The Faculty of Arts is conducting original research into the ways in which humanities scholars use digital technologies. Recent publications include:
Wilks (2009) It’s like a permanent corridor conversation: an exploration of scholarly networking at the Open University, February 2009. The Open University.
James at al (2009) Lives and technologies of early career researchers, October 2009, JISC
**Wilks (2009) The use of digital technologies in Faculty of Arts research: an overview (intranet access only)
Developing the digital humanities at the Open University: progress report
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Several members of the OU’s Arts Faculty produce blogs, podcasts and webpages which showcase their work in innovative ways.
Our Digital Humanities blog: please join us for comments and discussion.
Classics Confidential: News, gossip and curiosities from the ancient world! This website includes a collection of videos and podcasts about the ancient world created by Classical Studies lecturers, Elton Barker and Jessica Hughes.
Philosophy Bites and more: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Nigel Warburton, produces a range of blogs, podcasts and tweets. This webpage, produced for our Digital Humanities Social Media seminar on 11th May 2010, provides links to Nigel’s web-based initiatives and presents his analysis of the benefits of this form of communication: What I do on the internet
Antiquist is an online community of people working with computing in the heritage sector. Antiquist is primarily a communication network - a way for us all to talk, argue, experiment, share ideas, and solve common problems.
The Digital Classicist is a decentralised and international community of scholars and students interested in the application of innovative digital methods and technologies to research on the ancient world. The Digital Classicist hosts a series of summer seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies in London, where Classicists and Digital Humanists alike can come and share their experiences or ongoing projects with the community.
Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media.
The arts-humanities net provides links to community groups with an interest in digital humanities.
The Stoa Consortium provides a venue for the exploration of innovations in scholarly communication, with a focus on Classics and Classical Archaeology.
Please visit our blog for a more exhaustive list of Digital Humanities projects and organisations.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations includes links to papers and publications.
The projects section of the arts-humanities net provides detailed records of several hundred digital arts and humanities projects, including information on the digital resources created and the methods and tools used in the research.
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities brings together work being done in many different departments and centres, as well as Library Services and Museums and Collections and aims to collaborate with organisations outside UCL, such as museums, galleries, libraries and archives. This website provides links to information about UCL research in Digital Humanities, events of interest, news, and contact information, as well as links to the blog and twitter feed.
KCL Department of Digital Humanities The primary objective of DDH is to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with local, national and international research partners across the disciplines, to design and build applications which implement these possibilities, in particular those which produce online research publications.
Several large-scale projects are under way which provide the opportunity for conversation and collaboration.
Open Research Online is the Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs, including humanities research. It is an Open Access resource that can be searched and browsed freely by members of the public.
Free Open University Resources on iTunesU The Faculty of Arts has a range of free learning materials available on iTunes U including tracks on Imperial Rome, Greek History, Music and Ethics.
This is a selection of collections of humanities resources which can be accessed free of charge. Further websites providing open access resource collections are highlighted on the subject-based Library webpages.
Cecilia is an on-line guide to music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland.
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents One of the largest collections of squeezes (paper impressions) of Greek inscriptions in the world, together with the Haverfield archive of Roman inscriptions from Britain, and a substantial photographic collection.
CLAROS is an international research collaboration, built on the art of ancient Greece and Rome, enabling simultaneous searching of major collections in university research institutes and museums.
Charles Darwin Online contains searchable text and electronic images of Darwin's publications, papers and letters.
Free Digital Resources for Classicists - some useful quick notes from Classics Blog.
Glasgow Digital Library ebooks open access e-book collection.
Internet library of early journals digitises substantial runs of key early British 18th and 19th century journals, and makes these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.
Internet sacred text archive provides the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet.
Perseus hosts an open source on-line library of primary sources and materials, including Greek and Roman texts and commentaries, 19th century American sources, and early modern English literature. Many are now fully annotated, allowing for detailed syntactical analysis or text mining.
Poetry archive is a collection of poets reading their work which aims to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience.
Read Print provides free access to 8,000 online books by 3,500 authors.
The Open University Library provides access to a wide range of digital humanities resources.
Some of the most popular subscription-based resources can be accessed via the following quick links (in the OU domain):