Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at St Anne’s College and Academic Director of Digital Scholarship at Oxford. He has experimented intensively with digital methods in since 2009, directing the project Culture of Knowledge: Networking the Republic of Letters, 1550 – 1750 which produced Early Modern Letters Online; chairing the COST Action Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age; and co-directing Cabinet, a digital platform for assembling highly visual and interactive multimedia teaching materials.