I examine the potential of Linked Open Data to support and diversify scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. My publications also cover the role of games, gamification and informal online environments in education. 

My monograph "Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities" (Routledge) came out in 2023. In it, I discuss how information is captured, published, represented, accessed, and interpreted using computational systems and, in doing so, show how technologies actively shape the way we understand what we encounter. The interdisciplinary case study examples include bibliographic data from works published in England between 1470 and 1700; literature from ancient Iraq; jazz performances, predominantly from the USA in the 1930s; and even reach as far as an alien, fictional future. Whilst these case study examples span vast spatio-temporal distances, they all share a common thread in the use of the Linked Data information publication paradigm. In amongst discussing existing computer science methods, as well as processes such as ontology development and database design, the book also includes reflections on practical considerations and offers advice about how to take institutional policies, socio-cultural sensitivities, and economic models into consideration when implementing Linked Data projects.

PhD, MSc, MSc, MPhil, BA (Hons)

• Linked Data, ontologies, RDF
• Knowledge representation
• Web Science 
• Social Science Online
• Information and Library Sciences
• Digital Humanities
• Digital Libraries
• 3D modelling