Join us for a digital scholarship coffee gathering - tea and coffee will be provided. At this session we will have a short talk from Yannik Herbert:
Building an app to navigate 19th century Britain
What would it look like if modern navigation apps had existed 200 years ago? This talk explores the process of digitising historical itineraries and travellers' guides into modern transit data standards, and writing software for visualising these historical networks and understanding historical mobility by bringing 19th century stage-coaches to life.
Yannik Herbert is a software engineer and historian specialising in transport and navigation technology. He was a senior engineer at Citymapper, designing a journey planning engine used by tens of millions of users, and is now a lead engineer at uTrack, designing the control software that keeps many of the UK's buses running smoothly. He's a final-year DPhil student at Corpus Christi College, where he's used his professional background to inform his approach as a historian. His thesis is about digitising historical transport networks and the insights we can gain from digitised representations of stage-coaches and railways.
These will be held in the Visiting Scholars Centre, so to attend you’ll need to bring your Bodleian Card and to leave your bags in the lockers - this event is only open to University staff and students.
If you'd like to get an email reminder of these coffee mornings please sign up for that here: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/digital-scholarship-coffee...
