Digital Economy lunch – Leif Isaksen
Leif Isaksen spoke about the Google Ancient Places and Pelagios projects at the Digital Economy USRG lunch. Leif has just completed his PhD in Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and started a Research Fellowship focused on Digital Humanities. He will address issues surrounding the use of places as mediators to cross-disciplinary resources, with a focus on the ancient world. He will also discuss the implications of the underlying semantic and other technologies for the Digital Economy, and in particular the Digital Humanities. For more information, check out Google Ancient Places and Pelagios Project