Dr Kath Stevenson (Steering Group Member)
Information Services
Digital Interests
AI powered Handwritten text recognition
Digitisation
Digital collections and exhibitions
Digital editions
Digital preservation
Research Interests
- Book history
- Scholarly editing
My research background is in Medieval Studies and the History of the Book, with a particular focus on Anglophone Literature in Late Medieval Ireland. As part of my current role as Digital Scholarship Librarian, I deliver teaching and training on digital scholarship, palaeography, codicology and working with archives, and manage a long-running transcription project centred on the Sir Robert Hart Diaries. Alongside academic and research & innovation professional colleagues, I am a member of the QUB Digital Scholarship Hub Implementation Group.
My digital interests are in:
- AI powered Handwritten text recognition
- Digitisation
- Digital collections and exhibitions
- Digital editions
- Digital preservation
- Digital Scholarship
Current digital research interests include the transcription and editing of handwritten texts and digital collections and exhibitions
Digital tools/platforms/software:
- CONTENTdm
- Omeka / Omeka S
- Storymap JS
- Timeline JS
- TimeMapper
- Transkribus
Relevant projects
Digital Resources, Special Collections and Archives