Completed Projects

The following is a list of projects which we have completed. Each link takes you through to further information.

Access Grid Workshops

The aim of this series of workshops, funded under the AHRC's e-Science initiative, was to evaluate the usefulness of the Access Grid for collaborative arts and humanities research.

AHRC Technical Appendix: Review and Recommendations

In early 2010 the Humanities Research Institute conducted a review of the AHRC's Technical Appendix and made recommendations for a 'Technical Plan' on behalf of the Network of Expert Centres.

Armadillo

This project uses a set of online resources in eighteenth-century British social history to evaluate the potential benefits of Semantic Web technology for Arts and Humanities researchers.

The André Gide Editions

The HRI supported this project in its initial phases, providing the technical expertise to enable Gide´s novel Les Caves du Vatican to be published on CD-ROM by the French publisher Gallimard.

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The Canterbury Tales Project

The HRI was one of the founding partners in this project, which aims to put into electronic form all the manuscript and early printed versions of Chaucer´s Canterbury Tales, some 80 in total, located in research libraries around the world, thus providing clues as to the textual tradition of the poem as well as insights into how the English language was modified during a crucial period in its history.

The Cistercians in Yorkshire

With HRI technical expertise, this project created a freely available web-based learning package exploring the history and architecture the Cistercian order in Britain in general, and in particular of five Cistercian Abbeys in Yorkshire. Central to this learning package are three-dimensional reconstructions of the five abbeys and their outbuildings.

The Cotton Manuscripts

In 1997 and 1998, the Humanities Research Institute undertook various projects to assist the British Library in updating the catalogues of the manuscript library of Sir Robert Cotton (1586-1631).

Electronic Texts in East Asian Languages

This project set out to investigate the problems and opportunities associated with producing an electronic resource of East Asian texts.

Flora Tristan

The HRI provided the technical expertise that enabled this project to produce a digital edition of the correspondence of the nineteenth-century French feminist and socialist Flora Tristan.

French Film Stars

The HRI provided the technical expertise that enabled this project to produce an on-line database of filmographies and bibliographical references for all major French film stars.

The Hartlib Papers

This project created a complete electronic edition, with full-text transcription and facsimile images, of all 25,000 seventeenth-century manuscripts of the `intelligencer´ and man of science, Samuel Hartlib.

Humbox

The HRI is a partner with eleven other institutions and the Higher Education Academy on this JISC-funded project to publish excellent teaching and learning resources openly on the web.

The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue

The James Madison Carpenter Collection is a major collection of traditional song and drama, plus some items of traditional instrumental music, dance, custom, narrative and children's folklore, from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the USA, documented in the period 1927-55. The HRI designed, implemented and published, via HRI Online, the catalogue.

John Ruskin and the Idea of the Museum

Now held at Sheffield's 'Ruskin Gallery', the collection of the Guild of St George was originally established by Ruskin at Walkley in the 1870s. This project will develop an online, virtual reconstruction of the Walkley Museum using contemporary evidence (original photographs).

The Lands of the Normans in England (1204-44)

This project sought to assess the impact on the Anglo-French aristocracy of the collapse of the 'Anglo-Norman realm' in 1204. HRI Digital made possible the design and implementation of a database of families and properties recorded in contemporary documents, with associated digital genealogies and maps.

The Latin Stemming Project

The project objective was to develop and evaluate conflation techniques for searching of Latin texts by non-Latin specialists. Its outcome was a software package, entitled 'PhiloFacs'.

Managing Expert Witnesses

HRI Digital is working with Prof. Tom Billington in the School of Education and the Merseyside Family Justice Council to develop a system for managing the credentials and availability of expert witnesses. Funded by the University's KT fund.

The Old Bailey Proceedings Online

The HRI was a key partner in this project´s digitisation of the proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1834; the scope of the project has since been extended to 1913.

The Origins of Early Modern Literature

This project aims to redress the scholarly neglect of mid-Tudor writing, a period which saw the Reformation, the consolidation of the Tudor state, and the rise of English as a national language.

Partonopeus de Blois

The HRI provided the technical expertise to enable this project, funded by the AHRB Resource Enhancement Scheme, to create an electronic edition of the anonymous 12th-century French romance Partonopeus de Blois.

Pegasus

Pegasus will develop a grid-enabled interface using Storage Resource Broker clientware designed at the University of California San Diego to establish a program for sharing and displaying in real-time selected virtual reality exhibition materials.

The Pérez Galdós Editions

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), a master of European realism, is widely regarded as being Spain's greatest novelist after Cervantes. The project is producing new critical editions of his four Torquemada novels in hard copy and online.

Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London

This project used recent technical advances in the creation and analysis of multiple digital resources to create a comprehensive electronic edition of primary sources on criminal justice and the provision of poor relief and medical care in eighteenth-century London.

The Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court

This project, a continuation of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, added a further 100,000 trials and 70 million words of text, extending the period covered from 1834 to 1913, when publication of the Proceedings ceased.

Richard Brome Online

This project will create an online edition of the Collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome, making innovative use of video materials to combine dramatic textual scholarship with theatre practice.

Russian Visual Arts

The HRI helped create, and through HRI Online publishes, the electronic resources created by this project, which investigated the emergence of art criticism and art theory as a distinct genre in Russia, and the ways in which newly evolved art criticism affected artistic developments in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

This project explores the popular dissemination of science in the nineteenth century through the medium of periodicals designed for a general readership. The HRI designed, implemented and published, via HRI Online, the project's online index of periodicals.

Scilly Voices

This project is a collaboration between the Isles of Scilly Museum and the English Language and Linguistics Programme at the University of Sheffield, working to produce an on-line database which archives the Islands' oral history collection.

Scrutiny: A Firefox Extension for Entity Recognition within Research Data

Funded by the JISC's Rapid Innovation Programme, HRI Digital and the Univ. of Hertfordshire will develop a Firefox extension called Scrutiny, which will be able to scan web pages selected by individual users and highlight entities that it thinks will interest them.

The Sheffield Corpus of Chinese

The aim of this project is to provide an extensive digital resource for marked-up historical Chinese texts covering different text types and genres and arranged in different time periods to facilitate study of the development and varieties of the language.

Stuart London

This project has produced a full-text electronic edition, designed and implemented by HRI Digital and published by HRI Online, of John Strype's enormous two-volume 1720 edition of John Stow's Survey of London and Westminster, with its celebrated maps and plates.

Virtual Vellum

Funded by the AHRC and EPSRC as an e-Science Demonstrator project, and using medieval illuminated manuscripts as a testbed,Virtual Vellum produced a prototype image viewer making possible the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting of very-high-resolution image datasets.