Explore Oxford's Digital Scholarship

Independently led projects applying digital technology to humanistic research are scattered across many different parts of the collegiate university, and funded from a variety of external and internal sources. A key aim of Digital Scholarship @Oxford is to support these projects in a variety of ways: by providing a showcase for this work, a forum for discussing shared challenges and good practice, resources for solving problems too large for individual projects to address, and a stable core of technical expertise needed to put them all on a more sustainable and convergent footing. The small selection of projects depicted here are examples of the variety of disciplines, the determination of our academic staff and their teams to share their research widely, and the huge depth of expertise in digital scholarship at Oxford. A historical list of former digital projects can also be found on the DH@Ox website.

Featured projects

Banner image for 'Printing Evolution 1450 - 1500: Fifty Years that Changed Europe' exhibition

15cBOOKTRADE

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

A UK-US collaboration exploring the implementation of linked data between galleries and museums
Screenshot of the WillPlay project, showing a reimagined version of Romeo and Juliet.

WillPlay

Reimagining Shakespeare's plays to engage new, young audiences
A word cloud illustrating differing concepts of cultural identity in early modern England.

TIDE

Exploring links between different cultures, regions and identities in early modern England
A cuneiform tablet showing ancient script and mounted horsemen.

Cuneiform Digital Library

Making the form and content of cuneiform tablets freely available to scholars everywhere in the world
Crowdsourcing the Oxford English Dictionary banner

Crowdsourcing the OED

Who created the first Oxford English Dictionary?
A group of Enlightenment-era scholars sit in a digital cloud symbolising the Digital Voltaire project.

Digital Voltaire

Producing high-quality digital editions of the complete works of Voltaire
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

1600 scholarly editions of material, dating from between 701 and 1901
Banner image with background of paintings and objects reading 'Cabinet: Digital Transformation of Teaching through Objects'

Cabinet

A digital platform on which communities of academics can collaborate in assembling digital collections into teaching materials
A row of metal lock boxes, each numbered from 564 in increments of 10, with a keyhole above the number.

Unlocking Digital Texts

Envisioning a new Interoperable Text Framework for long-term access
A lime green octopus-like logo has the domed roof of the Radcliffe Camera and legs which look like circuit diagrams. Text below reads CREATIVE & HERITAGE INNOVATION CHALLENGE

Creative & Heritage Innovation Challenge

Innovation Challenge
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Bodleian Student Editions

Student workshops
A black and white logo in the shape of a medieval strap end, with the text Antiqu and AI on top

AntiquAI

Classifying Portable Antiquities with Artificial Intelligence
If you'd like to find out about how Digital Scholarship at Oxford can support you and your research please get in touch.