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.

(1) Mapping Manuscript Migrations (2017-2020): funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under its Digging into Data Challenge  https://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/
(2) Collecting the West (2016-2021): ARC Linkage Project   https://nodegoat.collectingthewest.net/viewer.p/1/3/scenario/5/grid
(3) HuNI: the Humanities Networked Infrastructure: funded by NeCTAR under the NCRIS Programme  https://huni.net.au/

(4) Western Australian Digitisation Centre (2020)

• 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)

• Serendipity in knowledge organization systems
• Australian popular music and culture