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Name
Exeter Digital Humanities Lab
Year of Foundation
2017 (CIGH Exeter, 2017)
Short description
Specializing in history and cultural artefact research (CIGH Exeter, 2017), the University of Exeter established the Digital Humanities Lab in 2017. This state-of-the-art facility houses a Digital Humanities (DH) team, dedicated to offering expertise to advancing research and teaching through academic collaboration, training and research seminars, and sector-leading facilities for digital investigation and engagement. The lab offers expertise, equipment, and support for examining, preserving, and analysing historical, literary, and visual materials in alignment with the university’s expertise in international cultural heritage and creative past research. The lab’s establishment reflects the growing importance of humanities research and the integration of digital methods into scholarly practices.
While the DH lab is not an academic department, its collaboration with researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences supports digital elements in traditional humanities research, fostering interdisciplinary exploration and innovation at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry.
The lab’s activities develop along four areas: collaboration on digital research projects and resources, grant development and data management support, website development and hosting, and digital skills training, including digitization services. In line with its goal of incorporating DH into teaching and research, the lab provides equipment, facilities, and digitization spaces for loans and supports off-campus use and specialist activities. Moreover, it offers skills training and digitalization experiences that can be integrated into teaching courses, along with internship, volunteering, and job opportunities for individuals interested in gaining digital and practical skills.
At the forefront of innovation, the lab encompasses new methods as they are developed, often deploying technological advances in science and engineering, and strive to contribute knowledge and best practice back to the global DH community.
Presently, in alignment with the College of Arts & Humanities Digital Strategy for 2021-26, the lab has been successfully driving digital literacy through various training and support programs. Additionally, its efforts to incorporate DH into teaching and research align with the key theme of ‘Nurturing Hybrid Humanists’ within the strategy. Themes such as ‘Intelligent analysis of documents, artefacts, and environment’ and ‘Telling New Stories with Data’ further align with the lab’s support for international cultural heritage and creative past research. Lastly, the lab’s development of inclusive and accessible digital resources, along with its emphasis on holistic approaches to digital labour, addresses the impacts of digitized culture, reflecting the strategy’s theme of ‘Addressing the Impacts of Digitized Culture’. (Source: University of Exeter, nd)
Teaching on DH
While the lab does not teach or offer regular undergraduate and postgraduate DH modules, it offers DH trainings in the form of training workshops, webinars, and research seminars. From ‘Managing Humanities Data’ and ‘Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)’ workshops that run throughout the autumn and spring term, to the AI & Humanities, and the Space & Place in the Humanities Forum, to AHRC iDAH Digital Skills Training Workshops and Webinars Series.These resources cater to participants at all levels, from beginners to advanced (University of Exeter, nd).
The DH Team
Prof Leif Isaksen, Professor in Digital Humanities and Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter, interested in the development of geographic thought and representation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the emerging role of the Web as a transformational medium for communicating and connecting complex information.
Dr Charlotte Tupman, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Humanities. Expert in Latin epigraphy and the application of digital technologies to study ancient texts. Interested in Machine learning for the analysis of ancient textual materials, Lettercutting processes in the Roman world, Roman funerary commemoration, and Linked Open Data for humanities source materials
Dr Elizabeth Williamson, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, interested in the early modern archives and epistolary culture, especially in a diplomatic and governmental context; the practical and theoretical concerns of the Digital Humanities; and textual scholarship and digital publication.
Key projects with links
- The Exeter Book Project
- Grecian Archive
- Hidden Florence
- Painting for The Salon? The French State, Artists, and Academy, 1930-1853
- Poly-Olbion
- Virtual Magic Bowl
- Places of Poetry
- War in Other Words
- Subtitling World Cinema
- The Ipplepen Project
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艾克塞特大学数字人文实验室
名稱
艾克塞特大学数字人文实验室
成立年份
2017 (CIGH Exeter, 2017)
简要描述
艾克塞特大学在历史和文化物品研究方面拥有丰富的专业知识, 在2017年成立了数字人文实验室。(CIGH Exeter, 2017)。这一现代化设施设有数字人文（DH）团队, 致力于通过学术合作、培训和研究研讨会以及数字调查和参与的领先设施，提供专业知识以推动研究和教学的发展 。该实验室提供专业知识、设备、並支持用于审查、保存和分析历史、文学和视觉材料，与大学在国际文化遗产和创意过去研究方面的专长保持一致。实验室的建立反映了人文学科研究的日益重要性, 以及将数字方法整合到学术实践中的趋势。
尽管数字人文实验室不是一个学术部门，但它与人文、艺术和社会科学学院的研究人员合作, 支持数字元素在传统人文学科研究中的应用，促进技术与人文探究的交叉学科探索和创新。
实验室的活动主要表现在四个方面: 数字研究项目和资源的合作、资助申请开发和数据管理计划支持、网站开发和托管, 以及数字技能培训, 包括数字化服务。为了实现将数字人文融入教学和研究的目标, 实验室提供设备、设施和数字化空间供借用, 支持校外使用和专业活动。此外, 它还提供技能培训和数字化体验, 可纳入教学课程, 并为有兴趣获得数字和实践技能的个人提供实习、志愿服务和就业机会。实验室处于创新的前沿，随着新方法的开发, DH 团队常常运用科学和工程方面的技术进步，并努力将知识和最佳实践贡献给全球数字人文社区。
目前, 实验室与2021-26年艺术与人文学院数字战略一致。 该实验室通过各种培训和支持项目成功推动数字素养。此外, 其将数字人文融入教学和研究的努力与该战略中的「培养混合人文学者」主题相一致。例如,「智能文档、物品和环境分析」和「用数据讲述新故事」等主题进一步与实验室对国际文化遗产和创意过去研究的支持相一致。最后, 实验室开发包容和可访问的数字资源, 并强调对数字劳动的全面方法, 以应对数字化文化的影响, 反映了战略中「应对数字化文化的影响」的主题。(资料来源: 艾克塞特大学, 未提供日期）
数字人文教学
虽然该实验室不教授或提供常规的本科和研究生数字人文课程，但它以培训研讨会、网络研讨会和研究研讨会的形式提供数字人文训练。例如, 有从贯穿秋季和春季学期的「管理人文数据」和「反射变换成像（RTI）」研讨会，人工智能与人文学和人文学中的空间与地点论坛，以及AHRC iDAH数字技能培训研讨会和网络研讨会系列。这些资源适用于所有水平的参与者（艾克塞特大学, 未提供日期）。
数字人文团队
Leif Isaksen 教授, 艾克塞特大学数字人文教授兼数字人文主任, 专注于古代和中世纪地理思想和表现形式的发展，并关注网络作为传播和连接复杂信息的新兴媒介的作用。
Charlotte Tupman 博士, 数字人文高级研究员, 专攻拉丁铭文，擅长应用数字技术研究古代文本。 她对机器学习在古代文本材料分析中的应用、罗马世界的刻字工艺、罗马墓葬纪念以及人文学科源资料的链接开放数据感兴趣。她是由英国艺术与人文研究委员会（AHRC）和德国研究基金会（DFG）资助的研究项目“连接晚期古代”的联合调查员。
Elizabeth Williamson 博士, 人文、艺术和社会科学学院高级研究员。她在项目管理和数字资源创建方面拥有丰富的经验，并支持现有项目和未来招标开发。她特别关注早期现代档案和书信文化，尤其是在外交和政府背景下；对数字人文的实践和理论关注；以及文本学研究和数字出版。她对数字可视化、数字修复以及利用增强制造技术进行文化遗产保护感兴趣。