Toma Tasovac
Strategic Advisor To The Board Of Directors
Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolToma Tasovac is a strategic advisor and digital humanities leader with over 25 years’ experience shaping European research infrastructures and interdisciplinary scholarship. As former Director and now Strategic Advisor at DARIAH ERIC and long-serving Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities, he has built platforms and partnerships that connect thousands of researchers across 22 countries. His expertise spans historical and electronic lexicography, TEI, digital editions, data modeling and research infrastructures, grounded in a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and degrees from Princeton and Harvard. He combines academic rigor with hands‑on project management—earlier roles include media training and international project work at DW‑Akademie—which helps him translate scholarly needs into sustainable technical and organizational solutions. Colleagues know him for fostering capacity building and cross-border collaboration while advancing standards and tooling that make digital scholarship more accessible. Based in Serbia, he brings a rare mix of humanities scholarship, infrastructure strategy, and practical implementation experience.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Digital Arts and Humanities, PhD, Digital Arts and Humanities at Trinity College, DublinB.A., Russian Language and Literature, B.A., Russian Language and Literature at Harvard UniversityM.A., Comparative Literature, M.A., Comparative Literature at Princeton University
Github Skills (178)
atom-editor10
font-size10
cython10
hosting10
flexbox10
tooltips10
french10
text-classification10
discovery10
dropdown10
docker10
popup10
tooltip10
xml10
lexical10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
BCDH/upptime
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:935 pushes, 9 comments, 19 issues in 8 months
ttasovac/cirilizator
Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
Safari extension that transliterates Serbian web pages from Latin to Cyrillic
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
safaricyrilliccyrillic-to-latinlatinserbian
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