CIRCAh: Cultural Informatics Research Centre for the Arts and Humanities

The CIRCAh research group is part of UCL Department of Information Studies and undertakes research on the application of computing and digital technologies to the arts and humanities.

CIRCAh brings together expertise in digital humanities, user studies, digital libraries, human computer interaction and e-Science. Our location within DIS also allows for collaboration with with colleagues in library and archive studies. This association is vital in the study of cultural informatics, since libraries and archives and museums will be the future repositories for digital information. Thus they have a vital role to play in the understanding of such materials.

Current Research

LinkSphere (with the University of Reading)
INKE - Implementing New Knowledge Environments (a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant, led by the University of Victoria, Canada)
Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents (with the University of Oxford)
TEI by example

Completed Research

VERA- Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (with Reading University)
LAIRAH- Log analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities
ReACH - Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings
UCIS - User Centred Interactive Search with Digital Libraries
Teams in Digital Humanities Research: with Acadia University, Canada
Orlando's Faces and Six Degrees of Separation in Orlando.
Two projects to create second generation interfaces for the Orlando project

CIRCAh Researchers

Dr Claire Warwick- Reader in Digital Humanities
Dr Melissa Terras- Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing
Professor Susan Hockey- Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Stephann Makri- Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Claire Ross- Research Assistant
Ernesto Priego- PhD Student
Rudolf Amman- PhD Student

We are actively seeking further research opportunities, so please contact us if you are interested in being a future research partner.