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Screenshot from the Sudan memory website showing the Khalifa House Museum store, full of wooden storage boxes, on shelves and on the floor with superimposed Arabic script.

A Partnership for Conserving and Promoting Sudanese Cultural and Documentary Heritage

The Sudan Memory project seeks to conserve and promote valuable cultural materials from and about Sudan through digitisation and via an online platform. Throughout the country, many interesting and rich...

Historic drawing of King's College, Strand, London.

King's Past

The King's Past project will produce a critical, reflexive history of King’s focusing on thirteen significant 'moments of making' for the college during the two hundred years since its founding.    KDL is working with the research team to produce...

Complex network graph showing interconnected data portals and open data initiatives. Large central nodes include "stats", "datastore", and government portals like "data.gov". Numerous smaller nodes in orange and purple represent various related services and platforms, all connected by a web of lines illustrating relationships between entities in the open data ecosystem.

Data Portal Explorer

The project explores “public datafication” and public “data worlds”, including comparative analyses of different ways of making public data (quantification and datafication of issues in the public sector) and different ways of making data public...

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Network of city lights viewed from above, representing the interconnected nature of modern digital infrastructure
Aerial View of Urban Infrastructure at Night, by Natasha Dulhiier, Unsplash

Infrastructure Modernisation: A Year-Long Journey of Migrating Research Projects and Core Services

A year-long journey of migrating research projects and core services to King's e-Research facility.

Aerial View of Flamingos on Dried Lake
Photo by Esra Bürçün

KDL Infrastructure Migration - Temporary Site Turnoffs

Due to an infrastructure migration and upgrade KDL must temporarily shut down a few of the sites we host from Monday, 2 December.

Professor Dame Janet Nelson, 2019. Image John Deehan for the Royal Historical Society
Image John Deehan for the Royal Historical Society

Tribute to Professor Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson

Obituary of Professor Dame Janet Nelson

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Activities

Some of the ways we enable and deliver digital research.

Planning and analysis

  • Defining requirements
  • Cost estimation
  • Data analysis
  • Modelling
  • Designing technical solutions

Creating and sustaining

  • Building and maintaining digital resources
  • Data visualization
  • Digital accessibility
  • Archiving and sustainability

Participating, contributing, disseminating

  • Sharing code
  • Professional bodies and interest groups
  • Publications
  • Outreach and training

Research themes

Some pathways of innovation we are exploring.

Digital Creativity

Experimenting with digital tools to enable, enhance, and expand our cultural experiences and interactions.

Indigenous Digital Humanities

Fostering understanding, respect, and cooperation among holding institutions, researchers and minority groups to help work on complex issues around data from indigenous community sources.

Machine Learning and AI

Working to create a virtual cycle around ML and AI that goes beyond single projects solutions across the triangle of critical, analytical and practical RSE-driven research.

Data Visualisation

Organizing data with form, structure and shape to help users understand the story it has to tell.

Communities

Organizations and groups we have formal attachment to via active contribution, affiliation or sponsorship as description of the communities space.

King’s College London Institute bringing together expertise from across all disciplines aiming at living well with technology.

Digital Futures Institute

King’s College London Institute bringing together expertise from across all disciplines aiming at living well with technology.

King’s College London Institute supporting and promoting work in artificial intelligence (AI) across the College.

King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence

King’s College London Institute supporting and promoting work in artificial intelligence (AI) across the College.

UK professional society establishing a research environment that recognises the vital role of software in research.

Society of Research Software Engineering

UK professional society establishing a research environment that recognises the vital role of software in research.

UK and Ireland professional association bringing together digital humanities researchers, practitioners and organisations.

UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association

UK and Ireland professional association bringing together digital humanities researchers, practitioners and organisations.

Pan-European infrastructure enhancing and supporting digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities.

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

Pan-European infrastructure enhancing and supporting digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities.

International consortium developing and maintaining a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.

Text Encoding Initiative

International consortium developing and maintaining a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.

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