Digitisation Conference 2005: Humanities Beyond Digitisation

This page contains selected proceedings from the conference 'Humanities Beyond Digitisation' held on 20 - 21 September 2005 at the Institute of Historical Research. Unfortunately, for technical reasons it was not possible to publish recordings of every presentation given at the conference.

Technical note: The files are Windows Media Audio (wma) files, which will play in Windows Media Player. Mac users can download Windows Media Player for the Mac at the Microsoft website.

Plenary Lecture

The last ten years

Mark Greengrass (Sheffield)

Session One

The impact of digital resources on academic research and scholarship: (1) information-seeking behaviours

Chair: Elizabeth Williamson (IHR/Victoria County History)

1. Historians and the search for primary sources

   Ian Anderson (Glasgow)

2. Usage of The National Archives catalogue

   Chris Kutler (The National Archives of the UK)
   Listen to this talk (8 mins 55 secs; 1.3MB)

3. How will newspaper digitisation affect the way in which scholars use newspapers in their research?

   Adrian Bingham (IHR/Centre for Contemporary British History)
   Listen to this talk (16 mins 45 secs; 2.45MB)

4. Benchmarking British History Online

   Peter Webster (IHR)
   Listen to this talk (15 mins; 2.19MB)

5. The information seeking behaviour of the virtual scholar?

   David Nicholas (University College London)

Session Two

Preservation, dissemination and sustainability

Chair: Matthew Davies (IHR/Centre for Metropolitan History)

1. What will the Library of the future look like?

   David McKitterick (Cambridge)
   Listen to this talk (26 mins 13 secs; 3.83MB)

2. How can we ensure that digital resources are preserved for future generations?

   Harold Short (Centre for Computing in the Humanities/Kings College London)
   Listen to this talk (23 mins 56 secs; 3.49MB)

3. Dissemination and promotion of an online resource

   Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire)
   Listen to this talk (12 mins 44 secs; 1.86MB)

4. How do we develop a sustainable funding model for the creation and maintenance of online resources?

   Lorna Hughes (ICT Methods Network/Kings College London)

Session Three

The impact of digital resources on research: (2) new questions and opportunities - Case studies

Chair: Paul Seaward (History of Parliament Trust)

1. Economic history/historical demography

   Matthew Woollard (AHDS History/Essex)
   Listen to this talk (19 mins 24 secs; 2.83MB)

2. Archaeology

   Julian Richards (ADS/AHDS Archaeology/York)
   Listen to this talk (17 mins 16 secs; 2.52MB)

3. Printed sources/texts

   Alan Marshall (Bath Spa)
   Listen to this talk (12 mins 57 secs; 1.89MB)

4. Darwin correspondence

   Alison Pearn (Cambridge)

Session Four

Making connections, changing boundaries

Chair: Sheila Anderson (Arts and Humanities Data Service)

1. The limitations of the search ontology for history

   Richard Deswarte (East Anglia)
   Listen to this talk (20 mins 20 secs; 2.97MB)

2. Hypermedia and the post-structuralist view of the archives

   Louise Craven (TNA)

3. Search engines and the future of scholarship

   Michael Moss (Glasgow)

4. The role of the DNB in linking research resources

   Robert Faber (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

Session Five

The impact of digital resources on research: (3) training and skills

Chair: Andrew Prescott (Sheffield)

1. The skills that are required for funding applications

   Zoe Bliss (AHDS History) & Alistair Dunning (AHDS Executive)

2. The ARIA project (Arts and Humanities Research ICT Awareness and Training)

   Stephen Brown (De Montfort/ARIA)
   Listen to this talk (12 mins 57 secs; 1.89MB)

3. The challenges and opportunities for research students using digital resources

   Jonathan Topham (Leeds)

4. Online research: problems of trust, originality and work

   Robert Iliffe (Imperial College)

Session Six

Supply and demand

Chair: Elizabeth Hallam-Smith (TNA)

1. Questions of supply and demand

   Seamus Ross (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute/Glasgow)

2. The need for a strategic approach to digitisation

   Simon Tanner (Kings College London)
   View the talk slides as pdf (pdf file; 1.00MB)

3. How do we ensure that researchers know what is available to them?

   Sheila Anderson (AHDS)
   Listen to this talk (26 mins 10 secs; 3.82MB)

4. Oxford: the Google digitisation project

   Ronald Milne (Oxford)

Plenary Lecture

The role of the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Philip Esler (Arts and Humanities Research Council)

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