During the summer of 2024, the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Excellence Group in collaboration with the Design Archives, The National Archives and the Digital Skills in Visual and Material Culture network service at the University of Brighton hosted two research placements. Isis Barrett-Lally, PhD student at the Royal Holloway University of London, and Alfie […]

Thursday 20th 09:30am – 6:00pm, Friday 21st 9:30am – 4:30pm University of Brighton The AHRC-funded Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network service will host a two-day workshop as part of its training activities on 20-21 June 2024, at the University of Brighton. The workshop aims to upskill researchers and practitioners in 3D digitisation […]

Applications are invited for a student/researcher to undertake an internship, supported by a stipend, to develop their skills for facilitating access and analysis of large-scale Covid-related mass observation data. The internship seeks to develop skills in AI-based methods to enhance access and analysis of textual material collected by Mass Observation during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Context This internship will […]

Monday 5th 09:30 am – 6:00 pm, Tuesday 6th 9:30 am – 4:30 pm, Wednesday 7th 9:30 am – 3:00 pm Advanced Engineering Centre, 101, University of Brighton The AHRC-funded Digital Skills In Visual And Material Culture network service will host a two-and-a-half-day workshop as part of its training activities on 5-7 February 2024, at […]

Mr Thomas Flynn, Digital Heritage Consultant, The Spatial Heritage Review This webinar will explore how 3D data representing cultural heritage resources -whether these are movable or immovable assets- can be published and used online for narrative purposes in the Arts and Humanities context. During the webinar we will discuss the concept of storytelling with 3D, […]

February 14, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on February 14, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm.   This one-day Python workshop is designed for researchers who have no prior experience with Python to provide a practical and efficient introduction […]

March 13, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on March 13th, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm.  This workshop is designed for individuals who are interested in learning about sentiment analysis and its applications. Sentiment analysis is the study of […]

March 20, 1:00-3:00 PM Online The Hot Source! project, funded by AHRC, is organizing an online workshop on March 20th, 2024, as part of its training activities from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm.  This workshop is designed for researchers who are interested in learning about Topic Modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Topic modeling involves uncovering […]

During the last few months we have been working with our colleagues in Cairo from the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation (EHRF) and Lazo Studios (https://www.lazostudios.co.uk/) on a digitisation project of intangible cultural heritage. The project “Linking collections with the living heritage … Continue reading →

We recently published our article “Heritage in lockdown: digital provision of memory institutions in the UK and US of America during the COVID-19 pandemic”. This paper presents a review we undertook during the lockdown period in 2020 on digital provision … Continue reading →

A Unity 3D  scene was created with some landscape and trees. I got the dinosaur asset, including its animations, from an existing project: https://hackaday.io/project/7024-augmented-reality-and-dinosaur-movement-control The following screenshots illustrate the Unity environment. Currently, the environment contains simple animations: one dinosaur with one looping … Continue reading →

Myrsini Samaroudi, one of our PhD students at the CSIUS centre, has published the following article based on her research at the Conversation: How 3D printing is transforming our relationship with cultural heritage In the article, she explore the recent trends … Continue reading →

On the 26th of January, the Archaeology Gallery at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery opened its doors to the public. This new exhibition illuminates aspects of the local history, highlighting some of the stories of Brighton & Hove inhabitants … Continue reading →

One of our student’s final year project at the School of Computing and Mathematics allowed us to experiment with 360 photography for heritage environments. The project was done in Collaboration with the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The project involved investigating … Continue reading →

This month our collaborator, BrightInteractive, published in their blog a post of a recent project we developed during the summer: https://blog.assetbank.co.uk/the-latest-research-on-artificial-intelligence-and-dam/ During this project, we experimented and compared existing AI systems with a system that was custom built. Our aims … Continue reading →

In the summer of 2018 we had the opportunity to collaborate with the Spode Museum Trust, Buckinghamshire University and UCL to undertake a feasibility study for mass-digitisation. The project involved industrial heritage in the city of Stoke-on-Trent. In particular, the … Continue reading →

Processing of 3D scanned meshes. Processing of 3D scanned meshes.   3D printing. 3D printed replica of scan.   This summer we had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation (EHRF) working on the documentation … Continue reading →