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Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King's College London. He founded and directed the
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(later Department of Digital Humanities) until his retirement (2010). He was involved in the development with
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of the world's first PhD programme in Digital Humanities (2005), and three MA programmes:
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, Digital Culture and Society, and
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.


Education & Career

Harold Short arrived in London in 1972 from the former
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(now Zimbabwe), he took an
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degree in mathematics, computing and systems, and completed a
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, he worked at the
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as programmer, systems analyst and then systems manager. In 1988 he moved to
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to take up the post of Assistant Director in Computing Services for Humanities and Information Management.; he founded and directed the
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(from 2011 Department of Digital Humanities) until retirement in 2010. He is a former Chair of the
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(EADH) and the
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(ADHO) and is a general editor of the Routledge series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities. The biennial Wisbey Lecture was initiated by Harold Short in 2003 to honour the pioneering work of
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in the field of humanities computing. He was a technical director for the
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database and associated website that aims to construct a prosopography of individuals within Anglo-Saxon England The PASE online database
(PASE) database and website, a research tool about people that lived in
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. he also supervised the Technical research of the
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. During 2011 to 2015 he was a visiting professor at
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, where he was involved in establishing the Digital Humanities Research Group, which hosted the 2015 Digital Humanities conference. Since 2016 he is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at
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in Sydney, where he is co-director of the Julfa Cemetery Digital Repatriation Project.


Publications

* Bradley, John; Short, Harold; (2005) "Texts into databases: the evolving field of new-style prosopography", Literary and linguistic computing, 20 Suppl 1, 3-24. * A Road map for Humanities Computing, Willard McCarty and Harold Short (2002 - report)


See also

Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database and associated website that aims to construct a prosopography of individuals within Anglo-Saxon England The PASE online database


References

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