Introducing Abigail Spanner and the Hunter Archaeological Society Project
January 11, 2024
As the new Research Associate at the Digital Transformations Hub, I thought I should introduce myself. My name is Abigail Spanner, and I am a Classics PhD student in my second year studying visuality and visual impairments in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica, a 3rd-century AD epic poem which bridges the narrative gap between the Iliad and …
DTH Autum 2023: Manager’s update
October 12, 2023
The Digital Transformations Hub is open and ready for a new term, we have a new team member, new volunteers and even a new student project for 2023 –24. Research Associates This year for the first time, DTH will have three Research Associates (RAs) as Abigail Spanner joins the team. Abi will be working in …
The DTH & University of Nottingham Museum Photogrammetry project update: new 3D models!
July 28, 2022
This week the DTH are very excited to launch four new digital 3D models of artefacts belonging to the University of Nottingham Museum’s collection. The 3D models were created as part of an ongoing partnership between the DTH and the Museum, with whom another DTH student volunteer team have also been working on a video. …
DTH Update: Spring 2022 by Matt Davies
February 15, 2022
DTH Manager Matt Davies gives us a quick update on all that’s new in the Digital Transformations Hub. DTH updates DTH is fully open again and welcoming Faculty of Arts staff and students who need help with producing or editing digital content. We’re open 10-5 weekdays during term time, no need to book – although …
DTH Spotlight : The Digital Marketing Project 2022 by Chloe Love
January 24, 2022
Chloe Love is a third year Culture, Languages and Area Studies student, she had been volunteering on the DTH Digital Marketing project since October 2021 and shares her thoughts on the experience here. The Digital Transformations Hub (DTH) offers Faculty of Arts students the opportunity to volunteer for a range of different projects every year. …
Virtual Volunteering: The DTH Archaeology Museum Video Project 2020-2021 by Kavi Mistry
May 17, 2021
This year the Digital Transformations Hub has been collaborating with the University’s Museum on two student volunteer projects. One is to produce 3D digital versions of a selection of the Museum’s artefacts the other to produce information and marketing videos. You can find a report on the photogrammetry project here, this week second-year Ancient History student …
3D digitisation: the University of Nottingham Museum photogrammetry project
March 2, 2021
Photogrammetry is a method of creating a digital 3D version of an object (or space) by capturing multiple overlapping photographs of it from every angle then running the photos through software to produce a 3D version. The artefact used in these illustrations is: Roman Face pot from Margidunum, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, University of Nottingham Museum collection. …
Virtual Volunteering: The DTH Marketing project 2020-21 by Ciara Murphy
January 29, 2021
In today’s blog DTH volunteer Ciara Murphy, a second-year Classical Civilisation student, shares some of the challenges and successes of virtual volunteering for the DTH. Each year the DTH takes on a group of around 20 students from the faculty of arts, to volunteer in the Hub and to work on exciting, real world projects. …
DTH Spotlight: Musicality by Harriot Smith
November 20, 2020
This week DTH volunteer and third year English student Harriot Smith looks at the way in which technology has aided the University’s Musicality group. For many societies this academic year, Covid-19 has prevented the way in which they are usually structured, especially the in-person interactions that members would ordinarily have with one another. Luckily for …
A Year in the DTH Marketing Project by Maria Benedetto Mozo
July 23, 2020
Over the past year I have volunteered at the Digital Transformation Hub (DTH) on the Digital Marketing project. We are a small group of undergraduate students who run the DTH’s social media and promote the Hub’s resources. Shifts are two hours every week and can be chosen to fit your timetable – so there is …
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