{"id":63,"date":"2025-07-15T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:51:58","slug":"introductions-prof-julia-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/introductions-prof-julia-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductions: Prof. Julia Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this series of &#8220;Introductions&#8230;&#8221;, we&#8217;ll be introducing you to members of the Centre and sharing more about their work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Julia Thomas<\/strong> specialises in the relation between word and image in printed and digital media. She is Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmvi.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Illustration Archive<\/i><\/a>, the world&#8217;s largest searchable archive of historical book illustrations. She has published widely in these \u00a0fields, including <i>Nineteenth-Century Illustration and the Digital<\/i>\u00a0(Palgrave, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>You can find Julia&#8217;s Cardiff University staff profile <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.cardiff.ac.uk\/staff\/thomasj1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here, <\/a>and hear more about her research in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making lost historical images searchable using computer vision technology and AI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Y1HB0484pA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this series of \"Introductions...\", we'll be introducing you to members of the Centre and sharing more about their work. Professor Julia Thomas specialises in the relation between word and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,40,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-archives","category-introductions","category-research"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/digital-humanities-and-culture-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}