Digital Riffs
16 November 2015

Help Save the British Records Association

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One of the distinctive features of many London squares and terraces are the black metal stubs on house walls and steps, where metal fence...
24 September 2015

Acts of Reading, Redux

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Contribution to a panel at a British Library 'Digital Conversation', 24 September 2015 Six months ago, at Bronwen Thomas’...
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6 September 2015

Big Data: Some Historical Perspectives

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This was a contribution to a plenary panel at the European Policy on Intellectual Property conference organised by CREATe at the Un...
26 July 2015

Digital Humanities and the Future

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This was a talk I gave at the University of Sussex on 20 November 2013. Parts of it are now out of date (for example, there is now a lot...
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13 June 2015

The Origin and Context of the Salisbury Magna Carta

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THE ORIGIN AND CONTEXT OF THE SALISBURY MAGNA CARTA Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) and  Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow...
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Andrew Prescott
I am Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow and Theme Leader Fellow for the 'Digital Transformations' strategic theme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I tweet as @ajprescott.

This blog is a riff on digital humanities. A riff is a repeated phrase in music, used by analogy to describe a improvisation or commentary. In the 16th century, the word 'riff' meant a rift; Speed describes riffs in the earth shooting out flames. The poet Jeffrey Robinson points out that riff perhaps derives from riffle, to make rough.

Maybe we need to explore these other meanings of riff in thinking about digital humanities, and seek out rough and broken ground in the digital terrain.
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