Joe Nockels is Research Associate for the University of Sheffield's Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), responsible for developing and supporting the strategic research theme -Digital Representation of Cultural Artefacts, which sets out to advance the state-of-the-art in the digital capture, interpretation and representation of physical culture.
​His research focuses on AI-enabled Automated Text Recognition (ATR) and its critical use on historical archives, and its impact on the information environment, memory institutions and their users. This has led to research partnerships with the Library of Congress and National Library of Scotland in foregrounding digital scholarship using such methods.
Other research interests include - libraries as 'third spaces', digital libraries, critical digitisation, AI sustainability within the Digital Humanities, text and data mining on religious heritage collections. Joe completed a PhD from the University of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures in 2025, supported by the University of Glasgow, National Library of Scotland and ATR cooperative READ/Transkribus. For more information, see the bio tab.​​
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He also experiments modestly with image recognition, 3D modelling, geospatial data and digital methods for genealogical research.
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This site builds on a WIX template, started in 14 px Avenir Light. The initially garish template was improved tenfold by my software developing partner - Ella, over a morning coffee. ​​All views expressed are my own, and definitely not as polished as elsewhere - apologies.
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