Mr. Tom Gheldof

Tom Gheldof is the CLARIAH-VL coordinator at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Arts. After having obtained a Master's degree in Ancient History at KU Leuven, he additionally obtained an Advanced Master’s degree in Journalism and Cultural Studies. In 2012 he started working as a scientific researcher on the Trismegistos project at the research unit of Ancient History. Throughout the years he was involved several projects in the field of Digital Humanities such as the 'Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy' (EAGLE). In 2014, he also took on the coordination of the Leuven DH researchers as part of the then founded DARIAH-BE consortium. Currently, he is a scientific researcher of the 'CLARIAH-VL: Advancing the Open Humanities Service Infrastructure' project that was awarded a FWO International Research Infrastructure grant. The project will be executed from 2021 to 2024 and aims at developing and enhancing digital tools, practices, resources and services for researchers in many fields of the humanities. Furthermore, he is one of the coordinators of the DARIAH-EU working group 'Sustainable Publishing of Metadata' and is currently national moderator for the DH Course Registry. Finally, he is also a member of the steering committee of Epigraphy.info and a junior member of LECTIO.