King's Digital Lab

We create digital tools to explore academic research in new ways.

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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...

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Musical Lives

The Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song, 1100–1300 (MUSLIVE) project explores how medieval French trouvère songs shaped identity and social connections as a transnational practice. Focusing on around 2,200 surviving...

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Alice Thornton's Books

This AHRC-funded research project, in partnership with Durham Cathedral, is creating an online digital edition of the four autobiographical manuscripts written by Alice Thornton (1626-1707). Born into a family of English gentry in...

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A banana on a table and an image of a banana on a laptop on the same table. Each of the two bananas has a white frame around it with the word 'Banana' sticked on top of it — Ceci n’est pas une banane - Max Gruber / Better Images of AI / CC-BY 4.0

Aug 11, 2025

AI in Research

A dialogue between Arianna Ciula, Director and Senior Research Software Analyst at KDL, and Patrick ffrench, Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, from which some key points of resonance emerge.

Bar Charts — © Photo by Maxim Berg on Unsplash

Mar 27, 2025

Report on an Internship at the King's Digital Lab

XR User Playtesting and Feedback Sessions at King’s College London, 3-6.Sep.2024: focal group, playtesting and body tracking with motion capture sensors — XR User Playtesting

Feb 13, 2025

CAPES Fellowship: Reflections on time spent embedded at KDL and CMCI in 2024

Reflections on time spent embedded at KDL and CMCI in 2024

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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.