Former Lab Director
James Smithies was Director of King’s Digital Lab (KDL) from 2015-September 2021. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Associate Director of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has worked in the government and commercial IT sectors as a technical writer and editor, business analyst, and project manager. In 2017 he published a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan titled Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern.
James is interested in applied and theoretical digital humanities, including big data analysis, minimal computing, digital archives, modelling and virtual worlds. He has subsidiary interests in critical and media theory, and postphenomenology. His historical work focuses on the history of ideas, technology (including but not limited to computing), and literature.
See his personal website for more information about his work.
Projects
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Digital Humanities Laboratory: Studying the Entanglement of Infrastructure and Technology in Knowledge ProductionMarie Curie Fellowship: DHLab
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, King's Digital Lab, Aalto University
2020–2023
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Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in JordanMaDiH (مديح)
King's Digital Lab, Council for British Research in the Levant, Jordan Open Source Association, University of Oxford, Hashemite University
2019–2021
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AI and Story Telling
King's Digital Lab, FAH Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, Charisma.AI, Parabolic Theatre
2018–2019
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DARIAH-DESIR
University of Glasgow, King's Digital Lab
2017–2019
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(Re) Mixing (de) Humanisation: Virtual Reality Migration Stories for Hard to Reach Audiences with Museums of MigrationRoom to Breath
FAH Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, Migration Museum, FAH Department of History
2019–2019
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Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066/Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon EnglandPDE/PASE
University of Cambridge, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, FAH Department of History