Research

Co-authored book with Prof Paul Pickering, AM, FRHS

 

"The book essentially provides a genealogy of liberalism in the Antipodean. It does this by looking a fascinating array of factors that provide evidence of the myriad of influences that shaped colonial liberalism. This is not linear history, and much the better for it. It is a fascinating tale of cultural influences...In addition to being an eye-opening story of liberalism, this book is a methodological tour de force by two masters of their craft."

Reviewer 1

 

"This book is a unique combination of traditional historical enquiry and digital humanities, that effectively demonstrates the revolutionary power of digital methodologies to transform the way we ask historical questions...Through interdisciplinary research, this book seeks to understand and explore the spread of political ideas in Australia and beyond in the long nineteenth century. The book goes beyond the big names and big men of politics in this period by using linked data methodologies to bring the previously unheard voices, perspectives and actions of the disenfranchised including women and First Nations people to the fore."

Reviewer 2

Linked Data for Digital Humanities provides insights into how digital technologies can enrich and diversify humanities scholarship and make it pioneering in the Digital Age. Written in non-specialist language, the book illustrates how information is captured, published, represented, accessed, and interpreted using computational systems and, in doing so, shows how technologies actively shape the way we understand what we encounter. Part of the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities series. 

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Nurmikko-Fuller, T. (2023) Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities, Routledge.

Co-authored book chapter with Provost, S., Adeniran, A., McDougall, J., Lewis, L. and Smith, L.

Currently under review

 

In Montoya, A., Baird, I., and Burrows, S. Building Digital Humanities, Radboud University Press.

Co-authored book chapter with Grant, K. on pedagogy and collaborating with the cultural heritage sector as a part of a course that requires students to work in multidisciplinary, gender-balanced, and multilingual groups. 

 

In Estill, L., Siemens, R., Crompton, C. and Lane, R. J. (eds) Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice. Routledge (2025).​

This paper reports on a project in which a multidisciplinary team, the Lelepa community, and Vanuatu cultural heritage staff create a 3D photogrammetry digitisation project at Fels Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the island of Lelepa in Vanuatu. The site, with engraved and painted rock art walls, is of considerable cultural and spiritual significance.

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Nurmikko-Fuller, T., Nelson, K., Ballard, C., Wilson, M., Farenearu, R. L. M., and Wille, E. (2025), Digitising Fels Cave, Lelepa Island, Vanuatu. In Proceedings of the international Digital Humanities conference 2025 (DH2025), Lisbon, Portugal, 14 – 18 July

Nurmikko-Fuller, T. (2024) “Ethics Clearance for Digital Humanities”. In Smyth, B., Martin, M., and Downing, M. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia. Routledge.

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Bolland, K., Smyth, B., and Nurmikko-Fuller, T. (2024) “Data Management Plans: A Risk-Informed Approach”. In Smyth, B., Martin, M., and Downing, M. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia. Routledge. link

Nurmikko-Fuller, T. (2023) “Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for producing Linked Open Assyriological Data”. In Juloux, V., di Ludovico, A. and Matskevich, S. (eds) The Ancient World Goes Digital: Case Studies on Archaeology, Texts, Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation. Brill. 

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Nurmikko-Fuller, T. (2018) “Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic Web”. In Gansell, A., Juloux, V., and di Ludovico, A. (eds) CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions: Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts, and Digital Archiving. Digital Biblical
Studies, vol 2. Brill.

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has great potential as a teaching and learning tool.... Through playful exploration, students can investigate the game world and engage with both the historically-informed and fantastical elements...  In this chapter we explore ways in which Skyrim can be used and modified to explain, through play, three related aspects of medieval society: culture, architecture, and landscape.

 

Champion, E., Nurmikko-Fuller, T., and Grant, K. (2022). “Alchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim”. In Houghton, R. (ed) Games for Teaching, Impact, and
Research. Winchester University

Historical bibliometrics, have long been a significant part of the book historian's toolkit. It allows for large scale quantitative analysis and is suited to computational methods and digital approaches that join multiple data-sets. In this chapter we explore how well-constructed digital historical bibliometric research can enrich cultural history. 

 

Burrows, S. and Nurmikko-Fuller, T. (2020). “Charting Cultural History through Historical Bibliometric Research: Methods; Concepts; Results”. In Schuster, K. and Dunn, S. (eds), Routledge Handbook on Research Methods in the Digital Humanities. Routledge

Do finely honed algorithms that harvest personal data represent an example of a new departure in political intervention? Does the promulgation of ‘fake news’ and conspiracy theories via social media exemplify the emergence of a rhizomatic media regime beyond the control of state actors? And, has the spread of the World Wide Web to nearly 60 per cent of the population on earth fundamentally changed the way we conduct our lives and ipso facto our politics? Or have we heard it all before?

 

Nurmikko-Fuller, T. and Pickering, P. (2022) “Crisis What Crisis?”. In Leitch, S. and Pickering, P. (eds) Rethinking Social Media and Extremism. Australian National University Press

As an interdisciplinary researcher, I straddle two distinct  publication paradigms. My career started in two Computer Science departments: 78% of my publications are listed on DBLP (the Computer 

Science Bibliography). These include journal articles and peer reviewed, multi-author papers published in the proceedings of international conferences of various disciplines, including the Web Conference (A*,  top 4%), and the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference for Digital Libraries (also A*). 

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I publish alone and collaboratively in journals such as Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature, 2-year IF 3.5), Computers in Human Behaviour (Elsevier, IF 3.536, 5-year IF 4.417), and  Computational Biology (Elsevier, IF 3.955).

 

I collaboratively won Best Paper at WEBIST in 2015, and my work has received awards, Special Mentions  and been Shortlisted several times.