ddh general intro

Department of Digital Humanities: the application of digital technology to humanities disciplinesa reflection upon the impact of digital media upon humanity

> 50 academics & researchers~ £2 million research income per annum5+ million digital objects in 107+projects200+ million hits over the last 5 years

www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/

Digital Humanities is about Collaboration

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Literary/linguistic

English

History

Art History

Music

Theatre studies

Information management

Digital library and archives

Uploaded every day:

300m Tweets,

250m Facebook photo's

& 8 person years worth

of content on Youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA

Digital Humanities methods for historical analysis of Irish Immigrants in 19th Century London, England

www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html

Effective, efficient and world leading

Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls

Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls

Spectral Classification

Use of complete spectrum separates ink, parchment, backing and background

Discovering

Annotating

Comparing

Referring

Sampling

Illustrating

Representing

What we do with digital stuff

From John Unsworth’s Scholarly Primitives

Bringing collections

out of the dark

http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html

Measuring the Impact of Digitized Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model