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Huw Jones

Head of Digital Library Unit and Digital Humanities Coordinator

Directorate: Digital Initiatives and Services

Department: Digital Library Unit

Huw's research interests are in text encoding, data modelling and the application of digital humanities methodologies to collections material. He also teaches one of the core courses on the Digital Humanities MPhil, and co-leads the Text Encoding Initiative strand of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

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Associated research projects

Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries

A project to conserve, catalogue and digitise medieval medical recipes, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Digital approaches to the capture and analysis of watermarks using the manuscripts of Isaac Newton as a test case

This project investigates digital humanities approaches to the extraction and analysis of watermark images, and their research potential in grouping and dating manuscripts, using Isaac Newton manuscripts as a test case.

AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)

By creating both a community of practice and a prototype workspace, ArCH will enable heritage practitioners and collections researchers to harness the power of AI to unlock cultural heritage collections.

Photography:
Headline image © Alice the Camera / Cambridge University Library
Image of Curious Cures manuscript: CUL MS Dd.6.29 (ff. 27v-28r)
ArCH image: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund from Better Images of AI