Jane Winters Explained

Jane Frances Winters FRHistS is Professor of digital humanities and director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub (DHRH) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.^{[1] [2]}

Life and career

Jane Winters was born in 1970. She trained as a medieval historian and completed her PhD at King's College London in 1999. Her doctoral thesis, The Forest Eyre, 1154-1368, was directed by David Carpenter.^[3]

Winters is a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Historical Society. She is a member of the Academic Steering and Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities.^{[4] [5] [6]} She is a member of the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Committee.^[7] In December 2023 she was elected as the sixth Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition.^[8]

Selected publications

• 'Negotiating the archives of UK web space', The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the Case of National Web Domains, ed. Niels Brügger and Ditte Laursen (London: Routledge, 2019)
• ‘Web archives and (digital) history: a troubled past and a promising future?’, in The SAGE Handbook of Web History, ed. Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (SAGE Publications Ltd., 2019)
• 'Digital history’, in Debating New Approaches to History, ed. Marek Tamm and Peter Burke (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018)
• ‘What does an author want from a publisher?’, Learned Publishing, 31 (4) (September 2018), pp. 318-22
• Tackling complexity in humanities big data: from parliamentary proceedings to the archived web, in Big and Rich Data in English Corpus Linguistics: Methods and Variations, ed. Turo Hiltunen, Joe McVeigh and Tanja Säily (Helsinki: Varieng, 2017)
• 'Breaking in to the mainstream: demonstrating the value of internet (and web) histories', Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society, Volume 1, 2017, Issue 1-2
• ‘Will history survive the digital age?’, BBC History Magazine (March 2017), pp. 39-43
• The Creighton century, 1907-2007. Institute of Historical Research, London, 2009. (ed. with David Bates and Jennifer Wallis)
• Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities. London, 2006. (co-authored report)
• Teachers of history in the universities of the UK and the Republic of Ireland (published annually) (joint compiler)
• Historical research for higher degrees in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (published annually) (joint compiler)
• "The British history online digital library: A model for sustainability?", Bulletin, 176 (2010), 95–106. (with Jonathan Blaney)

See also

• British History Online

External links

• http://blog.history.ac.uk/author/winterconference/

Notes and References

1. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/school-of-advanced-study-reaffirms-commitment-to-digital-research/2017758.article School of Advanced Study reaffirms commitment to digital research.
2. Web site: Professor Jane Winters University of London . 2024-08-11 . research.london.ac.uk.
3. The forest eyre, 1154-1368. Winters. Jane Frances. 1999. King's College London.
4. http://royalhistsoc.org/about/council-members/ Council members.
5. Web site: Professor Jane Winters School of Advanced Study. research.sas.ac.uk. en. 2019-05-30.
6. https://olh.openlibhums.org/about/editorialteam/ Editorial team.
7. Web site: Professor Winters joins UNESCO's UK Memory of the World Committee. 2017-07-05. School of Advanced Study. en. 2019-05-30.
8. Web site: The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes Jane Winters as New Chair of the DPC Board . Digital Preservation Coalition . DPC . 6 December 2023.