DM Election 2010

Benjamin Albritton

Benjamin Albritton is currently working for the Stanford University Digital Library Systems and Services as a Digital Manuscript Specialist on several medieval projects including the digitization of Stanford's manuscript collection, ongoing work with Parker on the Web (http://parkerweb.stanford.edu), and with community development for interoperability of digital manuscript projects (http://lib.stanford.edu/dmss and http://lib.stanford.edu/DMSTech).

He holds a PhD in musicology and is particularly interested in mark-up for corpus analysis of fourteenth-century song. He is a member of the editorial team for the new edition of the complete works of Guillaume de Machaut, which will have a significant electronic component.

Marjorie Burghart

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France. Burghart currently coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools . She is currently working on a companion guide for scholars wanting to produce an electronic edition. She also occasionally acts as a consultant for other academic institutions, on computing aspects of History and Archaeology related projects.

Burghart is currently a member of the board (finishing her first term). In 2009 she organised the first "DM Day" in Lyon.

James Cummings

James Cummings is the Senior Research Technologist for the Research Technologies Service at the University of Oxford. He works on numerous projects relating to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) at international, national and institutional levels. He is currently the elected Director of Digital Medievalist and has been responsible for the creation of large part of its technical infrastructure (for the journal, website, newsfeed, wiki, etc.) and server maintenance. He is also an elected member of the TEI Technical Council, the TEI's assistant webmaster, and part of the TEI @ Oxford editorial support team. The majority of his time is spent on providing technical expertise on research projects and training. For his PhD Dissertation (finished in 2001) he investigated the records of medieval drama in Norfolk and Lincolnshire. With his publications, conference papers, and posters he attempts to bridge his interests within the context of the digital editing of medieval sources.

James hopes to continue his contributions to the technical and community development of the Digital Medievalist project.

James R. Ginther

James R. Ginther (PhD, Medieval Studies, Toronto) is Associate Professor of Medieval Theology in the Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University, and co-Director of the Center for Digital Theology. He has been active in digital humanities research for over a decade and has produced five digital products: The Electronic Grosseteste (web-based, 2000 then revised in 2004); The Virtual Basilica of St Francis of Assisi (with J.M Hammond, CD-ROM, 2006); the Virtual York Minster (with J.M. Hammond, contracted 3DRT model for client, 2008); Francis and Clare of Assisi: Early Documents. The Electronic Edition (with J.M Hammond and J. Benson, web-based, 2009); and the Electronic Norman Anonymous Project (web-based, 2010). Dr Ginther has also published two books: Master of the Sacred Page: The Theology of Robert Grosseteste, ca. 1229/30-1235 (Ashgate, 2004); and, The Westminster Handbook to Medieval Theology (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2009).

Takako Kato

I have extensive working experience in digital medievalism. Since the completion of my PhD in 2004, I have been working on several digital projects as a post-doctoral researcher. I am currently directing the digital Malory Project (http://www.maloryproject.com/; best viewed with Firefox), an electronic edition and commentary of Malory's Morte Darthur, with digital facsimiles of the Winchester Manuscript (British Library, Add. MS 59678) and John Rylands copy of Caxton's first edition. The transcriptions and manuscript descriptions are in TEI-compliant xml. I am also creating a digital catalogue of medieval manuscripts using TEI P5 for 'The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220' (http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/). I have also worked on the preparation and electronic publications of the Canterbury Tales; and got involved in the establishment of the Centre for Textual Scholarship at De Montfort University (http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk), which is devoted to the development of digital technology for textual scholarship.

I am also aware of current issues, good practices, and research and teaching potentials in digital environment. I have extensively studied existing digital resources, presented research papers on electronic projects at conferences, and attended workshops on digitization, Scholarly Editions on the Web, CSS, XML, XSLT and TEI. I was recently invited to present a paper in Tokyo at the 'Keio and CCH Conference on the Digitization in the Humanities'. I am also a regular user of TEI P5 Guidelines and W3Schools, and a member of mailing lists of the Digital Medievalists, TEI and Oxygen-user.

Megan Meredith-Lobay

Megan Meredith-Lobay’s background is in early medieval British archaeology with interests in GIS and archaeological informatics. She completed an MPhil in medieval archaeology at the University of Glasgow in 2001 and a PhD in the early medieval church archaeology of Scotland at Cambridge in 2007. She has been utilising GIS and database technologies in her research since 2000. Megan is also currently working on a data visualisation project for archaeological field data and another with scholars at the University of Alberta to visualise conflicting narratives within early medieval texts. She has also written about Medieval identities in Second Life and published a book about early Christian landscape archaeology of Western Scotland.

Currently, Megan is the Research Innovation Manager at the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts. Megan manages research computing projects throughout the Faculty with an emphasis on the Digital Humanities. She has been involved in a number of national and international digital humanities projects such at the Day of Digital Humanities and the Mind the Gap conference which brought together scholars in the humanities and High Performance Computing. She is also a Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts Scholar. Megan will be joining the Oxford e-Research Centre in the fall to be the project coordinator for the new ESRC Digital Social Research Strategy, a national initiative to increase technology in Social Science Research.

Christine McWebb

Christine McWebb holds a PhD in French from the University of Western Ontario, Canada and is presently Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo where she has been working since 2003. Before coming to Waterloo, McWebb worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (1999-2003) where she taught French and German language, translation and literary/cultural studies courses at all levels. She specializes in late medieval and early modern French (Christine de Pizan, the Roman de la rose, text and iconography) and German literary culture (Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken, cultural transfer between France and Germany) and has published extensively in these fields. McWebb is director of the internationally known and SSHRC-funded MARGOT project (http://margot.uwaterloo.ca). As director and a researcher of MARGOT she leads several international collaborative DH projects that 1) develop digital annotation tools for repositories of multi-representational data (Rose Tools) and 2) that digitize medieval manuscripts in enriched format. She has co-organized the last two international MARGOT conferences (at the University of Waterloo in 2006, at Barnard College, Columbia University in June 2010). She is a member of the editorial board of the e-journals Orbis: Journal for Medieval French Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), @analyses. Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire (University of Ottawa), and of the national advisory board of Digital Studies (SDH/SEMI).

Rebecca Welzenbach

Rebecca Welzenbach is a digital publishing project manager at the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office (http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/), which aims to develop sustainable and affordable approaches to academic publishing in the digital age. There, she oversees the production of nearly 25 electronic journals, manages the ingest of the UM Press backlist into the Hathi Trust repository (http://www.hathitrust.org/), and will soon take on duties with the Text Creation Partnership (http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/), which produces encoded editions of early print books based on the images such as those in Proquest's Early English Books Online database.

She has been involved with the DM journal for nearly two years, soliciting and assigning reviews of new works, and moderated a DM-sponsored panel at Kalamazoo in 2010. She is also involved with the Text Encoding Initiative, helping out with local planning and logistics for the 2009 Members Meeting and Conference, and serving on the Program Committee for the 2010 meeting.

She is a 2009 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Information, with a MSI in Archives and Records management. She is especially interested in the history of books, libraries, and collecting practices, and how these have changed, and continue to change, over time. As a DM board member, she would work with the board to develop and maintain consistent and sustainable practices of communication and collaboration, in hopes of building community and scholarship within the group and developing the DM journal as a known and trusted academic resource in the growing field of digital humanities.