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A Partnership for Conserving and Promoting Sudanese Cultural and Documentary Heritage Sudan Memory

The Sudan Memory project seeks to conserve and promote valuable cultural materials from and about Sudan through digitisation and via an online platform. Throughout the country, many interesting and rich...

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Social Dynamics of People's War

KDL's role in this pilot project explores pipelines for extracting information efficiently from the huge diversity of military records, mostly handwritten, that reside in various states of digitisation throughout collections in the Commonwealth...

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BCC: Brightening the Covenant Chain

The project investigates the cultures of diplomacy from 1677-1860 between the British Crown and the Six Nations of the Iroquois - the dominant indigenous confederacy of the Northeastern Great Lakes and Canada - and in particular the Covenant...

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AI in Research

A dialogue between Arianna Ciula, Director and Senior Research Software Analyst at KDL, and Patrick ffrench, Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, from which some key points of resonance emerge.

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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

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

Reflections on time spent embedded at KDL and CMCI in 2024

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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.

Data Visualisation

Organizing data with form, structure and shape to help users understand the story it has to tell.

Communities

Organizations and groups we have formal attachment to via active contribution, affiliation or sponsorship as description of the communities space.

King’s College London Institute bringing together expertise from across all disciplines aiming at living well with technology.

Digital Futures Institute

King’s College London Institute bringing together expertise from across all disciplines aiming at living well with technology.

King’s College London Institute supporting and promoting work in artificial intelligence (AI) across the College.

King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence

King’s College London Institute supporting and promoting work in artificial intelligence (AI) across the College.

UK professional society establishing a research environment that recognises the vital role of software in research.

Society of Research Software Engineering

UK professional society establishing a research environment that recognises the vital role of software in research.

UK and Ireland professional association bringing together digital humanities researchers, practitioners and organisations.

UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association

UK and Ireland professional association bringing together digital humanities researchers, practitioners and organisations.

Pan-European infrastructure enhancing and supporting digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities.

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

Pan-European infrastructure enhancing and supporting digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities.

International consortium developing and maintaining a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.

Text Encoding Initiative

International consortium developing and maintaining a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.

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