCH Researcher Introduction As the researcher for the Location Register, one of the University of Reading’s (UoR) research and digital humanities projects,…Read More >
What are the distinctive challenges and opportunities of immersive heritage interpretation in the context of a sacred heritage site? We congratulate Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading), Janet Bell, Alex Book,…Read More >
Congratulations to our Reading researchers who exhibited video essays at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City earlier this year. The series Expanded Screens: The Video Essay was…Read More >
by Jon Weinbren, University of Surrey [Obraz is the anglicised spelling of the Russian polyseme образ, which can be roughly translated as character, image, representation, likeness, or similitude.] This is…Read More >
With a new academic year beginning, we’ve prepared a quick run-down of our resources and new portal content. What is DH and the DH Hub? For those of you…Read More >
by Cate Cleo Alexander, University of Toronto It’s the hot new trend in the historic photo colourization community: AI generated movement. Recently, content creators on platforms like YouTube have started to…Read More >
Dawn Kanter, Rachel Lewis and Chrissie Willis-Phillips [Digital Humanities Officer, Research Development Manager and Associate Director (Scholarship and Planning), DH Hub team] and Jo Stace [Designer, Creative & Print Services]…Read More >
by Sophie Whittle, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield Introduction In June, I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural DH and AI conference at Reading. Since then, I…Read More >
by Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Recent strides in generative AI development and the emerging abilities of pre-trained models (Wei…Read More >
by José Pedro Sousa Centre for Theatre Studies, University of Lisbon / Library Services, Imperial College London Introduction Archival research is a gateway to the past, offering invaluable insights into…Read More >
by Amina El Ganadi and Federico Ruozzi The Phenomenon of AI Hallucinations As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), become increasingly integrated into humanities research, a new…Read More >
by Mark McKerracher, Abhishek Dutta, Megan Gooch, Helena Hamerow, Horace Lee, Michael Lewis and Andrew Zisserman The British Museum holds millions of objects spanning millennia of human history. But it…Read More >
by Drew Thomas, University College Dublin The Protestant Reformation was Europe’s first mass media event, marked by the rapid spread of printed materials. Protestants and Catholics used images to convey…Read More >
by Professor Guyda Armstrong, Dr Giles Bergel and Dr Rebecca Bowen ‘Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page’ (ENVDANTE) offers the first in-depth study of…Read More >
Our DH Academic Champion and Community of Practice lead, Dr Mara Oliva, shares her reflections on the CoP’s inaugural conference on our Connecting Research blog. The conference, on the theme…Read More >
by Gabriella Giannachi, Steve Benford and Lydia Farina Archives have changed throughout history often in response to the introduction of novel technologies. At the heart of the BRAID/AHRC-funded project ‘Creating…Read More >
by J.S. Love, TU Delft I recently had the good fortune to join the vibrant Digital Humanities (DH) community at the University of Reading and share some recent work I…Read More >
by Edward A. S. Ross and Jackie Baines As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an integral part of society, it is crucial that we keep abreast of these developments and…Read More >
On Monday 17 June, we hosted our inaugural conference which focused on the theme Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence. The conference was sold out, the sun was shining and we…Read More >
Please join me in congratulating John Gibbs whose video essay Choosing Death Row Songs was part of the Official Selection at the Marienbad Film Festival and was the joint winner of the…Read More >
We look forward to welcoming delegates from all over the world the to Digital Humanities Community of Practice’s Inaugural Conference on Monday 17 June 2024. Established in September 2022, the…Read More >
by Dawn Kanter It’s a pleasure to have joined the University of Reading last month as Digital Humanities (DH) Officer. I’ll be working as part of the Digital Humanities Hub,…Read More >
CFP DIGITAL HUMANITIES & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE One-Day Conference at the University of Reading 17 June, 2024 Keynote Speaker: Dr Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London) We invite scholars, researchers,…Read More >
Adam Lines, Collections Academic Liaison Officer Caroline Gould, Principal Archivist Claire Clough, UMASCS Librarian Digitisation is becoming an ever-important aspect of the way collections are managed and shared. Colleagues…Read More >
By Nicola Wilson This year, MAPP marks its tenth anniversary. By improving access to publishers’ archives, MAPP aims to put publishers back into the teaching and research of modernism….Read More >
Dr Amy Richardson On this blog in December, Mara Oliva raised the significant problem of “digital disparity”. In this blog, I want to revisit this issue, which is significant in…Read More >
Dr Jumbly Grindrod, Lecturer in Philosophy Me: Write a captivating opening sentence of a blog piece about philosophy of language and large language models. ChatGPT: “Imagine a machine…Read More >
In my role as Digital Humanities (DH) Academic Champion, I promote an understanding of DH within the University of Reading and I lead the Community of Practice. One of the…Read More >
Professor Roberta Gilchrist, Research Dean, introduces the University of Reading’s new Digital Humanities Hub In 2022, the University of Reading launched its Digital Humanities Hub, a collaborative in-house project…Read More >