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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.

Sebastian Rahtz, a celebration of his work Oxford University

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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.

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    SPQR and Computer Archaeology: the early years

    SPQR and Computer Archaeology: the early years

    Gary Lock and Paul Reilly talk about how Sebastian helped British CAA school of practitioners be more international.

    • 18 min
    • video
    Linked Open Data

    Linked Open Data

    Dr. Leif Isaksen and Alex Dutton talk about Sebastian's inspiring leadership in the Linked Open Data movement in cultural heritage.

    • 10 min
    • video
    Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

    Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

    Pip Wilcox from the Bodleian Libraries talks about Sebastian's long standing contribution to teaching at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS).

    • 14 min
    • video
    Digital Humanities

    Digital Humanities

    Dave De Roure talks about Sebastian's contributions to the digital humanities community in Oxford and the wider world.

    • 10 min
    • video
    What Sebastian Taught Us

    What Sebastian Taught Us

    Joe Talbot talks about Sebastian's many achievements, his work and shares some personal reflections and video footage of the man.

    • 16 min
    • video
    Linked Cultural Heritage

    Linked Cultural Heritage

    Donna Kurtz talks about working with Sebastian over a number of years on various Linked Cultural Heritage projects.

    • 22 min

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