University College London, OER Digital Humanities (DHOER)
- Start date: 2010-09-01
- End date: 2011-08-31
- Status: complete
Digital Humanities refers to the intersection of digital technologies and computational techniques with humanities and cultural heritage. Its objects of study include primary and secondary source material, such as texts, images, film, sound, performance and objects in 2D or 3D, from sources such as museums, archives, galleries, archaeological digs, or other memory institutions. It aims to produce computational applications and models which make possible new kinds of knowledge both in the humanities disciplines and in computer science and its allied technologies and also studies the impact of these new techniques on cultural heritage, memory institutions, libraries, archives and digital culture in general.
Aims and Objectives
The DHOER project is creating Open Educational Resources (OER) from a comprehensive range of introductory materials in Digital Humanities, enriched with multimedia and Web 2.0 components, made freely available to anyone.
Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes
Teaching and learning materials from introductory modules taught at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities will be released as OERs, providing a general survey of topics, techniques and methodology of Digital Humanities.
Key Focus Areas
- Digitial Humanities
- Specialist courses linked to the needs of particular sectors of employment.
- Distinctive subjects, where a low volume of provision exists currently and a convincing argument could be made for the benefits to cognate disciplines.
- Arts subjects including the performing arts - using a range of text-based and non-text based resources.