PROJECTS

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

100 Ballads

Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

AHRC Technical Appendix: Review and Recommendations

This commissioned research reviewed the AHRC’s Technical Appendix and made recommendations for a ‘Technical Plan’ on behalf of the Network of Expert Centres.

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) / Completed

This project produced a landmark critical edition of Gide’s major novel Les Caves du Vatican, with facsimile images of his manuscripts. Originally published on CD-ROM by Gallimard, it is now available online in restricted form.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was one of the most prolific and important authors of drama, fiction, verse, and translations in her period.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Archive of Exile

Combining academic and practice-based research to explore the notions of ‘exile’ and ‘archive’ with creative arts practitioners.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Armadillo: Historical Data Mining

This project used a set of online resources in 18th century British social history to evaluate the potential benefits of Semantic Web technology for Arts and Humanities researchers.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

BBC / Completed

BBC Radio News Scripts

The BBC Archive includes the script for every radio news bulletin between the years c.1940 to 1990, totalling around 180,000 scripts (2.3 million pages).

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

A fully searchable, online edition of the letters of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (also known as Bess of Hardwick).

Completed / Courtauld Institute and Gallery

Beyond the Label

We worked with the Courtauld Institute of Art to understand how participatory design can be used to improve people’s understanding of art within the context of the gallery or museum space.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Audience Agency

Beyond the Multiplex

Beyond the Multiplex was a four year project that aimed to understand how to enable a wider range of audiences to participate in a more diverse film culture.

Dr Kathryn Simpson / In Progress

Boundaries of Gender

‘Petticoat governments’ and secondary voices in nineteenth century European expeditions of Africa.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / In Progress

British Army Officers, 1790-1820

A case study of 40,000 British Army officers who served between 1790 and 1830

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / In Progress

C21 Editions

Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / British Academy

Canterbury Tales Project

Electronic transcriptions of all the manuscript and early printed versions of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, thus providing clues as to the textual tradition of the poem.

Archivio Storico Ricordi / Archivio Storico Ricordi

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.

HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks / In Progress

CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments

Andrew Mellon Foundation / Borthwick Institute for Archives

Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York 1300-1858

Searchable access to the extensive collection of York cause papers – records of the individual cases of the church courts held at York.

CEELBAS / Completed

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.

British Academy / Completed

Cherokee Riverkeepers

The DHI is working with Professor Gregory Smithers, British Academy Global Professor, to develop the first data visualization of Cherokee freshwater management, ecosystem resilience and climate migration in the Tennessee River Valley.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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).

Completed / New Opportunities Fund

Cistercians in Yorkshire

This project created a freely available web-based learning package exploring the history and architecture of the Cistercian order in Britain, particular looking at five Cistercian Abbeys in Yorkshire.

Aarhus University / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Seth Mehl (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)

Community-led impact for rural land rights in South Africa

A multilingual best practice handbook

Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900

Sophisticated, federated searching of a wide range of electronic sources on the subject of early modern and nineteenth-century British history.

Collaborative R&D Award (University of Sheffield) / Completed

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.

British Library / Completed

Cotton Manuscripts Project

This project assisted the British Library in updating the catalogues of the manuscript library of Sir Robert Cotton (1586-1631).

Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Crime in the Community

Enhancing user engagement for teaching and research with the Old Bailey Online website.

British Academy / Completed

Criminal Tattoos

Analysing criminal tattoos through data mining and visualisation. Funded by BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities.

Completed / Michael Pidd (Director – The Digital Humanities Institute)

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.

Completed / Digging into Data Challenge

Data Mining with Criminal Intent: Using Zotero and TAPoR on the Old Bailey Proceedings

This project illustrated how the tools of digital humanities can be used to wrest new knowledge from one of the largest humanities data sets currently available: the Old Bailey Online.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Cardiff University

Database of Mid-Victorian Illustrations

A database which contains the records and images of 868 literary illustrations published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the images themselves.

Completed / Jisc

Dewdrop

How discoverable are your digitised collections? The DHI has developed a tool called “Dewdrop” which will support discovery solutions for online research resources both at national and/or institutional level.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Dialect in British Fiction 1800-1836

This project described and analysed the representation of dialect in 100-120 novels published between 1800 and 1836.

Completed / Digging into Data Challenge

Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions

This project explored authorship across three digitised image datasets: medieval manuscripts, old maps and a collection of quilts.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

e-Science Workshops: The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research

The aim of this series of workshops was to evaluate the usefulness of the Access Grid for collaborative arts and humanities research.

British Academy / Completed

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.

British Academy / Completed

Electronic Texts in East Asian Languages

The project investigated the problems and opportunities associated with producing an electronic resource of East Asian texts.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Cardiff University / Completed

EnergyREV User-Centred Interface

Providing evidence for scaling up smart local energy systems

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

European Cinema Audiences

European Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s.

Cammax Limited / Completed

Exhibitor

This project aimed to enhance new interactive software, called Kiosque, and to deliver and display information content packages for interactive, or rolling, presentational purposes

British Film Institute / Collaborative R&D Award (University of Sheffield)

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) / Completed

Flora Tristan Project

A digital edition on CD-ROM of the correspondence of the nineteenth-century French feminist and socialist Flora Tristan.

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) / Completed

French Film Stars

An online database of filmographies and bibliographical references for all major French film stars.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

From telegrams to Twitter

Archives of letters sent to party leaders will uncover impact of political correspondence

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) / Biblioteca Nacional

Galdós Editions Project

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) is widely regarded as being Spain’s greatest novelist after Cervantes. The project produced new critical editions of his Torquemada novels.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Cardiff University

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / In Progress

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts

Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present

Completed / University of Sheffield

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.

British Academy / British Library

Hartlib Papers

Now available online. A complete electronic edition, with full-text transcription and facsimile images, of all 25,000 seventeenth-century manuscripts of the `intelligencer´ and man of science, Samuel Hartlib.

Centre for Culture and the Arts / Completed

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Digital Humanities Institute / In Progress

Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages

HKCAL is an interdisciplinary research network based in Northern England that explores the evolving contours of Hong Kong’s cultural identity both at home and abroad.

Completed / Higher Education Academy

HumBox

HumBox is an Open Educational Repository (OER) which encourages teachers within HE institutions to publish excellent teaching and learning resources openly on the web.

Completed / Dr Rosie Shute (Research Associate - The Digital Humanities Institute)

Immersive Services for Driverless Cars

When people no longer drive their cars, what will they do instead?

Aberystwyth University / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Imprint

A forensic and historical investigation of fingerprints on medieval seals using documents held in Lincoln Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the National Library of Wales.

Completed / EU Culture Programme

In Mozart’s Words

A complete, four-language, annotated searchable edition of Mozarts´ letters, offering users first-hand insight into the workings of his remarkable musical career.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg / Completed

Intoxicating Spaces

The impact of new intoxicants on public spaces, consumption, and sociability in north-western Europe, c. 1600 – c. 1850

Completed / Katherine Rogers (Developer – The Digital Humanities Institute)

Jaina Prosopography

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society.

Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) / Bodleian Library

James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue

The James Madison Carpenter Collection is a major collection of traditional song and drama from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the USA, documented in the period 1927-55.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Aurelius Trust

John Foxe Project

A new, definitive edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs, based on a textual reconstruction of the four editions published in Foxe’s lifetime.

Completed / HEIF Knowledge Exchange Fund

John Ruskin and the Idea of a Museum

An online, virtual reconstruction of the Walkley Museum and the collection of the Guild of St George using contemporary evidence (original photographs).

Completed / Creswell Craggs

Kinecting Up the Past

Tis project explored the feasibility of using cheap consumer-grade technology such as Microsoft’s Kinect controller to capture environments and artefacts in 3-dimensions.

Completed / Dr Michael Meredith (Developer – University of Sheffield)

Kiosque

Exhibition software which enables users to explore manuscript images either freely or within the context of an exhibition narrative.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Lands of the Normans in England (1204-44)

Exploring the impact on the Anglo-French aristocracy of the collapse of the ‘Anglo-Norman realm’ in 1204 through the families and properties recorded in contemporary documents.

Completed / Dr Estelle Stubbs (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)

Lane’s Masonic Records

John Lane’s Masonic Records, 1717-1894, listing all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges and updated to provide information on lodges that came into existence after 1894.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Late Medieval English Scribes

An online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in Middle English, literary manuscripts.

British Library / Completed

Latin Stemming Project

This project developed and evaluated conflation techniques for searching of Latin texts by non-Latin specialists.

Completed / George-Andrei Ionita (Developer – The Digital Humanities Institute)

Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

A Nordic-English lexicon devoted to the vast array of legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts.

Dr Seth Mehl (Research Associate - University of Sheffield) / Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Linguistic Bede

The Bede supercomputer will be used to explore the viability of machine learning approaches for interpreting billions of Linguistic DNA data.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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.

Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Locating London’s Past

A GIS interface for mapping textual and artefactual data relating to the 17th and 18th centuries against early maps of London.

Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

London Lives

A comprehensive electronic edition of primary sources on criminal justice and the provision of poor relief and medical care in eighteenth-century London.

Completed / HEIF Knowledge Exchange Fund

Managing Expert Witnesses

An online system for managing information relating to Expert Witnesses, developed in partnership with the Merseyside Family Justice Council.

Completed / HEIF Knowledge Exchange Fund

Manor Lodge Project

Interactive 3D reconstructions of the the medieval and sixteenth-century hunting lodge of Sheffield.

Completed / Dr Estelle Stubbs (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)

Manuscripts Online – Written Culture from 1000 to 1500

Federated searching of primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the medieval period.

Completed / European Research Council (ERC)

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.

Completed / Dr Iona Hine (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)

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.

Completed / Derbyshire Record Office

Mining the Seams

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.

Andrew Mellon Foundation / Completed

Networks of Book Makers, Owners and Users in Late Medieval England

This project used network visualisation to advance knowledge of individuals, institutions and communities in both the medieval and the early modern periods which made and used books.

Completed / University of Sheffield

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.

Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln / Completed

Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

The Norman Blake Editions is a series of online editions which present full diplomatic transcriptions of seven manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Completed / Dr Seth Mehl (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)

OED Concept Interface

This proof-of-concept project aims to build and test a search interface which will enable staff at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to identify word sense usage more accurately by utilising Linguistic Concept Modelling.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Ola Nordmann Goes West

A Norwegian journey to the Promised Land. This project used a 3D virtual world to reconstruct the experience of immigration in the 19th century from a Norway village to New York.

Alumni Fund (The University of Sheffield) / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Old Bailey Proceedings Online

The proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 provide accounts of 197,000 criminal trials.

Completed / Dr Kiera Chapman (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)

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).

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Online Froissart

An online edition of the manuscripts of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles of the Hundred Years´ War, one of the most influential works of late medieval French literature.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Origins of Early Modern Literature: Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership

An annotated online catalogue of mid-Tudor writing, a period which saw the Reformation, the consolidation of the Tudor state, and the rise of English as a national language.

Carillion plc / Carillion plc

Oxeye

Carillion has commissioned the DHI to develop Phase 1 of a new type of library management system that aims to overcome the deficiencies of existing systems in the library automation software sector

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Capita

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.

Dr Kathryn Simpson / In Progress

Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies

A project to investigate the systematic and participatory auditing of current and evolving AI technologies

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Partonopeus de Blois

An electronic edition of the 10 manuscript witnesses of the anonymous 12th-century French romance Partonopeus de Blois.

Completed / Dr Michael Meredith (Developer – University of Sheffield)

Pegasus

Pegasus developed a grid-enabled interface for sharing and displaying in real-time selected virtual reality exhibition materials.

Completed / Dr Michael Meredith (Principal Investigator – University of Sheffield)

Personal Signage through Augmented Reality

Using the latest augmented reality for mobile devices, this pilot study aimed to create a private tour guide able to give directions specifically tailored to suit individuals.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Piston, Pen & Press

An AHRC-funded project which aims to understand how industrial workers, from the 1840s to the 1910s, engaged with literary culture through writing, reading, and participation in wider cultural activities.

Completed / Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

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.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Protestants Behind the Iron Curtain

A project which seeks to understand religious belief, identity, and narrative in Russia and Ukraine since 1945 using first-hand accounts.

Completed / Dr Michael Meredith (Developer – University of Sheffield)

Q Cinema: Monetising Research-led Public Engagement at the Showroom Cinema

A collaborative project with Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema and the Dept of Sociological Studies to combine technology and high quality academic research in order to generate additional economic value from the cinema’s existing content and programming.

Broadhead Consulting Limited / Completed

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.

Amsterdam University Press / Blekinge Institute of Technology

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.

Carillion plc / Collaborative R&D Award (University of Sheffield)

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.

Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick) / Completed