User:Esherriff

My name is Emma Sherriff. I am a Wikimedia volunteer trainer and a Digital Humanities Technical Manager working at the University of Exeter's Digital Humanities Lab. Jason Evans, National Wikimedian based at the National Library of Wales provided training at the lab for cascading to academics, students and archivists across the region in 2018. The University of Exeter is a member of the GW4 consortium made up of the following four universities - the University of Bath, the University of Bristol, Cardiff University and the University of Exeter.

Biography
The focus of my work is facilitating the application of digital humanities technology in research, as technical manager of the Digital Humanities Lab. I have particular interests in the ongoing literary research within the Lab, collections of prose and the construction of costume. I am a chartered library and information professional, with experience of developing and managing digital projects in academic and public library contexts. Teaching colleagues and students to develop their technical skills for the dissemination of research messages is also a key focus of my work.

Interests
I have experience in both digital and specialist archival photography and I am very interested in how photogrammetry techniques can be used to scan historic costume and fabrics, from the Victorian period. I enjoy working with Wikipedia, offering training around populating Women in Red Wikipedia links to develop the number of articles written by and about noteable women.

My areas of technical specialism are: the 2D digitisation of historic literature and artefacts, photogrammetry, dressmaking.

The University of Exeter Digital Humanities Lab


According to the University of Exeter's Digital Humanities research publications its' specialisms include:


 * 2D imaging
 * 3D imaging
 * Archiving and Sustainability
 * Blogs and social media
 * Collection management
 * Data analysis and visualisation
 * Databases
 * Linked Open Data
 * Text encoding