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.
Humanities Computing at Southampton, and The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome
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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 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...
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