Dr. Adam Farquhar is Head of Digital Scholarship at the British Library, where his teams focus on bringing digital content to researchers and innovators in ways that unlock its potential.
He leads the Mellon funded BL Labs that challenges researchers to work with digital content and stimulates engagement through annual competitions; coordinates the EC funded THOR project that develops seamless services to link people, articles, and data; and directs the Arcadia funded Endangered Archives Programme that digitises at-risk documentary heritage around the world.
He initiated the Library’s Data Programme and is founder and President of DataCite, an international organization dedicated to ...