Bio
Prof. Leif Isaksen is Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter, based at its Digital Humanities Lab, and affiliated with the Department of Classics and Ancient History, and the University’s Institute of Data Science and AI (IDSAI). His main interests are in spatial and temporal representation in the humanities - both in the ancient world and the modern one - and the paradigm of Linked Open Data to relate online resources about the past. This is most notably as director of several projects associated with the Pelagios Network, including the development of the Recogito annotation platform.
Research interests
At the Turing, Leif is interested in exploring the relationship between the capabilities afforded by dynamic and data-driven visualizations, and media suitable for preserving information over very long timescales (millenia). He is also interested in the space between document and datum-level information. This includes the extraction of individual named entities, factoids, metadata, data structures, and other aggregable information, for the purposes of distant reading, salience filtering, cross-navigation, and recombination.