Arts Digital Impact: Crowdsourcing Place-Names in Staffordshire
April 18, 2018
This is a guest blog by Jayne Carroll. Place-names are short texts – they can tell us all sorts of things about the people, landscape, and languages of the past. In England, most place-names are very old. Many of them were given by Anglo-Saxons as descriptive labels more than a thousand years ago. We …
Faculty of Arts Digital Day: A Showcase of Digital Teaching and Learning and Digital Research Projects
December 8, 2017
Staff from across the faculty gathered in Highfield House on 11th October for the Arts Digital Day, an afternoon where staff shared developments in digital teaching and learning and digital research. The event was introduced by Faculty PVC Professor Jeremy Gregory. Faculty APVC Mark Bradley gave an update on Education and Student Experience, during which …
Arts Impact: Our Theatre Royal Nottingham
November 3, 2017
The Digital Research Team has been supporting a collaborative research project run by Jo Robinson in the School of English and Laura Carletti from Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute to enable the Theatre Royal Nottingham to research, curate and share their history through a digital archive. The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant to the …
Digitally Preserving the Hennessy Collection
August 4, 2017
The Centre for Research on Cuba is home to the Hennessy Collection, which is a unique archive of Cuban periodicals from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Originally donated to the Forum for the Study of Cuba by Professor Alistair Hennessy in 1994, the archive currently holds over 70 different journals and newspapers, including extensive runs of …
Arts Impact: Storytelling Objects
June 14, 2017
This guest blog post was provided by Hyosun Kwon from the Mixed Reality Lab: The Storytelling Objects project aims to explore notions of audience engagement with hybrid (digital/physical) gifting. We will be creating a ‘box’ that will be sent out to transmedia practitioners. The box will ask them to create a ‘captivating’ story fragment using …
Digital Innovation in Arts Impact
April 13, 2017
As Digital Research Manager, and previously as Digital Humanities Manager, I’ve been working with a number of digital Arts projects over the last few years. A lot of that work has been about helping researchers to use digital tools to enhance the process of doing research. For this case study, I plan to investigate a …
