Digital Medievalist: About

Term ending in 2009

• Ciula, Arianna (2007-2009). Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. Ciula teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on humanities computing and primary sources at the University of Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist, Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI Technical Council for the term 2007-2008.
• O'Donnell, Daniel Paul (2007-2009). Director. Associate Professor of English, University of Lethbridge. O'Donnell edited Cædmon's Hymn (Boydell, 2005), which was awarded honorable mention in the MLA's competition for the most distinguished edition in any language or period published between 2005-2007 (the first pre-print-era text ever to receive this honour). He is also at work on several other electronic projects. In addition to his position as project leader at DM, O'Donnell is also chair and CEO of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and chair of the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge
• Robinson, Peter (2007-2009). Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. Robinson is developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding, digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
• Schassan, Torsten (2007-2009). Schassan is currently preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here, before that, he was responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. He is part of the project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for metadata and server administration. Schassan's main fields of interest are digital editions as well as digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more general view he is interested in markup languages, the theory of representation of information, in database and GUI design.

Term ending in 2008

• Cummings, James (-2008). Research Officer, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford. Cummings worked on the UK's AHRB-funded CURSUS project (medieval liturgical documents) and is editing an electronic edition of The Conversion of St Paul. As a representative for the AHDS, he advises funding applicants on ITST best practice. He has been elected multiple times to the TEI Technical Council. Cummings moderates network discussion of markup issues, especially XML and XSL implementations, and is responsible for a great deal of the DM technical infrastructure.
• McGillivray, Murray (-2008). Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary. McGillivray has published three electronic editions, including the SSHRC-funded Book of the Duchess; he is at work on a fourth. He co-authored a report on scholarly electronic publishing for the HSSF. He moderates network discussion of HTML encoding issues in the project.
• Porter, Dorothy Carr (-2008). Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky.
• Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto (-2008). Ricercatore, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, University of Turin. Rosselli Del Turco is director of the Digital Vercelli Book Project and has recently published a study, edition and translation of the Battle of Maldon. Rosselli Del Turco moderates network discussion on ITST project management, structural encoding, and image-based editing in this project.

Original Investigators

Prior to 2007, Digital Medievalist was an investigator-driven project. The original executive included:

• Baker, Peter. Baker's term expired in 2007.
• Cummings, James (see above)
• Foys, Martin. Foys's term expired in 2007.
• McGillivray, Murray (see above)
• O'Donnell, Daniel Paul (see above). O'Donnell ran for reelection in 2007.
• Porter, Dot (see above)
• Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto (see above)
• Elizabeth Solopova. Solopova's term expired in 2007.