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sotonDH small grants: Locative and geo-located audio: editing a place with sounds
by Sotondh via Digital Humanities
After my presentation at UoS Creative Digifest2, Guy Stephens of Cap Gemini invited me to speak at their London offices: Monday 22nd October, presenting recent musical and academic research on virtual sound in real environments. Fantastic opportunity to discuss my musical and academic research with an audience at Cap Gemini yesterday, in their astonishing 8th floor “Accelerated Solutions […]
Seeing in a New Light – Archaeological Computing Research Group Seminar
by Matthew Harrison via Digital Humanities
Speaker: Sally Ford Location: Digital Archaeology Lab, Building 65a, Avenue Campus, Southampton Date: 26.10.2012, 2-3pm This Friday is the first ACRG seminar of the term, and we welcome all students and staff to attend. Seeing in a new light: How can polynomial texture mapping help record forensic investigations of cremations? Polynomial texture mapping is an […]
AHRC RTISAD project leads to new research around proto-Elamite
by Graeme Earl via Digital Humanities
Read a news article on the BBC website about our collaboration with University of Oxford to develop a Reflectance Transformation Imaging system for recording ancient documents. This work was partly funded by an AHRC grant under the DEDEFI scheme. Our role at Southampton has been to develop the capture software and bespoke hardware – described […]
Connecting Digital Humanities Learners and Researchers
by Graeme Earl via Digital Humanities
The DHDL funding by the University of Southampton Student Centredness Fund has already paid for the redesign of two labs. In the final stage of the project we have begun to look at ways to connect students and staff from multiple disciplines and at different campuses. This is structured around three areas of research: hardware […]
Work Thought Blog
by Hembo Pagi via Work Thought Blog
The Directors of WFRC (Pauline Leonard, Susan Halford, Alison Fuller and Catherine Pope) monthly Work Thought blog.
Bringing you the very latest news and discussions on the wide range of work-related research carried out within the Work Futures Resourc…
The DE USRG at Digital Futures 2012 – DE All Hands
by Graeme Earl via Digital Economy USRG
The DE USRG will be represented by approximately 16 delegates at Digital Futures 2012 next week, all of whom are involved in posters, papers, or demos. These include seven papers, demos or posters by students from the RCUK DE Web Science DTC. Keynote Delivering the Smart Grid: How digital technologies can change the way we generate, […]
The role of social media at the Creative Digifest #SXSC2
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
The first of the Web Science debate series of the 2012-13 academic year
by Graeme Earl via Digital Economy USRG
“This house believes that privacy is not worth paying for” Tim Davies Dominic Hobson Mark Frank Maire Evans Jack Townsend Everyone welcome Sandwiches and danishes Would you like to speak briefly at a future debate? If so contact Jack Townsend.
sotonDH small grant: Scanning Winchester Cathedral (part two)
by James Miles via Digital Humanities
Having received a small sotonDH student research grant I took the ScanStation 2 laser scanner owned by the Geography department to Winchester cathedral. Scanning started with the Pilgrims’ hall located next the Pilgrims’ school (attached) with both the interior and exterior being scanned at a 2cm resolution. The resolution was chosen through a combination of […]
18th century letters from Jamaica posted online give new insights into slavery
by Luke Goater via Digital Humanities
Historian and Senior Lecturer Dr Christer Petley has used digital technology to create an online teaching and research resource about slavery in the British Caribbean in the 18th century. Slavery and Revolution showcases the letters of a wealthy and powerful landowner in Jamaica. The website uses a blogging format to explore the world of Simon […]