On October 11th 2017, Dr. Georgina Nugent Folan, Research Fellow at the TCD Centre for Digital Humanities, will present a paper titled “Digitising Cultural Complexity: representing Rich Cultural Data in a Big data environment” at the Ways of Being in a Digital Age 2017 conference at the University of Liverpool, UK. This paper will present key themes and preliminary findings from the Horizon2020-funding KPLEX project which investigates how approaches to knowledge creation found in the arts and humanities can help reconceptualise the way we speak about and use data, both as citizens and scholars.