Research

Smithies, James. Digital Modernity: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age. London: Routledge, 2026. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003684398/digital-modernity-james-smithies.

Liu, Alan, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies, eds. Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. S.l.: University of Minnesota Press, 2026. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916084/critical-infrastructure-studies-and-digital-humanities/.

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.

James Smithies, and Glen Berman. “ATLAS Darwin: Analysis and Testing of Language Models for Archival Systems.” Python. AI as Infrastructure, July 16, 2025. https://github.com/AI-as-Infrastructure/aiinfra-atlas-darwin.

James Smithies. “ATLAS Hansard: Analysis and Testing of Language Models for Archival Systems.” Python. AI as Infrastructure, May 16, 2025. https://github.com/AI-as-Infrastructure/aiinfra-atlas.

James Smithies. “Aotearoa New Zealand Hansard Preparation.” Jupyter Notebook. AI as Infrastructure, July 11, 2024. https://github.com/AI-as-Infrastructure/aiinfra-nzhansard-preparation.

Paul Millar, James Smithies, and Christopher Thomson. “QuakeStudies.” University of Canterbury, 2012. quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz.

Paul Millar, James Smithies, and Christopher Thomson. “CEISMIC: Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive.” University of Canterbury, 2011. https://ceismic.org.nz.

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://bit.ly/droit-de-cite.

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.

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/.

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.

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. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-aa1769f2-6c55-485a-81af-ea82cce86966/section/859c8bb8-df9d-46e9-8372-334bbbb71926.

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.

James Smithies, Glen Berman, and Karaitiana Taiuru. “Operationalisation of Responsible AI in the Research and Cultural Sectors.” In Building Digital Humanities, edited by Simon Burrows et al. Nijmegen: Radboud University Press, Forthcoming.

Glen Berman, and James Smithies. “Contextualising AI.” In Operationalizing Responsible AI, edited by Daniele Quercia and Marios Constantinides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming.

Alessandra Esposito, Pascal Flohr, Shatha Mubaideen, James Smithies, Fadi Balaawi, Carol Palmer, and Sahar Idwan. “Digital Assets for the Study of Jordanian Heritage in the Nabataean and Roman Periods: The Data from the Madih (حيدم) Project.” Monitor ISH 27, no. 1 (2025): 153–172.

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).

Smithies, James. “The Kindle as Necker Cube.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49, no. 2 (March 1, 2024): 237–251. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241255850.

Smithies, James, 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.

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.

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, 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.

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, 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. “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. “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. “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. “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. “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.

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. “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. “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.

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. “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. “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.

James Smithies. “Book Review: The Power and Powerlessness of Component Analysis.” Thesis Eleven, June 4, 2025. Accessed June 4, 2025. https://thesiseleven.com/2025/06/04/book-review-the-power-and-powerlessness-of-component-analysis/.

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.

Smithies, James. “Judgements of All Kinds: Economic Policy-Making in New Zealand, 1945–1984 by Jim McAloon (Review).” New Zealand Journal of History 48, no. 2 (2014): 170–173. Accessed February 6, 2025. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/article/880610.

Smithies, James. “Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914 by Jane Stafford, Mark Williams (Review).” New Zealand Journal of History 41, no. 1 (2007): 91–92. Accessed February 6, 2025. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/article/878618.

Berman, Glen, and James Smithies. “Responsible AI Principles and the GLAM Sector: An Initial Review.” Zenodo, December 1, 2025. Accessed March 16, 2026. https://zenodo.org/records/17776155.

Smithies, James, and Glen Berman. The HASTRICT Principles: A Brief Overview. Zenodo, October 16, 2025. Accessed March 16, 2026. https://zenodo.org/records/17374271.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula. “DH Lab: Interview Transcripts.” Zenodo, April 30, 2023. Accessed May 2, 2023. https://zenodo.org/record/7880810.

Schmidt, Peter. “Designed to Work: Part 1 - Architecture and Research,” May 25, 2021. https://episodes.buzzsprout.com/smk0ij80n4x88amdkcsmypgcorw5?

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.

Meyer, Eric T., Lucie Burgess, Kathryn Eccles, and James Smithies. “Knowledge Machines,” February 5, 2016. https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-machines.

Glen Berman, and James Smithies. “Reflections on Building ATLAS, a Prototype Open-Source Harness for RAG Evaluation,” March 24, 2026.

Smithies, James, and Glen Berman. “Evaluating AI: An Overview of the AI as Infrastructure (AIINFRA) Project,” November 20, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/11/20/evaluating-ai-an-overview-of-the-ai-as-infrastructure-aiinfra-project/.

Smithies, James. “Digital Modernities: Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age,” August 1, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/08/01/digital-modernities-why-we-need-to-think-historically-about-the-digital-age/.

Smithies, James. “The ATLAS Test Harness: Evaluating LLM-RAG Systems for Humanities Research,” July 30, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/07/30/the-atlas-test-harness-evaluating-llm-rag-systems-for-humanities-research/.

Smithies, James. “Harnessing AI: Evaluating LLM-RAG Systems for Humanities Research,” May 22, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/05/22/harnessing-ai-evaluating-llm-rag-systems-for-humanities-research/.

Smithies, James. “Antipodal Experiments: Digital Humanities & Social Science in Australasia,” May 17, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/05/19/antipodal-experiments-digital-humanities-social-science-in-australasia/.

Smithies, James, and Karaitiana Taiuru. “Large Language Models and Transnational Research: Introducing the AI as Infrastructure (AIINFRA) Project,” October 17, 2024.

Smithies, James. “Australasian Research Software Engineering: From HASS Research Services to Infrastructural Milieux,” August 1, 2024. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2024/08/01/australasian-research-software-engineering/.

Smithies, James. “HASS Research Software Engineering (RSE) in the UK,” 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,” 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,” 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,” 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. “The Phenomenology of Technical Knowledge: Research Software Engineering, Product Development, and Digital Humanities,” 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. “Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History,” 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,” 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,” 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,” December 12, 2020.

Smithies, James. “Archiving & Sustainability in King’s Digital Lab.” Towards deterioration, disappearance or destruction? Panel Discussion, 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,” September 29, 2020. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2020/09/29/kings-digital-lab-as-experiment-and-lifecycle/.

Smithies, James. “Applied Research in the Arts & Humanities: The Applying AI to Storytelling Project,” April 14, 2020.

Smithies, James. “Life in New Times: Artificial Intelligence and Modernity,” January 30, 2020. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2020/01/30/life-new-times-artificial-intelligence-and-modernity/.

Smithies, James. “Digital Humanities Labs & Global Cyber-Infrastructure,” November 19, 2019. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2019/11/19/digital-humanities-labs-global-cyber-infrastructure/.

Smithies, James. “King’s Digital Lab Research Software Engineering Career Paths,” September 19, 2019.

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, July 12, 2019.

Smithies, James. “Digital Modernity: Some Preliminary Thoughts,” May 29, 2019.

Smithies, James. “The Epistemology of the Machine: Natural Philosophy, Digital Laboratories, and Cultural Heritage,” May 23, 2019.

Smithies, James. “Integrating DH into the Longue Durée: Research Laboratories, History, Methods,” 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,” 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,” 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,” January 16, 2019.

Smithies, James. “Research Software Careers: Establishing Local, National and International Pathways,” 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,” September 12, 2018. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2018/09/13/epistemology-machine-natural-philosophy-digital-laboratories-and-cultural-heritage/.

Smithies, James. “Digital Cultural Heritage in the UK: 5 Lessons Learned,” 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,” May 13, 2018.

Smithies, James. “Systems Development & Applications / Data Lifecycle Management at King’s Digital Lab,” November 30, 2017.

Smithies, James. “King’s Digital Lab & the Georgian Papers Programme,” November 13, 2017.

Smithies, James, and Sam Callaghan. “Georgian Papers Programme.” Colonial and Postcolonial DH Panel Discussion, 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,” July 26, 2017.

Smithies, James. “Towards a Socio-Technical Analysis of Digital Laboratories: Reading King’s Digital Lab through STS,” July 5, 2017.

Smithies, James. “Establishing Digital Humanities Labs in New Zealand and the United Kingdom,” March 28, 2017.

Smithies, James. “Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, and the Automation of Labour,” October 26, 2016.

Smithies, James. “Software Intensive Humanities,” April 18, 2016.

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, January 27, 2016. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/videos/knowledge-machines-digital-transformations-of-the-sciences-and-humanities/.

Smithies, James. “The Co-Evolution of Maturity and Capability in Digital Humanities Research,” September 2015.

Smithies, James. “An Introduction to Digital Humanities,” August 2015.

Smithies, James. “University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme,” July 2015.

Smithies, James. “Project Management for Digital Humanities Projects,” July 2015.

Smithies, James. “Stories from UC CEISMIC: Social Data in the Wake of Disaster,” November 2014.

Smithies, James. “Strategy, Governance, Ecosystem: Guiding Principles of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive,” June 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10965.

Smithies, James. “Digital Humanities in Canterbury and New Zealand,” February 2014.

Smithies, James. “Management of Complex Cultural Heritage Projects: UC CEISMIC Earthquake Archive,” 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,” 2014.

Smithies, James. “The Digital Humanities and NZ Libraries,” August 2013.

Smithies, James. “Canterbury Utopias, Past, Present and Future,” August 2013.

Smithies, James. “The UC CEISMIC Digital Archive: Co-Ordinating Libraries, Museums, Archives, Individuals and Government Agencies in a Disaster Management Context,” 2013. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10611.

Smithies, James. “ATLAS: Enabling Open Methods and Technical Transparency in AI.” The Australian National University, Canberra, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/12/04/atlas-enabling-open-methods-and-technical-transparency-in-ai/.

James Smithies, Glen Berman, and Karaitiana Taiuru. “Principles for the Operationalisation of Responsible AI in the Research and Public Sector.” Brisbane, 2025. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/10/22/principles-for-the-operationalisation-of-responsible-ai-in-the-research-and-public-sector/.

James Smithies, PT Sefton, and Nick Jenkins. “Building Capability in RSE for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS).” In Research Software Asia Australia 25, 2025. https://www.jamessmithies.org/blog/2025/09/16/building-capability-in-rse-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-hass/index.html.

James Smithies. “Leveraging Scale and Opportunity: Digital HASS in Australasia.” Melbourne, 2024. https://jamessmithies.org/blog/2024/10/31/leveraging-scale-and-opportunity-digital-hass-in-australasia/.

Smithies, James, Karaitiana Taiuru, Glen Berman, Barbara McGillivray, John Moore, and Martin Spychal. “Large Language Models and Transnational Research: Introducing the AI as Infrastructure (AIINFRA) Project.” In AI4LAM. Canberra, 2024. http://jamessmithies.org/blog/2024/10/17/large-language-models-and-transnational-research/.

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/.

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.

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. “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, 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.

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. “Data Integration in Canterbury: Lessons Learned from the CEISMIC Archive.” Massey University, 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10596.

Smithies, James. “A View Inside the Ivory Towers: The Current State of Digital in New Zealand Academia.” Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand, 2014. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10599.

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. “Requirements for a New Zealand Humanities eResearch Infrastructure.” University of Canterbury, 2013. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10604.

Smithies, James. “Federated Digital Archives and Disaster Recovery: The Role of the Digital Humanities in Post-Earthquake Christchurch.” In Digital Humanities 2012. Hamburg University, 2012. Accessed May 24, 2016. http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz:80/handle/10092/10687.

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.