Mme
Rebekah Higgitt
(Principal Curator of Science, National Museums Scotland)
This talk will focus on aspects of two digital projects, Tools of Knowledge and Voyages in Time, both of which have at their core data created at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG). The first draws on the SIMON database of scientific instrument makers in Britain and Ireland, 1550-1914, largely the work of Gloria Clifton, former Head Curator at the ROG. The information included reflects the...