Scoping future data services for the arts and humanities

This project will scope the establishment of a national data service for the arts and humanities

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This project will scope the establishment of the Digital Humanities Data Hive (“DH2”). This is conceived as an active and interactive national data centre for the arts and humanities where the rich and complex data at the heart of research can flourish in new and unexplored ways. At the heart of the project is a respect for the hybrid and diverse array of data that are the basis for arts and humanities research. Our proposal rejects narrow definitions of data types and disciplines, and instead builds on the UK’s long history of expertise in digital text, image, and multimedia collections; within our scope is any humanities data which has the potential to be transformed and have value added through the data-driven integration of research data and tools.

Project team

  • Prof. Lorna Hughes (Principal Investigator – Information Studies, University of Glasgow)
  • Michael Pidd (Co-Investigator – Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield)
  • Prof. Marc Alexander (Co-Investigator – School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow)
  • Dr. Arthur Clune (Co-Investigator – IT Services, University of Sheffield)
  • Dr. Ewan Hannaford (Research Associate – Information Studies, University of Glasgow)
  • Matthew Groves (Research Software Engineer – Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield)
  • Prof. Hannah Barker (Co-Investigator – John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester)
  • Prof. Goran Nenadic (Co-Investigator – Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
  • Dr. Riza Batista Navarro (Co-Investigator – Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
  • Dr. Guyda Armstrong (Co-Investigator – John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester)

Data Subject Experts

  • Paola Marchionni (Jisc)
  • Prof. Daniela Treveri Gennari (Oxford Brookes University)
  • Prof. Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow)
  • Prof. Leif Isaksen (University of Exeter)
  • Prof. Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex)
  • Prof. Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
  • Prof. Caroline Jay (University of Manchester)

Partner organisations

  • National Library of Scotland
  • National Library of Wales
  • Jisc
  • UK Network for Digital Humanities
  • Digital Preservation Coalition