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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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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / George-Andrei Ionita (Developer – The Digital Humanities Institute)
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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European Cinema Audiences
European Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s.
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Jaina Prosopography
In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society.
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Militarisation 2.0
The DHI applied concept modelling techniques to a curated corpus of more than 6 million YouTube comments associated with over 1,000 videos in order to examine representations of militarized industries.
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Ways of Being in the Digital Age
Ways of Being in the Digital Age encompassed research into how digital technology mediates our lives, and of the way technological and social change co-evolve and impact on each other.
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Mark My Bird
The DHI worked with the University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences to develop a crowd-sourcing system that will enable the general public to identify key features on approx. 20,000 3D models of bird bills.
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Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought
The aim of this project is to understand the evolution of early modern thought by modelling the semantic and conceptual changes which occurred in English discourse (c.1500-c.1800). The project will use information extraction techniques and data visualisation to identify lexical patterns in 250,000 texts.
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Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity
Exploring how the banishment of hundreds of Christian clerics to a myriad of places all around the Mediterranean during the religious controversies of late antiquity shaped the institution of the Christian Church in this period and beyond.
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Connecting Shakespeare
A collaborative R&D project between the Folger Shakespeare Library and the DHI to develop a federated semantic search and discovery service for the Folger’s multiple, online resources.
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