UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture 2019 Over the last 20 years Charlotte Roueché has worked to publish rich accounts of ancient materials online. Over the same period, while connectivity has expanded enormously, one response has been to build more walls and enclosures, both for people and for data. Research is increasingly assessed for its utilitarian value, which is measured by the Research Question, rather than by its power to enable the work of others. In this, the fifth lecture in the annual UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture series, she will review progress and change in digital humanities, and try to disentangle the threats from the opportunities.

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In this, the fourth lecture in the annual UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture series, Prof Carlo Meghini discussed the role of ontologies in the Digital Humanities. Ontologies are logical theories that account for the formal definition of the terms of a vocabulary. They are widely employed in many sectors of science, as they provide a solid logico-linguistic basis for the development and the communication of knowledge. They also provide an ideal place where different disciplines and different competences can meet to collaboratively address scientific and technological problems. The lecture made the case for the Digital Humanities, highlighting the specific contributions that ontologies can bring to this scientific community, with examples from past and ongoing research projects. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/SusanHockeyLecture

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The first Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities was given on 27 May 2015 by Susan Hockey, who spoke on ‘Digital Humanities: Perspectives on Past, Present and Future’.

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The second Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities was given on 25 May 2016 by Johanna Drucker, who spoke on ‘Graphic Provocations: What do digital humanists want from visualization?’

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The third Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities was given on 18 May 2017 by Prof Niels Brügger, who spoke on ‘Where does the born- and reborn-digital material take the Digital Humanities?’

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