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

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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...

This diagram presents the 5 STEP-UP platform work-packages associated to research data, software and computing infrastructure roles.

STEP-UP: A Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals

The STEP-UP platform is a project to develop and support digital Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) and their ecosystem.

'Digital infrastructure' – enabling computational modelling, processing of larger datasets, creation of advanced...


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Living with Machines

A multidisciplinary research collaboration between the British Library and the Alan Turing Institute with King's College London, the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Exeter, and London (QMUL), the

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One set of visual data transformation with a code snippet in Python on the left and manuscripts on the right.
The process of data transcription © Filippo Astori

From Cagliari to KDL: Memories of a research stay

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

Experimental 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.

A Loʻi, kalo/taro garden on the grounds of the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
A Loʻi, a kalo/taro garden. © Samantha Callaghan, 2023

Reflections on the International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum

A colleague asked, “What was it like attending a conference based in Hawaii compared to the usual other locations?”

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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 areas

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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