Theme Leader Fellow, Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: College of Arts
Abstract
As theme leader fellow for the AHRC strategic theme of 'Digital Transformations', I work with research projects funded by the AHRC to explore how arts and humanities researchers are engaging with the opportunities offered by innovative digital technologies and the wider availability of data. I identify the wider issues raised by this research and synthesise the generic research findings emerging from the 'Digital Transformations' theme. My own scholarly interests are in the history of archives and libraries, and one of the major themes arising from current work funded by the AHRC is the restatement of the concept of the archive and collection. This interest in the changing nature of archives and memory institutions provides opportunities for dialogue with the AHRC strategic theme 'Care for the Future'. Another major focus of research within the 'Digital Transformations' theme is the development of critical approaches to big data, which I see as closely related to our changing view of historic archives. These critical data studies provide a link to the 'Connected Communities' programme, with which 'Digital Transformations' has undertaken joint projects, and 'Translating Cultures', particularly with regard to the linguistic cultures of the digital world. As theme leader fellow, I also seek to foster cross-disciplinary and cross-domain research, particularly in activities which restate the relationship between research and practice and challenge us to reconsider the relationship between art, design, craft and the humanities. Emerging digital materialities, ranging from conductive inks to the printing of human organs, are of particular significance here. In exploring such emerging technologies and the opportunities offered by activities such as bioscience, closer links with science will also be of fundamental importance and I maintain a close dialogue with the 'Science in Culture' theme.
In my own research, I investigate the way in which digital methods are restating our relationship with the primary materials of humanities research, including manuscripts, books and material culture. I explore new scientific approaches to investigating objects such as books and manuscripts, and am exploring the use of such methods as hyper-spectral imaging and reflective transformational imaging to investigate the history of a number of well-known manuscripts, including the Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. I have published studies of the emerging canonicities of the web and the rhetoric of digital transformation. I maintain a blog called digitalriffs.blogspot.co.uk and seek to develop effective ways of presenting my research online. I am working on a study of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 which will provide users with direct access to archival evidence for the revolt.
In my own research, I investigate the way in which digital methods are restating our relationship with the primary materials of humanities research, including manuscripts, books and material culture. I explore new scientific approaches to investigating objects such as books and manuscripts, and am exploring the use of such methods as hyper-spectral imaging and reflective transformational imaging to investigate the history of a number of well-known manuscripts, including the Hengwrt manuscript of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. I have published studies of the emerging canonicities of the web and the rhetoric of digital transformation. I maintain a blog called digitalriffs.blogspot.co.uk and seek to develop effective ways of presenting my research online. I am working on a study of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 which will provide users with direct access to archival evidence for the revolt.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Andrew Prescott (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Andrew Prescott
(2021)
Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems
Andrew Prescott
(2019)
A Digital Blast
Diane G. Scott
(2019)
Performing, Remixing and Reimagining Data
Echard S
(2020)
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
McLeod J
(2023)
Michael Moss on Archives - Beyond the Four Corners of the Page
Papadimitriou I
(2017)
Bridging Open Borders as part of the V&A Digital Design Weekend 2017
Papadimitriou, I
(2016)
Engineering the Future
Popple S
(2020)
Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices
Prescott A
(2015)
Are the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences?
| Title | ...and the bunny goes POP! |
| Description | In 2000, Eduardo Kac announced his artwork GFP Bunny, in which he created Alba, a biologically-living, green-glowing rabbit. The response to this work has been voluminous and uninterrupted for nearly 20 years. This exhibition captures, for the first time, the different registers and diverse materialisations of Alba as a meme-spawning rabbit. Emphasizing in equal measure Alba's birth, the immediate response to her appearance in the world, her two-decade long appropriation by pop culture, and the artist's metaresponse to this unique phenomenon, the show undoes formal hierarchies, blurs the boundaries between art and non-art, and presents a wide array of examples of this bunny gone viral. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Andrew Prescott |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Prescott prepared an essay which accompanied the exhibition and is to form the basis of a more formal publication arisuing from the praxis of the exhibition. The video at the centrepiece of the exhibition has now been shown in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. |
| URL | https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/and-the-bunny-goes-pop |
| Title | Poetry for Animals, Machines and Aliens: the Art of Eduardo Kac |
| Description | In his first solo show in the UK, pioneering media artist Eduardo Kac puts poetry into space in entirely new ways and prompts us to ask "How do words work? What happens if we look at them upside down or inside out? What kind of poem could be made by an astronaut in outer space? What has poetry got to do with green bunnies?" The exhibition was curated as part of the AHRC Digital TRansformations theme. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The exhibition was held in a gallery in Finsbury Park in London which is a diverse comunity and attracted widespread community interest, particularly from the 'Lagoogleglyph' installation in the park itself. Images of the 'Lagoogleglyph' were incorporated in Google Earth. |
| URL | https://www.furtherfield.org/events/poetry-for-animals-machines-and-aliens-the-art-of-eduardo-kac/ |
| Description | The theme leader fellowship for the AHRC Digital Transformations strategic theme was a wide-ranging exploration of emerging digital cultures which provided insights into a range of key themes including: - Challenging commonly held models of innovation and technological progress by placing it in new historical perspectives and challenging such notions as 'disruption'; - Ways in which co-creation and community participation can generate new models of digital research anf engagement - The potential of new materials and methods such as conductive ink in humanities research; - Innovative critical contexts to interrogate data and emerging technologies such as machine learning and bioscience; - The potential for dialogue between practitioners in the digital arts and humanities researchers. |
| Exploitation Route | The variety of publications produced have alread encouraged new research by others. The networks and communities established through the strategic theme are continuing to generate lively research and are contributing to current funding programmes. Work such as the use of conductive ink and exploration of new search strategies are already being taken forward by other researchers,. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://medium.com/digital-riffs |
| Description | The work undertken in this felloweship has contributed substantially to a range of research and activities around the nature of digital transformations including (a) campaigniung around the health of the internet by bodies such as Mozilla Foundation; (b) public presentations and events by bodies such as the V&A and National Archives; (c) public debates eg the British Library Data Debates. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Member of UK Ministerial Task Force on Open Research Data |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | I have been a member of a task force commissioned by the UK Universities Minister to prepare a report and recommendations on issues surrounding open research data. |
| Description | Member of programme committee for Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The JPI programme in Cultural Heritage enabled latge scale European wide projects to be established to undertake a wide range of research into cultural heritage. This enhanced the impact of the research and ensured it had a wider reach. |
| Description | Membership of Science Europe Advisory Committee |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Science Europe is a major multidisciplinary body representing European Research Councils. It lobbies and influences formation of EU Science polkicy across all disciplines and areas. Membership of this committee influences EU policy and practice across a wide range of areas. |
| Description | Membership of expert committee developing UKRI business case for govt support for exascale computing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Support for exascale computing fundamental to UK maintaining its position as a major base for innovation. |
| Title | GitHub Research Repository |
| Description | The Glasgow Digital Transformations team have mounted a series of publications generated by different activities within the Digital Transformations theme, including an overview of the Big Data and Small Grant activities and the V&A Digital Design Weekend, in markdown format on a GitHub repository. This is being used as an exprrimental means of updating, remixing and re-editing information about the theme. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The GitHub repository was used to support provision of information to visitors to the V&A Digital Design Weekend in 2017 (approx. 15,000 visitors). |
| URL | https://github.com/DigiTransGlasgow |
| Description | Mixed Methods in the Humanities |
| Organisation | Volkswagen Foundation |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I am a member of an editorial group for a book reporting on the Mixed Methods funding programe organised by the Volkwagen Foundation. I also act as chair and rapporteur on programe meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide access to state-of-the-art research in digital humanities. |
| Impact | None at this stage. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | 'Big Idea' seminar at The National Archives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar by Andrew Prescott on Artistic Practice and the Archive for The National Archives, 20 February 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Connecting or Excluding? New Technologies & Connected Communities' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This free event will explore how digital technologies and infrastructure help enable innovative co-creation and co-research with communities and can build new communities of learning, shared knowledge and creativity. The event contributors included researchers, community groups and representatives, artists, and commercial partners who have worked with the Digital Transformations and/or Connected Communities Themes over the course of their development. The two-day event included a range of activities including talks, presentations, workshops, performances, networking and exhibition elements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecting-or-excluding-new-technologies-connected-communities-tickets-... |
| Description | 2016 Charles A. Sankey Lecture in Masonic Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Searching for the Apple Tree: What Happened in 1716?' (with Professor Susan Mitchell Sommers, St Vincent College), Charles A. Sankey Lecture in Masonic Studies, Brock University, Ontario. This is one of the major international lectures on the history of Freemasonry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://storify.com/HistoryBrockU/sankey-lecture-2016 |
| Description | Avoiding the Rear View Mirror |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynore talk 'Avoiding the Rear View Mirror' for 'Digital Editing Now' conference at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 7-9 January 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://medium.com/digital-transformations-talks-and-presentations/avoiding-the-rear-view-mirror-870... |
| Description | Big Data in the Arts and Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to the Senior Historians Group, University of Oxford, 3-4 September 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Big Data in the Arts and Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Big Data in the Arts and Humanities', Literature and Languages Research Seminar, University of Stirling, 17 February 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.slideshare.net/burgess1822/big-data-in-the-arts-and-humanities-stirling-presentation |
| Description | British Academy Launch of 'Working at Intersections' report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the 'Working at the Intersections' report by AHRC Theme Leader Fellows at British Academy, with presentations by Professor Barry Smith, Professor Charles Forsdick and Professor Barry Smith, and an expert panel comprisdin g Roly Keating, British Library, Dr Karen Salt, UKRI, Professor Sarah Churchwell and Professor Thomas McLeish FRS, University of York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-at-the-intersections-ahrc-strategic-themes-2010-2019-tickets-... |
| Description | Brock University presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to staff and students of the Department of History, Brock University, Ontario, Canada, on digital humanities, 18 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Cheltenham Literary Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event at THe Cheltenham Literary Festival, 'The Hansard Report'. Hansard is the public record of the UK's Houses of Parliament, published in paper form since the 17th century. But how is it written, and who reads it? And what does this unique and fascinating archive tell us about the decision-making processes and the changing language of government? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/2018/the-hansard-report/ |
| Description | Day of Digital Humanities 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Contribution via videolink to a day ofv digital humanities debate at University College Cork, 8 April 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Digital Skin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A panel on 'Digital Skin' organised by Dr Johanna Green with suppport from this project at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University (the largest gathering of medievalists in the world) which was widely praised as offering an innovative and original approach to digital humanities. The panel explored new digital materialities and the way in which these can provide different perspectives on engagements with medieval artefacts. The session included papers by Professor Andrew Prescott on Electric Ink, by Professor Eduardo Kac of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on themes of embodiment in his own work, and by Dr Emma Cayley of Exeter University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://storify.com/Codicologist/digital-skin-sensory-experiences-of-medieval-manus |
| Description | Digital Skin panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel as part of 'Digital Skin' series at International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Digital Transformations for Early Career Researchers and Postgrdautes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentations on performance related activities from the Digital Transformations theme, as part of the postgraduate and early career researchers network meeting for Medieval English Theatre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture at the Université de Luxembourg, February 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/data/digital-transformations-arts-and-humanities-recording-and-interview |
| Description | Explorathon: James Watt and the Eighteenth Century 3D Printer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event was organised by Dr Diane Scot, Dr Luca Guariento and Ms Sonia Ali as part of the Explorathan event at the University of Glasgow, 29 September 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Form and the Ways of Seeing Manuscripts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture at Stanford Text Technologies Fourth Annual Collegium, 'Celebrating Parker 2.0', 25-28 March 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Furtherfield Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of workshops reflecting on issues from the wider AHRC Digital Transformations community comprising four day workshops on 'Digital Transformations and Community Engagement', 'Reconnecting Artistic Practice and Humanities Research', 'Language and Diversity' and 'Science in Culture'. Attendees included community practitioners, academics and general public. The rich dialogue was a good way of drawing together reflections on the theme and summaries of the workshop will be on the theme website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.furtherfield.org/events/poetry-for-animals-machines-and-aliens-the-art-of-eduardo-kac/ |
| Description | Future Shapes of Medieval Scholarship |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture for the Quadrivium XI conference for postgraduates working on history of manuscripts and books, De Montfort University, 25-26 February 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.slideshare.net/burgess1822/prescottleicesterquad |
| Description | Glasgow launch of 'Working at the Intersections' report and 'Digital Blast' manifesto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event launching the joint 'Working at the Intersections' report by AHRC Theme Leader Fellows and 'Digital Blast' manifesto for Digital Transformations teme, with expert panel by theme leader fellows and performances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hooking Together Our Digitisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Hooking Together Our Digitisation', mini-conference on DIY Digitisation, Weston Library, Oxford 9 January 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://medium.com/digital-transformations-talks-and-presentations/hooking-together-our-digitisation... |
| Description | How to Become a Digital Humanities Researcher |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop organised by Dr Diane Scott and Dr Luca Guariento for the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Imaging Manuscripts and Primary Materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the past, our view of the middle ages and early modern period was heavily mediated by text. Now we have access to hundreds and thousands of images of manuscripts, books and artefacts, and can easily make our own images when we visit libraries and archives. But how can we make use of these images in our research? What kind of licensing, technical and access images affect our use of images in digital scholarship? Too often, digital images are used as if they were a kind of colour microfilm or photocopy. How can we use digital images of manuscripts and archives more imaginatively? What kind of specialist techniques are emerging for the detailed study of particular aspects of the structure and makeup of manuscripts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interrogating Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to 'Interrogating Infrastructure', a symposium organised by the King's Digital Lab and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://medium.com/digital-riffs/why-infrastructure-ccc8f79a3ba8#.k04espldk |
| Description | Keynote lecture on 'Machine Reading the Archive', CRASSH, 15 June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture on Machine Reading the Archive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote lecture to Archive Unbound conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture reflecting on 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote lecture to the Digital Humanities Summer School at the University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture on 'What Happens When the Digital Humanities Meets the Internet of Things' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote lecture, British Museum ResearchSpace conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture on the Mellon-funded British Museum ResearchSpace project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote lecture: The Cathedral and the Bazaar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture at Dundee Design Festival, May 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Living with Machines panel: Past, Present, Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspapers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel on Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspapers, DH 2019, Utrecht. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/living-with-machines-at-digital-humanities-2019/ |
| Description | Manorial Documents: Past Present and into the Future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop organised by the Manorial Documents Register of the National Archives. Took part in panel on future developments. This conference was a collaborative event between the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) Advisory Panel and The National Archives, and its purpose was: to promote the Manorial Documents Register as a valuable research tool; to begin to explore its research potential; and to inspire inter-disciplinary research activities of all kinds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mozilla Festival 2015-2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mozilla Festival is sponsored annually by the Mozilla Foundation and is a major international vehicle for sharing and developing experiences about using the web for improving learning and access to knowledge. For the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Mozilla Festivals at Ravensbourne in London, through my fellowship the Digital Transformations theme supported sessions in the 'Making' zones on various aspects of digital humanities and also offered various hands-on sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| URL | https://2015.mozillafestival.org |
| Description | New Light on Old Books |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event was organised by Dr Diane Scott as part of the Being Human Festival of the Arts and Sciences at Glasgow University Library on 18 November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | New Materialities of the Book |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on 'New Materialities of the Book' for the Centre for the Comparative History of Print, University of Leeds, 9 June 2016. This led to the organisation of further seminars and workshops at Leeds exploring the ideas presented in the lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.slideshare.net/burgess1822/new-materialities-of-the-book |
| Description | Newspaper project presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar by Ryan Cordell of Northwestern University on reuse of text in nineteenth-centiry newspapers, 25 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Organising panel for major AHRC event 'Mobilising Global Voices' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised panel on mobiising virtual voices as part of major AHRC event on GCRF 'Mobilising Global Voices' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Outside-in / Inside-Out A Festival of Outside and Subterrranean Poetry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outside-In/ Inside-Out was a wide ranging festival and symposium based at a variety of venues in Glasgow from 30 September-9 October 2016 celebrating and analysing outsider poetry of different types. The festival through its various manifestations explored how different textual traditions can modify and alter our digital vision. There were a number of events at diferent venues including Many Studios, Glasgow Women's Library, Centre for Contemporary Arts, University of Glasgow and the Lighthouse. A major focus of support was a symposium on archivs of concrete poetry and an exhibition at the Lighthouse 'Design and the Concrete Poem'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://outsidepoetryfestival.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Oxford Humanities Digital Humanities Summer School is the primary event which provides a structured overview of digital methods and developments for postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Arts and Humanities. Through my fellowship, the Digital Transformations theme acted as a 'platinum sponsor' for the 2015 and 2016 Summer Schools, sponsoring a reception and providing materials relating to the theme for participants. The theme was the focus of a plenary panel for the 2015 summer school, and in 2015 and 2016 bursaries were provided in connection with the 'Transforming Musicology' project within the theme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| URL | http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/ |
| Description | Poetry and the Digital Economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel on 'Poetry and the Digital Economy' at the Newcastle Poetry Festival, 5-7 May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/?p=2306 |
| Description | Presentation at International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Digitisation of Composite Manuscripts: Some Recent Projects and Initiatives' as part of session 'Researching, Digitising, and Curating Complex Manuscripts: Examples from Medieval Scotland', at International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3 July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to RCUK all-hands meeting on Anti-Microbial Resistance, 6 July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on arts and humanities perspectives on Anti-Microbial Resistance for RCUK all-hands meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to Translating Cultures final symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel on AHRC strategic themes for Translating Cultures final event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Quadrivium conference: Working with Archives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This two-day event considers the challenges and opportunities involved in working with archives today. Giving particular attention to archival sources created before 1750, sessions will consider some of the questions, caveats, potentials and possibilities that exist at this present moment that include but are not limited to: How is automation changing our view of the ways in which archives are created, remediated and made available? Where do the boundaries of the archive lie? How does the archive interface with other memory institutions such as libraries and museums? As new audiences for archives are developed, do they in turn change the wider social role of the archive? Is the archive shaped as much by the institutions that create it? How do we narrate the stories and the silences of the archive? How are truths and fictions constructed from the archive? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Radiophrenia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radiophrenia was a temporary art radio station - a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts, broadcast live from Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts. Support from the Theme Leader Fellowship enabled the event to feature the Resonance FM Orchestra and also allowed some of the 'Making Conversations' series to be broadcast from Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://radiophrenia.scot/ |
| Description | Re:Enlightenment Exchange 6: Applied Enlightenment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Re:Enlightenment is an international network of scholars which takes as the starting point for its discussions, 'What forms might Enlightenment take now?' The Re:Enlightenment Project joins institutions and individuals who share a common purpose: reconceiving how knowledge works in the world. Through the Theme Leader Fellowship, the Digital Transformations theme contributed a session to the event which excplored the implication of technologies such as 3D printing and discussed parallels with enlightenment milieu such as James Watt's workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_483845_en.pdf |
| Description | Research Software Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Diane Scott represented the theme fellowship at a Research Software Engineeringb conference which helped build links with different communities of researchers and practice: http://ukrse.github.io/conf2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ukrse.github.io/conf2016 |
| Description | Searching for Dr Johnson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar paper on the digitisation of the Burney Newspapers for Sussex Humanities Lab, 22 February 2016. This is being developed into a publicatio for a volume by Brill. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/9c3c9e3ed60bf7aeaf04 |
| Description | Seminar by Pararchive project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar at the Univerdity of Glasgow by Tom Jackson of the Pararchive project, part of the Digital Transformations theme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Support for 3rd Digging into Data conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Moderation and support for 3rd Digging into Data conference at the Lighthouse Glasgow, 27-28 January 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | TORCH Debate: Are the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Member of panel at debate organised by TORCH, Oxford Research in the Humanities, 23 February 2016, as a response to my guest blog entry for the Social Media Knowlege Exchange |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/are-humanities-more-digital-sciences |
| Description | The Data Debates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Data Debates is a major high profile series of events organised with the British Library and the Alan Turing Institute in which experts debate issues posed by the current digital climate. The first of these debates took place on 21 September 2016 and focussed on issues of privacy. Further debates were held during 2017. The events attracted a large and enthusiastic audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | The Internet of Manuscripts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper by Andrew Prescott (read by Diane Scott) as part of a panel on 'Resistant Networks' at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 11 May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Learned Clerk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Prescott contributed to panels on 'The Learned Clerk' at 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 13 May 2016, and at International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 5-7 July 2016. The panels explored parallels and connections between medieval clerical cultures and modern digital environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://medium.com/@Ajprescott/the-learned-clerk-as-coder-4d16322117cd#.wb3rfklin |
| Description | The Materialities of Digitisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collections have physical characteristics that help us interpret the information within them. When we digitise the materials, we are changing their physical character and imposing a new form of materiality on them. This two-day workshop reflected on the different perspectives of the concept of materiality, by addressing methodological, ontological and epistemological challenges occurring during the 'digitisation' process. It discussed the materiality of born-digital records and considered how far emerging forms of digital materiality, such as 3D printing and IIIF, have a potential role to play in the archive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/materialities-digitisation/ |
| Description | The National Archives Big Ideas series: Artistic Practice and the Archive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this seminar, Professor Andrew Prescott explores the ways in which artistic practice can help us re-imagine the archive and the contents of the collections they hold. Drawing on the work of different contemporary artists, Professor Prescott argues that new technologies enable us to rethink the shape, structure, and character of the records we collect. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/big-ideas-series-artistic-practice-archive/ |
| Description | Theoretical Foundations of Visual Analytics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I participated in an expert workshop organised by Oxford University through the Alan Turing Institute on 'Theoretical Foundation of Visual Analytics' 4-6 April 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Unpeeling the Layers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at 94th Medieval Academy of America congress, 7 March 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Victoria and Albert Museum Digital Design Weekends |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Digital Design Weekend is an annual event organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival, which showcases a wide range of digital, making and craft activities for the general public. Partners include the Met Office, British Council, Digital Catapult, London Zoo and others. This is a major public engagement activity which attracts annually thousands of visitors. Through my fellowship, we have displayed projects from the Digital Transformations theme at the Digital Design Weekends in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and have also supported the production of publications for distribution to those attending the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017 |
| Description | Workshop on CLARIN for Corpus Linguistics conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on the benefits of CLARIN. Andrew Prescott was respondent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Zone Leader, AHRC. Common Ground event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint leader for Zone in major AHRC Common Ground event, part of AHRC Commons activity, at the University of York, 21 June 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ahrccommons.org/common-ground-event/ |