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DDH General Intro

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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/

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Digital Humanities is about Collaboration

.

Literary/linguistic

English

History

Art History

Music

Theatre studies

Information management

Digital library and archives

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Uploaded every day:

300m Tweets,

250m Facebook photo's

& 8 person years worth

of content on Youtube!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA

Digital Humanities methods for historical analysis of Irish Immigrants in 19th Century London, England

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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html

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Effective, efficient and world leading

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Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Spectral Classification

Use of complete spectrum separates ink, parchment, backing and background

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Discovering

Annotating

Comparing

Referring

Sampling

Illustrating

Representing

What we do with digital stuff

From John Unsworth’s Scholarly Primitives

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Bringing collections

out of the dark

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http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html

Measuring the Impact of Digitized Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model

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