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Biography
Dr Toby Burrows is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, and a Senior Researcher in the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford. He was formerly the Manager of the Research Publications and Data Services unit in the University Library.
His main research interests are digital humanities, medieval manuscript studies and the history of cultural heritage collections and collecting. He has been an invited participant in workshops funded by the European Science Foundation and COST, and has held visiting fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Churchill College Cambridge and University College London. He has been a Chief Investigator on a range of Australian Research Council projects under its Discovery, Linkage, Linkage Infrastructure and Research Networks schemes.
Between 2014 and 2016, he was a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
Roles and responsibilities
• E-Research - Programme Committee for the eResearch Australasia 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2017 Conferences; member of the organizing committee for the 2013 Computer Applications in Archaeology conference, held in Perth.
• Digital Humanities - reviewer for the DH 2012, DH 2013, DH 2014, DH 2017 and DHA 2012 conferences. Member of the local organizing committee for Digital Humanities Australasia 2014. Product Owner for the HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) virtual laboratory.
• Data archiving - manager of the UWA Research Repository and the UWA Research Data Online service, and directed the W.A. node of the Australian Data Archive (ADA).
• Research assessment - ARC Assessor; History and Archaeology discipline steward for the ERA assessments at UWA in 2010 and 2012
• Open Access to research data - member of the Advisory Panel for the Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE) project
• Journal publication - member of the editorial boards of Education for Information, Digital Libraries, Journal of Open Humanities Data; referee for Archival Science, Digital Humanities Quarterly.
• Book series - series editor for Medieval Media Cultures (Arc Humanities Press)
• Digital Humanities - reviewer for the DH 2012, DH 2013, DH 2014, DH 2017 and DHA 2012 conferences. Member of the local organizing committee for Digital Humanities Australasia 2014. Product Owner for the HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) virtual laboratory.
• Data archiving - manager of the UWA Research Repository and the UWA Research Data Online service, and directed the W.A. node of the Australian Data Archive (ADA).
• Research assessment - ARC Assessor; History and Archaeology discipline steward for the ERA assessments at UWA in 2010 and 2012
• Open Access to research data - member of the Advisory Panel for the Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE) project
• Journal publication - member of the editorial boards of Education for Information, Digital Libraries, Journal of Open Humanities Data; referee for Archival Science, Digital Humanities Quarterly.
• Book series - series editor for Medieval Media Cultures (Arc Humanities Press)
Current projects
(1) Mapping Manuscript Migrations (2017-2019): funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under its Digging into Data Challenge
(2) Collecting the West (2016-2020): ARC Linkage Project
(3) HuNI: the Humanities Networked Infrastructure: funded by NeCTAR under the NCRIS Programme
(2) Collecting the West (2016-2020): ARC Linkage Project
(3) HuNI: the Humanities Networked Infrastructure: funded by NeCTAR under the NCRIS Programme
Research
• Digital humanities (particularly the design of e-research infrastructure and the relevance of Linked Open Data and ontologies)
• The history of cultural heritage collections and collecting
• Medieval manuscripts (particularly their curation, description and digitization)
• Medieval encyclopedias
• The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
• Australian popular music and culture
• The history of cultural heritage collections and collecting
• Medieval manuscripts (particularly their curation, description and digitization)
• Medieval encyclopedias
• The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
• Australian popular music and culture
External positions
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
1 Jul 2017 → …Academic Visitor, University of Oxford
1 Feb 2017 → 30 Jun 2017Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, King's College London
1 May 2014 → 1 May 2016Keywords
- Digital Humanities
- Heritage
- Medieval History
- Digital humanities
- Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
- Knowledge organisation
- History of cultural collections
- Australian popular music
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Projects 2003 2019
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
Art Gallery of Western Australia
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Collecting the West: How collections create Western Australia
Paterson, A., Lydon, E., Hopper, S., Gregory, J., Konishi, S., Van Gent, J., Burrows, T., Witcomb, A. & Coles, A.
State Library of WA (J S Battye Library of WA History)
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
The AustLit Resource - Supporting Research in Studies of Australian Literary & Narrative Cultures
Mead, P., Ikin, V., Burrows, T., Hughes-D'Aeth, A., Kilner, K., Eggert, P., Ommundsen, W., Mallan, K., Douglas, K. & Arnold, J.
1/01/13 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
Research Output 1979 2017
Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections
Burrows, T., 2017, In : PARERGON. 34, 1, p. 172-174 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts
Burrows, T., 2017, In : PARERGON. 34, 1, p. 184-185 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Review of: Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts
Burrows, T., Apr 2017, In : Speculum: a journal of Medieval studies. 92, 2, p. 586-587 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
The history and provenance of manuscripts in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps: New approaches to digital representation
Burrows, T., 1 Oct 2017, In : Speculum. 92, S1, p. S39-S64Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Voynich Manuscript
Burrows, T., 2017, In : PARERGON. 34, 1, p. 163-164 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Datasets
Europa Inventa database dumps
Burrows, T. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 14 Jan 2014
DOI: 10.4225/23/591515ebd122b, http://europa.arts.uwa.edu.au/ and one more link, http://europa.atlassian.net/ (show fewer)
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State Lower Houses: Processed Data: National
Burrows, T. (Data Manager), The University of Western Australia, 13 May 2014
DOI: 10.4225/23/591534f6d1288, http://elections.uwa.edu.au/
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State Lower Houses: Processed Data: WA
Burrows, T. (Data Manager), The University of Western Australia, 13 May 2014
DOI: 10.4225/23/59153852d1298, http://elections.uwa.edu.au/
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State Lower Houses: Processed Data: VIC
Burrows, T. (Data Manager), The University of Western Australia, 13 May 2014
DOI: 10.4225/23/59153821d1297, http://elections.uwa.edu.au/
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State Lower Houses: Processed Data: SA
Burrows, T. (Data Manager), The University of Western Australia, 13 May 2014
DOI: 10.4225/23/59153489d1286, http://elections.uwa.edu.au/
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