Text Correction for Mining Historical Documents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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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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European Cinema Audiences
European Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s.
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Cine Ricordi
Cine Ricordi is an online archive that allows users to explore the history of Italian cinema-going through a portal that reconstructs the historic cinema networks of eight major cities (Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Naples, Bari, Cagliari and Palermo).
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Estoria de Espanna – Discovery of the Past
The principal aim of this project is to develop a digital exhibition of manuscripts of the Estoria de Espanna, a thirteenth-century chronicle of Spain, alongside physical exhibitions of the manuscripts in some of Spain’s leading institutions.
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Crusaders to the Holy Land
Crusaders to the Holy Land is a database of participants and family relationships relating to the expeditions that took place between 1105 – 1149. The data was compiled by colleagues at the University of Leeds. The University of Leeds has also funded the DHI to make the database publicly available as an online research resource.
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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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Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database
The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP) is an online database designed for the study of eighteenth-century English phonology, which will allow users to investigate the social, regional and lexical distribution of phonological variants in eighteenth-century English.
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Film Hub North: How Audiences Form
This project involved the School of English, Department of Sociological Studies and the DHI working with Film Hub North and the BFI to develop a Strategic Plan for developing audience engagement in national cinema.
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Transforming Research Methods in the Humanities
A PhD studentship network that comprises three interrelated projects which seek to explore methods that are emergent within their home disciplines as well as potentially transformative for research in the arts and humanities.
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Heaton Map Project
A mobile, map-based guide to locations in Leeds connected to Dr John Deakin Heaton (1817-1880) and mentioned in his Journal. Heaton was a Leeds physician and promoter of provincial civic pride in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Spotlight on the Digital
How discoverable are your digitised collections? The DHI developed a specification for a tool which would support discovery solutions for online research resources both at national and/or institutional level.
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Digital Panopticon
This project brings together genealogical, biometric and criminal justice datasets held in the UK and Australia in order to explore the impact of the different types of penal punishments on the lives of 90,000 people sentenced at The Old Bailey between 1780 and 1925.
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History DMT
History DMT (Data Management Training and Guidance) aimed to integrate best practice, good principles, and skills of research data management within the postgraduate curriculum and among early career historians.
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Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s English Newsbooks
This project used participatory design methods to understand how search is used within humanities research in order to improve search interfaces.
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England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550
Recording and analysing evidence of foreigners who chose to make their lives and livelihoods in England in the era of the Hundred Years War, the Black Death and the Wars of the Roses.
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Olive Schreiner Letters Project
Complete transcriptions of approximately 7,000 letters of Olive Schreiner, the feminist, socialist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920).
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Dialect in British Fiction 1800-1836
This project described and analysed the representation of dialect in 100-120 novels published between 1800 and 1836.
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