Peter Webster

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Founder and principal consultant of Webster Research and Consulting, helping make better digital services for research.

Head of Digital Scholarship and Innovation, University of Southampton Library. (But these are my own views, naturally).

Digital archives, digital scholarship, publishing, policy.

(Also an historian of contemporary British Christianity: toots at @peterwebster )

#digitalHumanities #digitalHistory #OpenAccess #digitalArchives #webArchives #webHistory

Research websitehttps://peterwebster.me/about
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5181-4475
Webster Research and Consultinghttps://websterresearchconsulting.com/
Peter WebsterJan 20

If you're free on Monday, I'll be giving an online talk:

"The edited collection as community: explorations in the history of a discipline"

6pm CET, hosted on Zoom by colleagues in Germany. QR code in the image, and/or Meeting ID.

Peter WebsterAug 13, 2024
Library folks, particularly from the UK: here's quite a thing. A *new* public library, where there never was a library before. Imagine that in the UK right now.
This is in rural Ireland.
Peter WebsterFeb 5, 2024

But in all other regards they are carefree to the point of recklessness.

#CapitalisationMatters

Peter WebsterSep 29, 2023
Excuse the retrospective brag, but I had cause today to look back at some of my web archive work, specifically these volumes to which I contributed, between 2017 and 2021. Looked at together, they look like a new subject being formed: web history. If he were on here, I'd be congratulating Niels Brugger, who was instrumental in bringing four of the five together.
Show threadPeter WebsterDec 21, 2022
Oof
Peter WebsterDec 21, 2022
Today's reading, a set of very acute pen portraits. In between all the politicians: Austin Farrer, Herbert McCabe, Henry Chadwick, Christopher Hill, John (cardinal) Heenan, and Iris Murdoch.
Peter WebsterDec 20, 2022
With all that's going on right now, this seems appropriate.
Peter WebsterDec 9, 2022

Leslie Houlden, Anglican priest and scholar, passed away earlier this week. He was an Oxford chaplain, theological college principal and then scholar and teacher at King's College London.

He was also one of the most prolific contributors to collections of essays that I have so far tracked down. Here's a chart of those volumes, showing those authors alongside whose essays his work most often appeared.

I shall write something about it next week.

Peter WebsterNov 19, 2022
Well, good morning Exeter
Show threadPeter WebsterNov 10, 2022

And here's a visualisation of theology published in edited collections in England, 1975-99 (from the data I have so far), showing the most frequent authors.
A central, broadly liberal core, with the biblical scholars off to the right, and conservatives - both catholic and evangelical - to the top and left.

I have still more data to add, but this is 1,300 chapters from about 900 unique authors.