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Threes researchers reading an ancient inscription

Crossreads Text, materiality and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean

KDL contribution focuses on the development and redesign of the custom digital environment supporting the palaeographic, linguistic and petrographic analyses of the CROSSREADS corpus of Sicilian inscriptions.

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...

3D artwork of dark thread and straight dark wire material forming a network of nodes interconnected across space.

Australian Cultural Data Engine

The Australian Cultural Data Engine aims to harness and interrogate data from a range of cultural databases to help researchers, industry and government get a 'big picture' of, and gain insight into, the spectrum of cultural production and...

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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

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.

A woman stands in the dark embracing a swirl of vibrant neon colours in shades of pink and blue.

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.

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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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