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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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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RECODE: Open Access to Research Data
The DHI worked with RECODE to develop an online toolkit to accompany its European Union policy recommendations for open access to research data.
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Reinventing Local Public Libraries
Carillion plc and the University of Sheffield set out to re-think local public libraries, identify the requirements of a Library Management System (LMS) capable of delivering the library of the future, and identify further opportunities for collaboration between Carillion and experts at the University of Sheffield.
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Gothic Tours
Gothic tours is an annotated map of country homes, and other sites of historic interest, which have played an important part in shaping the Gothic imaginary from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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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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HIV Communities
This AHRC-funded seminar series was part of the Connected Communities Theme. Led by Keele University, it aimed to explore and understand the historical and contemporary cultures, communities and connections in the HIV Sector.
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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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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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Wenxian Covenant Texts
Recording, searching and visualising scribal practises in the fifth-century BC Chinese Wenxian Covenant Texts.
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Sheffield Music Map
The DHI and the School of English worked with Sensoria Festival to develop a mobile application which provides users with access to a location-based guide to Sheffield’s musical heritage.
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Sheffield Participatory Arts Network
The Sheffield Participatory Arts Network (SPAN), set up in 2012, is an open network of community arts groups, music groups, and workshop leaders.
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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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CEELBAS Learning Centre
An assessment system aimed at advanced learners of Polish who need to continue language education at the postgraduate level, and are looking develop the comprehension skills to aid with their research.
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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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Scillonian Dialect Project
This project investigated the variety of English spoken by the population of the Isles of Scilly (a group of islands 28 miles off Land’s End, Cornwall).
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Enemy of the People: Visual Representations of Chiang Kai-shek
Visual depictions of Chiang Kai-shek from various forms of propaganda and other art from the 1940s through to the 2000s, with a particular concentration on negative images of Chiang.
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