Dominic Oldman
Director at Kartography CIC
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDominic Oldman is a director and historian-technologist with nearly three decades of experience designing and leading information systems for cultural heritage institutions, most notably as head of Information Systems at the British Museum and principal investigator of the Mellon-funded ResearchSpace project. He specialises in applying knowledge representation and AI-informed methods to reconcile quantitative and qualitative historical inquiry, building platforms that preserve institutional perspectives while enriching and harmonising heritage datasets. Currently a PhD researcher at Oxford and director of Kartography CIC, he bridges archival scholarship and practical software development to improve how historians use computation. Trained in law and digital humanities, Dominic combines rigorous historical methodology with hands-on systems leadership—a background that helps him translate complex scholarly concerns into interoperable, community-driven research tools.
10 years of coding experience
Solicitor, Solicitor at College of Law, Lancaster Gate (Solicitor)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of OxfordMaster's degree, Master's degree at King's College London, U. of LondonLLB Hons, LLB Hons at South Bank
English
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Github Skills (20)
docker8
viewer7
openseadragon7
thumbnails6
rotate5
iiif5
annotations5
javascript4
image-server4
pan4
vaapi3
image3
mirador3
java3
thesaurus2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kartography/website
Jun 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:245 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
researchspace/website
Jan 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:522 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 4 months
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