Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities at Manchester brings together experts from the humanities and computer science with computational partners from across the University. With one of the largest concentrations of humanities scholars in the UK, The University of Manchester is harnessing cutting-edge digital methodologies and tools to address new research challenges and support primary research using computational methods and tools, digital outputs, and digital dissemination.
Areas of strength include transforming physical heritage materials into digital versions for online storage, presentation, and analysis; representing data visually in graphs, plots, charts and maps and discovering and extracting knowledge from the patterns and trends found in large sets of text documents, and the social and cultural critique of the digital using humanities and social science theories and methodologies.
Digital technologies are transforming research in the humanities. With one of the largest concentrations of humanities scholars in the UK, The University of Manchester is harnessing cutting-edge digital methodologies and tools to address new research challenges. DH@Manchester brings together experts from the humanities and computer science with computational partners from across the University including IT Services, Research IT, the University of Manchester Library, the John Rylands Research Institute, Methods@Manchester, and Manchester University Press.
Digital Humanities is transforming academic development and research outputs across the University. Some of the ways they accomplish this are: Developing digital projects, Providing digital training, Expanding academic networks and Increasing communications. They are growing cross-disciplinary research clusters in areas including: TEI-XML, Data visualisation, Text mining, Heritage digitisation and imaging and Geoinformatics.