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Institutions and Individuals
The core institutions and people involved were:
Steering Committee
1. King’s College London [web site]
Charlotte
Roueché [web site], Departments
of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and of Classics, is responsible for the publication of the
Aphrodisias
material.
Harold Short is the
Director of the Centre for Computing in
the Humanities and Co-Director of the Office for Humanities Communication, and is currently Chair of
the Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing
2. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA [web site]
Tom Elliott, Director
of the Ancient World Mapping Center is the
originator of the Epidoc initiative and the principal author of the Epidoc draft guidelines.
Dr Hugh Cayless is
Academic Web Developer, Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services
Dr Anne Mahoney
[web site], of the Perseus project at Tufts University, is associated as an advisor.
3. The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents [web site]
The Centre, based at Oxford, is engaged in a number of related electronic projects.
Dr Charles
Crowther is the Assistant Director.
4. The Institute of Classical Studies, London [web site]
The Director, Professor Waywell, provided a room newly equipped for Computing in
the Humanities, dedicated to Epigraphic and Papyrological projects, and
supporting resources in the Library of the Institute.
Research Team
Text Manager
Dr Gabriel Bodard (PhD, Classics,
Reading) is trained in Classical literature and history. His main research interests are in Greek
religion,
magic, epigraphy and papyrology, with a current focus on the early Greek world. He also maintains a keen
interest in digital
resources for Classics, and was formerly a research assitant at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, at the
University of California
Irvine. He teaches ancient Greek language and literature.
XML Managers
Dr John Lavagnino
[web site] (AB, Physics, Harvard; PhD,
English, Brandeis) has a background in English literature and in electronic publishing. His
current research is devoted to Thomas Middleton, the English Renaissance playwright; he is one of the
general editors of a
collected edition of Middleton's works, to be published by Oxford University Press. He was a contributor
to the Text Encoding
Initiative guidelines, and his other publications include work on scholarly editing and
twentieth-century literature.
Paul Spence [web site] has a background in teaching and
Spanish/Latin American studies. He manages XML project development at CCH (Centre for Computing in the Humanities) at King's College London,
carrying out document analysis and advising on issues relating to XML mark-up and electronic
publication.
In close collaboration with Paul Vetch he developed xMod, "a web publishing
application that allows the user to create information-rich document-based websites" and which currently
underpins most of CCH's document-based projects.
Database Manager
Dr Hafed Walda [web site] (MA, Ph.D., Archaeology, London)
is an archaeologist and has worked in The Museum of London, The British Museum and the
Classics Department at King's College London, with keen interest in Computing in the Humanities. He
works at CCH (Centre for
Computing in Humanities, King's College London) in the areas of database design and implementation, and
Database Management
Systems.
Associated Bodies
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