Memories of Sebastian

Wendy Hall and Les Carr share their memories of work at Southampton University. Nicholas Stanley-Price and Amanda Thursfield, (The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome) share their experiences with working with Sebastian Rahtz.

Whilst at Southampton University, Sebastian Rahtz was appointed to teach one of the first courses in Humanities computing. SPQR also formally recorded the monuments of the The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome in 1984-6 and Nicholas Stanley-Price explains the importance of this unique database for the cemetery and for Humanities researchers.

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Sebastian Rahtz, a celebration of his work

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Wendy Hall

Les Carr

Nicholas Stanley-Price

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Department: IT Services

Date Added: 16/11/2016

Duration: 00:14:37

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Sebastian's contributions to the Text Encoding Initiative

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Lou Burnard, James Cummings and Hugh Cayless discuss Sebastian's contribution to the Text Encoding Initiative live via satellite.

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Department: IT Services

Date Added: 16/11/2016

Duration: 00:09:27

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Welcome

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Donna Kurtz (Professor of Classical Art and Senior Research Fellow of Oxford e-Research Centre) and Anne Trefethen (CIO) introduce the day along with providing some personal insights in working with Sebastian.

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Department: IT Services

Date Added: 16/11/2016

Duration: 00:06:28

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Protecting the Past 2 - Towards a better future with cultural heritage

This album contains the podcasts recorded at the second Protecting the Past conference, co-organised by the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project of the University of Oxford with the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani and the University of Sulaimani. It was held in Sulaimani - Iraq on 30-31 October 2016. Participants discussed projects to monitor and protect cultural heritage in Iraq and the MENA region as whole. Podcasts are available in English, Arabic and Kurdish.

The Remedy: Humanism

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The Remedy

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In this episode, Naomi Richman interviews David Flint, Vice-Chair of the North London Humanists to find out what humanism can offer the sick. They discuss the role of modern medicine and the possibilities of living forever.

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Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Date Added: 16/11/2016

Duration: 00:17:02

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The Remedy: Christianity

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In this episode, Naomi Richman interviews Rev. Jody Stowell about Christian attitudes to health and understandings of healing. Starting by looking at Jesus' treatment of the sick, they move on to discussing the role of faith-healing in today's context.

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Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Date Added: 16/11/2016

Duration: 00:16:24

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Sebastian Rahtz, a celebration of his work

Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz (13 February 1955-15 March 2016) was Chief Data Architect for the University of Oxford and a member of Wolfson College and its Digital Research Cluster. This series of short talks by colleagues celebrates 'SPQR' and his many and varied achievements in Humanities computing. Sebastian’s involvement with free and open source software goes back to the late 1980’s as a developer in the community around the TeX typesetting system on which he published widely. He maintained an open source TeX distribution for ten years and a variety of TeX-related packages. He was an active member of the XML and XSLT communities most importantly as one of the technical leads for the Text Encoding Initiative in which he served on the Board of Directors and Technical Council over many years. He was also Director of Academic IT Services and setup the JISC-funded national advisory service for open source software, OSS Watch, and worked on linked data projects such as CLAROS.

Our built heritage: a gem or a millstone? What's worth keeping and why? - St Anne's Gaudy Seminar 2016

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St Anne's College

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The 2016 St Anne's Gaudy Seminar.

With Helen Ghosh (Director-General of the National Trust), Caroline Stanford (Historian and Head of Engagement at The Landmark Trust), Liane Hartley (Co-Founder of Mend) and Dr Michael Fradley (Research Assistant on ‘Endangered Archaeology’ project).

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Department: St Anne's College

Date Added: 15/11/2016

Duration: 01:03:30

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Trials and Tribulations in Africa

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Evidence-Based Health Care

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Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.

Merlin’s research focuses on global health, particularly primary health care in low-income countries. In such countries, maternal and child mortality is significantly greater than in the UK – one in five children die before their fifth birthday. Primary health care has the potential to save most of these lives, if it is implemented according to best evidence.
In this talk Merlin talks about the different studies and designs he has used in his work trying to address child mortality in Africa.