2026
Book chapters
Humbel, M and Nyhan J. (2026). “Collections as Data Infrastructures: Perspectives from Germany and Australia”. In Wang, X, Zeng ML, Gao, Jin and Zhao, K. (Eds). AI and Smart Data for Cultural Heritage: Global Achievements and China’s Innovations. Routledge: UK https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003666530
Flinn A, Nyhan, J and Smyth H. (2026).“Oral history as data: multimodal approaches to analysis and interpretation” In Freund, A, Jessie, E and Thomson, A. (Eds). The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook. Bloomsbury: UK. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215997
Peer reviewed conference papers and proceedings
Humbel, Marco; Vlachidis, Andreas; Zhang, Jiajie; Schmidt, Frieda; Prishchepova, Valentina; Nyhan, Julianne; Flinn, Andrew. (2026) Implementing FAIR principles for interoperable oral history collections through mappings to Dublin Core. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer Verlag. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220831/
Datasets, teaching resources and other scholarly outputs
Nyhan, J. (2026) “Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection”. Zenodo, 17 August. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21977624
Nyhan, J. (2026) “Computing Futures: Positioning Absence in Inclusive Digital Humanities”. Zenodo, 17 August. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21981454
Zhang, J., Nyhan, J., et al. (2026) “Modelling the memory of Digital Humanities through an LLM-driven hermeneutic framework.”. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2026, Zenodo, 30 July. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22115457
Vlachidis, A., Zhang, J. and Nyhan, J. (2026) ‘Designing an Ontology of Memory and Recollection: Experiences from the Mixed Methods Digital Oral History (MeDoraH) project’. Presented at iConference 2026: Information Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society, Edinburgh, UK, 29 March–2 April 2026. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10224816/
Vlachidis, A., Nyhan, J., Hughes, A. and Metilli, D. (2026) ‘Decolonisation and Data Absences in the Sloane Lab: Towards Multivocal Cultural Heritage Knowledge Bases’. Presented at iConference 2026, Information Literacies, Authenticity and Use: The Move Towards a Digitally Enlightened Society, Edinburgh, UK, 29 March–2 April 2026. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10224814/
Humbel, Marco; Prishchepova, Valentina; Varfolomeyev, Aleksey; Zhang, Jiajie; Nyhan, Julianne; Vlachidis, Andreas. (2026). Exploring International Knowledge Exchange During the Late and Post–Cold War Period Through Mailing List Archives. Workshop: History of Digital History between East and West, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220760/
Vlachidis, A., Zhang, J., Nyhan, J. and Flinn, A. (2026) ‘The potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, promise or peril?’. Presented at TELL EU Project – Empowering Libraries as AI Education and Innovation Hubs for Democracy, Knowledge, and Sustainable Futures, Thessaloniki, Greece, 26–30 January 2026. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220832/
2025
Journal articles
Scott, B., Nyhan,J. et al. (2025) ‘Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753)’, Systematics and Biodiversity, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2025.2455440
Vlachidis, A., MacDonald, I., Valeonti, F., Nyhan, J. and Sloan, K. (2025). A Data Atlas Method for Analysing and Visualising Dispersed Cultural Heritage Collections. magazén, 6 (2). 10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2025/02/002
Peer reviewed conference papers and proceedings
Nyhan, J. (2025) ‘Non-verbal and paralinguistic expressions in an academic community oral history: a multimodal digital oral history analysis’, paper presented at 23rd International Oral History Association Conference, Kraków, Poland, 16-19 September.
Grallert, T., Hiltmann, T., Flinn, A., Lee, M.-W., Marino, I., Milligan, I. and Nyhan, J. (2025) ‘The global state of digital history: Establishing data culture(s) in uncertain times’, paper presented at ADHO Digital Humanities 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-18 July.
Zhang, J., Schmidt, F., Vlachidis, A., Humbel, M., Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., Prishchepova, V., Varfolomeyev, A. and Elleringmann, S. (2025) ‘Towards a Network of Recollection in Oral Histories’, paper presented at The 2025 Connected Past Conference, London, UK. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209234/
Reports and research publications
Nyhan, J., Vlachidis, A., Flinn, A., Pearlman, N., Carine, M., Hill, J., Humbel, M., Jansari, S., Sloan, K., Pickering, V. and Valeonti, F. (2025). Final Report – Sloane Lab: Looking Back to Build Future Shared Collections. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/14771754
Datasets, teaching resources and other scholarly outputs
Nyhan, J., Vlachidis, A., Flinn, A., Humbel, M., Schmidt, F. and Zhang, J. (2025) ‘Mixed-Methods Digital Oral History: Enfolding semantic web technologies and historical-interpretative analysis’, poster presented at DFG Celebrating 100th Funded Project, Germany, 21 November. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10222596
Humbel, M., Zhang, J., Prishchepova, V., Varfolomeyev, A., Nyhan, J. and Vlachidis, A. (2025). Leveraging mailing list archives for digital history research: A case study on mining the Humanist discussion group – UCL Discovery. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211319/
Nyhan, J. (2025) ‘Julianne Nyhan: Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings’, Digital History, 4 July. https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11082
2024
Journal Articles
Terraciano, A., Flinn, A. and Nyhan, J. (2024). Participation and Inclusion with Digital National Collections: Co-Designing the Sloane Lab – UCL Discovery. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199027/
Valeonti, F., Vlachidis, A., Nyhan, J., Bikakis, A., Kotarski, R. and Jovanovic, P. (2024). Decentralising digital humanities: exploring blockchain technology and “web3” for the Sloane Lab and Towards a National Collection (TaNC). Journal of Documentation, 81(1), pp.211–235. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2024-0093
Humbel, M., Nyhan, J., Pearlman, N., Vlachidis, A., Hill, J. and Flinn, A. (2024). Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures. Journal of Documentation, 81(1), pp.56–85. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-12-2023-0263
Sadek, J., Vlachidis, A., Pickering, V., Humbel, M., Metilli, D., Carine, M. and Nyhan, J. (2024). Leveraging OCR and HTR cloud services towards data mobilisation of historical plant names. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 6(3), pp.237–261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-024-00091-4
Flinn, A., Boyd, D., Morgan, C. and Nyhan, J. (2024). Democratising Access? The interface of new technologies and archived life stories – UCL Discovery. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194919
Peer reviewed conference papers and proceedings
Zaagsma, G., Flinn, A., Nyhan, J., Lejeune, E. and Weber, K. (2024) ‘Histories of Digital History: An Integral Part of the History of the Humanities?’, paper presented at The Making of the Humanities XI, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Flinn, A. and Nyhan, J. (2024). Exploring uncertainty and laughter in oral histories – multimodal digital oral history approaches – UCL Discovery. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212788/
Humbel, M., Pearlman, N., Hill, J.D., Flinn, A. and Nyhan, J. (2024) ‘Towards International Perspectives on Collection Data Infrastructure Development’, paper presented at Digital Humanities Conference 2024 (DH2024), Washington, D.C., USA, 6–9 August. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13761079
Metilli, D., Hughes, A., Vlachidis, A. and Nyhan, J. (2024) ‘Enriching and Linking Named Entities in Historical Plant Catalogues: A Case Study from the Sloane Lab’, paper presented at Digital Humanities Conference 2024 (DH2024), Washington, D.C., USA, 6–9 August. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13761079
Datasets, teaching resources and other scholarly outputs
Vlachidis, A., Valeonti, F., Macdonald, I. and Nyhan, J. (2024) ‘The Collection Unit as the Integral Component in Development of a Data Atlas of Complex Cultural Heritage Landscapes’, paper presented at 5th CAA-GR, Serres, Greece, 16–17 April. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191288/
Nyhan, J. and Vlachidis, A. (2024) Exploring Collections as Data: The Sloane Lab. Looking Back to Build Future Shared Collections, HERMES Open Colloquium [Video]. https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/26012
