The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has released details of the winners of its ‘Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact’ (DEDEFI) scheme.
21 projects have been funded at a value of just over £4m by the AHRC in this scheme focussing on research that will lead to enhanced access to leading edge digital technologies and facilities by arts and humanities researchers and for many of the projects non-academic audiences. In addition the projects aim to enhance impact from digital research outputs, such as databases, established with current or past AHRC support.
UK arts and humanities research lies at the forefront of developing and exploiting new digital technologies. These new projects will contribute to providing the content driving uptake of new technologies.
Many of the projects will help to satisfy our desire to learn more about our past and other societies and cultures; and help to better exploit the value of the UK’s unique historic and cultural assets.
The projects will also complement existing activities, such as those supported through the RCUK Digital Economy Programme, current AHRC initiatives such as the Beyond Text Programme and initiatives supported by other funders such as JISC
The full list of awards is as follows:
Dr GP Earl £232,575.00
School of Humanities, University of Southampton
Reflectance Transformation Imaging Systems for Ancient Documentary Artefacts
Professor J Ellis £332,520.00
Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
Consolidated Moving Image and Sound Database Framework
Dr BA Fennell £334,574.00
School of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen
Language and Linguistic Evidence in the 1641 Depositions
Professor RS Fensham £323,262.00
Dance Film and Theatre, University of Surrey
Digital Dance Archives (DDA): cross-collection interactivity and enhanced user engagement with dance resources
Professor PH Gray £111,768.00
School of History and Anthropology, The Queen’s University of Belfast
Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration, 18th-20th Centuries (DIPPAM)
Mr C Harrison £182,135.00
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The Elements of Drawing: Enhancement and Dissemination for Impact
Professor AF Hartley £159,293.00
School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds
IntelliText - Intelligent Tools for Creating and Analysing Electronic Text Corpora for Humanities Research
Dr E Leach £189,137.00
Music Faculty, University of Oxford
DIAMM: Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Dr AA Marsden £149,807.00
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University
Digital Arts Innovation Laboratory (DAILab)
Dr A Mazel £120,679.00
School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
Rock Art Mobile Project
Dr M Melaugh £260,179.00
INCORE, University of Ulster
Visualising the Conflict: Immersion in the Landscape of Victims and Commemoration in Northern Ireland
Dr DT Murphy £109,608.00
Electronics, University of York
The Virtual Acoustics and Auralization Database
Dr D Obbink £113,487.00
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford
A Collaboration between Classics and Astrophysics: An Advanced Multispectral Imaging Laboratory Optimised through Crowd-Sourced Statistical Analysis
Professor W. R. Owens £100,778.00
Department of Literature, The Open University
Developing an International Digital Network in the History of Reading: collaboration between the UK Reading Experience Database and invited partners.
Mr D Pritchard £139,531.00
Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art
Enhancing Engagement with 3D Heritage Data through Semantic Annotation
Professor JD Richards £140,250.00
Department of Archaeology, University of York
ADS+: Enhancing and Sustaining the Archaeology Data Service digital repository
Professor TP Schofield £262,673.00
Bentham Project, University College London
The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative
Professor D Tudhope £109,802.00
Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan
Semantic Technologies Enhancing Links and Linked data for Archaeological Resources (STELLAR)
Dr C Watts £136,498.00
English, Birkbeck College
Voiceworks Digital Song/Text Project: a collaboration between Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, Wigmore Hall & Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Mr K Woolford £434,345.00
School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex
Motion in Place Platform
Professor A Yarrington £61,462.00
Department of History of Art, University of Glasgow
Mobilising ‘Mapping Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 1851-1951′ (Mobilising Mapping)
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Notes to Editors
Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Each year the AHRC provides approximately £102 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,350 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK
Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI)
The AHRC recently secured £4m of additional capital funding in 2009/10 and 2010/11 to support this funding call for proposals that will lead to (i) enhanced access to leading edge digital technologies and facilities by arts and humanities researchers and/or (ii) enhanced impact from digital research outputs, such as databases, established with current or past AHRC or AHRB support.
This call was designed to sustain, build upon and enhance the UK’s research strengths in the arts and humanities, including the outputs from AHRC’s ICT Programme, and to complement existing activities, such as those supported through the RCUK Digital Economy Programme, through capital investment in two main areas:
1. Enhanced access to Digital Technologies for innovative research in the arts and humanities. This part of the call is concerned with ensuring that the UK’s world leading arts and humanities research base has continued and enhanced access to the latest digital technologies through supporting the purchase and associated implementation costs of leading edge digital equipment, resources or facilities.
2. Sustainability, Innovation and Enhanced Impact of AHRC–funded Digital Outputs, Databases and Resources. This part of the call is concerned with the development of AHRB/C funded digital research outputs to ensure that they remain at the cutting edge of technological developments, are compatible with requirements for long-term sustainability and/or to enhance the accessibility of these resources to a wider range of audiences and broaden their usage and impact.
For both funding strands, proposals can be submitted with a minimum full economic cost of £50,000 and a maximum full economic cost of £1,000,000. Projects will be expected to start on 1 March 2010 and run for periods of up to one year