Digital Scholarship at the University of Oxford

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What does DiSc do?

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What is Digital Scholarship?

The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2019

Digital Scholarship events

Featured projects

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Murray Scriptorium

21 October 2022

Crowdsourcing the Oxford English Dictionary banner

Crowdsourcing the OED

06 October 2021

Who created the first Oxford English Dictionary?

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Cabinet

06 October 2021

A digital platform on which communities of academics can collaborate in assembling digital collections into teaching materials

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

06 October 2021

1600 scholarly editions of material, dating from between 701 and 1901

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15cBOOKTRADE

06 October 2021

Tracking the circulation of printed books in 15th-century Europe

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WillPlay

06 October 2021

Reimagining Shakespeare's plays to engage new, young audiences

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Linked Art II

06 October 2021

A UK-US collaboration exploring the implementation of linked data between galleries and museums

A cuneiform tablet showing ancient script and mounted horsemen.

Cuneiform Digital Library

06 October 2021

Making the form and content of cuneiform tablets freely available to scholars everywhere in the world

A group of Enlightenment-era scholars sit in a digital cloud symbolising the Digital Voltaire project.

Digital Voltaire

06 October 2021

Producing high-quality digital editions of the complete works of Voltaire

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TIDE

06 October 2021

Exploring links between different cultures, regions and identities in early modern England

News & blogs

Announcing the DiSc Research and Development Fellowship scheme

29 July 2022

The Gale Asia Pacific Digital Fellows

Meet the Asia-Pacific Digital Fellows

22 April 2022

New digital humanities researchers arrive in Oxford to expand the University's scholarship

Events

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Bodleian Student Editions

22 October 2026

In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford

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AI use in the library and museum workplace

12 November 2026

Bodleian Bytes, online event

Library books

Digital Humanities Show & Tell

24 November 2026

In-person event: Weston Library, Oxford

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Environmental Impact of Digital Conference 2027

4 March 2027

In-person conference: Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford