Research projects
The College works with heritage organisations, commercial partners and fellow institutions to explore innovative new avenues of research that digital methods give us access to.
Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-5
Aiming to collect and interpret the poems written about the Lancashire 'Cotton Famine', making them freely available in a searchable text database.
The Exeter Book project
The Exeter Book Project brings together the University of Exeter and Exeter Cathedral, with the shared aim of curating our cultural heritage for today and the long-term future
Famine and Dearth
This collaborative project will produce a publicly accessible database of selected primary sources relating to famine in early modern India and Britain.
Hardy and Heritage
Collaborating with Dorset County Museum, 'Hardy and Heritage’ aims to create a digital database of a selection of the letters written to poet and novelist, Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928).
War in Other Words
This research student project is building a repository of documents about the First World War in different languages and holding workshops to record and translate them
Grand Challenges
Grand Challenges is an opportunity for first year undergraduates to explore some of the world's greatest contemporary issues
Privy Council Papers
This project presents the first digital catalogue of the 'Printed Papers' of Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), containing key details for 9,368 cases decided between 1792-1998.
Syon at 600
This project has been digitising manuscripts from the Syon Abbey archive now kept in the Special Collections at Exeter.
Great War Cornish Soldier
Undergraduate students at Penryn used social media to share extracts from a local soldier’s diary, 100 years to-the-day that they were written.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye project created an installation and later a digital archive of letters written by members of the public to those who left their homes to serve in the Great War
Hidden Florence
Created in partnership with mobile app-development company Calvium, Hidden Florence is a smartphone app that uses GPS tracking to offer a guide to 15th-century Florence
Thomas Hardy and Clothing
In partnership with Dorset County Museum, the Thomas Hardy and Clothing project aims to create a searchable database of all mentions of clothing in Hardy’s writing.
Poetry by numbers
Working with colleagues in Computer Science, the Poetry by Numbers project explores the Victorian 'Eureka Machine'
Virtual Magic Bowl
Inherited from the University of Southampton, this project is digitising an archive of Aramaic incantation bowls, using photography and 3D scanning.
Children's Poly Olbion
The Children's Poly-Olbion project builds on the Poly-Olbion project, holding creative workshops for children with special educational needs to make the text more accessible to a wider audience.
Writer on the Train
Taking train travel as a starting point, this project uses smart phones and GPS to deliver travel writing that shrinks and stretches to match a journey.
The Risk Taker's Survival Guide
This project is working with commercial partners Rubber Republic to produce an interactive documentary exploring our engagement with day-to-day risk.
Poly Olbion
The Poly-Olbion project aims to produce a digital scholarly edition of the 15,000-line poem using TEI/XML encoding, making it publicly available online
Grecian Archive
Working with donors, UG and PG students to digitise the archives of the local football club, including the scanning of 3D artefacts, to create a rich visual and oral history of the club.
Architecture and Ascetism
Architecture and Asceticism provides an archive of digital surrogates for art, architecture and archaeology in Syria and Georgia.
Stuart Successions
The Stuart Successions project is examining writing printed at the moments of royal and protectoral succession in Britain between 1603 and 1702.
Touching the past
Working with the National Museum of Scotland, this project explores 3D scanning and printing alongside traditional crafted replicas to provide sensory engagement in traditional museums
Exeter Manuscripts
The Exeter Manuscripts project is making a 10th-century medieval manuscript available to the public by digitising it as an app.
Russian Poetry Canon
This project will examine post-Soviet revisions to the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry, developing a complete interactive database of active Russian poets in the years 1991-2008.
Painting for the salon
In collaboration with the Archives des Musées Nationaux, The Louvre and the BnF, the Salon Artists project provides a searchable database of all entries to the Salon for the period 1827-1850.
Work with organisations
Professor Gabriella Giannachi researches performance and new media documentation. Often working in collaboration with computer scientists, she devises ways to digitise and share collection data for artists and museums.