Neil Jakeman

Senior Research Software Analyst

Neil came to the Department of Digital Humanities as a Research Developer in 2011 to help steer development in the spatial turn that DH research that was enjoying at that time. Arriving with a background in environmental analysis, spatial statistics, his interests within the department broadened to encompass the diversity of topics in the department’s portfolio.

Neil has led technical development on a number of projects, including collaborating with the University of Wales to create a database of archaeological and palaeo-linguistic evidence regarding the origin of the Celtic language in the Bronze Age. He created a text and manuscript comparison tool for the study of vectors of transmission of medieval French.

His role within the Lab has now evolved to encompass cultivating new projects and relationships in the digital community and beyond as a Project Analyst. As one of three permanent analysts in the Lab, Neil oversees has particular responsibility over those which involve digital creative practice in emerging technologies such AR, VR and real-time engines. He is an accomplished 3D modeler, photographer and, occasionally, guitar player.

Senior Research Software Analyst

Projects

Knowledge Orders before Modernity

Musical Lives

CROSSREADS: Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranea

AGE-C: Ageing and Gender in European Cinema

Social Dynamics of People's War

BCC: Brightening the Covenant Chain

Glow3 GLOW3

Farm-level Interdisciplinary Approaches to Endemic Livestock Disease FIELD

Australian Cultural Data Engine ACD-Engine

African Rock Art

Scoping a Data Service for Complex 3D Data in the Arts and Humanities

Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 IRT

Convergent Screen Technologies and Performance in Realtime CoSTAR

Archetype

Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica IRCYR

Heritage Gazetteer for Libya HGL

DARIAH-DESIR

(Re) Mixing (de) Humanisation: Virtual Reality Migration Stories for Hard to Reach Audiences with Museums of Migration Room to Breath

The Conqueror's Commissioners: Unlocking the Domesday Survey of South-Western England Exon Domesday

Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic DPRR

Inventory of Byzantine Churches on Cyprus IBCC

Medieval Francophone Literature Outside France MFLC

Mapping the Medieval Countryside: The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem IPM

Making of Charlemagne's Europe MKCHEUR

Gazetteer of Cyprus Project CYPRUS

Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic

Paradox of Medieval Scotland POMS

Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066/Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England PDE/PASE

Organisations