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Digital Scholarship, Digital Humanities,Digital Research, Digitisation, Digital Strategy
United Kingdom

Biography

Neil Fitzgerald leads the Digital Research Team that works across the organisation to ensure the Library’s collections, systems, policies, and processes meet the emerging needs of those who want to deeply integrate digital content, data, and methods, into their work. He is a digital cultural heritage professional with extensive practical and management experience across the international cultural heritage and higher education sectors. A member of a number of advisory boards in the fields of digital humanities and digital cultural heritage. He has also been accountable for the successful delivery of a number of major digital initiatives in the UK and internationally. Before joining the Library, he worked in the commercial sector.

Activities

Employment (6)

British Library: London, London, GB

2015-01 to present | Head of Digital Research (Digital Scholarship)
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Neil Fitzgerald

British Library: London, London, GB

2012-01 to 2014-12 | External Technical Projects Delivery Manager (British Library Qatar Foundation Programme)
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Neil Fitzgerald

British Library: London, London, GB

2008-06 to 2012-01 | IMPACT Project Delivery Manager (Digitisation Programme)
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Neil Fitzgerald

British Library: London, London, GB

2006-04 to 2008-06 | Microsoft Digitisation Manager (Digitisation Programme)
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Neil Fitzgerald

British Library: London, London, GB

2004-03 to 2006-03 | Imaging Coordinator (Operations & Services)
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Neil Fitzgerald

British Library: London, London, GB

2003-07 to 2004-04 | Photographic Workflow Coordinator (Operations & Services)
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Neil Fitzgerald

Education and qualifications (6)

APM Group Ltd: London, GB

2017-10-03 to present | Management of Risk Foundation
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Neil Fitzgerald

APM Group Ltd: London, GB

2013-12-19 to present | DSDM Atern Practitioner
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Neil Fitzgerald

APM Group Ltd: London, GB

2013-12-18 to present | DSDM Atern Foundation
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Neil Fitzgerald

APM Group Ltd: London, GB

2005-11-23 to present | Prince 2 Foundation
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Neil Fitzgerald

APM Group Ltd: London, GB

2011-09-16 to 2016-09-14 | Prince 2 Practitioner
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Neil Fitzgerald

APM Group Ltd: London, GB

2005-11-25 to 2010-11-24 | Prince 2 Practitioner
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Neil Fitzgerald

Professional activities (18)

CLARIN-UK: Oxford, GB

2020 to present | Member
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Neil Fitzgerald

International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): Arlington, US

2019-12 to present | IIIF-C Executive Member
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Research Libraries United Kingdom (RLUK): London, GB

2019 to present | Member (Digital Scholarship Network)
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Neil Fitzgerald

Artifical Intelligence for Libraries, Archives and Museums (AI4LAM): Oslo, NO

2019 to present | Co-Chair
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LIBER: The Hague, NL

2018 to present | Member (Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group)
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IMPACT Centre of Competence: Alicante, ES

2015 to present | Executive Board Member
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Jisc: Bristol, GB

2015 to 2024-07-31 | Advisory Board Member (Historical Texts)
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DATeCH 2022 (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) conference: Alicante, ES

2022-09 to 2022-12 | Programme Committee
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Neil Fitzgerald

The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL): London, GB

2020 to 2022-10 | Member (AI in Libraries Network Group)
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QURATOR 2022 Conference: Berlin, DE

2022-07 to 2022-09 | Programme Committee
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Practical Applications of IIIF as a Building Block Towards a Digital National Collection: London, GB

2021-04 to 2022-04 | Co-investigator
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British Library: London, London, GB

2015 to 2022 | Advisory Board Member (BL Labs)
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FF21: Fantastic Futures, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Librairies, Archives and Museums: Paris, FR

2021-07 to 2021-12 | Programme Committee
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Qurator 2021 Conference: Berlin, DE

2020-12 to 2021-02 | Programme Committee
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DATeCH 2019 (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) conference: Brussels, BE

2019-01 to 2019-05 | Programme Committee
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DATeCH 2017 (2nd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage): Göttingen, DE

2017-01 to 2017-06 | Programme Committee
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Neil Fitzgerald

European Commission: Brussels, BE

2015 to 2017 | UK Representative (Member States Expert Groups on Digitisation and Digital Preservation)
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Impact Project Final Conference 2011: London, GB

2011-01 to 2011-10 | Conference organiser
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Works (32)

Embedding Digital Humanities in the British Library: The Digital Research Team at Ten

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
2024-12-02 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: ISBN 9781032356259
Contributors: Mia Ridge; Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert; Neil Fitzgerald; Nora McGregor; Rossitza Atanassova; Stella Wisdom
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Neil Fitzgerald

A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions

2023-04-06 | Preprint
Part of ISSN: 2514-9342
Contributors: Gustavo Candela; Nele Gabriëls; Sally Chambers; Thuy-An Pham; Sarah Ames; Neil Fitzgerald; Katrine Hofmann; Victor Harbo; Abigail Potter; Meghan Ferriter et al.
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Neil Fitzgerald
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Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection

Towards a National Collection
2022-07-22 | Report
Contributors: Joseph Padfield; Charlotte Bolland; Neil Fitzgerald; Anne McLaughlin; Glen Robson; Melissa Terras
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Heritage Made Digital

In Partnership with Libraries
2019 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 978-963-200-699-4
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Neil Fitzgerald

Digitised Books - Flickr Tag History - Dec 2013 to March 2016. TSV.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

Digitised Books - Images identified as Embellishments. c. 1510 - c. 1946. JPG.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

Digitised Books - Images identified as Medium Sized Images. c. 1567 - c. 1927. JPG.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

Digitised Books - Images identified as Plates. c. 1528 - c. 1926. JPG.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

Digitised Books - Images of the bound covers of books. c. 1510 - c. 1946. JPG.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1946. JSON (OCR derived text).

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books (unknown precise publication dates) ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1700 - 1799. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1810 - 1819. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1820 - 1829. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1830 - 1839. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1840 - 1849. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1850 - 1859. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1860 - 1869. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1870 - 1879. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald
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OCR text derived from digitised books published 1880 - 1889. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published 1890 - 1899. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

OCR text derived from digitised books published c. 1510 - 1699. ALTO XML.

2016 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

19th Century Books - Book Metadata - 01/09/2013.

2013 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald

Qatar Digital Library

2012-10-22 | Website
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Neil Fitzgerald

D-OC5.3 Evaluation Report

2012-05-31 | Report
Contributors: Neil Fitzgerald
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Neil Fitzgerald

D-OC5.4 Final Report

2012-05-31 | Report
Contributors: Neil Fitzgerald
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Neil Fitzgerald

D-EE3.9 Core Named Entities Lexicon for English

2012-01-20 | Dataset
Contributors: Neil Fitzgerald
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Neil Fitzgerald

D-OC2.3 Decision Support Tools

2011 | Interactive resource
Contributors: Neil Fitzgerald
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Neil Fitzgerald

D-OC4.2 Knowledge Base

2011 | Interactive resource
Contributors: Neil Fitzgerald
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Neil Fitzgerald

IMPACT Demo Day

2011-07-12 | Other
Contributors: Neil Fitzgerald
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Neil Fitzgerald

My way: Interview with Neil Fitzgerald

Engineering & Technology
2008-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1750-9637
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Neil Fitzgerald via Crossref Metadata Search

Treasures in Full

British Library
2004 | Dataset
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Neil Fitzgerald