Speakers and contents
Welcome by Richard Ovenden OBE, Bodley’s Librarian, Head of Gardens, Libraries and Museums at the University of Oxford.
Panel and Q&A: The art of cartography and new evidence
Chaired by Judith Siefring, Head of Digital Collections Discovery, Bodleian Libraries
- Material evidence of the surface of objects
John Barrett, Lead Photographer at ARCHiOx and the first person to use the Selene Photometric Stereo System within a major library
- Spectacular! A digital exploration of medieval Gough Map of Britain
Nick Millea, Map Curator at the Bodleian Libraries
- The Greatest Medieval Map-Maker: Al-Sharif al-Idrisi and Roger’s Silver Disc
Yossef Rapoport, Professor of Islamic History at Queen Mary University, London
- A Ship’s Globe in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Sanne Frequin, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Art History, University of Utrecht
Special presentation – Nesting Globes: visualising the current global situation
Bruce Mau, designer, philosopher, architect, and educator
Panel and Q&A: Mapping in a digital world
Chaired by Giovanni Pala, economic historian of technology and information
- Map Search: Using AI to explore map content
Katherine McDonough, Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University; Senior Research Fellow and head of the Machines Reading Maps Project at The Alan Turing Institute
- Deep Mapping: from archives to the universe
Sarah Kenderdine, Professor of Digital Humanities at École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Museology
- Geospatial transformation
Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, tech evangelist, and co-founder of Google Earth
Conclusions: Adam Lowe, Founder of Factum Foundation and Factum Arte
