Daniel Burt

Daniel Burt
ICT Officer & Research Software Developer

Postal Address: The Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford, OX1 2LG

College: Wolfson College

Email: daniel.burt@ames.ox.ac.uk

 

Areas of expertise:

  • Apple Macintosh Hardware and Software Engineer
  • Database development - Data architecture, analysis, retrieval, and processing
  • Website design, development, and support

Research Interests

  • Digitisation of manuscripts and creation of research databases to work with historic materials
  • Tagging of manuscript contents to create research tools and outputs
  • Digital humanities
  • Medieval medicine in the Islamic world
  • Board game design
  • The use of board games as vehicles for engaging the public with academic research

Research Projects

  • 2005 - 2008: Book of Curiosities Project (Heritage Lottery Fund)
  • 2009 - 2011: Ancient Arabia: Languages & Cultures (John Fell Fund)
  • 2013 - 2017: OCIANA Project (AHRC)
  • 2013 - 2017: Dirhams for Slaves Project (AHRC)
  • 2013 - 2018: Literary History of Medicine Project (Wellcome Trust)
  • 2016 - 2017: Board Games and Medieval Medicine (Wellcome Trust)
  • 2017 - 2018: Mind-Boggling Medical Histories (AHRC)
  • 2016 - 2023: Documult Project (ERC)

Digital Humanities Projects

Museum Projects

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching database development for research for staff and students
  • Teaching of KRC MPhil Portfolio classes on Presentation Skills
  • Mentor for the inaugural Zenobia Award

Publications

  • With Michael C.A. Macdonald and Ahmad Al-Jallad - The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia in Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline, edited by Annamaria De Santis and Irene Rossi

Published Research Data:

Presentations:

  • October 2011 - The Safaitic Database Online for the 21st Century at Methods of Digital Philology for the Study of Early and Classical Arabic Language, Berlin
  • April 2013 - Brave New Worlds - Transforming Museum Ethnography through Technology, Museum Ethnographers Group Annual Conference, University of Brighton
  • June 2013 - Reel 2 Real: Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Extended Show&Tell, The British Library, London
  • November 2013 - Practical Examples of a DAM Implementation, Collections Trust DAM for Museums Conference, QE2 Conference Centre, London
  • August 2015 - The Online Corpus of Inscriptions from Ancient North Arabia, Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, St Anne’s College, Oxford
  • July 2016 - Board Games and Medieval Medicine, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
  • October 2016 - Science & Medicine in Early Islam, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
  • June 2017 - Dicing with Death: Board Games & Medieval Medicine, The Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science
  • September 2017 - European Researchers’ Night: Curiosity Carnival, Broad Street, Oxford
  • October 2017 - The House of Wisdom, Oxford Science Festival, Cheney School, Oxford
  • October 2018 - Mind Boggling Medical Histories, Royal College of Nursing, London
  • November 2018 - Diseases of Modern Life: Victorian Light Night, Being Human Festival at the Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford
  • November 2019 - GLAM Engaged Research Showcase, The Weston Library, Oxford
  • December 2020 - Board Games and Medieval Medicine, The History of Science Museum, Oxford
  • April 2023 - Playing in the Islamic World: Games and Toys in Archaeological Contexts, Hajar Group Meeting, Online

Pre-press Assistance

  • Nicholas J Allen - Arjuna–Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic (Routledge), 2020
  • James W Benson (ed) - Visamapadavyakhya: A Commentary on Bhattoji Diksita's Sabdakaustubha Attributed to Nagesabhatta (American Oriental Series), 2015
  • Alan Glanville - Multiple Choice Questions for Economics (Glanville Books), 2001
  • Alan Glanville - Data Response Questions for Economics: With Answers (Glanville Books), 2002
  • James McMullen - The Worship of Confucius in Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs), 2019
  • Henrietta Sharp Cockrell (ed) - Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians (Oxford World's Classics), 2020