Huw Jones

Biography

Huw Jones is Head of the Digital Library at Cambridge University Library, and Director of CDH Labs at Cambridge Digital Humanities. His work spans many aspects of collections-driven digital humanities, from creating and making collections available to their use in a research and teaching context. He has a particular focus on text encoding, and co-convenes the TEI strand at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. He also teaches the collections and methodology core course on the Digital Humanities MPhil at Cambridge University.

Cambridge Digital Library is the University’s main platform for the digital humanities, containing almost 50,000 items ranging from the papers of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, to manuscript and photograph collections representing the global scope of the Cambridge’s physical collections.