Books

  • Ahnert, R., Griffin, E., Ridge, M., & Tolfo, G. (2023). Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009175548

Chapters and articles

  • Tolfo G., Griffin E., Ahnert R., Ridge M., “The Minimum Research Outcome: A Mechanism for Generating and Managing Projects in Labs”, Digital Humanities and Laboratories. Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture, edited By Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, Christopher Thomson, 2024

  • Tolfo G., Vane O., Beelen K., Hosseini K., Lawrence J., Beavan D. and McDonough K., "Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection". Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology, edited by Estelle Bunout, Maud Ehrmann and Frédéric Clavert, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023.

  • Ridge, Mia, Tolfo, Giorgia, Westerling, Kalle, Pedrazzini, Nilo, & McGillivray, Barbara. (2022). “Historic machines from 'prams' to 'Parliament': new avenues for collaborative linguistic research”. DH Benelux 2022 - ReMIX: Creation and alteration in DH (hybrid), Belval Campus, Esch-sure-Alzette, Luxembourg and online. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6578021

  • ‘Creating a national picture: digitising Ordnance Survey maps’ Creating a national picture: digitising Ordnance Survey maps – Living with Machines blog (January 2023)

  • ‘Georeferencing OS maps” Georeferencing Ordnance Survey Maps – Living with Machines blog (January 2023)

Papers and lectures

  • "Colonial digital photographs: developing a co-designed inclusive, transparent and ethical research framework”, with Katherine Howell, The Digital Conference, King’s College London (June 206)

  • “Can you hear it? On writing the archival silence”, Doveri di Memoria, Diritti e Pratiche dell’Oblio, Università di Bologna (September, 2025)

  • “Between the cracks: losing and recovering research potential in old data. The case of the ‘AIDS Advertising Evaluation Dataset’”, DCDC Durham (July, 2025)

  • Creative Archival Research, University of Canterbury (March, 2025)