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View article: iDAH Research Software Engineering (RSE) Steering Group Working Paper
iDAH Research Software Engineering (RSE) Steering Group Working Paper Open
This working paper resulted from two (hybrid) workshops conducted in May and June 2022, chaired by Professor James Smithies (King’s College London) at the request of Tao-Tao Chang, AHRC Head of (Research) Infrastructure. The workshops were…
View article: Metadata Enrichment in the Living with Machines Project: User-focused Collaborative Database Development in a Digital Humanities Context
Metadata Enrichment in the Living with Machines Project: User-focused Collaborative Database Development in a Digital Humanities Context Open
Living with Machines rethinks the impact of technology on the lives of ordinary people during the Industrial Revolution. The project queries metadata for large-scale newspaper collections. This poster describes the workflow of building a d…
View article: Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection Open
This chapter discusses the open access digitisation programme undertaken by Living with Machines, exploring the range of constraints that inform digitisation strategies and selection priorities. Because the landscape of digitised newspaper…
View article: DigiSpec: Scoping Future Born-Digital Data Services for the Arts and Humanities: Case Reports
DigiSpec: Scoping Future Born-Digital Data Services for the Arts and Humanities: Case Reports Open
The DigiSpec Project was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2022 under its “Scoping Future Data Services for the Arts and Humanities” programme. As part of the evidence base for its report, the project collected twent…
View article: Bias and representativeness in digitized newspaper collections: Introducing the environmental scan
Bias and representativeness in digitized newspaper collections: Introducing the environmental scan Open
This article introduces the ‘Environmental Scan’ as answer to the question of hidden biases in digital heritage collections. Its substantive focus is digitized nineteenth-century British provincial newspapers, and in particular the JISC co…
View article: A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers Open
We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitized historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, P…
View article: The challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute
The challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute Open
This paper was produced as part of the activities of the Humanities and Data Science Special Interest Group based at The Alan Turing Institute. The group has created the opportunity for fruitful conversations in this area and has brought t…
View article: defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data
defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data Open
This work presents defoe, a new scalable and portable digital eScience toolbox that enables historical research. It allows for running text mining queries across large datasets, such as historical newspapers and books in parallel via Apach…
View article: Design choices for productive, secure, data-intensive research at scale in the cloud
Design choices for productive, secure, data-intensive research at scale in the cloud Open
We present a policy and process framework for secure environments for productive data science research projects at scale, by combining prevailing data security threat and risk profiles into five sensitivity tiers, and, at each tier, specif…
View article: Data Science & Digital Humanities: new collaborations, new opportunities and new complexities
Data Science & Digital Humanities: new collaborations, new opportunities and new complexities Open
of paper 0364 presented at the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , the Netherlands 9-12 July, 2019.
View article: Enabling complex analysis of large-scale digital collections: humanities research, high-performance computing, and transforming access to British Library digital collections
Enabling complex analysis of large-scale digital collections: humanities research, high-performance computing, and transforming access to British Library digital collections Open
Although there has been a drive in the cultural heritage sector to provide large-scale, open data sets for researchers, we have not seen a commensurate rise in humanities researchers undertaking complex analysis of these data sets for thei…
View article: Enabling Complex Analysis of Large-Scale Digital Collections: Humanities Research, High Performance Computing, and transforming access to British Library Digital Collections.
Enabling Complex Analysis of Large-Scale Digital Collections: Humanities Research, High Performance Computing, and transforming access to British Library Digital Collections. Open
Although there has been a drive in the cultural heritage sector to provide large-scale, open data sets for researchers, we have not seen a commensurate rise in humanities researchers undertaking complex analysis of these data sets for thei…
View article: Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Open
In this article, we introduce recently released, publicly available resources, which allow users to watch videos of hidden articulators (e.g. the tongue) during the production of various types of sounds found in the world’s languages. The …
View article: Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections - Phase II Pitch
Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections - Phase II Pitch Open
A pitch from UCLDH and the British Library on 14th July 2015 as part of the Jisc Research Data Spring program, phase II: reporting on our pilot project, and where we see the project going forward: Lots of money has been spent digitising he…
View article: Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections
Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections Open
Lots of money has been spent digitising heritage collections. Digitised heritage collections are data. But non-computationally trained scholars don't know what to ask of large quantities of data. Often they do not have access to high perfo…