3. Department of Digital Humanities:
the application of digital technology to humanities disciplines
a reflection upon the impact of digital media upon humanity
> 50 academics & researchers
~ £2 million research income per annum
5+ million digital objects in 107+projects
200+ million hits over the last 5 years
www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/

5. Digital Humanities is about Collaboration
.
Literary/linguistic
English
History
Art History
Music
Theatre studies
Information management
Digital library and
archives

6. Uploaded every day:
300m Tweets,
250m Facebook
photo's
&
8 person years worth
of content on Youtube!

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4y-_VoXdA
Digital Humanities methods for historical analysis of
Irish Immigrants in 19th Century London, England

8. www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html

11. Effective, efficient and world leading

12. Digitising the
Dead Sea Scrolls

13. Digitising the
Dead Sea Scrolls

14. Spectral Classification
Use of complete spectrum separates
ink, parchment, backing and background

20. Discovering
Annotating
Comparing
Referring
Sampling
Illustrating
Representing
What we
do with
digital stuff
From John Unsworth’s Scholarly Primitives

21. Bringing
collections out
of the dark

22. http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
Measuring the Impact of
Digitized Resources:
The Balanced Value Impact Model