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CANDIDATE STATEMENTS
The following biographical candidate statements (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. After voting please remember to click DONE!
***************************** BENJAMIN ALBRITTON
Benjamin Albritton works as the digital medieval program manager at Stanford University Libraries. In that role, he oversees the Parker on the Web project (http://parker.stanford.edu), the preservation of Walters Art Museum digital manuscript content in the Stanford Digital Repository (< goo.gl/GvCba>), and ongoing content collaborations with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the University of Pennsylvania, and others.
In addition to content-based projects, he coordinates the Mellon-funded Digital Manuscript Technology program: an international manuscript interoperability project dedicated to cross-repository collaboration. This effort, shared by many collaborators, has spawned SharedCanvas (< http://www.shared-canvas.org/%3E) and the International Image Interoperability Framework (http://lib.stanford.edu/iiif). The primary aim of the project is increased access to distributed resources and tools for medieval scholars in order to enable comparative work across manuscript collections.
Benjamin is committed to bringing content owners, software developers, and scholars together to further research in medieval topics. In addition to his digital library work, he remains active as a musicologist. Current projects include: "Machaut in the Book" (co-PI), an interdisciplinary and collaborative study of the role of Guillaume de Machaut as author in the surviving witnesses to his works, with particular focus on poetic miscellanies; and "A Comparative Kalendar", a nascent tool for navigation across digitized manuscripts that contain liturgical calendars.
***************************** SUZANNE PAUL
Suzanne Paul is the Medieval Manuscripts Specialist at Cambridge University Library (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/). She is currently developing a new online catalogue of the library's medieval manuscripts using TEI and participating in the ongoing digitisation of the collection in the Cambridge Digital Library (http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/). From 2007 to May 2013 she was sub-librarian at the Parker Library (< http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-us/parker-library/%3E), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with particular responsibility for creating and updating metadata in XML and database formats for Parker on the Web (< http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/%3E). She has extensive experience of collaborating with researchers and other librarians on digital projects.
***************************** PHILIP SHAW
I am a medievalist with around ten years' experience in digital humanities. My first academic post was on the Partonopeus de Blois Electronic Edition Project (http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/), where I worried about the textual difficulties of an Old French romance alongside straightening out the project's automated text processing needs. Since then I've developed a tool for gathering linguistic data from Twitter, used by Ruth Page in her _Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction_ (Routledge, 2012), have created tools for generating the indices of the Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 project (< http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/%3E), and was part of the team responsible for HALOGEN (http://halogen.le.ac.uk). I am currently working on software tools for comparison across Middle English texts with divergent orthographic forms and on the application of cluster analysis to historical onomastic data. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute to the running of Digital Medievalist as an Executive Board member.
***************************** PETER STOKES
I am currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. I have a degree in Classics and English Literature and another in Computer Engineering, as well as a PhD in Anglo-Saxon palaeography. I have worked as Research Associate, Analyst and/or Developer on the LangScape (http://langscape.org.uk/), Anglo-Saxon Cluster (< http://ascluster.org/%3E), and Electronic Sawyer (http://esawyer.org.uk/) projects at King's. I have also held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on computer-based methods in palaeography, and was awarded a major research grant for DigiPal (http://digipal.eu/), which I lead as Principal Investigator. I lecture in Digital Humanities and in palaeography, I advise on external digital projects, and I am Principal Coordinator of Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA; < http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/medieval-m...), a five-day training programme for PhD students.
A full CV is available at http://peterstokes.org/cv/.
I have served on the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist and been Associate Editor of the Journal since 2009, and I have been Director of DM since 2012. In addition to these roles I have contributed to DM in many other ways, including updates, improvements and emergency fixes to the website; running conference sessions; helping introduce term limits for the Board; and co-acting as Returning Officer for the 2010 elections. DM's membership has grown significantly during this time, increasing by more than 15% in the last year, so if re-elected my key goal will be to establish the expertise and infrastructural stability necessary to allow this growth to continue in the longer term.
***************************** DOMINIQUE STUTZMAN
Stutzman, Dominique (2011-2013). After degrees in Classics, History and German studies at the Sorbonne, Dominique Stutzmann studied at the École nationale des Chartes (http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/; archiviste paléographe, 2002), received a MLIS and worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (MSS Dept.) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (< http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html%3E; Digital Information Dept.). He completed a PhD on scribal practices of Cistercian communities in medieval Burgundy, for which he developed the statistical analysis of scribal profiles based on TEI encoding. Since 2007, he is lecturer of medieval paleography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (< http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/%3E) and, since 2010, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/; CNRS). In the Graphem project (http://liris.cnrs.fr/graphem/; 2008-2011), he co-organized an international colloquium on computer-aided script analysis, categorization and classification (Paris, 14-15 April 2011). He is now principal investigator of the ORIFLAMMS project (< http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/%3E; 2013-2016), joining Computer Vision, Linguistics and Palaeography (allographic transcriptions, ontology of forms) in study of the variety of medieval scripts and its factors (place, time, language, formality, function).
***************************** SEAN SWANICK
My name is Sean Swanick and I am the Islamic Studies Liaison Librarian at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Since starting in 2009, I have, amongst my other duties of collection development, reference work and teaching, and related activities curated a number of exhibitions highlighting McGill's rich manuscript collection. Noteworthy for the members of Digital Medievalist are the 2012 exhibition "Book Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean World" (co-curated with Dr. C. Hilsdale of the Art History department and Ms. J. Garland of Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill), the Shahnmeh exhibition of the famous Persian epic poem which was also an online exhibition (< http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/shahnameh/index.php%3E) and the Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) exhibition and accompanying booklet. Through these efforts, I strive to combine research exercises with professors and students in order to highlight the rich collections of McGill University. In addition, I have co-curated an Islamic Calligraphy exhibition in 2010 which was later digitized (< http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/index.php%3E).
If elected, I will serve the community in engaging in scholarly activities and leading and ensuring that the overall direction of the organisation and the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes remain a priority and continue to flourish.
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