DHI The Digital Humanities Institute | Sheffield

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Web Name: DHI The Digital Humanities Institute | Sheffield

WebSite: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk

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About The Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield is one of the UK's leading Digital Humanities centres, supporting the innovative use of technology and computation in arts and humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. MORE Rapid Recap is a project to facilitate private rescue financing for the UK s most innovative high-growth businesses adversely affected by COVID-19. The vocabulary of Standard English includes approximately 600 words from Old Norse, the language of the Scandinavian newcomers who settled in Britain from the 9th to the 11th centuries (popularly known as the Vikings ). The BBC Archive includes the script for every radio news bulletin between the years c.1940 to 1990, totalling around 180,000 scripts (2.3 million pages). This proof-of-concept project aims to build and test a search interface which will enable staff at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to identify word sense usage more accurately by utilising Linguistic Concept Modelling. The impact of new intoxicants on public spaces, consumption, and sociability in north-western Europe, c. 1600 – c. 1850 An AHRC-funded project which aims to understand how industrial workers, from the 1840s to the 1910s, engaged with literary culture through writing, reading, and participation in wider cultural activities. Analysing criminal tattoos through data mining and visualisation. Funded by BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities. This Derbyshire Record Office project will open up the hidden stories of Derbyshire’s miners contained within the archive of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire area, as well as shedding light on the trade union activities of the NUM. A Nordic-English lexicon devoted to the vast array of legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts. European Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s. Funded by the EPSRC through the Content Creation and Consumption in the Digital Economy call, the project addresses the ephemerality of practices and memories encoded in play. Beyond the Multiplex is a three year project that seeks to understand how to enable a wider range of audiences to participate in a more diverse film culture. In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. The DHI applied concept modelling techniques to a curated corpus of more than 6 million YouTube comments associated with over 1,000 videos in order to examine representations of militarized industries. Cine Ricordi is an online archive that allows users to explore the history of Italian cinema-going through a portal that reconstructs the historic cinema networks of eight major cities (Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Naples, Bari, Cagliari and Palermo). This project is producing a digital edition of the letters (15,000) written to Casa Ricordi, the world famous music publisher, during the 19th and 20th centuries by writers, singers and composers including Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Franz Liszt, Ottorino Respighi, Jules Massenet, Alfredo Casella and Luigi Nono. Ways of Being in the Digital Age encompassed research into how digital technology mediates our lives, and of the way technological and social change co-evolve and impact on each other.

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