School of History, Religions and Philosophies
Professor Peter Cornwell
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- Email address
- peter.cornwell@data-futures.org
Biography
Peter Cornwell is Professor of Practice at SOAS; a research fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies ENS-Lyon, and CEO of Data Futures GmbH.
He is also visiting professor at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster. His research focus is the intersection of cultural and engineering factors which affect preservation of research data. Previously he has been director of R&D for Texas Instruments Industrial Systems Europe and CEO of Division Incorporated, a California IPO. He contributed to development of the Manufacturing Automation Protocol and OpenGL standards, and currently leads IIIF and annotation infrastructure for the InvenioRDM open repository platform with CERN in Geneva.
Roles
- Chair, Data Futures GmbH, Leipzig, HRB 38130
- Community lead for IIIF and Oxford Common File Layout in CERN InvenioRDM
- Co-PI Swiss National Science Foundation grant 100011_184860/1 « Divisive Power of Citizenship »
- European co-chair, Research Data Alliance Group on Preservation Tools Technologies & Policies
- Expert Advisory Board member, EU Research and Innovation action in Biodiversity 101007492
