Digital History Hub

Digital history is the incorporation of digital media and computational methods in historical research and analysis.

Examples of our current and legacy projects use social network analysis, topic modelling, geospatial analysis, and augmented reality. We are keen to collaborate on big data/rich data interdisciplinary projects to help answer some of the big questions of relevance to today’s digital world.

Unexpected Connections

Unexpected Connections is a generative digital artwork co-created with Rhys Owen and Sydney Shep explores serendipity and palimpsests in the context of new historical methods. It uses a randomisation engine to harvest, transform, and creatively reassemble digital images related to William Colenso from New Zealand's cultural heritage institutions. The permutations are virtually endless.

Read about our Marsden-funded project

digital artwork
Unexpected Connections, a generative digital artwork co-created by Rhys Owen and Sydney Shep

Visualising Correspondence Networks

Visualising Correspondence Networks is summer scholar Esta Chiang’s exploration of the social networks of Robert Coupland Harding, NZ’s first and most eminent typographer.