Dear DigitalMedievalists,
as the end of election periods Day 3 comes nearer, this is a reminder to cast your vote for the second elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board.
For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws:
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html
Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote.
You may cast your vote until Friday, 16th of May, 12pm, GMT,
We have four open slots and eight names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit more than four names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes.
You may vote for (up to four) of these candidates (short bios below):
Burghart, Marjorie Cummings, James McGillivray, Murray Porter, Dorothy Carr Rehbein, Malte Rosselli del Turco, Roberto Twycross, Meg Vogeler, James
Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board.
Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to election@digitalmedievalist.org
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Burghart, Marjorie.
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France.
Burgart holds a M.A. in Medieval Studies and a M.Sc. in computer sciences. She prepares a PhD Thesis in Medieval studies: study and edition of the /Sermones ad status/ collection by the 13th century friar Gilbert of Tournai, OFM. Since 2000, she has worked as a computer scientist particularly focusing on digital humanities. In her current position at the /Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France, she coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format (from latin sermons to accounts corpora, not to mention the /Glossa ordinaria/ of the Bible), as long as databases and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools (/ScolastiX/, a collaborative XML annotation platform ; /BibliOpera/, a multi-user online bibliographical database manager ; /COL/, a latin spellchecker for MS Word and OpenOffice ; a meta-search engine for a libraries portal without Z3950 ; ...). She is currently working at 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. Her sensibility to scholarly edition has been developed by her role as a member, since 2002, of the editorial committee of the /Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur http://lemo.irht.cnrs.fr/ journal.
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Cummings, James.
Research Officer, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford.
Cummings is the Senior RTS Project Officer of the Oxford University Computing Services. His PhD was in medieval studies, and he works on a number of projects such as the Text Encoding Initiative, and ENRICH (and EU-funded project standardising medieval manuscript metadata across Europe). His work for Digital Medievalist (DM) has mainly been on the technical side. He was responsible for redesigning the technical infrastructure of DM's new website (using TEI XML inside Apache's Cocoon with custom XSLT, and fed automatically by the DM subversion server). He has also moved the wiki and improved the DM mail handling systems. James is running again for the DM Board so that he can continue such work.
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McGillivray, Murray.
Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary.
McGillivray has been a digital medievalist (practitioner, theorist, enthusiast) for over twenty years and has been involved with DM since the beginning. His primary scholarly interest is the use of computer methods in the development and distribution of scholarly editions. His current digital projects include an electronic edition of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x.) and the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry.
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Porter, Dorothy Carr.
Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky.
Porter is Program Coordinator of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH; http://www.rch.uky.edu/) and lead in the Computational Humanities group at the Center for Visualization (http://www.vis.uky.edu/), both at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2006 and has also served on the journal editorial board. Porter is the chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources (http://www.medievalacademy.org/) (2006-2009) and has served on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) (2006 and 2007). She has worked on many digital projects in medieval studies and classics including the Electronic Boethius (http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm) and the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/homer_multitext). Her particular research interests are the relationship between text and image in encoding and digital publication, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Rehbein, Malte.
Marie Curie Research Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway and member of the Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing (TEXTE) programme.
Rehbein is a graduate in history and mathematics from University of Göttingen and gained his first experience in the Digital Humanities as an associate in the Duderstadt digitization project at Max-Planck-Insitute for History in Göttingen (1996-99). His main research interest is on methodology for creating digital scholarly edtions of historical texts. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of multi-layered late medieval town statutes. He also has work experience as a software developer and business consultant.
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Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto.
Associate professor, University of Torino.
Rosselli Del Turco is an associate professor at the University of Torino and also teaches a Text Encoding course at the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Digital Vercelli Book project, a project aiming at producing a diplomatic edition of the Vercelli Book manuscript by means of a TEI transcription of all the texts it holds; he is also a member of the TEI Manuscript Transcription SIG, to improve the effectiveness of TEI tools and guidelines for transcription of primary sources. He is a founder of the Digital Medievalist Project and has served on the Board during the last term. His interests lie in text encoding with TEI, text- and image-based digital editions, usability and design of digital edition software.
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Twycross, Meg.
Professor Emeritus, MA, BLitt, CertEd (Oxon), FRSA.
Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University, a leading expert in medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry, and Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre. She is currently using 'virtual restoration' techniques on high-resolution digital images of the York Ordo paginarum, a severely damaged document listing the pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play, to recover the original 1415 readings from underneath later erasures and rewriting.
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Vogeler, Georg.
University of Lecce.
Vogeler has studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences at Freiburg and Munich. He wrote his PhD thesis about tax administration in the late medieval German territorial states. Scince 1996 he worked as lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Munich. At the moment he is travelling through Italy with a scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation studying the use of the documents of Frederich II. His interest in the use of the computer for historical research dates back to several seminars held by Manfred Thaller he attended in the 1990s. He is editor of the Virtual Library Historical Auxiliary Sciences (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de), published several articles on the use of the computer for diplomatic research, put forward the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de) and recently organized an international conference on "Digital Diplomatics" (February 2007). He is member of the "Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik" (Institute for documentology and editorial science, http://www.i-d-e.de) and of the board of the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net).
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