Centre for Digital Scholarship OPEN SEMINAR David De Roure DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E-RESEARCH CENTRE Digital scholarship: Intersection, Scale, and Social Machines Today we are witnessing several shifts in scholarly practice, in and across multiple disciplines, as researchers embrace digital techniques to tackle established questions in new ways and new questions afforded by digital and digitized collections, approaches, and technologies. This seminar addresses current activity in digital scholarship, framing it in its multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary settings. David De Roure is director of Oxford e-Research Centre. He has strategic responsibility for Digital Humanities at Oxford and directed the national Digital Social Research programme for ESRC, for whom he is now a strategic adviser. His personal research is in Computational Musicology, Web Science, and Internet of Things. He is a frequent speaker and writer on digital scholarship and the future of scholarly communications. http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2015/05/25/seminar-digital-scholarship-intersection-scale-and-social-machines/ 13.00, Thursday 28 May 2015 Centre for Digital Scholarship Weston Library Photo: Julie Stevens