Mark Hall
Summary
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SeniorMark Hall is a Lecturer in Computing & Communications at The Open University with a decade of experience bridging academic research and practical software development in Interactive Information Retrieval, Digital Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities. His career spans roles from web developer at The National Archives to junior professor of eHumanities and HCI lecturer positions across European universities, reflecting a strong mix of teaching, research and hands-on system building. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with strengths in computational linguistics and GIS, and has a track record of turning research into deployed tools for georeferencing and information visualisation. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to user-centred evaluation and his ability to connect heritage datasets with interactive, map-based access—an often overlooked blend of domain knowledge and engineering craft.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (126)
javascript-game9
mqtt9
python9
aviation9
flight-simulation9
jupyterlab9
raspberry-pi9
jupyter9
json-api9
iot9
home-automation8
traffic8
cython8
simulator8
cockpit8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
simple-digital-edition/tei-editor
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
A graphical editor for TEI documents
Contributions:27 commits, 40 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 10 months
graphicalteieditorgraphical-editor
scmmmh/simple-turtle
Jan 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
webglweb-graphicsturtle-graphicsjavascriptweb-application
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