The Future and the Digital Humanities

This was a talk I gave at the University of Sussex on 20 November 2013. Parts of it are now…

Are We Doomed to a World of PDFs?

This is a contribution to a panel on ‘Speculative Futures’ in the Ecologies of Publishing Futures symposium organised by the Royal College of Art on 23 November 2015. I try to express my hopes for the future of publishing, although I’m doubtful whether it will ever…

Why Infrastructure?

Text of my intervention in the ‘Interrogating Infrastructure’ workshop organised by the King’s Digital Lab and the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

My name is Andrew Prescott. I’m from the University of Glasgow and I am also the Theme Leader…

Robin Alston’s Library History Database

I was sad to learn in July this year of the death of my old friend and mentor from British Library days, Robin Alston. Robin’s achievements as a bibliographer were innumerable and fundamental to our present digital environment. In particular, I would single…

Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities

Help Save the British Records Association!

One of the distinctive features of many London squares and terraces are the black…