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CANDIDATE STATEMENTS

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ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO

Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and bookbindings in particular.

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ELEONORA DURBAN

After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital philology.

I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan.

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FRANZ FISCHER

Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/%3E]. 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 [link: < http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de%3E]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: http://www.confessio.ie] at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/%3E] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften%3E], a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: http://ride.i-d-e.de/], a new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/]. Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/%3E] and facilitating various DH projects at the CCeH.

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GRETA FRANZINI

A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the manuscript.

Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources.

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ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV

Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/ (CNRS http://www.cnrs.fr/ and Lyon University http://lyon-university.org/). His PhD thesis in French Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon http://www.ens-lyon.eu/, France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/ (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg Hagiography Corpus http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/ (2004). Since 2004 he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123 and on various related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/ and the web portal http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/. This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL online edition http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL.

As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program committee of the El'Manuscript conference http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/. Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in arranging and holding some board meetings.

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GEORG VOGELER

I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of DM.