Digital Serendipity and Digital Design
"...of things which they were not in quest of"
Date: 5 May 2011
Time: 17.15 - 18.30
Venue: Helmore 201
Speakers: Dr Robert V. McNamee (Director) and Mark Rogerson (Technical Editor) of the Electronic Enlightenment Project, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
In the simplest terms, the Bodleian Libraries' Electronic Enlightenment Project digitizes letters, largely of the 18th century. More intriguingly, it uses what we call "scholarly technology" to reconstruct what may be the world's first global, social network - stretching from the early 17th to the early 19th centuries! - and in that process, rediscovers conversations and correspondents previously lost, or only available to the most erudite researcher.
In this presentation, Dr Robert V. McNamee and Mark Rogerson will introduce their concept and application of "scholarly technology", and consider how the design and development of this kind of digital resource can result in a system so culturally dense as to positively encourage serendipitous discoveries.
This event was organised on behalf of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute by Dr Alison Searle.
Date: 5 May 2011
Time: 17.15 - 18.30
Venue: Helmore 201
Speakers: Dr Robert V. McNamee (Director) and Mark Rogerson (Technical Editor) of the Electronic Enlightenment Project, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
In the simplest terms, the Bodleian Libraries' Electronic Enlightenment Project digitizes letters, largely of the 18th century. More intriguingly, it uses what we call "scholarly technology" to reconstruct what may be the world's first global, social network - stretching from the early 17th to the early 19th centuries! - and in that process, rediscovers conversations and correspondents previously lost, or only available to the most erudite researcher.
In this presentation, Dr Robert V. McNamee and Mark Rogerson will introduce their concept and application of "scholarly technology", and consider how the design and development of this kind of digital resource can result in a system so culturally dense as to positively encourage serendipitous discoveries.
This event was organised on behalf of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute by Dr Alison Searle.
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