
Eric T. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices.
Professor Eric T. Meyer
Senior Fellow
Profile
Eric T. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the OII. Professor Meyer’s research focuses on the transition from analog to digital technologies in research and knowledge creation across disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. His research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using big data, theatre artists, visual artists, librarians, and organizations involved in computational approaches to research.
His work has been published in a variety of journals, books, and conference proceedings, available by following the tabs above. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, including keynote addresses in Florence, Aberdeen, Prague, The Hague, Leeds, and elsewhere, and has given invited lectures at universities including Harvard, Cambridge, King’s College London, Edinburgh, Chalmers, Borås, Dalhousie, Rensselaer, Sheffield, Bath, Southampton, and others.
Professor Meyer’s research has received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the European Commission, OECD, The Health Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Jisc, Nesta, RIN, and others.
As Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Meyer is responsible for overseeing the overall running of the MSc and DPhil programmes at the OII.
Professor Meyer earned his PhD in information science, specializing in social informatics, at Indiana University, where his award-winning dissertation examined how marine biologists who rely on photographic evidence to identify individual marine mammals have seen significant changes in their everyday work practices as they switched from film photography to digital photography.
His professional and personal networks can be found on Google Scholar, LinkedIn, SSRN, Academia.edu, Twitter, and Flickr.
Selected Publications
(2017) “Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities on the web” In: The Web as History Brugger, N. and Schroeder, R. (eds.). London: UCL Press. 23-44.
(2016) “The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research“, New Media & Society. 18 (7) 1159-1189.
Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2015) Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Meyer, E.T. (2014) Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching. In Rosenbaum, H., Fichman, P. (Eds) Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholarly Publishers, Chapter 3.
Gómez-Cruz, E., Meyer, E.T. (2012) Creation and Control in the Photographic Process: iPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography. Photographies 5 (2) 203-221.
Dutton, W.H., and Meyer, E.T. (2010) Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? The Opportunities and Risks of Bottom-Up Innovation. In W.H. Dutton and P.Jeffreys (Eds.), World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 165-184.
Meyer, E.T., and Schroeder, R. (2009) Untangling the Web of e-Research: Towards a Sociology of Online Knowledge. Journal of Informetrics 3 (3) 246-260.
Meyer, E.T. (2009) Moving from small science to big science: Social and organizational impediments to large scale data sharing. In Jankowski, N. (Ed.), e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice (Routledge Advances in Research Methods series). New York: Routledge, pp. 147-159.
Areas of Interest for Doctoral Supervision
Arts, big data, crowdsourcing, cultural industries, digital humanities, e-research, ethnography, health, human-computer interaction, innovation, knowledge, open data, social informatics, virtual communities, virtual environments, web archives
Research interests
social informatics, big data, computational research, digital humanities, information practices, information science, social aspects of science and technology, digital photography, scientometrics, digital ethnography
Positions held at the OII
- Senior Fellow, July 2018 –
- Professor of Social Informatics, July 2016 – July 2018
- Director of Graduate Studies, April 2014 – July 2018
- Associate Professor, May 2014 – June 2016
- Senior Research Fellow, August 2013 – June 2016
- DPhil Programme Director, September 2012 – October 2014
- Research Fellow, September 2007 – July 2013
Students supervised at the OII
Past doctoral students
- Dr Lucy Power
- Dr Maja Andjelkovic
- Dr Isis Hjorth
- Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia
- Dr Scott A. Hale
- Dr Elizabeth Dubois
- Dr Heather Ford
Research
Past projects
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The Future of Healthcare: Computerisation and Automation, and General Practice Services
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Michael A. Osborne, Dr Angela Coulter, Dr Matt Willis, Dr Paul Duckworth
The Future of Healthcare: Computerisation, Automation, and General Practice Services project is a collaboration between the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford Department of Engineering Science, and the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford.
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Project Novum: Distributed Ledger Technologies and Structural Change in Financial and Cultural Services
Participants: Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Professor Eric Meyer, Professor Graham Cormode, Dr Duncan MacDonald-Korth, Odysseas Sclavounis
Examining organizational and structural changes that the successful application of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) is expected to require in the financial services and the visual arts, and in areas where the two sectors overlap.
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HUMANE: a typology, method and roadmap for HUman-MAchine Networks
Participants: Dr Taha Yasseri, Dr Milena Tsvetkova, Dr Ruth Olimpia García Gavilanes, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Bill Mulligan
In this project we evaluate Human-Machine Networks by focusing on two cases of peer-production in Wikipedia and citizen science projects in Zooniverse by applying quantitative methods to transactional big data.
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Data for Policy
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Eric T. Meyer
A study of big data and other innovative data-driven approaches for evidence-informed policy making.
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Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Josh Cowls
The Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities project works with data derived from the UK domain crawl from 1996 to 2013, in order to develop a framework for the study of web archive data and produce a major history of the UK web space.
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Big Data for Advancing Dementia Research
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Ulrike Deetjen
The aim of this study is to undertake an in-depth examination of the practices in data sharing to advance the science of dementia and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
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Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Linnet E. M. Taylor, Josh Cowls
The project will follow 'big data' from its public and private origins through open and closed pathways into the social sciences, and document and shape the ways they are being accessed and used to create new knowledge about the social world.
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Big Data: Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for Social Science Research
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Dr Scott A. Hale, Tom Nicholls, Dr Taha Yasseri, Dr Jonathan Bright
This project aims to enhance JISC's UK Web Domain archive, a 30 TB archive of the .uk country-code top level domain collected from 1996 to 2010. It will extract link graphs from the data and disseminate social science research using the collection.
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SECT: Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Judith Siefring, Michael Popham
SECT will carry out an investigation into the sustainability of the EEBO-TCP corpus and aims to develop strategies to secure a sustainable future for the collection.
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Evaluating Digital Tools for Theatre and Dance: BAC Scratch Online
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Isis Hjorth
Theatre and dance have fallen a long way behind music in the way they connect with audiences digitally. This project aims to understand how audiences can be engaged in the creative process, by evaluating the BAC's Scratch Online platform.
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SESERV Consortium: Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Cristobal Cobo
The SESERV consortium aims to maximize research impact by raising awareness of socio-economic trends in the areas of incentives, accounting, Digital Europe, and risk management, and by addressing possible policy priorities within the research community.
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KNETWORKS: Dissemination and Networks of Knowledge in the Atlantic Area
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Cristobal Cobo
KNETWORKS aims to create a strong knowledge sharing and dissemination network in the Atlantic area to promote the exchange of good practices and implementation strategies for building and exploiting a 21st century knowledge and information society.
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OeSS: The Oxford e-Social Science Project
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Paul Allan David, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Marina Jirotka, Dr Annamaria Carusi, Dr Matthijs den Besten, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Professor Christopher Millard, Professor Michael Parker, Dr Justine Pila, Professor Tina Piper, Dr Michael Spence, Professor David Vaver
The Oxford e-Social Science project aims to understand how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations.
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Physical Science Information Practices
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Marina Jirotka, Dr Annamaria Carusi, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Lucy Power, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Andrea Scharnhorst, Dr Will Venters, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Melissa Terras, Dr Sally Wyatt, Avgousta Kyriakidou, Peter Williams
Exploring the information seeking, organizing, archiving and communicating capacities of physical sciences communities as a study case (and role model) for effective information processing regimes and behaviours in complex problem-solving tasks.
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Using Web Archives: A Futures Perspective
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Arthur Thomas, Professor Eric T. Meyer
Web archives are the best hope for future researchers to understand the web of yesterday and today, but efforts to ensure that archives will be useful are lagging. This report asks what challenges web archives face, and suggests how to address them.
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Digital Impacts: A Synthesis Report and Workshop
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Kathryn Eccles
This project was designed to synthesize the evidence about the impact that digital resources are having on various audiences, and how resource providers have stepped up efforts to embed resources into the practices of communities.
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Humanities Information Practices
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Marina Jirotka, Dr Annamaria Carusi, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Christine Madsen, Tim Davies, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Dr Monica Bulger, Grace de la Flor, Dr Tim Webmoor, Dr Claire Warwick, Dr Melissa Terras, Dr Sally Wyatt, Smiljana Antonijevic, Dr Anne Beaulieu
Many humanities scholars are enthusiastic users of digital resources, however there is a potential mismatch between what (and how) resources are offered, and how scholars might use them. How should they be designed to ensure maximum use by scholars?
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Researcher Engagement with Web Archives
Participants: Dr Arthur Thomas, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Christine Madsen, Dr Sally Wyatt, Dr Charles van den Heuval, Dr Meghan Dougherty
This project explores how to bridge the gap between archivists and researchers, and how preserved web content archives might be used by researchers and others to ask meaningful new questions.
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PEACH: Presence Research in Action
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Malte Ziewitz, Professor Eric T. Meyer
Presence research focuses on understanding and controlling the cognitive experience of being somewhere, or someone: we are analysing social impact scenarios to raise and address potential ethical and policy issues relating to Presence technologies.
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eResearch 2020
Participants: Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Kathryn Eccles
Aiming to better understand the organizational, collaborative and technological developments in e-Infrastructures which are effective in supporting virtual research organizations in different fields.
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Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Mike Thelwall, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Christine Madsen, Dr Kathryn Eccles
This project combined quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources and to develop a best practices toolkit that allows assessment of the impact of digitisation projects by researchers and funding bodies.
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The e-Horizons Institute
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Paul Allan David, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Marina Jirotka, Professor Anne Trefethen, Professor Paul Jeffreys, Professor Eric T. Meyer
The e-Horizons Institute researched the coming technological breakthroughs in e-science that will have cross-sector social and economic implications as they are taken up by business, government and other actors.
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TIDSR: Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer
The TIDSR best practices toolkit includes a number of elements to aid researchers and funding bodies to assess the impact of their digitisation projects, including measures that have been judged to be effective measures of impact.
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World Wide Web of Humanities
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Robert Ackland, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Christine Madsen
Establishing a framework for e-Humanities research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.
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Digital Photography and Scientific Practice
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer
This dissertation project examines the intersection between technology and scientific practice for marine mammal scientists who use digital photography.
Featured
- (2019) "The social informatics of knowledge", Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 70 (4) 307-312.
- (2016) "The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research", New Media and Society. 18 (7) 1159-1189.
- (2015) Knowledge Machines Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. MIT Press.
- (2015) "The expert and the machine", Convergence. 21 (3) 306-313.
- (2014) "Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching" In: Social Informatics Past, Present and Future Fichman, P. and Rosenbaum, H. (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 56-72.
- (2012) "Creation and control in the photographic process: Iphones and the emerging fifth moment of photography", Photographies. 5 (2) 203-221.
- (2009) "The world wide web of research and access to knowledge", Knowledge Management Research and Practice. 7 (3) 218-233.
- (2008) "Digital Photography" In: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication St Amant, K. and Kelsey, S. (eds.). Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. 791-803.
Books
- (2015) Knowledge Machines Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. MIT Press.
- (2013) Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge. Oxford University Press.
Chapters
- (2017) "Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities on the web" In: The Web as History Brugger, N. and Schroeder, R. (eds.). London: UCL Press. 23-44.
- (2014) "Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching" In: Social Informatics Past, Present and Future Fichman, P. and Rosenbaum, H. (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 56-72.
- (2010) "Digital resources and the future of libraries: Data webs for image repositories" In: World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. 98-101.
- (2010) "Digital resources and the future of libraries: Digital technology and ancient manuscripts" In: World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. 102-106.
- (2010) "Digital resources and the future of libraries" In: World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. 83-97.
- (2010) "Enabling or mediating the social sciences? The opportunities and risks of bottom-up innovation" In: World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. 165-184.
- (2010) "Enabling or mediating the social sciences? The opportunities and risks of bottom-up innovation: An e-infrastructure for the social sciences" In: World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. 185-187.
- (2010) "Enabling or mediating the social sciences? The opportunities and risks of bottom-up innovation: Chinese e-Social Science: A low- end approach" In: World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. 188-190.
- (2009) "Moving from Small Science to Big Science: Social and Organizational Impediments to Large Scale Data Sharing" In: e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice. Routledge. 147-159.
- (2008) "Framing the Photographs: Digital Photography as a Computerization Movement" In: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing Kraemer, K.L. and Elliot, M.S. (eds.). Medford, NJ, USA: Information Today, Inc.. 173-199.
- (2008) "Digital Photography" In: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication St Amant, K. and Kelsey, S. (eds.). Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global. 791-803.
- (2006) "The digital photography book" In: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication Brotchie, L. (eds.). Peachpit Pr.
- (2006) "Socio-Technical Interaction Networks: A Discussion of the Strengths, Weaknesses and Future of Kling's STIN Model" In: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 223, Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? In Remembrance of Rob Kling Berleur, J., Numinen, M.I. and Impagliazzo, J. (eds.). Boston: Springer. 37-48.
Conference papers
- (2018) "Work that Enables Care: Understanding Tasks, Automation, and the National Health Service", Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceLecture Notes in Computer Science. iConference. Springer Verlag. 10766 LNCS 544-549.
- (2014) "Mapping the UK Webspace: Fifteen Years of British Universities on the Web", CoRR. the 2014 ACM conference, 23 – 26 June 2014. ACM Press. abs/1405.2856 62-70. (Source info: Proceedings of WebSci, 2014)
- (2014) "Web science 2014 chairs' welcome", WebSci 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference.
- (2013) "Social informatics: Now and then", Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Wiley. 50 (1) 1-4.
- (2013) "User involvement in future internet projects", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 7858 LNCS 310-322.
- (2012) "Connecting performance artists with digital audiences: A case study of Scratch Online", Electronic Visualization and the Arts. Chartered Institute for IT.
- (2009) "The future of e-research infrastructures", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science.
- (2009) "Mapping Global e-Research: Scientometrics and Webometrics", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science. the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 22 – 24 June 2009.
- (2009) "Digitisation as e-Research infrastructure: Access to materials and research capabilities in the Humanities", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science. 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24 – 26 June 2009. National Centre for e-Social Science.
- (2008) "The World Wide Web of Research and Access to Knowledge", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, England, 18 – 20 June 2008.
- (2007) "Moving from small science to big science: Social and organizational impediments to large scale data sharing", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science. 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 7 – 9 October 2007.
- (2007) "Genetics of Comorbid Mood Disorder and Alcohol Dependence", Journal of Dual Diagnosis. Informa UK Limited. 3 (2) 31-46.
- (2006) "Separate developmental pathways for single genes associated with alcohol dependence", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS. 141B (7) 691.
- (2006) "Separate developmental pathways for single genes associated with alcohol dependence", ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH. 30 (6) 8A.
- (2005) "Prediction of alcohol problems using a prospective longitudinal design including genotype", NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 30 S211.
- (2005) "Communication Regimes: A Conceptual Framework for Examining IT and Social Change in Organizations", Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Grove, A. (eds.). 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Charlotte, NC, USA, 28 October – 2 November 2005. Association for Information Science and Technology.
- (2005) "Prediction of alcohol problems using a prospective longitudinal design including genotype", ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH. 29 (5) 137A.
- (2004) "Aggregation of multiple clinical disorders in relatives of alcohol dependent probands - Possible relationship to single genes", NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 29 S184.
- (2004) "Genome-wide genetic linkage analysis of the NIMH Genetics Initiative "Wave 4" Bipolar Disorder pedigrees", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS. 130B (1) 11.
- (2004) "Aggregation of multiple clinical disorders in relatives of alcohol dependent probands", ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH. 28 (5) 52A.
- (2001) "Alcohol use and dependence in parents and offspring", American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 105 (7) 628.
- (2001) "A quantitative estimate of genetic vulnerability for a multifactorial condition", American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 105 (7) 565.
- (2001) "Alcoholism and mania: Is there a genetic relationship?", American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 105 (7) 567.
- (2000) "Information Inequality and UCITA", 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Kraft, D.H. (eds.). 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), Chicago, IL, USA, 11 – 16 November 2000. Association for Information Science and Technology. 37 159-165.
- (2000) "Family studies of co-occurring bipolar disorder and substance abuse", American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 96 (4) 505-506.
- (2000) "A quantitative estimate of individual genetic vulnerability for a multifactorial condition: Application to bipolar illness", American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 96 (4) 487.
- (2000) "The Research Divide: Internet Commons, Scholarly Participation and Pre-print Servers", Proceedings of Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Conference of the Intl Assoc for the Study of Common Property. IASCP (International Association for the Study of Common Property), Bloomington, Indiana, 31 May – 4 June 2000. International Association for the Study of the Commons.
- (1999) "The relationship between alcoholism and depression: A molecular analysis.", MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY. 4 S6.
- (1999) "New analyses of the NIMH bipolar dataset", MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY. 4 S19.
Journal articles
- (2019) "The Future of Health Care: Protocol for Measuring the Potential of Task Automation Grounded in the National Health Service Primary Care System", Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (4) e11232.
- (2019) "The social informatics of knowledge", Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 70 (4) 307-312.
- (2018) "Big Data for Policymaking: Great Expectations, but with Limited Progress?", Policy and Internet. 10 (3) 347-367.
- (2017) "Understanding Human-Machine Networks: A Cross-Disciplinary Survey", ACM Computing Surveys. 50 (1) 12:1-12:35.
- (2017) "Data for Public Policy", Policy and Internet. 9 (1) 4-6.
- (2016) "The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research", New Media and Society. 18 (7) 1159-1189.
- (2016) "Social informatics of data norms", Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 53 (1) 1-4.
- (2016) "Human-Machine Networks: Towards a Typology and Profiling Framework.", CoRRLecture Notes in Computer Science. abs/1602.07199 11-22.
- (2015) "The expert and the machine", Convergence. 21 (3) 306-313.
- (2014) "Big Data and Positive Change in the Developing World", Policy & Internet. 6 (4) 418-444.
- (2014) "Community, tools, and practices in web archiving: The state-of-the-art in relation to social science and humanities research needs", Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65 (11) 2195-2209.
- (2014) "Emerging practices and perspectives on Big Data analysis in economics: Bigger and better or more of the same?", Big Data & Society. 1 (2) 1-10.
- (2013) "The Emerging Governance of E-Infrastructure", Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 18 (2) 1-24.
- (2012) "Creation and control in the photographic process: Iphones and the emerging fifth moment of photography", Photographies. 5 (2) 203-221.
- (2012) "Measuring the web impact of digitised scholarly resources", Journal of Documentation. 68 (4) 512-526.
- (2012) Key Issues for Digital Research: A Social Science Perspective on Policy and Practice.
- (2012) "Cross-disciplinary lessons for the future internet", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 7281 LNCS 42-54.
- (2012) "Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual: Crossmodal Practices in Medieval Musicology", INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS. 37 (1) 69-85.
- (2012) "Discipline matters: Technology use in the humanities", Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. 11 (1-2) 76-92.
- (2011) Collaborative Yet Independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences.
- (2011) "Researchers' information uses in a digital world: The big picture", Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting. 48 (1) 1-3.
- (2011) "Web Archives: The Future(s)", SSRN Electronic Journal.
- (2011) Splashes and Ripples: Synthesizing the Evidence on the Impacts of Digital Resources.
- (2011) "An approach to investigating socio-economic tussles arising from building the future internet", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 6656 145-159.
- (2011) "Genetic association of bipolar disorder with the β
3 nicotinic receptor subunit gene", Psychiatric Genetics. 21 (2) 77-84. - (2011) Reinventing Research? Information Practices in the Humanities.
- (2010) "An investigation of candidate regions for association with bipolar disorder", American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 153B (7) 1292-1297.
- (2010) Researcher Engagement with Web Archives: State of the Art.
- (2010) Researcher Engagement with Web Archives: Challenges and Opportunities for Investment.
- (2009) "Genome-Wide Linkage and Follow-Up Association Study of Postpartum Mood Symptoms", American Journal of Psychiatry. 166 (11) 1229-1237.
- (2009) "Family-based association ofYWHAHin psychotic bipolar disorder", American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 150B (7) 977-983.
- (2009) "Experience with New Tools and Infrastructures of Research: An Exploratory Study of Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e-Research", Prometheus. 27 (3) 223-238.
- (2009) "Top-Down e-Infrastructure Meets Bottom-Up Research Innovation: The Social Shaping of e-Research", Prometheus. 27 (3) 239-250.
- (2009) "Untangling the web of e-Research: Towards a sociology of online knowledge", Journal of Informetrics. 3 (3) 246-260.
- (2009) "Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Presence Research and Applications", Peach FP6 Coordination Action. (33909).
- (2009) "Sifting Through the Online Web of Knowledge", SSRN.
- (2009) "Family-based association of FKBP5 in bipolar disorder", Molecular Psychiatry. 14 (3) 261-268.
- (2009) "Premenstrual mood symptoms: study of familiality and personality correlates in mood disorder pedigrees", Archives of Women's Mental Health. 12 (1) 27-34.
- (2009) "The world wide web of research and access to knowledge", Knowledge Management Research and Practice. 7 (3) 218-233.
- (2008) "Evidence of association between brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and bipolar disorder", Psychiatric Genetics. 18 (6) 267-274.
- (2008) "Gauging the Impact of e-Research in the Social Sciences", SSRN Electronic Journal.
- (2007) "Technological Change and the Form of Science Research Teams: Dealing with the Digitals", Prometheus. 25 (4) 345-361.
- (2006) "Patterns of Regional Brain Activity in Alcohol-Dependent Subjects", Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 30 (12) 1986-1991.
- (2005) How Photobloggers are Framing a New Computerization Movement.
- (2004) "A Family Study of Alcohol Dependence", Archives of General Psychiatry. 61 (12) 1246.
- (2003) "Genome-wide scan and conditional analysis in bipolar disorder: evidence for genomic interaction in the National Institute of Mental Health genetics initiative bipolar pedigrees", Biological Psychiatry. 54 (11) 1265-1273.
- (2003) "Genomewide Linkage Analyses of Bipolar Disorder: A New Sample of 250 Pedigrees from the National Institute of Mental Health Genetics Initiative", The American Journal of Human Genetics. 73 (1) 107-114.
- (2002) "Is there a genetic relationship between alcoholism and depression?", Alcohol Research and Health. 26 (3) 233-240.
- (2001) "Evidence for a Locus on Chromosome 1 That Influences Vulnerability to Alcoholism and Affective Disorder", American Journal of Psychiatry. 158 (5) 718-724.
- (2000) "Information inequality: UCITA, public policy and information access", Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting. 37 159-165.
- (1987) "Burning Question", Science News. 132 (22) 350.
Reports
- (2016) "The Impacts of Digital Collections: Early English Books Online & House of Commons Parliamentary Papers" In: The Impacts of Digital Collections: Early English Books Online & House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.
- (2015) Big Data for Advancing Dementia Research. Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
- (2015) "Big data for advancing dementia research: An evaluation of data sharing practices in research on age-related neurodegenerative diseases" In: OECD Digital Economy Papers. Paris: OECD Publishing.
- (2014) Bottling Inspiration: Shoot Smart Swindon Final Project Report.
- (2013) Digitally Scratching New Theatre: London's Battersea Arts Centre Engaging via the Web.
- (2013) Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition: Report on the TIDSR Benchmarking Study. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
- (2012) Final Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D3.2, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2011) Collaborative yet independent: Information practices in the physical sciences. Research Information Network (RIN) Report Series..
- (2011) Web Archives: The Future(s). Report for the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).
- (2011) Splashes and Ripples: Synthesizing the Evidence on the Impacts of Digital Resources. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Report.
- (2011) Initial SESERV Survey Results, Challenge 1 Projects: Socio-Economic Priorities. Report for the SESERV project..
- (2011) Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities. A report of the Research Information Network (RIN), April 2011..
- (2011) First Year Report on Scientific Workshop. SESERV Deliverable D1.2, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2011) First Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D3.1, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2010) Researcher Engagement with Web Archives: Challenges and Opportunities for Investment. Joint Information Systems Committee Report.
- (2010) "Creation and Distributed Innovation" In: Final Report on the Social Impact of ICTs in Europe to the European Commission, SMART No2007/0068. Brussels.
- (2010) "Consumption, including media and entertainment" In: Final Report on the Social Impact of ICTs in Europe to the European Commission, SMART No2007/0068. Brussels.
- (2010) The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Creation of Global Virtual Research Communities. Final Report for the eResearch2020 project.
- (2010) Researcher Engagement with Web Archives: State of the Art. Final Report for the JISC-funded project 'Researcher Engagement with Web Archives'.
- (2009) "Final Report to JISC on the Usage and Impact Study of JISC-funded Phase 1 Digitisation Projects and the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR)" In: Final Report, 20 July 2009 Usage and Impact Study of JISC‐funded Phase 1 Digitisation Projects & the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR). Oxford Internet Institute.
- (2009) "World Wide Web of Humanities. Final Project Report to JISC" In: World Wide Web of Humanities Final Report. Oxford Internet Institute.
- (2009) "Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Presence Research and Applications. EC Report for Peach FP6 Coordination Action" In: Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Presence Research and Applications. European Commission.
- (2009) "An emerging global brain: How the Internet is revolutionising scientific research" In: Britain in 2009. Economic and Social Research Council Annual Magazine. Economic and Social Research Council.
- (2008) e-Research Crosses the Pond: Contrasting transformations in the U.S. and U.K. Chair and participant on panel at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, OH, 24-29 October 2009..
- "Big Data and Positive Social Change in the Developing World" In: Big data and positive social change in the developing world: A white paper for practitioners and researchers. Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute.
Other
- (2010) "Review of ‘Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity’ by Martin Hand", Information, Communication and Society. Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles. 13 (7) 1061-1063.
Teaching
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Big Data in Society
This course critically examines the unprecedented opportunities and serious challenges inherent in big data approaches to advancing knowledge.
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Digital Ethnography
This course provides an overview of the ethnographic tradition and explores the new opportunities and challenges the Internet has presented for those interested in carrying out ethnography.
Videos
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Impact of automation on employment and healthcare
Recorded: 3 March 2017
Duration: 00:57:56
Keynote by Professor Eric Meyer at the Nuffield Trusts' Health Policy Summit 2017, 2 - 3 March 2017.
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Memory Institutions as Knowledge Machines
Recorded: 22 November 2016
Duration: 00:57:19
Keynote by Professor Eric Meyer at the National Digital Forum Conference, 21 - 23 November 2016 in New Zealand.
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Qualitative Data Analysis: OII MSc Methods Option Course
Recorded: 13 October 2016
Duration: 00:03:31
This methods option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to carry out qualitative data analysis of a variety of kinds of data.
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
Recorded: 27 January 2016
Duration: 00:37:13
How have digital technologies changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities?
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Applying for the OII’s Part-Time MSc in Social Science of the Internet
Recorded: 23 November 2015
Duration: 00:21:48
OII Director of Graduate Studies, Eric Meyer, discusses the part-time MSc degree, explains how the timetable works, and answers commonly asked questions.
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Metrics, Measurement, and Online Visibility: OII MSc Methods Option Course
Recorded: 10 July 2015
Duration: 00:04:13
This methods option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" is designed to give students experience analysing data both from traditional and alternative sources.
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Digital Ethnography: OII MSc Methods Option Course
Recorded: 30 June 2015
Duration: 00:02:35
This methods option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" is designed to give students experience both collecting and analysing qualitative data as part of ethnographic research.
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Big Data in Society: OII MSc Option Course
Recorded: 1 June 2015
Duration: 00:05:05
This option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" moves beyond the hype to critically examine the unprecedented opportunities and serious challenges inherent in big data approaches to advancing knowledge.
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Leveraging Social Science Tools to Understand the Digital Humanities
Recorded: 7 February 2013
Duration: 00:13:46
Eric Meyer speaks about how technology is transforming access to and dissemination of knowledge, as part of a series organised by the Cultural Heritage Programme, University of Oxford.
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Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources
Recorded: 1 October 2012
Duration: 00:05:21
Eric Meyer discusses a best practices toolkit, the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR), developed at the OII to assess the impact of digitisation projects.
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Digital Methods: Interview with Eric Meyer
Recorded: 9 July 2012
Duration: 00:03:17
Eric Meyer discusses his talk "From e-Science to Big Data and Beyond: how technological innovations are shaped by disciplines to transform research" at the first Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology seminar (University of the West of England).
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Impact and Embedding of Digitised Resources
Recorded: 20 May 2011
Duration: 01:26:35
Eric Meyer presents a summary and synthesis of JISC-funded work to measure the impact of their digitised resources and develop case studies for embedding them in teaching and research.
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Tools for Measuring the Impact of Digitised Resources
Recorded: 20 May 2011
Duration: 00:40:03
Eric Meyer and Kathryn Eccles present the "Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources" and discuss methods for analysing online impact.
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The Impact of Digital Content (Roundtable Discussion)
Recorded: 20 May 2011
Duration: 00:38:33
A panel session to facilitate discussion about the future of digital content, the role that measuring impact will play, and how the value of digital content can be demonstrated.
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Scholarship in the Digital Age
Recorded: 15 November 2010
Duration: 00:03:37
Eric Meyer discusses the main themes of his lecture in the OII's "Society and the Internet" lecture series: how does the Internet transform knowledge production? Does it enable new research questions to be asked?
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Toolkits for e-Humanities: Project Workshop
Recorded: 19 March 2009
Duration: 01:11:16
Presenting the results of the Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study project, which combines quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources.
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The World Wide Web of Humanities: Project Workshop
Recorded: 19 March 2009
Duration: 00:52:00
Results of a project that aims to establish a framework for e-Humanities research using open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.
News
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Art Market 2.0: New report outlines future equitable art market powered by blockchain technologies
22 May 2018
Launched today in the House of Commons by DACS, a new, ground-breaking report conducted by academics at the Oxford Internet Institute and The Alan Turing Institute envisions a future Fair Art Market model and financialisation of visual arts powered by the
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OII’s Eric Meyer appointed Dean of UT Austin’s School of Information
16 May 2018
The University of Texas at Austin has named Oxford Internet Institute’s Professor Eric Meyer the next dean of its School of Information. His appointment will begin on August 1st.
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What impact are your resources making?
20 May 2011
Eric Meyer's JISC report on "research impact" recommends using a variety of qualitative and quantitative measures to understand the types of impacts resources have on research, teaching, learning, and for the wider public.
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Successful transatlantic digitisation projects announced
26 March 2008
This project will create and assemble a suite of open source tools for data collection and curation, to support new methodologies for Internet research built around large collections of web data, using automated tools to extract, index, and analyze data
Events
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Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
1 June 2016
Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Online, Virtual and other Digitally-mediated Environments: Ethnography, Methodology and Research Themes (Part 4)
13 June 2013
This is part he final part of four seminars on qualitative approaches to exploring the social, cultural and social scientific dimensions of research related to online, virtual and other digitally-mediated evironments.
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Big Data: Rewards and Risks for the Social Sciences
Thursday 21 - Friday 22 March 2013
This workshop is targeted at those who are working at the coal face of big data in the social sciences.
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Choosing the Next Experiment: Tradition, Innovation, and Efficiency in the Selection of Scientific Ideas (Innovation and Digital Scholarship Lecture Series)
21 March 2013
Summary to follow.
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Qualitative and ethnographic research methods in online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments (Part 2)
8 March 2013
This is part two of two seminars on qualitative and ethnographic reasearch methods in online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments.
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Qualitative and ethnographic research methods in online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments (Part 1)
22 February 2013
This is part one of two seminars on qualitative and ethnographic reasearch methods in online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments.
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Towards a Sociology of Data
11 January 2013
This workshop is intended for researchers interested in questions regarding social science data.
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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Online, Virtual and other Digitally-mediated Environments: Ethnography, Methodology and Research Themes (Part 3)
12 November 2012
This is the final part of three seminars on qualitative approaches to exploring the social, cultural and social scientific dimensions of research related to online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments.
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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Online, Virtual and other Digitally-mediated Environments: Ethnography, Methodology and Research Themes (Part 2)
29 October 2012
This is part two of three seminars on qualitative approaches to exploring the social, cultural and social scientific dimensions of research related to online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments.
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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Online, Virtual and other Digitally-mediated Environments: Ethnography, Methodology and Research Themes (Part 1)
15 October 2012
This is part one of three seminars on qualitative approaches to exploring the social, cultural and social scientific dimensions of research related to online, virtual and other digitally-mediated environments.
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Digital Social Research: A Forum for Policy and Practice
13 March 2012
This one-day policy forum will bring together leading academics in the rapidly evolving field of Digital Social Research with key thought leaders from business, industry and government interested in the future of research policy and practice.
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Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights
12 March 2012
Technical innovations are enabling scholars to reconfigure how they do their work across all phases of the research process, from discovery to dissemination. What are the implications of this for the foci, quality and significance of research?
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New Threads in the Global Web of Knowledge (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 14)
21 February 2012
The Internet has fundamentally changed how research is done. This talk explores the impact these changes have on the role of academic knowledge in society, and on how the public engages with this knowledge.
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Report Launch: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences
25 January 2012
The Research Information Network, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society invite you to attend the launch of their report "Information Practices in the Physical Sciences" at the Institute of Physics.
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An Introduction to Online Ethnography (Doctoral Research Methods Workshop Series, Part 2)
24 November 2011
This is the second workshop in a three-part series on social science research methods, aimed at doctoral students at the University of Oxford.
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The Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices
28 June 2011
This workshop will discuss how technology developments are encountering socio-economic realities. Particular attention will be given to approaches that facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange.
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Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content
20 May 2011
This workshop calls researchers, librarians, funding representatives and others interested in understanding the impact of distributing materials online.
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Reinventing Research? Information Practices in the Humanities
7 April 2011
The Research Information Network (RIN) and British Library invites researchers, librarians and other interested parties to discuss the findings of the report: Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities.
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Undergraduate Lecture Series (M6): Scholarship in the Digital Age
15 November 2010
Knowledge and scholarship are changing in the digital age, and many research challenges require ever larger datasets and greater distributed collaboration. How does this transform knowledge production? Does it enable new research questions to be asked?
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Book Launch: ‘World Wide Research’
22 September 2010
This event marks the publication of 'World Wide Research' by MIT Press, with a keynote on directions in digital social research and a panel discussion on the role of advanced Internet and Web technologies for research practices across disciplines
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Digital History Workshop: Digital Resources for History and Historians
3 September 2009
A workshop aiming to introduce researchers to key digital history resources, to showcase the research arising from these new resources, and to raise and discuss issues surrounding the use of digital resources for research and teaching.
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e-History Doctoral Workshop
Thursday 03 - Friday 04 September 2009
A workshop for history doctoral students who are interested in using the Internet for research, covering identification of digital resources for history, operationalizing research questions using digital resources, and digital resource best practice.
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Humanities on the Web: Is it working?
19 March 2009
The web now contains the results of many initiatives to digitise resources for the humanities but how successful are these initiatives and how much information has now been archived online?
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Information and Web Science Doctoral Workshop
18 March 2009
A workshop aimed at doctoral students in the areas of information science, library science, web science, Internet studies, or related disciplines who are working on topics related to the Internet and other networked technologies.
Blog
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More project case studies available
19 April 2016
Author: Eric Meyer
We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case ...
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IHR workshop on web archiving
12 November 2015
Author: Eric Meyer
On 11 November the IHR held a workshop, ‘An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians‘, for which we welcomed back two old friends from ...
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Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015
6 October 2015
Author: Eric Meyer
The term card for the Michaelmas OxDEG Digital Ethnography sessions is out. We look forward to seeing you there! Click the image to download ...
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Project case studies now available
9 July 2015
Author: Eric Meyer
We are delighted that we can now make available five of the case studies written by researchers across the humanities and social sciences. More ...
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Web archives as big data
27 January 2015
Author: Eric Meyer
Peter Webster, a member of the project team, here reflects on the conference we held at the IHR on 3 December. Peter writes: In ...
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Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram
30 October 2014
Author: Eric Meyer
This is a cross-posting of an item that our colleague Josh Cowls has just written for his own blog. Thanks to Josh for permission ...
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Search results for historical material
22 October 2014
Author: Eric Meyer
This is a guest post by Jaspreet Singh, a researcher at the L3S Research Center in Hanover. Jaspreet writes: When people use a commercial ...
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Project progress, an update
15 October 2014
Author: Eric Meyer
Josh Cowls reflects on recent developments and our goals towards the end of the project: We are already well past the half-way mark ...
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Web archives at the British Library
2 July 2014
Author: Eric Meyer
This is a post by one of the project team from the British Library. Peter Webster is Web Archiving Engagement and Liaison Manager. Peter ...
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Recreational bugs: the limits of representing the past through web archives
20 June 2014
Author: Eric Meyer
This is a post from team member Josh Cowls, cross-posted from his blog. Josh is also on Twitter: @JoshCowls. I am in Aarhus this ...
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How big is the UK web?
19 June 2014
Author: Eric Meyer
The British Library is about to embark on its annual task of archiving the entire UK web space. We will be pushing the button, ...
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Press
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On the blockchain, anyone can be an art dealer
10 January 2019 Wired
Digital trading means that more and more people can buy and sell artworks
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Online tools are ‘distraction’ for science
25 January 2012 Physics World
Eric Mayer and Monica Bulger are authors of a new report by RIN looking at information practices in the physical sciences. They find that physical scientists "are still fairly conservative when it comes to adopting new communications technologies".
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Managing research information: one size does not fit all
25 January 2012 Physorg.com
Eric Mayer and Monica Bulger are authors of a new report by RIN looking at information practices in the physical sciences, and highlighting the richly varied ways in which physical scientists work, collaborate and share information.
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Memory failure detected
1 September 2011 Times Higher Education
How can the vast material on the web be stored and archived for the benefit of researchers in the future? Eric Meyer talks about the challenge of a 'preservation mindset' which doesn't consider properly how websites will be used in the future.
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Leader: Remember this – but not that
1 September 2011 Times Higher Education
The THE leader column discusses the privacy and legal conflicts in preserving information on the web, quoting both Eric Meyer's work on web archiving and the work of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on the right to delete information.
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Who, what, where? Magnum is hoping the modern crowd will help them identify a historic archive
5 August 2011 The Independent
Eric Meyer says that crowd-sourcing projects like Galaxy Zoo call on the need people feel to be contribute and belong to something bigger than themselves.
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Best bits: breaching the digital divide – how could HE better use the internet?
2 August 2011 The Guardian
"HEIs need to do more to foster a culture of innovation": Eric Meyer contributes to The Guardian's live chat on using the Internet and digital technologies in Higher Education.
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Breaching the digital divide: How could HE better use the internet?
1 June 2011 The Guardian
Eric Meyer contributes to The Guardian's live chat on using the Internet and digital technologies in Higher Education.