Register of Interests: Digital Humanities
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Anne Alexander
Co-ordinator, Digital Humanities Network and Buckley Fellow at CRASSH
My digital interests include: the use of digital media by political activists in the Middle East (particularly Egypt and Iraq), the interaction between online and offline political activism, methodological and ethical problems related to the use of online sources for research (particularly negotiating the boundaries between public and non-public /activist and academic identities). This is a link to a website I created during my previous research project.
Gavin Alexander
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of English
I've been involved in various research and pedagogical initiatives in digital form, including an online early modern palaeography course. I'm currently working on a couple of editorial projects which will have partially online outputs.
Sebastiano Barassi
Curator of Collections, Kettle's Yard
As Curator of Collections at Kettle's Yard I am actively involved in the digitisation of all our collections and archives.
Roberta Borghero
Research Associate
Faculty of Asian And Middle Eastern Studies
I am involved in the The North Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Project in Cambridge.
Kevin Bradley
Computer Officer
Politics, Psychology, Sociology & Int Studies (PPSIS)
Michael Bravo
Head of History and Public Policy Research Group
Scott Polar Research Institute
I contributed many years ago to a British Academy volume on this subject which has since opened up to such an extent it scarcely resembles the work discussed 12 years ago. My interests are concerned with the uses of cartography for cognitive framing (e.g. how people use map projections to see the world), the exploration of counter- mapping narratives, the use of digital spatial images in the mass media. I have recently collaborated with Dr. Robin Boast (MAA) on digital ontologies, as well as more particular projects concerning the use of digital media by indigenous peoples to reassert control of their knowledge traditions.
Barbara Bultmann
DSpace@Cambridge
Sally K Church
Civilizations in Contact
AMES
I am working with four colleagues on a world history project calle Civilizations in Contact (under the auspices of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), and we are currently using GIS software to map trade routes and travellers' routes in pre-modern times.
Graham Cunningham
My expertise is in the languages and literature of ancient Iraq. My research interests are in creating digital corpora (text manipulation, TEI XML annotation, and online publication in a searchable format) and analysing them. I need to improve my skills in each of these areas.
Currently I work on a corpus of texts dating to the first millennium BC, primarily written in Akkadian (a Semitic language). Previously I worked on a corpus dating to the beginning of the second millennium BC, primarily written in Sumerian (a language isolate). The cuneiform script was used for both languages.
Allegre Hadida
University Lecturer
Judge Business School and Magdalene College
My current interests are in the economics of digital screen media, digital music and digital publishing.
Carl Hogsden
Research Associate (CARET)
I have been developing computer applications for the museum sector since 2002 (and in Cambridge for MAA and CARET since 2004). My interest lies in how web technology can be used as a collaborative platform for engagement between museums and their communities (in particular communities of origin).
I am intrigued as to the reciprocal nature of such platforms in facilitating both an open gateway to information, and at the same time providing museums with opportunities to enhance object contextualisation.
Sylvia Huot
Professor of Medieval French Literature
Pembroke College
For over 10 years I have been involved with the website presenting digitisations of medieval 'Roman de la Rose' manuscripts, based at Johns Hopkins University in the US. I believe officially I am down as a member of the 'scholarly advisory committee'. I've been involved in selection of MSS for inclusion, workshops on designing features of the site, and efforts to transcribe the MSS for searchability. There are plans afoot to launch an online journal of some kind in connection with the site and I will probably have a role in that at some point as well.
Marco Iuliano
Marie Curie Fellow
Department of Architecture
Between 2004 and 2007 I was the PI of the Digital Archive
Project, funded with 120.000 € by the Compagnia di San Paolo (Turin).
Since 2005 I have taught Contemporary Architectural History and am now
Marie Curie Fellow, leading 'The Interactive Vision between architecture
and photography', a research project selected by the European Union
under the 7th Framework Program.
Christopher Kaplonski
Senior Research Associate
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Social Anthropology
Among other things, I am the project manager for a five year project, 'The Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia,' which includes responsibilities for database and website design and management.
Tariq Khokhar
Chief Development Officer of Aptivate - a specialist technology consultancy working in the international development sector.
Worked around access to OER (Open Educational Resources), institutional / academic networks in Africa, bandwidth-appropriate content and digital knowledge management more generally. Developed the digital library platform for Forced Migration Online at Oxford.
Marie Léger-St-Jean
PhD student, Faculty of English
I am working on Price One Penny: Cheap Literature from the 1840s and 1850s, an online bibliography of penny bloods, cheap literature from 1840s-1850s London, using PHP and MySQL. I have also used HTML to annotate translations in comparison with their source text for personal research purposes. I have produced graphs with MathLab to trace the chronology of serial translations contrasted with that of their source text.
Phoebe Luckyn-Malone
PhD student
I am working on the history of science in the medieval Islamic world. To facilitate research on the history of agriculture and botany in Arabic, I would like to create a searchable online catalogue of manuscripts. I am also looking into the feasibility of producing online Arabic editions of these texts.
For my PhD work I rely on open source technologies for my operating system, typesetting, and for storing and analysing my research data. Since 2008 I've maintained a blog called LaTeX for Humans. LaTeX is a powerful tool to create documents. I started this blog to help humanities researchers working with LaTeX, particularly people working with Arabic.
Mirca Madianou
Newton Trust Lecturer, Department of Sociology
I am particularly interested in the use of digital technologies in a transnational context. I am currently researching the social consequences of ICTs, including digital media and platforms, in the context of migration. I am also interested in digital technologies as a method of inquiry and as a means of dissemination.
Jon Mair
Research Fellow, St John's College
I am working on a collaborative ethnographic project that will produce a great deal of material - text, audio/video recordings, photographs - and I am looking for ways to manage this material in a way that makes it easily searchable. It should be easily accessible for all collaborators - in different countries, but it needs to be secure.
Karma Phuntsho
Social Anthropology
Digitisation of manuscripts
Adrian Poole
Faculty of English
My own interest entails a project for digitizing and comparing texts of Henry James's fiction (alongside a new 30-volume print edition to be published by CUP), about which my colleague Tamara Follini and I have done some preliminary work with CARET.
Rob Ralley
Research Associate
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
I am working on the Casebooks Project, which aims to produce a digital edition of 38 years' worth of records of astrological consultations in seventeenth-century England.
Susan Rankin
Professor of Music
I am interested in digital resources for editions--both for text material (and its variety) and for connecting it with digital images of manuscripts which can be hosted on the web.
Eleanor Robson
Reader in Ancient Middle Eastern Science
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Since September 2007 I have been running a large AHRC-funded project called The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia which, amongst other things, is creating the online Corpus of Mesopotamian Scholarship, part of the the Cuneiform Digital Library, a major international collaborative consortium which I co-steer with colleagues from Penn and Berkeley.
Alison Sinclair
My interest is because part of a project I'm about to put in to the AHRC is the digitization and cataloguing of a large body of ephemeral 19c material in the UL and BL.
Mark Turin
Research Associate, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
I am a linguistic anthropologist with research interests in the Himalayas. I direct the Digital Himalaya Project which I co-founded at Cambridge in 2000, and also the World Oral Literature Project, a new initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record.
Sebastiaan Verweij
DSpace@Cambridge
Andrew Webber
Acting Director, CRASSH
My particular current interests are in digital screen media and in digital resources for edition projects.
