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.
MoreThe 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.
MoreCine 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).
MoreWays 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.
MoreThe 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.
MoreCrusaders 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.
MoreCross-disciplinary exploratory projects on four subjects as diverse as 1) medieval ossuaries in 3D, 2) automatic audio-visual analysis, 3) the relationships between digital/virtual and physical musical practice, and 4) the dangers of leaving or losing our digital legacy.
MoreThe DHI worked with RECODE to develop an online toolkit to accompany its European Union policy recommendations for open access to research data.
MoreCarillion 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.
MoreThe 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.
MoreGothic 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.
MoreLed by the University of Sheffield’s Department of Music with the University of Westminster’s Faculty of Media Arts & Design, this project aims to develop a new understanding of the ramifications of digital resources for development and change in the content, concept and practice of folk arts in contemporary England.
MoreThe 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.
MoreExploring 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.
MoreThis 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.
MoreThis 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.
MoreA 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.
MoreA 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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