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Voting for the DM board 2016-2018 OPENS NOW until THU 12 July 2016,
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returning officers directly at alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr or
emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com.

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2016-2018 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname):

- Alberto Campagnolo
- Franz Fischer
- Torsten Hiltmann
- Mike Kestemont
- Gene Lyman
- Lynn Ransom
- Georg Vogeler

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CANDIDATE STATEMENTS

The following biographical candidate statements (in alphabetical order
by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to
vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up
to 4 votes.

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Alberto Campagnolo

Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator (in Spoleto, Italy) and
has worked in that capacity in various institutions, e.g. London
Metropolitan Archives, St. Catherine?s Monastery (Egypt), and the
Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library Materials at Ca?
Foscari University Venice, and holds an MA in Digital Culture and
Technology from King?s College London. He pursued a PhD on an automated
visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus
Research Centre (University of the Arts, London). He has been working on
Semantic Web applications to bookbinding descriptions as DH Research
Fellow at Ligatus and, currently, as DH MMW Fellow at the Herzog August
Library Wolfenb?ttel. From September 2016, he will be working as a
CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies at
the Library of Congress (Washington, DC). Alberto has served on the
Digital Medievalist board since 2014, first as Deputy Director, and as
Director since 2015.


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Franz Fischer

Franz Fischer has been serving on the Digital Medievalist Executive
Board since 2014 and is editor-in-chief of the Digital Medievalist
Journal. He is coordinator and researcher at the Cologne Center for
eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne. He studied History, Latin and
Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in
Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre?s treatise
on liturgy. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint
Patrick?s Confessio at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. Franz
Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial
Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT. He is a founding
member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE),
teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE, a series on digital
editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE, a review journal on
digital editions and resources.

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Torsten Hiltmann

Torsten Hiltmann studied History, Philosophy and Psychology at the
Technical University of Dresden and holds a PhD degree in Medieval
History from TU Dresden and the ?cole pratique des hautes ?tudes (EPHE)
in Paris (co-tutelle). He collaborated in several database and editorial
projects at the German Historical Institute Paris, before he changed to
the University of M?nster where he is now a Juniorprofessor for High and
Late Medieval History and Auxiliary sciences. He is specialised in
medieval manuscripts, courtly culture and visual communication. In his
current research project he explores medieval heraldic communication
from the perspective of cultural history. In the field of Digital
Humanities he focuses on the use of computational methods in auxiliary
sciences, with regard to textual as well as visual sources. He is
especially interested in semantic web technologies, digital editions and
NLP, as well as methodological reflections about DH, and is developing
and conducting several projects in these domains. Besides that he is
editor of the academic blog ?Heraldica nova?.

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Mike Kestemont

I enjoy research in computational text and image analysis for the
Humanities, in particular for medieval European literature. Authorship
attribution and stylistics are my main areas of expertise: in
stylometry, we try to design intelligent algorithms which can
automatically identify the authors of anonymous texts through the
quantitative analysis of individual writing styles. I warmly recommend
the documentary about this topic and which we published in the public
domain: "Authorship and Stylometry: Hildegard of Bingen"
(vimeo.com/70881172). I am an assistant professor (department of
literature) at the University of Antwerp and regularly teach workshops
on Digital Text Analysis and Programming for the Humanities. Currently,
I am co-authoring a monograph on data science for humanists (with
Princeton UP) and co-editing a special supplement of Speculum on digital
medieval studies. I live in Brussels, code in Python
(github.com/mikekestemont), and tweet in English (@Mike_Kestemont).

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Gene Lyman

After significant service as a senior university administrator in charge
of funds development and public outreach, Gene Lyman returned to his
first passion ? the scholarly study and promotion of medieval
literature. His Ph.D. thesis, University of Virginia, 2009, addressed
reconfiguring scholarly editions in digital environments with particular
emphasis on how findings in cognitive science can make these editions
more reliable and useful than their printed counterparts. Lyman received
his B.A. at Yale in the interdisciplinary major, History, the Arts, and
Letters. He has presented papers at conferences in North America and
Europe on subjects of special importance to digital editorial theory and
practice, late medieval scribal practices, Chaucer, and the development
of software for display and analysis of scholarly texts. He is currently
the Medieval Academy of America's Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair, a
Centennial Committee member, and ex officio member of its Executive
Committee. He created the Elwood Viewer for the Piers Plowman Electronic
Archive, where he also an editor. He is currently the Reviews Editor for
DM.

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Lynn Ransom

Lynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for
Manuscripts Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Since
2008, she has directed the Schoenberg Database for Manuscripts, which is
currently being redeveloped into an online, user-driven,
community-maintained tool for the study of the movement of manuscripts
across time and geography. She has also been the primary organizer for
the Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
since 2008. Prior to coming to Penn, Dr. Ransom has held curatorial and
research positions at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore and at the Index of Christian Art at Princeton
University. She received her PhD in Art History from the University of
Texas at Austin, specializing in 13th-century French manuscript
illumination in 2001. She has published on the role of imagery in
devotional practice from the 13th to the 16th century.

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Georg Vogeler

I'm a trained medievalist with a specialisation in historical auxiliary
sciences. I did my PhD on late medieval tax administration records and
my habilitation on the use of the charters of Emperor Frederic II in
Italy. Meanwhile I got intreagued with digital methods, started the
Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), contributed to the
technical development of largest charter portal monasterium.net
(http://www.monasterium.net, http://github.com/icaruseu/mom-ca), became
member of the Institut f?r Dokumentologie und Editorik
(http://www.i-d-e.de) and engaged in other fields of digital methods in
medieval studies. Finally I ended up as chair for Digital Humanities at
the Centre for Information Modelling at Graz University and member of
the board of the digital medievalist. In the DM board I try to support
those in the front line from the background. If reelected this would not
change. But I would hope and try to put effort into, that the DM
community can broaden its self perception from people being subscribed
to a mailing list to enthusiasts of digital tools applied to medieval
studies who are engaged in lots of activities: social media, scholarly
publications, conferences, research projects.

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