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Department of Digital Humanities: the application of digital technology to humanities disciplinesa reflection upon the impact of digital media upon humanity
> 50 academics & researchers~ £2 million research income per annum5+ million digital objects in 107+projects200+ million hits over the last 5 years
www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
Digital Humanities is about Collaboration
.
Literary/linguistic
English
History
Art History
Music
Theatre studies
Information management
Digital library and archives
Uploaded every day:
300m Tweets,
250m Facebook photo's
& 8 person years worth
of content on Youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
Digital Humanities methods for historical analysis of Irish Immigrants in 19th Century London, England
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
Effective, efficient and world leading
Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls
Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls
Spectral Classification
Use of complete spectrum separates ink, parchment, backing and background
Discovering
Annotating
Comparing
Referring
Sampling
Illustrating
Representing
What we do with digital stuff
From John Unsworth’s Scholarly Primitives
Bringing collections
out of the dark
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
Measuring the Impact of Digitized Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model