Projects Archive - Digital Humanities

ExLab 2

Hembo Pagi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:38:43 +0000

sotonDH are partners in the Exlab 2 Project. The project, organised by The Big Picture artists collective, will result in a series of artworks being produced in response to the Jurassic Coast world heritage site. Each artwork represents a unique collaboration between an artist and a scientist or a scientific team. The project will form part of the Cultural Olympiad …

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Re-Reading the British Memorial: A Community Documentation Project

Hembo Pagi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:34:57 +0000

The Re-reading the British Memorial project is investigating the potential for using a variety of technologies for the recording, interpreting and sharing of data about church memorials in the UK. the project is based within the Archaeological Computing Research Group at the University of Southampton, UK. The purpose of the project is to provide expert assistance and training to local …

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Virtual Field Courses

Hembo Pagi — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:31:02 +0000

Members of sotonDH are part of a consortium funded by the Student Centredness fund to produce a virtual alternative to field studies applicable to a range of subjects across the University. The primary aim is to provide fundamental fieldwork experience for students with mobility impairments who cannot access some field areas, students requiring additional time in the field to examine …

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Discover Medieval Chester: place, heritage and identity

Hembo Pagi — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:12:25 +0000

The city of Chester has a rich medieval heritage. The legacies of this are present today in the city’s surviving townscape, in its museum collections, and in the remarkable body of medieval multi-lingual literature which reflects the experiences of diverse cultural and ethnic communities within this dynamic borderland city. Yet in comparison with the city’s Roman history, Chester’s medieval past …

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Mapping Medieval Chester: Place and Identity in an English Borderland City c.1200-1500

Hembo Pagi — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:09:04 +0000

This AHRC-funded project brought together scholars working in the disciplines of literary studies, geography, archaeology and history to explore how material and imagined urban landscapes construct and convey a sense of place-identity. Medieval Chester was chosen as a case study because of its multi-cultural nature as a settlement on the border of England and Wales, its remarkable body of medieval …

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LANG-SNAP: Languages and social networks abroad

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:58:09 +0000

Social networks, target language interaction, and second language acquisition during the year abroad: A longitudinal study is a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (research award number: RES-062-23-2996) running from May 2011 to October 2013. The specific aims of the project are to document the development of Modern Languages students’ knowledge and use of the target language …

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Belgammel Ram

Hembo Pagi — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000

A Hellenistic-Roman bronze proembolion found off the coast of Libya: Test analysis of function, date, and metallurgy, with a digital reference archive The Belgammel Ram is probably a Hellenistic-Roman proembolion, or upper ram, from a small military vessel or tesseraria. Dating of the ram itself is uncertain but appears to be in the last two centuries BC, or a bit …

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Stepping stones to the Neolithic?

Hembo Pagi — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:34:19 +0000

Islands, maritime connectivity and the ‘western seaways’ of Britain, 5000-3500 BC The Stepping Stones project, directed by Fraser Sturt (University of Southampton) and Duncan Garrow (University of Liverpool), aims to answer important research questions about the arrival of the Neolithic in and around Britain and Ireland c. 4000 BC. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, …

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Stirling Castle Wood Recording Project

Hembo Pagi — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:29:04 +0000

The Stirling Castle Wood Recording Project was designed as a trial to compare and evaluate traditional and innovative recording techniques for waterlogged wood. Stirling Castle was a post-medieval ship, built in 1699 and lost during the great storm of 1703 on the Goodwin Sands, off Kent, Great Britain (Ensor 2004). Recovery of the wreck was undertaken in 2006 by Wessex …

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Roman Port Networks in the Roman Mediterranean

Hembo Pagi — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:18:32 +0000

The Roman Port Networks Project is a collaboration between 30 European partners, examining the connections between Roman ports across the Mediterranean. The project uses analyses of the co-presence of ceramics and marble to explore changing connections between Portus, Rome and selected ports in the Mediterranean at defined chronological periods throughout the imperial period. In particular, it attempts to establish how far …

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PATINA: Personal Architectonics Through INteractions with Artefacts

Hembo Pagi — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:24:09 +0000

The PATINA project aims to revolutionise the design of technologies for supporting research. It was awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the RCUK Digital Economy programme and will run for three years from June 2010. The project is designed to be transformative in terms of research practice. In archaeological terms it will break down the …

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Pleasure, politics and war: The role of Charles II’s yachts

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:28:48 +0000

Charles II was the first English king to own and race yachts. Their interiors were decorated to mimic many aspects of the king’s state apartments and they were equipped with cannon – as such they were a symbol of royal authority. However, these yachts were more than a recreational diversion: they were leant to ambassadors and when necessary fought alongside …

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Hoard Imaging

Hembo Pagi — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:24:47 +0000

The Archaeological Computing Research Group are currently working with the mu-Vis computed tomography centre and with a range of other imaging technologies to investigate a number of Roman coin hoards. Originally designed for the analysis of substantial engineering parts, such as jet turbine blades, the powerful scanning equipment at Southampton’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded µ-VIS X-ray Imaging …

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Cantum Pulcriorem Invenire

Hembo Pagi — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:19:41 +0000

The Latin song of the period c 1170 to c 1320, called conductus by contemporary authors, was composed and cultivated in both monophonic and polyphonic forms. Unlike its contemporary genres, the motet and organum, it was not based on any pre-existing musical or poetic material. The conductus may thus be recognised as the first coherent repertory of polyphonic music that …

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Ways of Seeing the English Domestic Interior, 1500-1700: the case of decorative textiles

Hembo Pagi — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:10:51 +0000

Catherine Richardson from the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies has secured funding from the AHRC for a research network that will investigate peoples’ experience of household life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – the time in which Shakespeare was writing – and consider how we might use this information to enhance our experience of visiting historic …

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PARNASSUS Project

Hembo Pagi — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:48:32 +0000

PARNASSUS is an interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Bath investigating the adverse environmental effects and adaptation measures needed for the protection of cultural heritage from climate change impact. The project is implemented under ‘The Science and Heritage Programme‘ , funded by the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) and EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). Academic Partners University of Bath, Architecture and …

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Alan Sorrell Project

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:49:59 +0000

Alan Sorrell (1904-1974) was an artist best known for his reconstruction drawings of historic sites and monuments, and tableaux of ancient life. His distinctive style—with contrasts of light and dark, and threateningly stormy or unstable backdrops—was carefully researched for accuracy, and has proven inspirational both to archaeologists and the broader public. Under the direction of Professor Matthew Johnson and Dr …

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Çatalhöyük Visualisation Project

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:45:54 +0000

The University of Southampton’s archaeological visualisation team, led by Professor Stephanie Moser, has been conducting research at the internationally-renowned site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, since 2009. This project is the first of its kind to examine the long-term visual corpus of an archaeological excavation and, based on this analysis, to develop new visuals for the site’s key audiences. A formal partnership …

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EdShare

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:44:06 +0000

The EdShare learning and teaching resource and service was initially created by the JISC-funded EdSpace Project within the University of Southampton. The Project began in October 2007. The Project was led by Hugh Davis, University Director of Education with responsibility for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), the Project Manager was and remains Debra Morris, a member of staff of the University …

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Staffordshire Hoard

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:42:44 +0000

The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest find of Anglo-Saxon gold and silverwork ever found. It was discovered on the 5th July 2009 nearby to the village of Hammerwich, near Staffordshire. In its collection there were more than 1500 items that have been roughly dated to around the 7th-8th Centuries AD. The quality of the workmanship is extremely high and the …

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Computed Tomography of the Tidgrove Key

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:41:59 +0000

In 2007 the Tidgrove key was found during excavations near Kingsclere, Hampshire. A residence of Henry II, the site highlighted a complex that included a series of buildings, including a large cellar. At the foot of this structure lay a heavily corroded key. A new CT scanner at the University of Southampton revealed wire inlay over the shaft, and the …

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Montenegrin Maritime Archaeological Research Project: A Joint Initiative of the Museum of Bar, Montenegro, and the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:41:21 +0000

The project developed in response to finds in Maljevik Bay, near Sutomore in the Municipality of Bar, southern Montenegro. The discovery of columns and dressed stone blocks from a monumental ancient building lying in 3m of water 200m from shore attracted national and international press attention. Their presence in this unexpected location remains a mystery: Were they the cargo from …

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Sculptural Polychromy in Roman Italy

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:40:06 +0000

The discovery in 2006 of the painted head of an Amazon statue in the area of the Basilica Noniana at Herculaneum provided a vivid reminder that colour formed an important and complex part of Roman statuary. The project is a collaboration between the Archaeological Computing Research Group at the University of Southampton and the Herculaneum Conservation Project led by the …

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How we know what we know about Early Modern London Theatres

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:38:41 +0000

Most of what we know about the theatres which developed before, during and shortly after the life of Shakespeare has been passed down to us through a complex process of filtration. Over the centuries documents written at the time have been selected, copied, adapted, and interpreted, and that process has shaped our modern understanding. What we do with this received …

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CinBA

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:37:17 +0000

Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe (CinBA) brings together partners from the Universities of Southampton, Cambridge and Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet) and the Crafts Council. It offers important insights into the fundamental nature of creativity by exploring a part of …

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Google Ancient Places

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:35:07 +0000

The Google Ancient Places (GAP) project is inspired by two questions: How can I easily find (and view) all the places mentioned in a classical text? And how can I find classical texts about a place I am interested in? GAP is a Google-funded consortium that uses the latest text mining methods to semantically annotate references to ancient places in …

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Soldier in Later Medieval England

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:33:05 +0000

This is the most significant project ever undertaken on the late medieval soldier. For the first time hard data has been produced on individuals and groups (such as the soldiers serving under one particular leader, or in particular locations). Our project provides a dynamic picture over eighty years of English warfare, from 1369-1453, as opposed to a study of a …

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Multi-Modal Instrument: A Platform for Comparative Controller Evaluation

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:19:53 +0000

There has been increasing research interest in real-time performance control of sound synthesis as the variety of hardware available to mediate this control has expanded, chiefly through changes in video game and mobile device technology and the arrival of programmable Open Source Hardware systems. These devices offer a range of new interactions with real-time synthesis software, such as multi-touch surfaces, …

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Frameworks 3D: Composition in the third dimension

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:10:04 +0000

Music composition on computer is a challenging task, involving a range of data types to be managed within a single software tool. A composition typically comprises a complex arrangement of material, with many internal relationships between data in different locations – repetition, inversion, retrograde, reversal and more sophisticated transformations. The creation of such complex artefacts is labour intensive, and current …

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3D Chirp: Underwater Sub-Bottom Profiling at the University of Southampton

Hembo Pagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:09:27 +0000

The University of Southampton’s 3D Chirp sub-bottom profiler is used for underwater 3D seismic imaging. The scans it produces are of 3D data volumes, rather than the traditional 2D sections—meaning that the results can be used to reconstruct rich, three-dimensional models of the scanned areas. These models can be viewed in horizontal, vertical and arbitrary slices, offering a much more …

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