From October to early November 2023, I was lucky enough to be a part of the ‘Section 28 and its afterlives’ project. The project aimed to mark the 20th anniversary of the repeal of this homophobic legislation with an exhibition which put the voices and experiences of LGBTQ+ people at its heart. The exhibition was placed in the Forum at the university from 13th-17th November and then moved to Positive Light Projects in Sidwell Street from 17th-23rd November. What is Section 28? · Section 28 was a piece of legislation brought in by the government in 1988 and was repealed in 2003. · The clause pr ..read more

It’s World Digital Preservation Day! Two years ago, we posted about the work the DH team were doing to ensure the long-term sustainability of archival collections and the digital content we create in the Lab. Since then, we’ve been collaborating with colleagues from across the university to work harder than ever on digital preservation, and World Digital Preservation Day 2023 seemed like a great opportunity for an update on what we’re working on.  Developing our capabilities in capturing legacy media   Examples of media storage One of the Lab’s specialities is safely capturing the co ..read more

Course 1: Text extraction from printed sources (11 & 12 September)  Course 2: Text extraction from handwritten sources (13 & 14 September)  Course 3: Digital ‘Distant reading’ with Voyant Tools and AntConc (11 & 12 September)  Course 4: Digital ‘Close reading’ with NVivo (13 & 14 September)  Optional: Bring Your Own Data Surgeries (15 September, a.m. & p.m.)  The aim of these four short online training courses is to provide Arts & Humanities researchers with foundational knowledge and skills in automated text extraction and analysis of textual s ..read more

Leave a Reply Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the fourth of this year’s blogs from Heide: Hello, I’m Heide, now a third year English Undergraduate (and set to graduate July 2023). I have been lucky enough to have another year working as an intern at the Digital Humanities Lab and have worked on more exciting projects since my last blog post.   This year I continued to digitize letters and manuscripts from the Culver House collection using the A0 Copystand in Lab 1, exploring t ..read more

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the third of this year’s blogs from Isabel: Hi, my name’s Isabel and I’m a third year History student and intern at the Digital Humanities Lab and this year I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy my second year at the lab. Recently, I’ve been spending my time getting to grips with photogrammetry and 3D modelling. On top of photographing and processing lot of palaeolithic flints and ancient pottery from the archaeology department’s teaching packs, one of my main ..read more

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the second of this year’s blogs from Dayna: Being a DH Intern Working at the Digital Humanities Lab over my final year has been an incredible and exciting end to my time studying History at Exeter. I first heard of the DH Lab in my second year through the Festival of the Past, and I was immediately impressed with its innovative and important work. Despite having very limited technological experience prior to my internship, the Lab has cultivated and encou ..read more

Each year we ask our interns to write a blog post at the end of their time working with us looking back on their time in the DH Lab. Here is the first of this year’s blogs from Jane-Marie: I am Jane Marie a final year Art History, Visual Culture and Classical studies student. I remember visiting the digital humanities lab on my open day at the university. I was immediately impressed at their wide range of technologies and the opportunity to become an intern at the lab. Before starting the university, I had completed and art foundation course in graphic communication this meant I had some compu ..read more

As part of the AHRC’s iDAH program, the University of Exeter Digital Humanities Lab is organizing a Summer School during June 2023 in Digital Skills that comprises two free training courses for Arts & Humanities Researchers:  The first course (intermediate to advanced level; 12-16 June) will focus on Text Analysis using the Python programming language  The second course (foundation level; 19-23 June) will focus on 2D, 2.5D, and 3D recording and visualisation Course 1: AHRC iDAH/Exeter Digital Summer School: Introduction to Text Analysis Using Python As part of the AHRC iDAH net ..read more

5 years ago, on the 23rd October 2017, after many months of planning and construction work, the Digital Humanities Lab officially opened. Since then we’ve supported teaching and research through a pandemic, collaborated with academics and cultural heritage institutions on research projects, created many exciting digital resources and websites, worked with 28 undergraduate interns, digitised 100s of cassettes to preserve recordings for future use, worked with Exeter City FC, developed websites and databases for research projects, taken 1000s of high quality photographs of rare books and manusc ..read more

Hi, I’m Courtney and I’ve just completed my BA English degree. In my final year I have worked as an advisory intern in the DH Lab and loved every minute. In this very unusual year, I have been lucky enough to gain experience in the lab and have got to work on some very exciting projects remotely.   I first became interested in digital humanities, when taking the Rethinking Shakespeare module in my first year. On this module we had the option to create a digital edition of the ending of King Lear in TEI/XML for one of our assessments and from then on I was hooked. Over the course of this y ..read more