University of California, Berkeley
Eric Kansa (PhD, Harvard University) leads development of Open Context. His research interests explore Web architecture, service design, and how these issues relate to the social and professional context of the digital humanities. Eric also researches policy issues relating to intellectual property, including text-mining and cultural property concerns. He actively participates in a number of Open Science, Open Government, cyberinfrastructure, text-mining, and scholarly user needs initiatives. Over the past three years, he has taught and practiced project management and information service design in the UC Berkeley School of Information’s Clinic program, and his ongoing work at UC Berkeley includes participation on Project Bamboo, a humanities and social science cyberinfrastructure initiative. Eric has been a principal investigator and co-investigator on projects funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the NEH and IMLS, Hewlett-Packard, Sunlight Foundation, Google, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Photo: Peg Skorpinski.
