The Digital Medievalist is pleased to announce the slate for the first election of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board. Per the Digital Medievalist Bylaws, Board members will be expected to serve the DM membership by serving on an editorial committee responsible for the production of the DM journal, overseeing the operation of the DM wiki, moderating the dm-l listserv, and/or organizing conference and poster sessions on behalf of Digital Medievalist. Board members serve two-year terms.

For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws:

http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws

Voting will be held by email from March 21 through March 25. March 25 is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, and was New Year's Day until 1752, when western dating moved from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. It is thus a suitable day to welcome the new Digital Medievalist board members.

Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. Watch for an announcement with details on how to cast your vote on March 20.

Nominee biographies are also posted at http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html ************************************* Abdullah Alger:

My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory, which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture, which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or the English Renaissance.

------------------------------------- Arianna Ciula:

Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London.

She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on humanities computing and primary sources at the University of Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist, Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI Technical Council for the term 2007-2009.

She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies.

------------------------------------- Dan O'Donnell

Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age.

------------------------------------- Peter Robinson:

Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding, digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions, specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to serve the DM community as a board member.

------------------------------------- Torsten Schassan:

I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring together people and offer a platform for resources.

My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of representation of information, in database and GUI design.

Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here, before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for metadata and server administration.

My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University at Cologne.