Sally Chambers

Sally Chambers is Digital Humanities Research Coordinator at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. She holds a BA in Literature with Psychology, an MA in Cultural Studies and a postgraduate qualification in Information Services Management. In her PhD research, initially titled “From digital collections to digital scholarship: addressing the challenges of using digital cultural heritage collections in (digital) humanities research”, she explores to what extent digital cultural heritage collections are being used in (digital) humanities research.

Sally is active in the International GLAM Labs Community and a co-author of Open a GLAM Lab. She was one of the instigators of the Digital Research Lab at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium as part of a long-term collaboration with the GhentCDH. In this framework, she coordinates the DATA-KBR-BE project to facilitate data-level access to KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections for digital humanities research.

Her research interests include Digital Cultural Heritage, Web-archiving, Collections as Data, Library Labs and Digital Research Infrastructures, see also publications.