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Professor Andrew Prescott, Theme Leader Fellow
Transforming Research: British Library Labs and AHRC Digital Transformations Strategic Theme
How Arts and Humanities Research is Being Transformed through Digital
Scholarship
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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 – about which more later!• Community co-creation awards (with RCUK Connected
Communities theme)• Big data research grants – results to be announced
shortly• Future opportunities to be announced over the next few
months • Collaboration with institutions like The British Library at
heart of theme’s development
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The ‘Diamond Sutra’, 868: the world’s earliest surviving dated printed text
British Library Or.8210/P.2
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The Mercator Atlas, dating from the 1570s, the most important single collection of work by the celebrated Flemish cartographer
British Library Maps C.29.c.13
Available as a virtual book at:http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/mercator/accessible/introduction.html
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Edison Class M Phonograph, dating from c. 1893.
British Library, 54 Frow 1988. For further information, see:
http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-recording-history/Equipment/029M-54XFROWX1988-0001V0
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Penny Black Printing Press
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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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www.janeausten.ac.uk
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What is Changing?
• No longer an easily defined set of methods• 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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Letter of Gladstone to Disraeli, 1878: British
Library, Add. MS. 44457, f. 166
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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Mapping Metaphor Project: University of Glasgowhttp://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/metaphor/
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www.connectedhistories.org
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www.oldbaileyonline.org
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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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Michael Takeo Magruder, Data Sea: www.takeo.org
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Jekyll 2.0: A React Hub project. Collaboration between Slingshot (Pervasive Game Developers) and Dr Anthony
Mandal, Cardiff University: http://www.react-hub.org.uk/books-and-print-sandbox/proj
ects/2013/jekyll-20/
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Available at: http://mith.umd.edu/sharedhorizons/resources/
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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.bareconductive.com
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www.productresearch.ac.uk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYn7oQlLiA
Eduardo Kac, Lagoglyph Sound System