Dr Julianne Nyhan

I am a Lecturer in Digital Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), where I teach INSTG008 Digital Resources in the Humanities; INSTG062 Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; and INST6002 Web Technologies, Users and Management.

My current research interests include Digital Humanities, Oral History, Information studies, XML and metadata languages for the Humanities. At present  I am focusing especially on: (i) The history of the remediation of the dictionary at the intersection of Culture, Technology, Learning and Society from medieval to modern times (ii) Retrodigitisation of historical dictionaries and scholarly editions (iii) The History of Computing and Digital Humanities (iv) Oral history.

Among other things, I am Communications Editor of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; European Liaison manager of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; a member of the AHRC Peer review college (2011-2015); an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities and member of the review panel of the Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship; and text encoding consultant to the Montefiore Testimonials Digitization project.

Past activities include serving on the Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) (2009-2011). I formally participated in Working Group 3 ('Strategic IT Recommendations') of the COST project InterEdition. The Working Group brought together experts in digital humanities and digital libraries in order to guide and inspire the work of Working Group 2 ('Prototyping/Development'). I was also on the Steering Committee of LSE's project to digitise the diaries of Beatrice Webb and a member of the Day in the life of the Digital Humanities organising team.

I am interested in proposals from potential PhD students who wish to undertake research in Digital Humanities, Oral History, Information Studies and the History of Computing in the Humanities. 

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Edited Books 

At press.Purcell, E., MacCotter, P., Nyhan, J., and Sheehan, J (eds). Clerics, Kings and Vikings: essays on Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

2013. Terras, M., Nyhan, J, and Vanhoutte, E. (eds). Defining Digital Humanities. Ashgate

2012. Warwick, C., Terras, M., Nyhan, J. (eds). Digital Humanities in Practice. Facet.

Articles

At press. Nyhan, J and Duke-Williams, O. Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 

2014. Ciula, A., Nyhan, J., Moulin, C. ESF Science Policy briefing on research infrastructures in the digital humanities: an introduction. Lexicon Philosophicum: International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas.

2013. Nyhan, J. What can modern-day Digital Humanities learn from studying its past? Some recommendations and suggestions. Proceedings of CIDE.16: Dispositifs numériques : contenus, interactivité et visualisation.

2013. Nyhan, J., Flinn, A. D., Welsh, A. Oral History and the hidden histories project: towards histories of computing in the Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing: the journal of digital scholarship in the humanities. Advanced Access: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/30/llc.fqt044.short?rss=1

2013. Salmon, J., Nyhan, J. Augmented reality potential and hype: towards an evaluative framework. JLTL Journal of Language Teaching and Learning 3(1). 

2012 Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., Welsh, A. Introduction. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:3. 

2012 Rockwell, G., Nyhan, J., Welsh, A., Salmon, J. Trading Stories: an Oral History Conversation between Geoffrey Rockwell and Julianne Nyhan. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:3.

2012 McCarty, W., Nyhan, J., Welsh, A., Salmon, J. Questioning, Asking and Enduring Curiosity: an Oral History Conversation between Julianne Nyhan and Willard McCarty. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:3

2012 Short, H., Nyhan, J., Welsh, A., Salmon, J. Collaboration must be fundamental or it's not going to work: an Oral History Conversation between Harold Short and Julianne Nyhan. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:3

2012 Unsworth, J., Welsh, A., Nyhan, J., Salmon, J. Postmodern Culture and more: an Oral History Conversation between John Unsworth and Anne Welsh. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:3

2012 Siemens, R., Welsh, A., Nyhan, J., Salmon, J. Video-gaming, Paradise Lost and TCP/IP: an Oral History Conversation between Ray Siemens and Anne Welsh. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:3

2012 Rockwell, G., Organisciak, P., Meredith-Lombay, M., Ranaweera, K., Ruecker, S., Nyhan, J, The design of an international social media event: a day in the life of the digital humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly 6:2

2008. Developing Integrated Editions of Heritage Language Dictionaries: the Irish example. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23: 3-12.

  2007. ‘Foclóir an Duinnínigh: Cnuasaigh na nDéise agus Oirthear Chorcaí’. An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise 11: 144-152. (ISSN 1393-4260).

2007. ‘Dúil d'fhocail ó Thiobraid Árann’. Tipperary Historical Journal 142-144. (ISSN 0791-0655).

2006. ‘Findfhocla an Chomaraigh’. An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise 10: 97-111. (ISSN 1393-4260).

Book Chapters

At press.  Nyhan J, Terras, M and Mahony S. "Digital Humanities and Integrative Learning". In Blackshields et al (Eds). Integrative Learning: international research and practice.    

An Press. Nyhan, J. "Digital history: where to now for digital collections of historical correspondence". In Purcell, E., McCotter, P., Nyhan, J., Sheehan, J. (Eds.). Clerics, Kings and Vikings: essays on medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

2013. Nyhan, J., Terras, M., and Vanhoutte, E. "Introduction". In Terras, M., Nyhan, J, and Vanhoutte, E. (Eds). Defining Digital Humanities. Ashgate. 

2012. Warwick, C, Terras, M., Nyhan, J.  "Introduction". In Warwick, C., Terras, M., Nyhan, J. (eds) (2012). "Digital Humanities in Practice". Facet. 

In press. Moulin, Claudine and Julianne Nyhan. ‘Digital lexicography and the Semantic Web: Dialectical, Historical and Global’. Dávidházi Péter Ed. Proceedings of the International Conference on 'Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities 2009, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities.

2012. Nyhan, J. Text Encoding and digital scholarly editions. In Warwick, C., Terras, M., Nyhan, J, (Eds.). Digital Humanities in Practice

 2009. ‘Some Digital Humanities methodologies and their importance to Irish Studies’. In Lesser Used Languages Computer Linguistics (LLUCL): Proceedings of the LULCL Conference, November 2008. EURAC Research: Bolzano.

 2008. ‘The problem of date and context in electronic editions of Irish historical dictionaries’. In Yesterday's words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography, ed. Marijke and Van der Val, 319-332. Cambridge Scholar's Publishing: UK. (ISBN 978-1-8471846-9-6).

 2006. Griffin, Carrie and Julianne Nyhan, ‘Transcending Textual Borders? Digitising a Middle English Lunary from British Library Egerton MS 827, and a brief introduction to XML mark-up in the Humanities’. In Proceedings of Borderlines Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2003, ed. Julianne Nyhan, Carrie Griffin and Kenneth Rooney. Electronic Publishing Unit: University College Cork. http://epu.ucc.ie/borderlines/Carrie_Julie_paper (accessed 01/04/09). (ISBN 978-0-9552229-8-6).

Reports 

Moulin, C., Nyhan, J,, Ciula, A. (2011). ESF Science Policy Briefing 43: Research Infrastructures in the Humanities. European Science Foundation.

 TextGrid report 4.3.1 (in progress). Marc Wilhelm Küster (FH Worms), Thomas Selig (FH Worms), Julianne Nyhan (Universtität Trier / University College London), Wolfgang Pempe (SUB Göttingen), Kathleen Smith (University of Illinois / SUB Göttingen) Bericht zu eHumanities-Themen mit Relevanz für die allgemeine Informatik / Report on eHumanities research topics relevant in Computer Science. 

Editorial

2012. Editor of a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly: Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c. 1965-1985 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/preview/index.html

(2012 -) Communications editor,  Interdisciplinary Science reviews. Maney Press.

(2012-) Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/aimsandscopeJDMDH.php

(2012 -) Member of Review Board, Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship http://jdces.org/Reviewers.html

2008 - 2012 Book Reviews editor, Interdisciplinary Science reviews. Maney Press.

2006. Nyhan, Julianne, Carrie Griffin and Kenneth Rooney (eds), Proceedings of Borderlines Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2003. Electronic Publishing Unit: University College Cork. http://epu.ucc.ie/borderlines/ (accessed 01/04/09) (ISBN 978-0-9552229-8-6).

Reviews

2014. Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Stéfan Sinclair (2011) Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage: a guide to rich prospect browsing. Journal of Documentation 70(4).

2014. Review of Mike Ellis (2011). Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence: a strategic guide. Facet. Journal of Documentation 70(1).

 2010. Review of Literate technologies: Language, Cognition and Technicity, by L. Armand. Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access published on November 30, 2009. doi:10.1093/llc/fqp042

2009. Review of Deep time of the Media. Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, by S. Zelinski, trans. by Gloria Custance. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.1

2008. Review of The Virtual window: From Alberti to Microsoft, by S. Freidberg S. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23: 497-499.

Conference and symposium papers 

2014.  Mahony S., Nyhan J and Tiedau, U. Digital Humanities pedagogy: integrative learning and new ways of thinking about studying the Humanities. Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield.

2014. Flinn, A and Nyhan, J.  Whose project is this? Whose stories do we tell? Participatory frameworks for community-based oral history projects. Annual Conference of the Oral History Society "Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground"

2014. Nyhan J and Flinn A. Oral History, audio-visual materials and Digital Humanities: a new ‘grand challenge’? 'Sound and (Moving) Image in Focus pre-Conference Workshop. Digital Humanities conference, Switzerland

2014. Nyhan J. Facial recognition and Digital Humanities: new directions? Digital Humanities conference.   

2013 Nyhan J.  Uncovering the “hidden histories” of computing in the Humanities 1949 – 1980: findings and reflections on the pilot project. Digital Humanities conference, Switzerland

2013 Nyhan, J and Duke-Williams O. Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities conference.  

2012. Nyhan, J and Welsh A.  Uncovering the “hidden histories” of computing in the Humanities 1949 – 1980: an overview of our key findings. Digital Humanities Congress 2012. Publisher URL

2011. Warwick, C., Mahony, S., Nyhan, J,, Ross, C., Terras, M., Tiedau, U., Welsh, A. UCLDH: Big Tent Digital Humanities in practice. Digital Humanities conference. ( pp.387-389). https://dh2011abstracts.stanford.edu/.

2011 Anne Welsh and Julianne Nyhan Finding feminist information in a 'gender-neutral' information environment. Feminism and Teaching Symposium, University of Nottingham

2010. Dan Blackshields, James Cronin and Julianne Nyhan. Integrative learning and technoculture: what's at stake?, National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL), Ireland, October 2010.

2010. Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera and Julianne Nyhan. What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data, SDH/SEMI, Concordia, Montreal, Canada

2010. Julianne Nyhan. Tool making, technological determinism and the role of memory: absolute alphabetical organisation in medieval glossaries, Arbeitsgespr�ch zur historischen Lexikographie, Bullay, Germany

2009. Stephanie A. Schlitz and Julianne Nyhan. TEI-EJ: a quarterly publication of the TEI Education SIG to appear on the TEI website, TEI Members Meeting 2009, University of Michigan, USA (poster presentation)

2008. ‘E-portfolios and the dimensions of understanding’. In International perspectives in teaching and learning in Higher Education: NAIRTL Conference proceedings November 2007, ed. Norma Ryan. NAIRTL: University College Cork (ISBN 978-0-9556109-4-3)

2007. Emerging electronic research infrastructures for Irish lexicography, Tionól symposium, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

2007. Digital futures in Irish studies, panel with Susan Schreibman and Deirdre Wildy; Susan Schreibman Chair. IASIL, University College Dublin

2007. E-portfolios and the Dimensions of Understanding, International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference, University College Cork, Ireland (poster presentation)

2006. Establishing the relative sophistication of the ordering systems used in the major glossaries of medieval Irish, Tionól symposium, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

2006. The digital Dinneen project: further avenues for CELT, Digital Humanities Conference, Paris-Sorbonne

2006. The problem of date and context: migrating an Irish language dictionary from hard copy to digital format, Third international conference of Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, Leiden University

2005. [with Gregory Toner], Enhancing scholarship through linking electronic resources, Digital Resources for the Humanities, Lancaster University

2004. Linking Dictionaries and Texts: New Avenues for CELT, Digital Image, Digital Text colloquium, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

2004. [with Peter Flynn], Ending the Tyranny of the Lemma, The 16th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Göteborg University Sweden

2004. [with Carrie Griffin], Transcending textual borders? Electronic edition as artefact, the Book as Artefact Conference, Marsh's Library Dublin

2003. [with Carrie Griffin], Digitising an Unedited Middle English Lunary from British Library Egerton MS 827, Borderlines 7, University College Cork

2002. Digitising the Dictionary of the Irish Language, Borderlines 6, Trinity College, Dublin

Plenary lectures and invited papers

2014. Nyhan, J. Uncovering the socio-cultural contexts of the emergence of Digital Humanities and their enduring significance. Conference on cultural heritage research and innovation. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2014. Nyhan, J. Fr Roberto Busa: founder of Digital Humanities? University of Trier Digital Humanities seminar.

2014. Nyhan, J. Digital Humanities: an introduction. DARIAH-GR opening workshop. Academy of Athens.  

2014. Nyhan, J. On the Digital Humanities and the necessity of thinking historically. Opening event Forschungsverbund MWW, Berlin.

2014. Memory, narrative and disciplinary identity: an investigation. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano

2014. Nyhan, J. Analyse, sort, classify and mark up: text encoding and its debt to historical dictionaries and word lists. Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford

2014. Nyhan, J. Arts and Humanities research data: a few idiosyncrasies. DigitalHSS Lunchtime Seminar: Managing Humanities Research Data. University of Edinburgh.  

2013. Nyhan, J. What can modern-day Digital Humanities learn from studying its past? Some recommendations and suggestions. CIDE.16: Dispositifs numériques : contenus, interactivité et visualisation (Keynote)

2013. Julianne Nyhan, Through memories and times: reflections on reflecting on the histories of computing in the Humanities. Humanities Unbound, University of Lausanne. (Invited opening lecture) 

2013. Julianne Nyhan. A researcher's view on Arts and Humanities data management/sharing (with a focus on infrastructure needs and wants) RDMF10: Research data management in the Arts and Humanities: St Anne's College, Oxford. 

2013. Julianne Nyhan, Text, Image and Sound: where we are and where we are not in Digital Humanities. Future Digital Conference. Open University. (Keynote)   

2012. Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities [round table discussion and presentation]. Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology evening lecture.

2012. Digital Humanities: histories or memories and what in between?. Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology

2012. Contributions towards a history of computing in the Humanities. University College Cork, School of Historical Sciences Seminar Series.

2012. What is oral history and what role can it play in the history of Digital Humanities? Universitatet Trier, Digital Humanities Seminar Series. 

2011. Nyhan, J., & Welsh, A. Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c.1949–1980. In London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship. School of Advanced Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of London. 

2009. Teaching and Learning TEI: an introduction to TEI-EJ, TEI Praxis Symposium, Cologne Centre for e-Humanities, Germany.

2009. [with Oliver Schmidt]. TextGrid tools and concepts: present and future, Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web, University of Birmingham, UK

2008. The advantages and disadvantages of the application of XML to medieval inflected languages: a case study of electronic resources for medieval Irish, Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II, European Academy, Bolzano

2008. Encoding Old Irish glossaries with TEI P5, Old Irish Glossary Symposium, Cambridge University

2008. This history, context and organisation of the European Reference Index for the Humanities, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal

2007. Electronic lexicography: medieval and modern, Trinity College Dublin, Seminar in Medieval History.

Guest presentations 

2012. Oral Histories live. AHRC Digital Transformations Moot. November 2012. 

2012. An introduction to TEI. ThatCamp Luxembourg. 

2010. All the world exists to end up in a dictionary, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Painless introduction to Digital Humanities series. 

2010. Nyhan, J., & Ciula, A. DARIAH community engagement mechanisms: possible models. In DARIAH Funders round table meeting. Paris: France

2009. An introduction to TextGrid, NEH funded TILE symposium, MITH, University of Maryland

2007. Historical dictionaries versus Literary works?, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Conference and symposium organisation

2011. Co-organiser of the 6th Interedition Development Bootcamp at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt 28th Feb - 4th March.  

2011. Symposium co-organiser and co-convener 'HIDDEN HISTORIES: SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES c.1949-1980' UCL 

External teaching 

2011. Text Encoding Seminar. Digital Methods and Tools for Historical research Departamento de História da FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. November 2011. http://digital-methods-and-tools-for-history.blogspot.com/

2011. An introduction to Digital Humanities. Libraries and Publishing in the Information Society MA module. City University

2010. [with Dot Porter]  Digital History and Culture: methods, sources and future looks’ at the European Summer School of Culture and Technology. Universitaet Leipzig.

Electronic resources

[forthcoming]. An enhanced, TEI-encoded edition of Patrick S. Dinneen's Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla [An Irish-English Dictionary], Irish Text Society: Dublin. 1936 to be published on the CELT website

2007. A prototype electronic lexicon of Medieval Irish: contribution I, based on a re-edited subset of Marstrander, C. J. S., et al. (ed), Dictionary of the Irish language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (compact edition). Dublin: 1988.

Numerous TEI-encoded editions of Irish, English and Latin texts of Irish literature, politics and history on the CELT website. See individual TEI headers on the published page.

Other Scholarly activity and service

(2014 -) Member of the Bibliometrics Working Group of the UCL Library Committee

(2014 -) Peer Reviewer, COST EU

(2014 -) Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) supervisor.

(2014 -) Internal examiner

(2011-2015) Peer Review College Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council 

(2012 -) Communications editor,  Interdisciplinary Science reviews. Maney Press.

(2012 -) Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities 

(2012 -) Member of Review Board, Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship 

(2011 -) University College Cork QS Academic Peer List member

(2011 -) Member of Expert Advisory Panel to UCL the UCL ‘Montefiore Testimonials 

Digitization  project: digitising, transcribing, translating the Montefiore testimonials’ project

2011-12 Member of the ESF Working Group on Digital Infrastructures in the Humanities  http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/researchinfrastructures-in-the-humanities.html

2010-2011 Member of Expert Advisory Panel to the LSE ‘Webbs on the Web’ project

(2011-) European liaison manager, UCLDH

2011 External Assessor on the Selection Committee for the post of  Research Officer, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC, Ireland 

(2007-) Peer reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/

(2012-) Peer reviewer, Literary and Linguistic Computing 

(2013-) Peer reviewer, The Computer Journal 

(2010-) Peer reviewer, Digital Humanities conference 

2013. Peer Reviewer: iConference 2013, Fort Worth, Texas. 

2012. Peer Review: iConference 2012, Toronto.  

2009-2011. Elected Member of the TEI Council http://www.tei-c.org/

External Funding 

2013. Fr Roberto Busa and his intellectual milieu: capturing, translating and publishing
community reflections. European Association for Digital Humanities (1732.75 euro) 

2012. University of Trier’s Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) for publications related to the history of computing in the Humanities (c.1949-1980) project (5000 euro)

2011. (with Anne Welsh)  University of Trier’s Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) for a pilot study of the history of computing in the Humanities (c.1949-1980). (5000 euro)

Prizes

2014. Member of A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) project team  (2009-2012) who won the 2014 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award.

Public Engagement and Media

2014. Public engagement session on Francis Galton's 'Pricker Gloves' at "The Thing is", Universities Week, Natural History Museum, London

2013. Quoted in "Hacking and Yacking About the Digital Humanities" The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3 2013.  by William Pannapacker

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