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Professor Andrew Prescott, King’s College London
AHRC Theme Leader Fellow
JISC Digital Festival, 11 March 2014
Digital transformations: new challenges
for the arts and humanities
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AHRC Digital Transformations
Theme• Exploring the transformative potential of
digital technologies in arts and humanities
research
• Developing flagship activities to exemplify the
possibilities
• Ensuring that arts and humanities research
contributes to wider agendas around such
issues as big data, the digital and creative
economy, intellectual property, identity,
privacy and security
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AHRC Digital Transformations
Theme• Research fellowships and networks under highlight calls
• Research Development Awards
• Large grants
• Community co-creation awards (with RCUK Connected
Communities theme)
• Big data research grants
• Award amplification awards (recently closed)
• Possible theme highlight later this year
• Collaboration with institutions like JISC at heart of
theme’s development
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Manuscript of Peter of Capua’s Distinctiones Theologicae, 13th cent.:
University of Wales Trinity St David, MS. 1
Distinctiones intended to help preachers locate texts more quickly; among
earliest experiments in alphabetisation
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Biblical concordance in a 14th-century manuscript
from Rochester: British Library, Royal MS 4 E.V
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The Biblical Concordance:
an innovation in
information handling
• Team working: compiled by c. 500 Dominicans under
direction of Hugh of St Cher
• Radical approach to a sacred text, providing more rapid
ways of locating and juxtaposing information
• Reflects recent intellectual developments (Langton on
numbering of bible; use of logic in canon law and
elsewhere)
• An enormous scholarly achievement in itself, but seen
as a tool
• Wide-ranging in its impact and significance, but difficult
to pin down
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http://www.corpusthomisticum.org
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www.janeausten.ac.uk
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Electronic Beowulf: ebeowulf.uky.edu
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What is Changing?
• No longer an easily defined set of methods
• Reflects Web 2.0 agenda, but increasingly look beyond
• Wide variety of formats: not just text but sound, image, moving
image, animation, visualisation, making
• Recycling: visualising, linking, mash-up
• Cannot be confined within single disciplinary practice or structures
• More experimental and ad hoc
• Stronger cross-connections with practice-led research of different
types, particularly in arts
• Requires fresh appoaches to initiating and conceiving research
• Reflects increasing availability of born-digital data; digitisation no
longer at centre of agenda
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The political and literary papers
of Gladstone preserved in the
British Library comprise 762
volumes containing approx.
160,000 documents
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George W. Bush Presidential Library:
200 million e-mails
4 million photographs
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Analysis of 11,616 SIGACT (“significant action”) reports
relating to the war in Iraq from December 2006:
jonathanstray.com
Blue=‘criminal event’
Green= ‘enemy incident’
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Visualisation of languages used in tweets in London in
Summer 2012: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL:http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2012/londons-twitter-tongues/
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A Distant Reading of Hamlet
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A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualisation in the
Humanities
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOuJ2RwBTA
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Mapping Metaphor Project: University of Glasgow
http://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/metaphor/
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www.oldbaileyonline.org
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www.connectedhistories.org
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www.digitalpanopticon.org
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www.fragmentedheritage.com
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transforming-musicology.org
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Data objects developed by Ian Gwilt, Sheffield Hallam University:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/projects/data-objects
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www.tangible-memories.com
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www.productresearch.ac.uk
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www.bareconductive.com