King's Digital Lab

We create digital tools to explore academic research in new ways.

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Alice Thornton's Books

This AHRC-funded research project, in partnership with Durham Cathedral, is creating an online digital edition of the four autobiographical manuscripts written by Alice Thornton (1626-1707). Born into a family of English gentry in...

A close-up of an open book's fanned-out pages, creating a visually striking pattern of curved, layered lines in warm tones.

Encyclopedia Britannica Exploratory Prototypes

This project builds on a selection of the published datasets of the early Encyclopedia Britannica editions (1771-1911) produced by the Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, led by Peter M. Logan. One...

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STEP-UP: A Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals

The STEP-UP platform is a project to develop and support digital Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) and their ecosystem.

'Digital infrastructure' – enabling computational modelling, processing of larger datasets, creation of advanced...

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Mar 27, 2025

Report on an Internship at the King's Digital Lab

XR User Playtesting and Feedback Sessions at King’s College London, 3-6.Sep.2024: focal group, playtesting and body tracking with motion capture sensors — XR User Playtesting

Feb 13, 2025

CAPES Fellowship: Reflections on time spent embedded at KDL and CMCI in 2024

Reflections on time spent embedded at KDL and CMCI in 2024

A neural network comes out of the top of an ivory tower, above a crowd of people's heads (shown in green to symbolise grass roots). Some of them are reaching up to try and take some control and pull the net down to them. Watercolour illustration. — Jamillah Knowles & We and AI / Better Images of AI / People and Ivory Tower AI / CC-BY 4.0

Jan 16, 2025

Prototyping a RAG System for Digital Humanities: Exploring AI/ML with Indigenous Data

A prototype RAG system for Indigenous data, exploring the use of AI/ML in the context of sensitive cultural data.

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Activities

Some of the ways we enable and deliver digital research.

Planning and analysis

Defining requirements
Cost estimation
Data analysis
Modelling
Designing technical solutions

Creating and sustaining

Building and maintaining digital resources
Data visualization
Digital accessibility
Archiving and sustainability

Participating, contributing, disseminating

Sharing code
Professional bodies and interest groups
Publications
Outreach and training

Research themes

Some pathways of innovation we are exploring.

Digital Creativity

Experimenting with digital tools to enable, enhance, and expand our cultural experiences and interactions.

Indigenous Digital Humanities

Fostering understanding, respect, and cooperation among holding institutions, researchers and minority groups to help work on complex issues around data from indigenous community sources.

Machine Learning and AI

Working to create a virtual cycle around ML and AI that goes beyond single projects solutions across the triangle of critical, analytical and practical RSE-driven research.