About the editors
The DH Curation Guide contributing editors are experts in their fields and have contributed introductions and resource lists to a range of data curation topics. Their articles, submitted to a rigorous editing process, form the backbone of the Guide.
| Deborah W. Anderson | Alison Babeu | David Dubin |
| Katrina Fenlon | Julia Flanders | Jacob Jett |
| Melissa Levine | Trevor Muñoz | Carole L. Palmer |
| C.M. Sperberg-McQueen |
Deborah W. Anderson, University of California at Berkeley
Deborah Anderson is a researcher in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley who has worked closely in the past with the Unicode Technical Committee on a number of Unicode proposals for historic scripts as well as on other standards-related projects. Link to full bio »
Article: Standards in Digital Collections
Alison Babeu, Perseus Project, Tufts University
Alison Babeu has served as the Digital Librarian and research coordinator for the Perseus Project since 2004. Before coming to Perseus, she worked as a librarian at both the Harvard Business School and the Boston Public Library. She has a BA in History from Mount Holyoke College and an MLS from Simmons College. Link to full bio »
Article: Research Practices: Classics, “Digital Classics” and Issues for Data Curation
David Dubin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Dubin teaches classes in information processing, modeling, and analysis, and his research interests are in the foundations of information representation and description. Link to full bio »
Article: Data Representation
Katrina Fenlon, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Katrina is the Project Coordinator for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her M.S. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC and also has a B.A. in Literature and Government from Claremont McKenna College. Her research interests cluster in the domains of humanities computing and digital libraries. Link to full bio »
Article: Digital Collections and Aggregation
Julia Flanders, Brown University
Julia Flanders is the Director of the Brown University Women Writers Project. She has served in positions of leadership in the TEI and digital humanities communities for the past ten years: as chair and vice-chair of the TEI Consortium, as president and vice-president of the TEI, and as a member of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and also of CenterNet. Her research interests and publications focus on the use of text markup and structured data in humanities research, and the impact of digital technologies and methods on scholarly communication. Link to full bio »
Article: Introduction to Humanities Data Curation
Jacob Jett, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacob is received his Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated with his Master in Library and Information Science degree from GSLIS in May 2007. His research interests include information resource retrieval and access, taxonomies, classification, metadata use, and metadata standards policy and development. Link to full bio »
Article: Digital Collections and Aggregation
Melissa Levine, University Library, University of Michigan
Melissa Levine received her undergraduate degree in history and art history from Emory University and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law. As Lead Copyright Officer for the University of Michigan Library, Melissa provides expert guidance on all aspects of copyright policy and practice helping members of the University of Michigan campus community to understand and apply fair use and other aspects of copyright. Link to full bio »
Article: Legal: Policy, Practice, & Law
Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland
Trevor Muñoz is Associate Director of MITH as well as Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries. Trevor holds an MA in Digital Humanities from the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and a MS in Library and Information Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in curation of humanities data, with a particular emphasis on developing joint research ventures between libraries, digital humanities centers, and other academic faculty. Link to full bio »
Article: Introduction to Humanities Data Curation
Carole L. Palmer, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carole Palmer conducts research on fundamental problems in the use of scientific and scholarly information and teaches courses on information behavior, scientific information practices and problems, and user study design. Her program of research is about mobilizing information for researchers, and it focuses on two interrelated areas: information work in the research process and context-rich digital research collections. Link to full bio »
Article: Digital Collections and Aggregation
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen is the principal of Black Mesa Technologies LLC in New Mexico and the co-chair of Balisage: The Markup Conference. Link to personal website »
Article: Data Representation