curriculum vitae

1. Current position

Since 2001, Assistant Director of Oxford University Computing Services, and head of Information and Support Group. Manage 30+ staff, reporting to Director of OUCS. Responsible for policy development, budgetary control, and strategic planning across the largestof OUCS four groups, comprising the Research Technologies Service, the Help Centre, Information Services, and other sections. Provide consultancy and training. Responsible for Oxford participation in several international research projects, notably the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Continued management of the British National Corpus project.

2. Recent research activities

• MASTER (Manuscript access through standards for electronic records): Funded 1998-2001 under the EU Libraries Programme, this project devised and tested an XML standard for the detailed description of manuscripts. I was responsible for development and maintenance of the standard, and associated software. (See http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Master)
• Memoria: I was a partner in this EU funded digital library, producing several working papers on delivery mechanisms for textual material in collaboration with the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (1994-5)
• AHDS Feasibility Study: Together with Harold Short (Kings College London) I carried out the detailed feasibility study which led to the establishment by the JISC of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (1994-5)
• SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application): With the aid of a British Library Research Award (1993-4) I designed a powerful SGML-aware text indexing and concordancing system, appropriate to the needs of largescale language corpus projects (see http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/SARA)
• BNC (British National Corpus): This 100 million word corpus of British English, both spoken and written, was created by an academic/industrial consortium with joint DTI/SERC funding between 1990-1994. I was responsible for Oxford University's participation in the project, in particular the design of its encoding scheme and management of the local development team, and remain responsible for maintenance and worldwide distribution of the corpus: a second edition was published in 2001 (see http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk).
• TEI (Text Encoding Initiative): The TEI was set up as an international project to develop methods for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable texts intended for literary, linguistic, historical, or other textual research in 1988 with funding from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, the Canadian Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the EU Language Engineering Programme. I was appointed TEI European Editor in 1989, and have been a key figure in the establishment and development of the standard ever since, participating in a very wide range of teaching and advisory activities, working with many scholars and experts worldwide, and most recently active in the re-establishment of the TEI Consortium, a not for profit membership body charged with continued maintenance of the standard (see http://www.tei-c.org).

3. Teaching and training experience

Regular short courses and workshops on SGML and the TEI, and on the BNC and corpus linguistics. Recent examples include TEI Workshops organized for the Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante in November 2000; for the Ontario Library Association in Canada, August 2000; Text Encoding Summer School at Oxford (annually, since 1997); the TEI and Corpus Encoding Workshop at SSLMIT (May 2001; Nov 1999; May 1998; April 1997); a series of two-day workshops on the encoding and cataloguing of Medieval Manuscripts held as part of the MASTER Project in Milan, Paris, Vilnius, Prague, Sofia, and London during 2001;

Some other recent training events include:

• One day TEI workshops: Cambridge, September 2000; Oxford, July 2000; LDV Conference, Frankfurt, July 1999; Academica Sinica, Taipei, Jan 1999; Arnamaegnean Inst., Reyjavik, Sept 1998; Electronic Publishing 1998, Nantes, February 1998; EBTI Conference, Kyoto, October 1997; PELCRA Workshop, Lancaster, Dec 1997;
• BNC Introductory seminars: Paris, July 2000; Trondheim, February 1999; Warwick, January 1998; Chemnitz, February 1998; Lodz, April 1997; Soria, July 1997;
• Invited keynote lectures: Mumbai, April 2001; Lyon, March 2001; Graz, July 2000; Duisburg, 29 June, 2000; USC, Feb 1998; University of Georgia, March 1998;

4. Academic qualifications and appointments

• 2000- Member of TEI Consortium Board
• 1999- Standing Committee, Digital Resources in the Humanities conference
• 1996- Editorial board, Text Technology
• 1998- CEDARS Project Advisory Board
• 1996- ALLC Committee member
• 1996- Consultant for Evaluation of Corpora to ELRA
• 1992-94 Management Committee, UK SGML Project
• 1990-92 Member Editorial Board, Chadwyck-Healey's English Poetry database
• 1988-92 Management Committee, CTI Languages and Literature Project
• 1987 Visiting fellowship Max-Planck Inst. fur Geschichte, Goettingen
• 1987-8 External Examiner, University of Southampton
• 1987 Elected member Wolfson College Common Room
• MA (1979), M Phil.(1973), BA 1st class (1968) in English Language and Literature, Balliol College Oxford.

Since 1994 I have regularly reviewed research applications for the EPSRC, and also, more recently, for the AHRB.

5. Employment History

1995-2001

Oxford University Computing Services Manager Humanities Computing Unit (the HCU was disbanded as part of a reorganization of OUCS in 2001)

1974-1995

Oxford University Computing Services Applications Programmer

• Set up and managed Oxford Text Archive
• Developed a range of software, consultancy, and training services
• Obtained major national and international funding for research projects (e.g. British National Corpus, Text Encoding Initiative)

1972-1974

University of Malawi: Lecturer in English

• Taught introductory courses on English and African literature
• Developed creative writing and publishing courses

1970-1972

Research Student, MPhil 19th century English Studies, Oxford University

1965-1968

Undergraduate Student, English Language and Literature, Balliol College, Oxford

6. Publications