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.
Publications:
- Faghihi, Y., Holford, M., & Jones, H. (2022). 'Teaching the Text Encoding Initiative: Context, Community and Collaboration'. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 8, 15. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/johd.72
- Eugenio Biagini, Patrick Geoghegan, Hugh Hanley, Aneirin Jones, Huw Jones, 'From sentiment to style: Charles Stewart Parnell’s rhetoric in the first crisis of the UK', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2022;, fqac077, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac077
- Biagini, E., Geoghegan, P., Hanley, H., Jones, A., Jones, H. (2023). "Reconstructing historical texts from fragmentary sources: Charles S. Parnell and the Irish crisis, 1880-86.". Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 17, no. 3. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.96572 http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/17/3/000697/000697.html
- Faghihi, Y. and Jones, H. (2024). “Manuscript catalogues as data for research: from provenance to data decolonisation”. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 18 (3). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/3/000751/000751.html
- Jones, H., Faghihi, Y., Parsons, D., Evans. J. and Antur, G. (2026). “Decoding and Encoding Welsh Manuscript Culture: Scribes, Scripts and TEI”. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 20 (1). https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000852/000852.html
Affiliations
- Cambridge Digital Humanities https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/
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.
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