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Digital Scholarship

 

Digital Scholarship encompasses the increasingly diverse application of digital technology to scholarly activity emphasising openness and cross-disciplinary collaboration, as well as the challenging of traditional and established methodological norms.

Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

King’s College London Libraries & Collections is committed to brokering ongoing digital collaborations and alliances, both internally and in partnership with the broader research community. Specifically, Digital Scholarship at King’s Libraries & Collections applies the principles and technologies of Digital Humanities to the use, re-use, and investigation of our unique and distinctive holdings within the Foyle Special Collections Library, and the King’s College London Archives, including the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.

In combination with our unparalleled curatorial and collection knowledge, King’s Libraries & Collections is working to develop innovative ways of selecting, preserving, cataloguing, and reusing library and archive-specific data with a view to fostering new research, and research methodologies.

As part of ongoing efforts to drive, develop, and define digital scholarship at King’s, we actively encourage future partners and collaborators to contact us at archives@kcl.ac.uk

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Projects and Data

Past and ongoing projects presenting and interpreting data from King’s Archives and Special Collections.

 

Pioneering Nurses

Pioneering Nurses

Searchable biographies from the British Nurses' Association professional register.

Archives Africa

Archives Africa

A joint project between King's College London and the National Archives of Madagascar.

War Memorials

War Memorials

Rich biographical database of King's students and staff killed in twentieth century conflict.

AIM25

AIM25

The AIM25 educational charity, supporting development of and public access to historical archives.

Step Change

Step Change

Linked Data architecture for the UK archive sector, drawing upon the lessons of Open Metadata.

Victorian Lives

Victorian Lives

Searchable biographies of nineteenth century King's staff from the College Archive.

Trenches to Triples

Trenches to Triples

Providing Linked Data markup to LCHMA catalogue entries relating to the First World War.

 

 

StorySpace

Human stories are at the heart of King’s. StorySpace is an evolving area dedicated to the telling of these stories through thematic exhibitions, blogs, events, curated collections and more.

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Strandlines

Strandlines

Joint project between Archives and the Department of English exploring the Strand community.

Scrambled Messages

Scrambled Messages

Wheatstone, the trans-Atlantic telegraph and the public imagination, 1857-1900.

Featured Story

Featured Story

The Algonquin Genesis at the Foyle Special Collections Library.

 

 

 

Online Collections

Access to digital surrogates of key holdings from King’s Archives and Special Collections.

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Code Breakers

Code Breakers

Research resource for the history of genetics, including the digitised papers of Maurice Wilkins.

Serving Soldier

Serving Soldier

Access to thousands of nationally significant historical archives on servicemen and their families.

 

 

 

Open Access

Open research is central to the King’s ethos on improving availability and access to research outputs.

More broadly, the remit of the Open Research team of King’s Libraries & Collections encompasses such areas as open access publishing, compliance with REF2021, funding requirements, and Article Processing Charges (APCs) with a view to supporting good data management practice, research impact, and negotiating the complex area of copyright.

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Managing Research Data

Managing Research Data

Support for planning, organising, storing, preserving, and sharing your research and health data.