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The Team
This project is a collaboration between Canterbury Museum and the University of Canterbury's Arts Digital Lab.
Canterbury Museum, located in Christchurch, New Zealand, was established in 1867. From the early 1900s the Museum has been the home of major colonial history and archival collections. The social history collections have grown in importance with clothing, furniture, household items, stamps, artworks, architectural plans, maps, photographs, diaries, personal papers and publications being added.
The UC Arts Digital Lab is part of the Digital Humanities Department at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. We collaborate with the research and teaching community across the entire College of Arts, as well as other UC departments and service units such as the libraries and ICTS, and with the wider GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
Our team
Joanna Szczepanski
Joanna is Radio/Music Collection Team Leader – Kaiārahi Tira Kohinga Oro at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in Wellington. She has been a board member of the National Digital Forum since 2017. In her previous role at Canterbury Museum, she was involved in the launch of the crowdsourcing project to transcribe and tag names in the G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies.
Dr Chris Thomson
Chris is a Lecturer in English and Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury, and Co-director of the Arts Digital Lab. His research interests lie at the intersection of literary studies and digital humanities, particularly on the way digital media technologies shape and are shaped by cultural practices. He is also interested in the adaptations of literature in digital media; posthumanism in literature; and the application of text mining as a research method in the humanities.
Jennifer Middendorf
Jennifer is the UC Arts Digital Lab's Coordinator and has skills in website development and various programming languages, and qualifications in secondary teaching. Jennifer completed their MLING thesis in 2017, using statistical modelling to compare syntactic structures in the QuakeBox spoken language corpus with the written language of the Christchurch Press.
