Ryan Shaw
Associate Professor
Expertise
Knowledge organization, philosophy of information, pragmatic sociology, social epistemology, documentation, periodization, semiotics, hermeneutics, the Web, linked data, knowledge graphs
Education
Ph.D. in Information Management & Systems with Designated Emphasis in New Media, University of California, Berkeley.
Master’s in Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley.
B.S. in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University
Biography
Dr. Ryan Shaw received his PhD in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, where he wrote his dissertation on how events and periods function as concepts for organizing historical knowledge. He is also the author of the LODE (Linking Open Descriptions of Events) ontology, recently adopted by the UK Archives Hub for their Linked Data effort.
In 2012, he received a three-year Early Career Development grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to invent new tools for applying computational text processing techniques to organize large collections of civil rights histories. He is also a co-PI of the Editors’ Notes project, a Mellon Foundation-funded effort to develop open, collaborative notebooks for humanists, and the PeriodO project, an NEH-funded gazetteer of scholarly assertions about the extents of historical, art-historical, and archaeological periods. In the past he has been involved in a number of digital humanities projects through his work with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. In a previous life, he worked as a software engineer in Tokyo, Japan.