Tag: Digital Knowledge and Culture
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New online exhibition on Cabinet: ‘Star House Pole’
29 July 2019
Authors: Jamie Cameron
Cabinet has worked with Philip Grover at the Pitt Rivers Museum to create a digital legacy for the exhibition Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole ...
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New Public Cabinet Paper: ‘We Look to the Moon’
12 July 2019
Authors: Sarah Griffin
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first crewed mission to land on the Moon (20 July 1969). In celebration, the Proscholium of the Old Bodleian Library is hosting ...
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The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production
23 May 2019
Authors: Mark Graham
The Geonet team has a new paper out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., and Zook, M. 2019. The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production. The Journal of Development Studies. ...
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Medieval Manuscripts, IIIF and the History of Medicine on Cabinet
7 May 2019
Authors: Sarah Griffin
Cabinet is well known across Oxford for the three-dimensional models of museum objects that we create to promote teaching with material culture. While these models are an effective way ...
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New Cabinet Exhibition: 40 Years of Women at The Queen’s College, Oxford
29 March 2019
Authors: Jamie Cameron
2019 sees the 40th anniversary of the admission of female students to The Queen’s College, Oxford. To commemorate this historic event, the College is organizing a range of events and ...
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Remembering the First World War in 10 objects
8 March 2019
Authors: Sarah Griffin
Remembering the First World War in 10 objects is an online exhibition hosted by Cabinet, which has just been released for public viewing. Many of the displayed objects have come to light ...
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First public exhibition published on Cabinet in collaboration with Pitt Rivers Museum
7 August 2018
Authors: Jamie Cameron
Thanks to support from the University’s Van Houten Fund and GLAM Digital Strategy, Jamie Cameron and Kathryn Eccles have been working with Philip Grover at the Pitt Rivers Museum ...
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Cabinet Project contributes to new BBC Augmented Reality App
1 March 2018
Authors: Jamie Cameron
Researchers from the Cabinet project, led by OII Research Fellow Dr Kathryn Eccles and supported by Research Assistant Jamie Cameron, have worked with Deputy Head of Education Helen Ward, ...
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Cabinet at the UMAC 2017 Conference in Helsinki
10 September 2017
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
Dr Kathryn Eccles gave a short talk about Cabinet to the 17th Annual University Museums and Collections conference, hosted by the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyväskylä. ...
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Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…
20 June 2017
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
Last week, the Oxford University Museums Partnership in collaboration with the Digital Learning Network put on a fantastic event on Digital Learning in Museums. The event was focused on ...
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More project case studies available
19 April 2016
Authors: Eric Meyer
We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them ...
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IHR workshop on web archiving
12 November 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
On 11 November the IHR held a workshop, ‘An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians‘, for which we welcomed back two old friends from the BUDDAH project as speakers. ...
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Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015
6 October 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
The term card for the Michaelmas OxDEG Digital Ethnography sessions is out. We look forward to seeing you there! Click the image to download a higher-resolution copy.
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Project case studies now available
9 July 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
We are delighted that we can now make available five of the case studies written by researchers across the humanities and social sciences. More will be available via this ...
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Live tagging art works at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
2 July 2015
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
How does crowdsourcing work? Who gets involved and why? Can non-experts provide useful and high quality tags for important art works? These are some of the questions at the heart ...
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The Object Apothecary at the Ashmolean Museum’s Live Friday event
7 June 2015
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
Our third event at the Ashmolean‘s LiveFriday event in May was an Object Apothecary, dispensing prescriptions for events and experiences in the Museum to aid visitor wellbeing. The Object ...
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The Digital Wonder Cabinet at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
31 May 2015
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
How far back do our modern day practices of collecting, curating and displaying information go? Choosing a Facebook profile picture, creating a gallery of holiday photos, tweeting an image of ...
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Web archives as big data
27 January 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
Peter Webster, a member of the project team, here reflects on the conference we held at the IHR on 3 December. Peter writes: In early December the project held ...
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Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram
30 October 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
This is a cross-posting of an item that our colleague Josh Cowls has just written for his own blog. Thanks to Josh for permission to repost here. I’m ...
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Search results for historical material
22 October 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
This is a guest post by Jaspreet Singh, a researcher at the L3S Research Center in Hanover. Jaspreet writes: When people use a commercial search engine to search for ...
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