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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Intoxicants and Early Modernity
An interrogation of the production, trade, legislation, consumption and culture (social and material) of intoxicants throughout the early modern period using ontology modelling and data visualisations.
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Whites Writing Whiteness
Letters, Domestic Figurations & Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s
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