Dr. Imran Asif

Imran Asif is a Senior Research Software Engineer at the University of Oxford’s the Centre for Digital Scholarship (DiSc - https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk) and Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD - https://www.csad.ox.ac.uk), where he bridges cutting-edge semantic technologies with the evolving needs of digital humanities and open scholarship. He leads the FAIR-Epigraphy (https://inscriptiones.org) project. His work focuses on making epigraphic data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable by harnessing Linked Open Data and semantic technologies (RDF, SPARQL, JSON-LD, IIIF). He brings over nine years of industrial full-stack development experience—spanning Python, .NET, JavaScript/NodeJS, React/NextJS, RESTful APIs, and database design—to interdisciplinary digital humanities initiatives. Among his key contributions are the Digital Anon App https://digital-scholarship-oxford.github.io/digital-anon-app/search.html (TEI-XML/IIIF integration), the Unlocking Digital Texts (https://udt-itf-api-oxford.onrender.com/) Interoperable Text Framework, and the CHANGE Inscription-DB (https://change.csad.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions) and SiteFinds (https://change.csad.ox.ac.uk/sitefinds/) Projects for numismatics. He also designed LitHits (https://digital-scholarship-oxford.github.io/LitHitsAPI/), a semantic literature platform, and spearheaded data-driven tools such as Graffiti Gazetteer (https://digital-scholarship-oxford.github.io/GraffitiGazetteer/) and Numishare (https://greekcoinage.org/iris/), all aimed at enriching cultural heritage scholarship with machine-actionable, high-quality datasets.