The University of Kent has invested in infrastructure for the development of Digital Humanities. This has included the new Crit-Space in the Marlowe Building and equipment to enable Architecture and Archaeology to capture and to manipulate digital data. In addition, several research-council funded projects have enabled significant progress in the field of heritage digitization.
More specifically, geophysics and equipment for magnetometry and resistivity have been combined on a number of projects, including those on the Lincolnshire Wolds and at Bigbury Hillfort (Canterbury).
Laser-scanning with equipment for both object scanning and architectural scanning have been utilised for data-capture in the Mediterranean at Eleusis (Greece) and Ostia (Italy), as well as in the study of museum collections both in the UK (e.g. British Museum), and in the Mediterranean (e.g. in Crete). In 2012-2013? Professor Yoshiki Hori from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at Kyushu University, Japan was at the University of Kent on a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, to work, among other things, on laser survey of both Pompeii and Ostia.
Visualisation has been a focus for both the Kent School of Architecture and the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies. A major project grant from the Leverhulme Trust was gained for the study of the Visualisation of the Late Antique city in 2010 that will allow for the public to imagine the city in this final phase of the Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages.
Corpora of Latin inscriptions have been analysed through digital databases to produce new insights into the understanding of age (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), the use of standard formulae, and the Christianisation of the family in Rome.
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts have been presented and analysed with the DocExplore system. This is an EU INTERREG IV project, that is a collaboration between the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, Canterbury Cathedral Archive and the University and Library of Rouen.
Finally, the perception of Early Modern Domestic Interiors has been analysed using eye-tracking software and questions of visualisation have also been addressed, as part of an AHRC funded network.