Text Correction for Mining Historical Documents
Applying advanced deep-learning techniques to improve the quality of poor OCR in the British Library Newspapers collection.
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The Spatial Poetics of Artefacts
David Livingstone’s expeditionary collecting
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Letters of Richard Cobden Online
Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was one of the most influential British politicians of the 19th century. This digital edition presents transcripts of 5,000 letters written by Cobden
Piston, Pen and Press
Understanding how industrial workers in Scotland and the North of England, from the 1840s to the 1910s, engaged with literary culture through writing, reading, and participation in wider cultural activities.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Seth Mehl (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)
Community-led impact for rural land rights in South Africa
A multilingual best practice handbook
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The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) Online
Transcriptions of c.5,500 letters that enable an exploration of active citizenship in the 19th and 21st centuries.
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British Army Officers, 1790-1820
A case study of 40,000 British Army officers who served between 1790 and 1830
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Scoping future data services for the arts and humanities
This project will scope the establishment of a national data service for the arts and humanities
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From telegrams to Twitter
Archives of letters sent to party leaders will uncover impact of political correspondence
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C21 Editions
Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age
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Cherokee Riverkeepers
The DHI is working with Professor Gregory Smithers, British Academy Global Professor, to develop the first data visualization of Cherokee freshwater management, ecosystem resilience and climate migration in the Tennessee River Valley.
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Spaces of HOPE
The hidden history of community-led planning in the UK.
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Rapid Recap
Rapid Recap is a project to facilitate private rescue financing for the UK’s most innovative high-growth businesses adversely affected by COVID-19.
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EnergyREV User-Centred Interface
Providing evidence for scaling up smart local energy systems
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The Gersum Project: Follow-On Funding
The vocabulary of Standard English includes approximately 600 words from Old Norse, the language of the Scandinavian newcomers who settled in Britain from the 9th to the 11th centuries (popularly known as ‘the Vikings’).
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BBC Radio News Scripts
The BBC Archive includes the script for every radio news bulletin between the years c.1940 to 1990, totalling around 180,000 scripts (2.3 million pages).
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OED Concept Interface
This proof-of-concept project aims to build and test a search interface which will enable staff at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to identify word sense usage more accurately by utilising Linguistic Concept Modelling.
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Intoxicating Spaces
The impact of new intoxicants on public spaces, consumption, and sociability in north-western Europe, c. 1600 – c. 1850
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Piston, Pen & Press
An AHRC-funded project which aims to understand how industrial workers, from the 1840s to the 1910s, engaged with literary culture through writing, reading, and participation in wider cultural activities.
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Criminal Tattoos
Analysing criminal tattoos through data mining and visualisation. Funded by BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities.
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Mining the Seams
This Derbyshire Record Office project will open up the hidden stories of Derbyshire’s miners contained within the archive of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire area, as well as shedding light on the trade union activities of the NUM.
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Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law
A Nordic-English lexicon devoted to the vast array of legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts.
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