The Slide Librarians: team news & competition time.
February 2, 2017
Slide Team news Regular readers of Digital Dialogues will recall that in June 2016 I wrote about the DHC Volunteers Slide Team and their projects and plans. Well this academic year Sanchari, Marina and Tristan have been joined by even more slide enthusiasts; welcome aboard Rachel, Darcie, Bethan, Nisha, Kay, Alex and Ranait! With the …
DHC Volunteer Projects 2016 part three: the Slide Librarians.
June 7, 2016
Readers of Digital Dialogues may be surprised that we house a slide collection in the Digital Humanities Centre but, whilst as a society we have often been quick to abandon the analogue for digital, there are many arguments for not being so hasty. Some of these arguments may be set forth in future blogs (see …
Volunteering in the DHC 2015; a Historian’s perspective by Depeeka Mistry.
November 17, 2015
History undergraduate Depeeka Mistry provides some initial impressions of the Digital Humanities Centre after a couple of months of volunteering. The Digital Humanities Centre is a hub of advanced technology and a haven for every Humanities student, from the outside it is a just a room, but inside it is a Tardis of new technology! …
A day trip to the University’s Manuscripts and Special Collections dept by DHC alumnus Sam Rigby.
September 4, 2014
One of the projects that DHC volunteers worked on in 2013-14 was the digitisation of sections of the extensive slide collection which is housed within the space. DHC hopes to one day have a database of selected images from the collection, which could range from classical sculpture to twentieth century architecture, and would be available …
What is the Digital Humanities Centre?
May 20, 2014
The questions I get asked most as DHC Manager are ‘what is the DHC?’ and ‘how can it help me with my studies, teaching or research?’ Well in a nutshell the DHC is a space in which staff and students can use digital technology to enhance their work. We have seven workstations, each with its …
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