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Projects </li> </ol> </nav> <div class="layout layout--onecol"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--content"> <div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-two-column-header paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6 p-3"> <h1>CDCS Projects</h1> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>We're proud to support amazing research across our community. Here is some of the work that we've funded over the last few years.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-6 p-3"> <div class="field field--name-field-right-hand-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <picture> <source srcset="/files/styles/large_16x9/public/2023-09/DRAFT_Header4.png?itok=Iek-l2A3 1120w" media="all and (min-width: 768px)" type="image/png" sizes="(min-width: 768px) 768px, 100vw" width="1120" height="630"/> <source srcset="/files/styles/medium_16x9/public/2023-09/DRAFT_Header4.png?itok=mAowvF_K 640w" media="all and (max-width: 767px)" type="image/png" sizes="(max-width: 767px) 767px" width="640" height="360"/> <img loading="eager" width="1120" height="630" src="/files/styles/large_16x9/public/2023-09/DRAFT_Header4.png?itok=Iek-l2A3" alt="text with bust" /> </picture> </figure> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--color paragraph--color--rgba-grey-strong standard paragraph paragraph--type-text-image paragraph--view-mode-default ds-2col clearfix twin" id="paragraph-id--3783"> <div class="paragraph__column inner"> <div class="group-right"> <figure class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser ds-1col clearfix"> <a href="https://www.bhood.co.uk/projects/its-all-about-the-feelings"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/medium_16x9/public/2022-05/Itsallaboutthefeelings_BHood.jpg?itok=IHRzJ0A8" width="640" height="360" alt="image of woman on screen" class="image-style-medium-16x9"></a> </figure> </div> <div class="group-left"> <h2>Case study: AI, Gender and Emotion</h2> <p>Over the last three years, we have supported developing work by artist and researcher Bev Hood focused on AI and it's relation to embodiment. An initial grant enabled Bev explore gender bias within AI development, datasets, vision systems, and the coded behaviours of manifestations such as Alexa and Siri. In 2021, we supported her in creating a new website for her work on emotional AI. In 2022, we commissioned a performance of 'It's all about the feelings' as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute's spring season.</p> <p> </p> <h3 class="link-title"> <a href="https://www.bhood.co.uk/projects/its-all-about-the-feelings">Learn more about Bev's work</a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--color paragraph--color--rgba-pink-strong standard paragraph paragraph--type-text-image paragraph--view-mode-default ds-2col clearfix twin" id="paragraph-id--1006"> <div class="paragraph__column inner"> <div class="group-right"> <figure class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser ds-1col clearfix"> <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs/2021/05/10/what-counts-as-culture-part-i-sentiment-analysis-of-the-times-music-reviews-1950-2009/"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/medium_16x9/public/2023-09/sentences_per_review_scatter_plot-1.png?itok=xde5A6Wc" width="640" height="360" alt="sentences per review scatterplot" class="image-style-medium-16x9"></a> </figure> </div> <div class="group-left"> <h2><strong>Case Study: </strong>What counts as culture? Reporting and criticism in The Times 1785-2000</h2> <p>In 2020/21, we supported Dr Dave O'Brien and his team to explore Times Digital Archive data, looking at how changes in taste, alongside associated cultural and social hierarchies, are reflected in newspaper reporting throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The team posed research questions such as: What artforms have been reported and reviewed? What has been consistent, what has changed? How have artforms been reported? Is there a status hierarchy between them? How has this changed over time? Who has been reporting and reviewing? And, what is the impact of key social and cultural events? CDCS facilitated use of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, and Proquest's TDM studio, as well as technical support from text-mining scholar Lucy Havens. During the project Lucy created a Jupyter notebook with code for sentiment analysis, which we make available via our github site. </p> <p> </p> <h3 class="link-title"> <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs/2021/05/10/what-counts-as-culture-part-i-sentiment-analysis-of-the-times-music-reviews-1950-2009/">Read more about this project</a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>DDI and Data Justice (2020/21)</h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Edinburgh’s current aspiration is to be a ‘data capital of Europe’ through the ‘Edinburgh City Region Deal’ – a £1.3bn investment in the area, grounded in a vision of economic prosperity brought about by data-driven innovation. The University of Edinburgh has positioned itself in a vanguard role, through the Data Driven Innovation (DDI) programme, which will receive £350,000,000 of City Region Deal funding over a ten-year period of research and development. Following from a panel about DDI during the 2019 Data Justice Week, Morgan Currie, Jeremy Knox and Callum McGregor undertook a research project that seeks to understand the policy origins and different values and goals driving DDI projects since the program began in 2019. Support from CDCS enabled them to hire a research assistant and begin an analysis of the origins, justifications, and aims of the DDI program.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>VR In Mind (2020/21)</h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>CDCS provided funding for the VR in Mind project to buy a new headset and employ a short term research assistant. </p> <p>VRinMind is developing a virtual reality based mindfulness application to help people manage chronic pain. 60 million people suffer from chronic pain worldwide. Managing pain can be helped by practicing mindfulness, a self-directed at-home practice that uses gentle exercises and relaxation techniques. University of Edinburgh researchers are working on VRinMind, a project employing virtual reality (VR) to enhance mindfulness practice for those with chronic pain conditions through immersive 3D audio-visual experiences</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>Mapping the Topkapı Saray (2020/21)</h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>We supported Prof James Crow and his RA Stefano Bordoni to create a 3D digital terrain model of the Topkapı Saray in Istanbul. Using data from available 1:1000 Turkish digital mapping they created a DTM of the easternmost hill on the peninsula of Historic Istanbul, the first hill of the Byzantine city. Since the late 15th c. this was the palace of the Ottoman Sultans including the famous Harem. But within its four courts are the remains of the Byzantine First Hill and a unique sequence of large cisterns. The DTM including, the mapped archaeological features and historic buildings will make it possible to create new visualisations of the famous palace and its subsurface heritage for future public display and publications, revealing a new unrecognised aspect of the city’s long-term history and insights into past technological achievements.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--color paragraph--color--rgba-teal-strong standard paragraph paragraph--type-text-image paragraph--view-mode-default ds-2col clearfix twin" id="paragraph-id--3781"> <div class="paragraph__column inner"> <div class="group-right"> <figure class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser ds-1col clearfix"> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9582362"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/medium_16x9/public/2023-09/cheap.jpg?itok=naAhCpV1" width="640" height="360" alt="image of a chapbook" class="image-style-medium-16x9"></a> </figure> </div> <div class="group-left"> <h2><strong>Case Study: Digital Edition of Alice Thornton's Books </strong></h2> <p>In 2019/20, Dr Cordelia Beattie and Dr Suzanne Trill worked with the Centre to create a prototype website for a digital edition of four autobiographical manuscripts by Alice Thornton, a seventeenth-century writer, that have important implications for both our understanding of the specific author but also for our general understanding of the composition of such materials in this period. The project was a feasibility study for a larger projects to produce an online edition in which each text could be read continuously, while also being searchable via an index and keywords. CDCS also provided licences and training in TEI for the project team In 2021, Cordelia and Suzanne's AHRC bid was successful and they began a three-year project to create the digital edition.</p> <p> </p> <h3 class="link-title"> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9582362">read the paper</a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph--color paragraph--color--rgba-teal-strong standard paragraph paragraph--type-text-image paragraph--view-mode-default ds-2col clearfix twin" id="paragraph-id--1007"> <div class="paragraph__column inner"> <div class="group-right"> <figure class="media media--type-image media--view-mode-teaser ds-1col clearfix"> <a href="https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/medium_16x9/public/2021-04/News_Alice%20Thornton%20Grant.jpg?itok=mAqbrDWU" width="640" height="360" alt="Alison Cullingford, Suzanne Trill and Cordelia Beattie viewing an Alice Thornton manuscript in Durham Cathedral " class="image-style-medium-16x9"></a> </figure> </div> <div class="group-left"> <h2><strong>Case Study: Digital Edition of Alice Thornton's Books </strong></h2> <p>In 2019/20, Dr Cordelia Beattie and Dr Suzanne Trill worked with the Centre to create a prototype website for a digital edition of four autobiographical manuscripts by Alice Thornton, a seventeenth-century writer, that have important implications for both our understanding of the specific author but also for our general understanding of the composition of such materials in this period. The project was a feasibility study for a larger projects to produce an online edition in which each text could be read continuously, while also being searchable via an index and keywords. CDCS also provided licences and training in TEI for the project team In 2021, Cordelia and Suzanne's AHRC bid was successful and they began a three-year project to create the digital edition.</p> <p> </p> <h3 class="link-title"> <a href="https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/">Find out more about how this project developed</a> </h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>The digital publication of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s short stories (2019/20) </h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A collection of unpublished short stories by the American writer Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson was recently discovered in her archives by Dr Robyn Pritzker. As the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Stevenson’s own literary work has been largely overlooked by scholars to date. Robyn has undertaken the digitisation of these stories, in collaboration with Dr Anouk Lang, in order to make them available to the public for the first time. The completed digital edition demonstrates the potential for using TEI markup to illuminate the previously overlooked importance of Stevenson’s work. This project explores what can be achieved with TEI-encoded text, creating the potential for analysis and putting Stevenson’s work back into conversation of nineteenth-century writers and literary-critical understandings of the period.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>Software as research tool for the professional development of teachers and education professionals (2019/20) </h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Led by Dr Natasa Pantic of Moray House School of Education, this project aims to develop a software that functions both as a research tool and a tool for research-informed professional development of teachers and other education professionals. It builds on a pilot project to improve the functionality of the on-line log for Teacher Reflection on their Agency for Change (TRAC) to enable taking to scale empirical study of the impact of teachers’ social networks. For professional development, the proposal exemplifies network learning based on visualisation of teachers’ and school social networks that can be used in professional development and school improvement. It will enable researchers and teachers anywhere to engage with the web-based log and receive feedback about their own networks. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>A database for the Jamaica Manumissions Project (2019/20) </h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Professor Diana Paton has undertaken the Jamaica Manumissions Project, a study of deed book records held in the Jamaica Archives which detail the manumission, or release from slavery, of several hundred people in Jamaica between the 1740s and the 1830s. Each of 66 deed books contains copies of several hundred manumission deeds, recording details and demographic information of previously enslaved people. CDCS funded the development of an online database to facilitate collection of the data in eight volumes that have already been digitised and paid for data entry for a pilot study of one deed book. This funding has enabled improved database efficiency and automation processes for further data collection, and has enabled the team to gain better insight into the technical requirements and resources needed for a larger scale project.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 p-3"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type-three-column-grid-item paragraph--view-mode-default ds-1col clearfix"> <h2>Malawian (Hi)stories and the Medical Humanities: An Interactive Digital Repository (2019/20) </h2> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-bp-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Dr Chisomo Kalinga aims to provide the first multidisciplinary archive on medical humanities in Malawi as part of her Wellcome Trust funded project 'Ulimbaso ‘You will be strong again’: How literary aesthetics and storytelling inform concepts of health and wellbeing in Malawi’. The digital archive is an open-source resource that features interactive maps, digital exhibitions, images, videos, games, original documents, which can be cited and exported. CDCS is supporting an upgrade to the digital archive enabling the site to be converted from a personal archive to an international open source data platform. It will provide a historical and modern resource for researchers, academics, health professionals, archivists, and others, allowing researchers to share data for collaborative fieldwork. 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