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- Fulltime PhD student working on crowdsourcing the digitisation and geo-location of historical materials. Ex-Lead Web Dev for the Science Museum and past MSc student in human-computer interaction (basically interface and interaction evaluation and design). Chair of the Museums Computer Group. The views expressed here are my own. I'm @mia_out on twitter.
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