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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100 Ballads
Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.
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Immersive Services for Driverless Cars
When people no longer drive their cars, what will they do instead?
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Playing the Archive
Funded by the EPSRC through the Content Creation and Consumption in the Digital Economy call, the project addresses the ephemerality of practices and memories encoded in play.
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Beyond the Multiplex
Beyond the Multiplex is a three year project that seeks to understand how to enable a wider range of audiences to participate in a more diverse film culture.
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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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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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Casa Ricordi Letters
This project is producing a digital edition of the letters (15,000) written to Casa Ricordi, the world famous music publisher, during the 19th and 20th centuries by writers, singers and composers including Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Franz Liszt, Ottorino Respighi, Jules Massenet, Alfredo Casella and Luigi Nono.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / George-Andrei Ionita (Developer – The Digital Humanities Institute)
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was one of the most prolific and important authors of drama, fiction, verse, and translations in her period.
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Tudor Chamber Books
Kingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521
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Estoria de Espanna
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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Gersum Project
This project aims to understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining the origins of up to 1,600 words in a corpus of Middle English poems from the North of England.
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New Directions in Digital Humanities Research
Cross-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.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Caroline Ardrey (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)
Baudelaire Song Project
The Baudelaire Song Project will research and bring together for the first time all the song settings ever of Baudelaire’s poetry, looking at classical music and popular music settings, in French original and in translation, with music scores and in audio format.
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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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Iona Hine (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)
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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Digital Folk
Led 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.
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