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Digital Research Cluster (DRC)<br />
by David Robey<br />
The DRC ran a workshop on 18 June 2018 with the Isaiah Berlin Legacy Project: ‘the Isaiah Berlin<br />
Digital Archive, a test case for the development of online research resources’. It was supported by<br />
the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, the Oxford e-Research Centre, and the Bodleian Libraries’<br />
Centre for Digital Scholarship.<br />
We have continued this line of collaboration with research clusters / centres in <strong>College</strong> through<br />
a joint project with OCLW and Dr Jacek Mostwin of Johns Hopkins University on ‘Lives in<br />
Medicine’. This small pump-priming project, supported by Dr Mostwin and the John Fell Fund,<br />
will serve to develop a major grant application based in OCLW and supported by the DRC. The<br />
major project will seek to improve the quality and ethical environment of medicine by directing<br />
the public, the medical and related professions, policy-makers and the medical industries, to engage<br />
with and learn from the lived experience of patients and practitioners. Combining medical, lifewriting<br />
and digital humanities expertise, it will create an extensive electronic archive of documents<br />
of lived experience in medicine, linked to a set of innovative research sub-projects and providing<br />
the platform for a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional network for research, education and public<br />
engagement.<br />
We are currently planning a launch event in Michaelmas Term to mark the growing collaboration<br />
between the Voltaire Foundation and the <strong>College</strong>, on the development of a new digital archive of<br />
Voltaire’s works. We have initiated a series of termly DRC lunches.<br />
REPORTS<br />
Photo: Gilles Lambert<br />
WOLFSON.OX.AC.UK<br />
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