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Tribute to Professor Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson
by onDBE FRHistS FBA 1942-2024Obituary of Professor Dame Janet Nelson
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From Cagliari to KDL: Memories of a research stay
by onWith these few lines, I would like to describe what has been my experience...What brought me to the Virginia Woolf Building was the doctoral programme I am pursuing at the University of Cagliari under the scientific responsibility of professor Giampaolo Salice, and in particular the training course linked to the PON R&I scholarship I hold.
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Empowering Artistic Innovation
by , onInside GLoW3's Collaborative Journey with Creative TechnologyExperimental digital research is difficult for independent artists to do in terms of finance and skills on their own, but they are exactly the type of people that will move the use of digital tools forward from interesting tech demos to tools of storytelling.
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Reflections on the International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum
by onEa – Indigenous Agency and Abundance (Honolulu, November 2023)A colleague asked, “What was it like attending a conference based in Hawaii compared to the usual other locations?”
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King’s College London joins DARIAH as Cooperating Partner
by onFirst Published on the DARIAH website on 6th November 2023.The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is proud to announce it has renewed a Cooperating Partnership agreement with King’s College London in the United Kingdom.
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Snapshot on King’s Digital Lab Mission and Activities 2022-25
by onCommunicating the significance of RSE in a research-intensive HEI contextThis blogpost aims to present the Mission and Activities document produced by King’s Digital Lab (KDL) in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (King’s College London) senior management in 2022.
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Room is Sad
by onRoom is Sad is appearing at the London Design Biennale until June 25th.Room is Sad is an immersive experience that uses AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) to tell the story of a smart room that isn’t feeling quite itself. It's a humorous, accessible way to engage both an academic and general audience on questions of identity, privacy, and intelligence.
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Critical Modelling of Extensive Literary Data
by , onAn ExperimentThis blogpost discusses and reflects on the process and findings of the collaboration between colleagues at the Australian National University (ANU) and at King’s Digital Lab (KDL), supported by the King’s College London Australia Partnership Seed Fund and Australian National University Global Research Partnership scheme, for the period 2020-22. It provides some background and outlines three approaches to investigating the Reading at the Interface project dataset.
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What does the role of Research Technology Professional mean to King’s Digital Lab?
by onPart 4: Equality, Diversity and InclusionThis is the fourth part of a blogpost published for International Research Software Engineering Day integrating and extracting from our response to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) consultation this summer on what the role of Research Technology Professional (RTP) means to King’s Digital Lab. Research Software Engineering profiles are a category within RTPs so our response was based on the KDL experience of inhabiting those roles.
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What does the role of Research Technology Professional mean to King’s Digital Lab?
by onPart 3: Visibility, recognition, career development, sustainability and trainingThis is the third installment of a blogpost published for International Research Software Engineering Day integrating and extracting from our response to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) consultation this summer on what the role of Research Technology Professional (RTP) means to King’s Digital Lab. Research Software Engineering profiles are a category within RTPs so our response was based on the KDL experience of inhabiting those roles.
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What does the role of Research Technology Professional mean to King’s Digital Lab?
by onPart 2: People, projects, infrastructure, methodologies and processesThis is the second part of a blogpost published for International Research Software Engineering Day integrating and extracting from our response to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) consultation this summer on what the role of Research Technology Professional (RTP) means to King’s Digital Lab. Research Software Engineering profiles are a category within RTPs so our response was based on the KDL experience of inhabiting those roles.
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What does the role of Research Technology Professional mean to King’s Digital Lab?
by onOur integrated response to AHRC call for evidence - Part 1: Who are Research Technology Professionals?For International Research Software Engineering Day we are publishing a serialised blogpost integrating and extracting from our response to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) consultation this summer on what the role of Research Technology Professional (RTP) means to King’s Digital Lab. Research Software Engineering profiles are a category within RTPs so our response was based on the KDL experience of inhabiting those roles.
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Indigenous Digital Humanities
by onA Research Theme under DevelopmentWhaia e koe ki te iti kahurangi, kia tāpapa koe,he maunga tiketikeFollow your treasured aspirations, if you must bow your head,let it be to a lofty mountainNāku te rourou, nāu te rourou,ka ora ai te iwiWith my basket, and your basket,we will feed the people
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Making sense of the Stakeholder Map
by onA focused approach for high-level requirementsWe recently embarked with partners on an AHRC funded scoping exercise, to define the specifications of a Complex 3D Data Repository for the Arts and Humanities.
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How KDL applies Machine Learning to research projects
by onA subjective retrospectiveAs our new director, Arianna, mentioned in her recent blog post, Machine Learning (ML) is one of the research themes we are keen to start prioritising. Not only because it matches strong personal interests among the solution development team who are eager to experiment with new and exciting techniques (as you would expect from a Lab) but also because, as AI research moves quickly, it continuously brings new methodological opportunities to many scientific fields including the Humanities.
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High level priorities
by onAs new Director of KDL ...After almost exactly five years since I joined King’s Digital Lab (KDL) as Research Software Analyst, I have recently been appointed Director for the next four years, following the departure of KDL first director, James Smithies.
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Ghost Hunt at Spinners Mill
by onA family immersive adventureTom Bowtell of KIT Theatre and Elliott Hall of Kings Digital Lab worked in collaboration with Leigh Ambassadors group to create a new Digital Ghost Hunt at Spinners Mill for family audiences (9+) inspired by real historical events.Listen to an episode of the Exchange's podcast Connecting Tales discussing the show, with Tom, Elliott, and Leigh Ambassador (and part time ghost) Mike Burwin.Emma Bradburn, intern for the ‘Civic Theatres: A Place for Towns’ research project wrote an account of the show on her blog.
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Announcing my departure from KDL
by onNew starts, new possibilitiesI’ll be leaving King’s Digital Lab (KDL) this month, after 6 wonderful years, for a new role as Professor of Digital Humanities in King’s Department of Digital Humanities (DDH). Although merely a move over to the other half of Digital Humanities at King’s, and a return to a department I used to hold a fractional appointment in, it represents a significant milestone in my career. I’m grateful to the many people who have supported me to this point, in New Zealand, Australia, Jordan, and the United States, as well as the UK.
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The road to a more inclusive web
by onThe state of digital accessibility at KDLRecently I was asked to present the lab’s progress on the work done to improve accessibility in our products to the Digital Accessibility Programme Board at King’s. KDL joined the board from day one to help shape the College’s digital accessibility policy and help scope the work that needed to be done to make every platform as accessible as possible.
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Knowledge creation in the Humanities
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Safeguarding an inheritance and ensuring a legacy
by onSoftware Development Lifecycle for Research Software EngineeringAt its inception in 2015, King’s Digital Lab became the de facto custodian of a rich legacy of Digital Humanities (DH) research projects spanning decades of experimentation...
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KDL / DDH Joint Statement
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Exposing legacy project datasets in Digital Humanities
by onKDL experienceHow to address pragmatically the substantial challenge of curating and archiving a rich estate of over 100 legacy projects without funding? Deep breath…
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Meeting in Virtual Reality
by onConferences and gatherings while working from homeIn these strange days technologies for virtual meetings and gatherings that have been developing steadily and quietly are now finding themselves suddenly ushered to the front of the class as we ask what might change in the workplace post COVID-19.
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Reflections on an Internship at KDL
by onLegacy Data Project