Chris came to Computer programming from a non-traditional route as she has a Degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge where she specialised in Comparative linguistics. She then spent 15 years focusing on software development in the real world and has accumulated substantial experience in a large array of languages from Perl, C#, C++ and Java to Python, PHP, Javascript and even some SmallTalk.
She has furthered her study with university courses in Maths, Lexical Computing, Computational Linguistics, and Systems Analysis as well as courses in Medieval bookbinding.
Now based at the University of Cambridge, she works as a Senior developer at CARET mainly focusing on Digital Humanities projects such as Darwin Correspondence Project, Shahnama, Henslow Correspondence, and Chopin. She has also been a lead developer on the multinational collaboration project CollectionSpace, an open source museum collection management tool.
As a keen advocate of creating tools that empower experts to achieve their aims, rather than impose restrictions on them. Her research interests are around the use and development of reusable and extensible tools for data management in the humanities world, and their implications for aggregation and exposing data to a wider audience whilst allowing the academic to retain authority and control over the data.
Contact Details
chris.martin @ caret.cam.ac.uk
01223 (7)65379
CARET
1st Floor, 16 Mill Lane
Cambridge
CB2 1SB
