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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
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
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
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
Biblical concordance in a 14th-century manuscript
from Rochester: British Library, Royal MS 4 E.V
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
http://www.corpusthomisticum.org
www.janeausten.ac.uk
Electronic Beowulf: ebeowulf.uky.edu
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
The political and literary papers
of Gladstone preserved in the
British Library comprise 762
volumes containing approx.
160,000 documents
George W. Bush Presidential Library:
200 million e-mails
4 million photographs
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’
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/
A Distant Reading of Hamlet
A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualisation in the
Humanities
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOuJ2RwBTA
Mapping Metaphor Project: University of Glasgow
http://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/metaphor/
www.oldbaileyonline.org
www.connectedhistories.org
www.digitalpanopticon.org
www.fragmentedheritage.com
transforming-musicology.org
Data objects developed by Ian Gwilt, Sheffield Hallam University:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/projects/data-objects
www.tangible-memories.com
www.productresearch.ac.uk
www.bareconductive.com

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Digital transformations: new challenges for the arts and humanities - Andrew Prescott - Jisc Digital Festival

  • 1. 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
  • 2. 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
  • 3. 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
  • 4. 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
  • 5. Biblical concordance in a 14th-century manuscript from Rochester: British Library, Royal MS 4 E.V
  • 6. 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
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 13. 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
  • 14. The political and literary papers of Gladstone preserved in the British Library comprise 762 volumes containing approx. 160,000 documents
  • 15. George W. Bush Presidential Library: 200 million e-mails 4 million photographs
  • 16. 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’
  • 17. 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/
  • 18. A Distant Reading of Hamlet
  • 19. A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualisation in the Humanities Texas Advanced Computing Center Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOuJ2RwBTA
  • 20.
  • 21. Mapping Metaphor Project: University of Glasgow http://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/metaphor/
  • 23.
  • 24.
  • 28.
  • 29.
  • 31.
  • 32. Data objects developed by Ian Gwilt, Sheffield Hallam University: http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/projects/data-objects