Research Methods for Creating and Curating Data in the Digital Humanities

Matt Hayler is a Lecturer in post-1980s Literature at the University of Birmingham specializing in Digital and Cyberculture Studies, specifically (post)phenomenology and Cognitive Science influenced approaches to e-reading and to technology more broadly. Recent publications include Challenging the Phenomena of Technology (Palgrave 2015) and chapters on technology and the digital humanities in forthcoming volumes on Futures for English Studies (Palgrave 2016, co-written with Marilyn Deegan) and Theatre Performance and Cognition (Methuen 2016). Gabriele Griffin is Chair in Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has a long-standing research interest in research methods for the Humanities, and in women’s cultural production. Recent publications include The Emotional Politics of Research Collaboration (co-ed.; Routledge 2013) and The Social Politics of Research Collaboration (co-ed.; Routledge 2013). She is editor of the ‘research Methods for the Arts and Humanities’ series (Edinburgh UP).

• 1. Introduction, Matt Hayler and Gabriele Griffin; 2. Choices in Digitization for the Digital Humanities, Simon Tanner, Laura Gibson, Rebecca Kahn and Geoff Laycock; 3. Curating the language of letters: historical linguistic methods in the museum, Mel Evans; 4. Connecting with the past – opportunities and challenges in digital history Thomas Nygren, Zephyr Frank, Nicholas Bauchand Erik Steiner; 5. The object and the event: Time-based digital simulation and illusion in the fine arts, Stephen Hilyard; 6. Data visualisation and the Humanities Lisa Otty and Tara Thomson; 7. Curating Mary Digitally: Digital Methodologies and Representations of Medieval Material Culture, Cecilia Lindhé, Ann-Catrine Eriksson, Jim Robertsson and Mattis Lindmark; 8. Raising language awareness using digital media: methods for revealing linguistic stereotyping, Mats Deutschmann, Anders Steinvall and Anna Lagerström; 9. A world of possibilities: digitisation and the humanities, Marilyn Deegan.