Giles Bergel
Election
Position
Name
Giles Bergel
Candidate statement
Giles Bergel. Digital Humanities Research Ambassador in the Visual Geometry Group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford; Teaching Fellow in the Department of Information Studies at University College London.
My work equally combines book history and digital humanities. I have contributed to the making of a number of large and small-scale digital resources for the study of the book; I help oversee the publishing activities of several learned societies; and I maintain several mailing-lists and Zotero libraries in book and print studies (see my website at www.printing-machine.org). My service work has included creating and implementing a new digital publication and archiving policy utilising version-control and DOIs for the Bibliographical Society; updating and moving the website for Print Networks; and acting as the digital humanities consultant for the Oxford Edition of Thomas Traherne. As a maker of digital resources, I am keenly interested in sustainability, accessibility, intellectual property issues and accreditation for professional development. As a maker and user of digital tools, I am interested in how digital methods can extract hidden value from documents and increase their availability. As a historian of the book, I advocate the critical study of its history alongside that of contemporary digital communications, in the belief that each can illuminate the other. The role of Director of Electronic Resources for SHARP is therefore one that, should I be asked to serve, I would relish.
My work equally combines book history and digital humanities. I have contributed to the making of a number of large and small-scale digital resources for the study of the book; I help oversee the publishing activities of several learned societies; and I maintain several mailing-lists and Zotero libraries in book and print studies (see my website at www.printing-machine.org). My service work has included creating and implementing a new digital publication and archiving policy utilising version-control and DOIs for the Bibliographical Society; updating and moving the website for Print Networks; and acting as the digital humanities consultant for the Oxford Edition of Thomas Traherne. As a maker of digital resources, I am keenly interested in sustainability, accessibility, intellectual property issues and accreditation for professional development. As a maker and user of digital tools, I am interested in how digital methods can extract hidden value from documents and increase their availability. As a historian of the book, I advocate the critical study of its history alongside that of contemporary digital communications, in the belief that each can illuminate the other. The role of Director of Electronic Resources for SHARP is therefore one that, should I be asked to serve, I would relish.