Research


Books

Smithies, James. The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-49944-8.

Chapters

Arianna Ciula, Geoffrey Noël, Paul Caton, Ginestra Ferraro, Tiffany Ong, James Smithies, and Miguel Vieira. “The Place of Models and Modelling in Digital Humanities: Some Reflections from a Research Software Engineering Perspective.” In Diversity and Inclusion: Language(s) in Social and Digital Spaces. A Festschrift for Elisabeth Burr, edited by Marie Amnisius, Elena Arestau, Julia Burkhardt, Nastasia Herold, and Rebecca Sierig. Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2023. https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A85236/attachment/ATT-0/.
Ciula, Arianna, and James Smithies. “Sustainability and Modelling at King’s Digital Lab: Between Tradition and Innovation.” In On Making in Digital Humanities, edited by Julianne Nyan, Stefan Sinclair, and Alexandra Ortolja-Beard, 78–104. London: University College London Press, 2023.
Smithies, James, Patrick Ffrench, and Arianna Ciula. “Droit de Cité: The Digital Lab as Digital Milieu.” In Digital Humanities Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture, edited by Urszula Pawlicka-Deger and Christopher Thomson, 52–66. London: Routledge, 2023. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003185932/digital-humanities-laboratories-christopher-thomson-urszula-pawlicka-deger?_gl=1*rrkerz*_ga*MjAzMDk2NTU1My4xNjk4MjM5OTgw*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTY5OTk2NTU2NS4yLjAuMTY5OTk2NTU2Ny4wLjAuMA..
Smithies, James. “The Dark Side of DH.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Digital Humanities, edited by James O’Sullivan, 109–119. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/admin/files/181475946/smithies_Chapter_Eleven.pdf.
Smithies, James, and Arianna Ciula. “Humans in the Loop: Epistemology & Method in King’s Digital Lab.” In Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities., edited by Kristen Schuster and Stuart Dunn, 155–172. London: Taylor and Francis, 2020. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429777028-13/humans-loop-james-smithies-arianna-ciula.
Millar, Paul, Christopher Thomson, James Smithies, and Jennifer Middendorf. “The Challenge, the Project, and the Politics: Lessons from Six Years of the UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive.” In Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand - Actors, Victims and Ramifications, edited by Susan Bouterey and Lawrence E. Marceau. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Accessed August 28, 2018. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-0244-2_10.
Smithies, James. “Full Stack DH: Building a Virtual Research Environment on a Raspberry Pi.” In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries:  Experiments in the Digital Humanities., edited by Jentery Sayers, 102–114. Debates in DH. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Articles

Fensham, Rachel, Tyne Daile Sumner, Nat Cutter, George Buchanan, Rui Liu, Justin Munoz, James Smithies, et al. “Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 018, no. 2 (April 26, 2024).
James Smithies, Pascal Flohr, Fadi Bala’Awi, Sahar Idwan, Carol Palmer, Alessandra Esposito, Shatha Mubaideen, and Shaher Rababeh. “MaDiH (مديح): A Transnational Approach to Building Digital Cultural Heritage Capacity.” Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (May 18, 2023). Accessed June 6, 2023. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3513261.
Mubaideen, Shatha, Pascal Flohr, James Smithies, Fadi Bala’awi, Carol Palmer, Sahar Idwan, and Alessandra Esposito. “Assessing the MaDiH CKAN Catalogue as an Engagement Tool for the Jordanian Cultural Heritage Community.” Levant 54, no. 2 (May 4, 2022): 277–284. Accessed November 16, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2022.2070233.
Balaawi, Fadi, James Smithies, Shatha Mubaideen, Pascal Flohr, Alessandra Esposito, Carol Palmer, and Sahar Idwan. “MaDiH: Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan (2020-2021).” Archaeology in Jordan 3 (The Pandemic Volume) (2022): 3–4. https://publications.acorjordan.org/articles/madih-mapping-digital-cultural-heritage-in-jordan-2020-2021/.
Smithies, James, Sarah Atkinson, and Elliott Hall. “Applied Digital Humanities and the Creative Industries in the United Kingdom.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 16, no. 2 (2022). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000628/000628.html.
Smithies, James, Carina Westling, Anna-Maria Sichani, Pam Mellen, and Arianna Ciula. “Managing 100 Digital Humanities Projects: Digital Scholarship & Archiving in King’s Digital Lab.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 13, no. 1 (2019). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/13/1/000411/000411.html.
Smithies, James, Paul Millar, and Christopher Thomson. “Open Principles, Open Data: The Design Principles and Architecture of the UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive.” Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2015): 10–36. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjadh/1/1/1_10/_article.
Smithies, James. “Digital Humanities, Postfoundationalism, Postindustrial Culture.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, no. 8 (2014): 1. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/8/1/000172/000172.html.
Smithies, James. “An Antimodern Manque: Monte Holcroft and The Deepening Stream.” New Zealand Journal of History 40, no. 2 (2006): 171–193. http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/2006/NZJH_40_2_03.pdf.
Smithies, James. “A View from IT.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 3 (2011). Accessed May 24, 2016. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000107/000107.html.
Smithies, James. “Evaluating Scholarly Digital Outputs: The Six Layers Approach.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 4 (2012). Accessed May 24, 2016. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/evaluating-scholarly-digital-outputs-by-james-smithies/.
Smithies, James. “Digital History in Canterbury and New Zealand.” New Zealand Journal of History 47, no. 2 (2013): 249–263. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://researchdirect.uws.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A31597/.
Smithies, James. “Modernism or Exile? E.H. McCormick and Letters and Art in New Zealand.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39, no. 3 (2004): 93–106. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://jcl.sagepub.com/content/39/3/93.
Smithies, James. “John A. Lee, 1891–1982.” Kōtare : New Zealand Notes & Queries 7, no. 2 (2012). Accessed May 24, 2016. https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/kotare/article/view/670.
Smithies, James. “Post-War New Zealand Literary Critique.” Thesis Eleven 92, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 87–107. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://the.sagepub.com/content/92/1/87.
Bartneck, Christoph, Qi Min Ser, Elena Moltchanova, James Smithies, and Erin Harrington. “Have LEGO Products Become More Violent?” PLOS ONE 11, no. 5 (May 20, 2016): e0155401. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155401.
Smithies, James. “Finding The True Voice of Feeling: Kendrick Smithyman and New Criticism in New Zealand, 1961-1963.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 42, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 59–78. Accessed December 15, 2015. http://jcl.sagepub.com/content/42/1/59.
Smithies, James. “The History of Technology and the History of New Zealand.” The Journal of New Zealand Studies, no. 4/5 (2006): 111–128. Accessed November 28, 2013. http://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/111.
Smithies, James. “The Trans‐Tasman Cable, the Australasian Bridgehead and Imperial History.” History Compass 6, no. 3 (2008): 691–711. Accessed August 16, 2011. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00518.x/abstract.
Smithies, James. “Return Migration and the Mechanical Age: Samuel Butler in New Zealand 1860–1864.” Journal of Victorian Culture 12, no. 2 (2007): 203–224. Accessed August 15, 2011. https://academic.oup.com/jvc/article-abstract/12/2/203/4159331?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false.

Reviews

James Smithies. “Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition.” Critical AI 1, no. 1–2 (October 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-10734106.

White Papers & Technical Reports

Sichani, Anna-Maria, Ruth Ahnert, James Baker, David Beavan, Arianna Ciula, Steve Crouch, David De Roure, et al. IDAH Research Software Engineering (RSE) Steering Group Working Paper. Zenodo, July 24, 2023. Accessed July 24, 2023. https://zenodo.org/record/8177926.
Ciula, Arianna, Michelle Doran, Jennifer Edmond, Paul Gooding, Lorna Hughes, Orla Murphy, Samya Brata Roy, et al. “Promoting Diversity and Inclusivity in Digital Humanities in Ireland and the UK.” OSF Preprints, April 6, 2022. Accessed April 6, 2022. https://osf.io/63wdr/.
Gambell, Sarah, Paul Gooding, Lorna Hughes, Michelle Doran, Órla Murphy, Charlotte Tupman, Jane Winters, et al. Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research, and Infrastructure Development. Zenodo, November 3, 2021. Accessed November 4, 2021. https://zenodo.org/record/5643727.
Romanova, Natasha, Arianna Ciula, James Smithies, Neil Jakeman, Órla Murphy, Charlotte Tupman, Jane Winters, et al. Capacity Enhancement in Digital Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Training and Beyond. Zenodo, July 15, 2021. Accessed July 22, 2021. https://zenodo.org/record/5105938.
Smithies, James, Fadi Bala’awi, Pascal Flohr, Shatha Mubaideen, Alessandra Esposito, Sahar Idwan, Carol Palmer, Issa Mahasneh, and Shaher Rababeh. مديح: مسح لقواعد بيانات الإرث الثقافي الرقمي في الأردن، التقرير والتوصيات الفنيّة, May 31, 2021. Accessed June 1, 2021. https://zenodo.org/record/4880407.
Smithies, James, Fadi Bala’awi, Pascal Flohr, Shatha Mubaideen, Alessandra Esposito, Sahar Idwan, Carol Palmer, Issa Mahasneh, and Shaher Rababeh. MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan Technical White Paper (English Version), May 31, 2021. Accessed June 1, 2021. https://zenodo.org/record/4867531.
Smithies, James, Fadi Bala’awi, Pascal Flohr, Shatha Mubaideen, Alessandra Esposito, Sahar Idwan, Carol Palmer, Issa Mahasneh, and Shaher Rababeh. مديح: مسح لقواعد بيانات الإرث الثقافي الرقمي في الأردن، تقرير وتوصيات السياسات, May 31, 2021. Accessed June 1, 2021. https://zenodo.org/record/4868571.
Smithies, James, Fadi Bala’awi, Pascal Flohr, Shatha Mubaideen, Alessandra Esposito, Sahar Idwan, Carol Palmer, Issa Mahasneh, and Shaher Rababeh. MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan Policy White Paper (English Version), May 31, 2021. Accessed June 1, 2021. https://zenodo.org/record/4866975.
McGillivray, Barbara, Beatrice Alex, Sarah Ames, Guyda Armstrong, David Beavan, Arianna Ciula, Giovanni Colavizza, et al. The Challenges and Prospects of the Intersection of Humanities and Data Science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute, 2020. Accessed August 4, 2020. https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/The_challenges_and_prospects_of_the_intersection_of_humanities_and_data_science_A_White_Paper_from_The_Alan_Turing_Institute/12732164.
Smithies, James. Research Software (RS) Careers: Generic Learnings from King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London. Zenodo, February 7, 2019. Accessed March 29, 2019. https://zenodo.org/record/2564790.
Mackenzie, Jasper, Raazesh Sainudin, James Smithies, and Heather Wolffram. A Nonparametric View of the Civilizing Process in London’s Old Bailey. UCDMS Research Report. Christchurch, N.Z: University of Canterbury, 2015. http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~r.sainudiin/preprints/20150828_civilizingProcOBO.pdf.

Interviews & Podcasts

Schmidt, Peter. “Designed to Work: Part 1 - Architecture and Research,” May 25, 2021. https://episodes.buzzsprout.com/smk0ij80n4x88amdkcsmypgcorw5?
Meyer, Eric T., Lucie Burgess, Kathryn Eccles, and James Smithies. “Knowledge Machines,” TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, February 5, 2016. https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-machines.
Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula. “DH Lab: Interview Transcripts.” Zenodo, April 30, 2023. Accessed May 2, 2023. https://zenodo.org/record/7880810.
Feiying, Liu. “An Interview with Dr. James Smithies, the Director of King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London.” Digital Humanities (Beijing), no. 2 (2020). https://www.dhlib.cn/site/works/dhjournal/202002/2660.html.

Selected Talks

Smithies, James. “Australasian Research Software Engineering: From HASS Research Services to Infrastructural Milieux” Presented at the Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities (aaDH) Seminar Series, Zoom, August 1, 2024. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2024/08/01/australasian-research-software-engineering/.
Smithies, James. “The Phenomenology of Technical Knowledge: Research Software Engineering, Product Development, and Digital Humanities” Presented at the Bridges between disciplines: Gender in STEM and Social Sciences, Zoom, September 16, 2022. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2022/09/22/the-phenomenology-of-technical-knowledge-research-software-engineering-product-development-and-digital-humanities/index.html.
Smithies, James. “HASS Research Software Engineering (RSE) in the UK” Presented at the Bridging the Digital Divide in HASS Panel, University of Melbourne, August 23, 2023. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2023/08/23/hass-research-software-engineering-rse-in-the-uk/index.html.
Smithies, James. “Digital Modernity: Continuity and Change in the History of Technology, 1993 – 2023” Presented at the Miegunyah Public Lecture, University of Melbourne, August 17, 2023. Accessed August 23, 2023. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2023/08/23/digital-modernity-continuity-and-change-in-the-history-of-technology-1993-2023/index.html.
Smithies, James. “Career Pathways in Arts & Humanities RSE in the UK and Beyond” Presented at the Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering (RSE) Summer School, University of Cambridge / Zoom, July 25, 2023. http://jamessmithies.org/blog/2023/07/25/career-pathways-in-arts-humanities-rse-in-the-uk-and-beyond/.
Smithies, James. “Keywords for AI: Emergence” Presented at the AI and Literary Studies Workshop, Deakin University / Zoom, May 4, 2023.
The Alan Turing Institute. Book Launch: Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data. The Alan Turing Institute, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeoTaloyxTE.
Smithies, James. “Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History” Presented at the Balliol College Global & Imperial History Research Seminar, University of Oxford, February 25, 2022. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2022/02/25/modes-historical-analysis-digital-approaches-global-and-imperial-history/.
Smithies, James. “Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans: Rethinking the Technology of Literature & Culture” Presented at the Literature & Culture and/as Intelligent Systems, University of Stuttgart (Zoom), December 16, 2021. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2021/12/16/mysterium-tremendum-et-fascinans-rethinking-technology-literature-culture/.
Smithies, James. “Framing the Problem: AHRC IRC UK-Ireland DH Network” Presented at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network workshop “Capacity Enhancement in DH: Training and Beyond,” King’s College London (Zoom), December 15, 2020. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2020/12/15/framing-problem-ahrc-irc-uk-ireland-dh-network/.
Smithies, James. “The Strategic Values of the Digital Humanities: Practices, Teaching, Research” Presented at the Inaugural Lecture, Faculty of Humanities, UPF Barcelona (Zoom), December 12, 2020.
Smithies, James. “Archiving & Sustainability in King’s Digital Lab.” Towards deterioration, disappearance or destruction? Panel Discussion presented at the DHN2021, Zoom, October 22, 2020. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2020/10/22/dhn2021-archiving-sustainability-kings-digital-lab/.
Smithies, James, and Arianna Ciula. “King’s Digital Lab as Experiment  and Lifecycle” Presented at the SORSE - A Series of Online Research Software Events, King’s College London (Online), September 29, 2020. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2020/09/29/kings-digital-lab-as-experiment-and-lifecycle/.
Smithies, James. “Life in New Times: Artificial Intelligence and Modernity,” Alliance Française Jersey, January 30, 2020. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2020/01/30/life-new-times-artificial-intelligence-and-modernity/.
Smithies, James. “Applied Research in the Arts & Humanities: The Applying AI to Storytelling Project” Presented at the Berkeley DH Fair, D-Lab Berkeley (Online), April 14, 2020.
Smithies, James. “King’s Digital Lab Research Software Engineering Career Paths” Presented at the Russell Universities Group IT Directors Forum (RUGIT), Cardiff University, September 19, 2019.
Smithies, James. “Digital Humanities Labs & Global Cyber-Infrastructure” Presented at the Rebuilding Laboratories Workshop, University of Birmingham, Institute of Advanced Studies, November 19, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/11/19/digital-humanities-labs-global-cyber-infrastructure/.
Smithies, James, Arianna Ciula, Jessica Otis, Faolan Cheslack-Postava, Martin Holmes, Stewart Arneil, Greg Newton, and Jasmine Mulliken. “Clearing the Air for Maintenance and Repair: Strategies, Experiences, Full Disclosure.” Panel Discussion presented at the Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 12, 2019.
Smithies, James. “Digital Modernity: Some Preliminary Thoughts” Presented at the King’s College London / NYU Digital Theory Workshop, King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities, May 29, 2019.
Smithies, James. “The Epistemology of the Machine: Natural Philosophy, Digital Laboratories, and Cultural Heritage,” University of Liverpool, September 12, 2018. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2018/09/13/epistemology-machine-natural-philosophy-digital-laboratories-and-cultural-heritage/.
Smithies, James. “Integrating DH into the Longue Durée: Research Laboratories, History, Methods” Presented at the Australian Academy of the Humanities second annual Humanities, Arts and Culture Data Summit and third international DARIAH Beyond Europe workshop, National Library of Australia, March 27, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/04/02/integrating-dh-longue-duree-research-laboratories-history-methods/.
Smithies, James. “Digital History and the Digital Modern” Presented at the Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR) Launch: Keynote, Aarhus University, February 22, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/02/25/digital-history-and-digital-modern/.
Smithies, James. “Curating Our Technological Ruins: Towards an Aesthetics of Disaster Archiving,” Rice University, January 25, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/01/25/curating-our-technological-ruins-towards-aesthetics-disaster-archiving/.
Smithies, James. “Maximising Research Capacity & Quality in Digital Laboratories: The Philosophy behind King’s Digital Lab,” University College London, January 16, 2019.
Smithies, James. “Research Software Careers: Establishing Local, National and International Pathways” Presented at the Research London Launch Event, Imperial College London, October 18, 2018. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2018/10/18/research-software-careers-establishing-local-national-international-pathways/.
Smithies, James. “The Epistemology of the Machine: Natural Philosophy, Digital Laboratories, and Cultural Heritage,” King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities, May 23, 2019.
Smithies, James. “Digital Cultural Heritage in the UK: 5 Lessons Learned” Presented at the Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development in Jordan Workshop, The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan, June 27, 2018. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2018/06/30/digital-cultural-heritage-uk-5-lessons-learned/.
Smithies, James. “Infrastructure and Processes for Digital Preservation” Presented at the Digital Preservation Workshop, Stanford University Centre for Spatial & Text Analysis, May 13, 2018.
Smithies, James. “Systems Development & Applications / Data Lifecycle Management at King’s Digital Lab,” Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, November 30, 2017.
Smithies, James. “King’s Digital Lab & the Georgian Papers Programme,” RRCHNM, George Mason University, November 13, 2017.
Smithies, James, and Sam Callaghan. “Georgian Papers Programme.” Colonial and Postcolonial DH Panel Discussion presented at the Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Conference, Omohundro Institute, College of William and Mary, October 27, 2017. http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/supported/race/friday.html.
Smithies, James. “Humans in the Loop: King’s Digital Lab as Socio-Technical System,” Digital Humanities Institute, University of Cologne, July 26, 2017.
Smithies, James. “Towards a Socio-Technical Analysis of Digital Laboratories: Reading King’s Digital Lab through STS,” Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, July 5, 2017.
Smithies, James. “Establishing Digital Humanities Labs in New Zealand and the United Kingdom,” Swem Library, College of William & Mary, March 28, 2017.
Smithies, James. “Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and the Automation of Labour,” Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, October 26, 2016.
Smithies, James. “The Digital Humanities and NZ Libraries” Presented at the CONZUL Research Infrastructure Focus Group, Auckland University, August 2013.
Smithies, James. “Canterbury Utopias, Past, Present and Future,” Dunedin Art Gallery, August 2013.
Smithies, James. “Digital Humanities in Canterbury and New Zealand” Presented at the Digital Humanities Workshop, Otago University, February 2014.
Smithies, James. “Stories from UC CEISMIC: Social Data in the Wake of Disaster” Presented at the NZ Open Data Day, University of Canterbury, November 2014.
Smithies, James. “University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme” Presented at the Innovations in DH Workshop, University of Western Sydney, July 2015.
Smithies, James. “Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects,” Otago University, July 2015.
Smithies, James. “An Introduction to Digital Humanities” Presented at the W.H. Oliver Speaker Series, Massey University, August 2015.
Smithies, James. “The Co-Evolution of Maturity and Capability in Digital Humanities Research,” National Library of New Zealand, September 2015.
Meyer, Eric, Lucie Burgess, Kathryn Eccles, and James Smithies. “Eric T. Meyer, and Ralph Schroeder. Knowledge Machines: Networks of Knowledge in the Digital Age.” Panel Discussion, TORCH, University of Oxford, January 27, 2016. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/videos/knowledge-machines-digital-transformations-of-the-sciences-and-humanities/.
Smithies, James. “Software Intensive Humanities” Presented at the Sussex Humanities Lab Seminar Series, University of Sussex, April 18, 2016.
Smithies, James. “The UC CEISMIC Digital Archive: Co-Ordinating Libraries, Museums, Archives, Individuals and Government Agencies in a Disaster Management Context” Presented at the Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia, 2013. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10611.
Smithies, James. “Management of Complex Cultural Heritage Projects: UC CEISMIC Earthquake Archive,” Yonsei University, 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/11062.
Smithies, James. “Big Data & Difficult Data: The UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive,” Yonsei University, 2014.
Smithies, James. “Strategy, Governance, Ecosystem: Guiding Principles of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive,” University of Western Sydney, June 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10965.

Selected Conference Papers

Smithies, James. “The Phenomenology of Technical Knowledge: Research Software Engineering, Product Development, and Digital Humanities.” Universitat Politécnica de València (Zoom), 2022.
Balaawi, Fadi, Shatha Mubaideen, James Smithies, Pascal Flohr, Alessandra Esposito, Carol Palmer, and Sahar Idwan. “The MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan, Opportunities and Limitations.” In Culture and Computing. Interactive Cultural Heritage and Arts, 12794:15–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. Accessed April 24, 2022. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-77411-0_2.
Smithies, James, Fadi Balaawi, Pascal Flohr, Andrea Zerbini, Sahar Adwan, Shaher Rababeh, and Carol Palmer. “Research Software Engineering in Jordan: The MaDiH (مديح) Project.” Birmingham, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/09/11/research-software-engineering-jordan-madih-mdyh-project/.
Smithies, James, Sarah Atkinson, Elliott Hall, Guy Gadney, and Annette Parry. “Innovation at the Intersection: Using STS to Enable University – Technology Sector Collaboration.” New Orleans, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/09/11/innovation-intersection-using-sts-enable-university-technology-sector-collaboration/.
Hall, Elliott, and James Smithies. “Misremembering Machines: A Creative Collaboration on Memory in AI-Driven Storytelling.” Utrecht, Netherlands, 2019.
Smithies, James. “From Lab to University: Towards an Institutional RSE Career Pathway.” Birmingham, 2018. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2018/09/03/lab-university-towards-institutional-rse-career-pathway-rse-2018/.
Smithies, James. “Interrogating Global Humanities Infrastructure.” New York, 2018. http://jamessmithies.org/blog/2018/01/06/interrogating-global-humanities-infrastructure/.
Tanner, Simon, and James Smithies. “Innovation and the Digital Humanities: Early Lessons from the King’s Digital Laboratory.” University of Sheffield, 2016. https://www.hrionline.ac.uk/dhc/2016/paper/85.
Smithies, James, Paul Caton, Ginestra Ferraro, Luis Figueira, Elliott Hall, Neil Jakeman, Pam Mellen, et al. “Mechanizing the Humanities? King’s Digital Lab as Critical Experiment.” McGill University, Montreal, 2017.
Smithies, James, Anna-Maria Sichani, and Carina Westling. “Preserving 30 Years of Digital Humanities Work: The Experience of King’s College London  Digital Lab.” University of Sussex, 2017.
Smithies, James. “Full Stack DH: Building a Virtual Research Environment on a Raspberry PI.” In Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts, 364–365. Kraków: Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University, 2016. Accessed November 25, 2016. http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/123.
Smithies, James, Paul Millar, and Chris Thomson. “Building Post-Disaster Social Capital: A Current State Report on the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive.” University of Western Sydney, 2015. http://dh2015.org/abstracts/xml/SMITHIES_James_Dakin_Building_Post_disaster_Socia/SMITHIES_James_Dakin_Building_Post_disaster_Social_Capi.html.
Smithies, James. “Digital Humanities and Disaster Management: An Overview of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive.” Tokyo University, 2012. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/10745/12641691_Submission.JADH2012.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
Smithies, James, Paul Millar, and Craig Bellamy. “State of the Art: Negotiating a Standards-Approved Digital Humanities Curriculum.” Lincoln, Nebraska, 2013. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/10606.
Smithies, James. “Connecting the Periphery: The History of Computing in New Zealand 1950 - 2000.” Dearborn, Michigan: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10609.
Smithies, James, Paul Millar, and Chris Thomson. “Integrated Data and Recovery: The UC CEISMIC Federated Archive.” Boulder, CO, 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10597.
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