Head of the Research and Development, Digital Research and Scholarship, UVA Library
I am the Head of the Research and Development efforts for the Department of Digital Research and Scholarship (a.k.a. the Scholars’ Lab) at the University of Virginia Library. The Scholars’ Lab supports digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, with particular emphasis on methodolgies employing geospatial, temporal, textual, and qualitative analysis tools. The Scholars’ Lab combines the services of UVA’s former digital centers: the GeoStat Center, the E-Text Center, and the Research Computing Support group.
Our R&D efforts allow us to team with faculty members to imagine new ways of approaching not only the collection of data, but also the interpretation and dissemination of the scholarly apparatus. Our group has expertise in several traditional programming languages (Java, C++), but we do extensive online work in several languages including Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, and XML (including XSLT, XPath, XForms, and XQuery). Most recently we have aimed our development efforts on developing an extensible, opensource infrastructure to support geospatial scholarship in the humanities, paying particular attention to lower technical barriers to installing the software and minimizing server and administrative requirements.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in History from the Virginia Military Institute and a master’s degree in Colonial History from the College of William and Mary. My research interests include computer graphics, interpretive uses of augmented reality, vernacular architectural history, and the social interactions of the early Virginia frontier.
Information
- Email: wayne dot graham at virginia.edu
- Twitter: wayne_graham
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