I am an assistant professor in the
School of Library and Information Science at
Indiana University, where I teach and conduct research in the areas of digital humanities and digital libraries. My research focuses on electronic textuality and the nature of the document in the digital age. I explore the evolution of the document, the book, and the literary text--both born-digital new media texts and digital representations of prior texts. Digital environments and tools offer possibilities for new representations of texts, new readings, and new strategies and habits of reading as documents evolve from more or less static and fixed texts to fluid and malleable data. As part of exploring these transformational developments in textuality, I study the application of metadata and semantic web technologies to facilitate new forms of close, distant, and social reading and interpretation.
In addition to my research activities, I have over ten years experience as a developer, manager, and librarian working on digital scholarly projects.
The Swinburne Project is a digital collection devoted to the life and work of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Project serves as a platform for research into electronic publishing of humanities data and the application of Semantic Web and metadata technologies to the discovery and analysis of literary texts and other humanities data.
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton is a digital edition of the alchemical writings of Isaac Newton, of which only a fraction has been previously edited and published.
Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) is a TEI/XML-based vocabulary for encoding comics, comic books, and graphic novels.