CCH
There is a long tradition of applying technology in the humanities at King’s College London – stretching back to the 1970s when King’s hosted the inaugural meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Since 1990 this work has been based in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), now an academic department in the School of Humanities.
The primary objective of the CCH is to foster awareness, understanding and skill in the scholarly applications of computing. It operates in three main areas: as a department with responsibility for its own academic programme; as a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research; and as a unit providing collegial support to its sister departments in the School of Humanities.
CCH’s involvement in TEI stretches back many years, and demonstrates a specific commitment to the international, collaborative and standards-based approach that TEI exemplifies, as well as to the scholarly-driven objectives that help to sustain a vibrant TEI community.
CCH has now used TEI in well over thirty research projects, both in the more traditional scholarly sense and as a means of editing and maintaining born digital materials. Our current usage of TEI includes applications within classical epigraphy, medieval legal documents, manuscripts of Jane Austen, musicological materials, Spanish and Spanish American historical documents, bibliographies of modern poetry, biblical materials and electronic journals. Recent or upcoming projects involving TEI include the following:
For a full list of CCH research projects, please see http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/research/projects/