education

  • Ph.D., English, Indiana University, 2000
  • M.A., English, Indiana University, 1988
  • A.B. (summa cum laude), English, Ohio University, 1987

Ph.D. Major Area: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, especially poetry. Ph.D. Minors: Classical Studies (Greek) and Victorian Studies.

academic positions

  • Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 2006 - present
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, Indiana University, 2004 - present
  • Associate Librarian & Associate Director for Projects and Services, Digital Library Program, University Libraries, Indiana University, 2004-2006.

professional positions

  • Manager of Electronic Text Technologies, Digital Library Program, University Information Technology Services, Indiana University, 2000-2004.
  • Lead Electronic Text Specialist, Library Electronic Text Support Services & Digital Library Program, University Information Technology Services, Indiana University, 1998-2000.
  • Electronic Text Support Specialist, Library Electronic Text Support Services & Digital Library Program, University Information Technology Services, Indiana University, 1996-1998.

grants & awards

  • Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Fellowship (2 course releases). 2007-2009.
  • NEH grant for the "Digital Humanities Tools in The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: A Collaborative Research Project" ($200,000). 2007-2010.
  • Indiana University "New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities" grant for research travel ($2500). 2007.
  • NSF grant for the "Chymistry of Isaac Newton," a digital edition of the alchemical writings of Isaac Newton (with PI William R. Newman, $248,376). 2006-2009.
  • NSF grant for the "Chymistry of Isaac Newton," a digital edition of the alchemical writings of Isaac Newton (with PI William R. Newman, $450,000). 2003-2006.
  • Indiana University "New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities" grant for research travel ($2500). 2006.
  • Indiana University Librarian Support grant for research travel ($750). 2006.
  • Indiana University "New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities" grant for research travel ($2500). 2005.
  • Indiana University Librarian Support grant for research travel ($750). 2005.

publications

  • Pastorino, Cesare, Tamara Lopez, and John A. Walsh. "The Digital Index Chemicus: toward a digital tool for studying Isaac Newton's Index Chemicus." Body, Space & Technology Journal 7.20 (2008) 27 March 2008 <http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0702/cesarepastorino/>.
  • Walsh, John A. "The Nineteenth Century." A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.
  • Kumar, Amit, Susan Schreibman, Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes, Alejandro Bia, and John Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: A Repository Management System for TEI Documents." Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.1 (2005): 117-132.
  • Kumar, Amit, Alejandro Bia, Martin Holmes, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John A. Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library." Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 8th European Conference, ECDL 2004, Bath, UK, September 12-17, 2004. Proceedings. Ed. Rachel Heery and Liz Lyon. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3232. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005. 432-441.
  • Brancolini, Kristine, Michelle Dalmau, and John A. Walsh. "Russian Periodical Index Digital Project (Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei, 1956-1975)." The Serials Librarian 47.3 (2004): 59-78.
  • Brancolini, Kris R., Jon W. Dunn, and John A. Walsh. "Digital Star Dust: The Hoagy Carmichael Collection at Indiana University." First Monday 5.1 (2000). 9 September 2000. <http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/brancolini/index.HTML>.
  • The Swinburne Project. Ed. John A. Walsh. Vers. 1.1. August 2000. Library Electronic Text Resource Service / Digital Library Program, Indiana U. 9 September 2000. <http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/swinburne/>.

presentations

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "Document-Centric Framework for Navigating Texts Online, or, the Intersection of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard." Digital Humanities 2008 Conference. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. 25-92 June 2008.
  • Walsh, John A. "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton and the Chymical Foundations of Digital Humanities." Digital Humanities 2008 Conference. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. 25-92 June 2008.
  • Walsh, John A., et al. "Understanding TEI(s): A Presentation and Discussion Session." Digital Humanities 2008 Conference. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. 25-92 June 2008.
  • Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "Navigating Texts Online: The Intersection of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard." Digital Resource for the Humanities and Arts Conference. Dartington College of Arts, Dartington, England, UK. 9-12 September 2007.
  • Pastorino, Cesare, Tamara Lopez, and John A. Walsh. "The Digital Index Chemicus." Digital Resource for the Humanities and Arts Conference. Dartington College of Arts, Dartington, England, UK. 9-12 September 2007.
  • Walsh, John A. "High Stroke Low Culture: The Fine Arts in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 26-29 July 2007.
  • Walsh, John A. "Implementing TEI Collections with XTF." Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Members Meeting 2006. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 27-28 October 2006.
  • Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "CBML: Comic Book Markup Language." Digital Resource for the Humanities and Arts Conference. Dartington College of Arts, Dartington, England, UK. 3-6 September 2006.
  • Walsh, John A. "Jack Kirby as a Genre" (poster). Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 20-23 July 2006.
  • Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "Digital Humanities Quarterly" (poster). Digital Humanities 2006 Conference. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France. 5-9 July 2006.
  • Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "Navigating a Sea of Texts: Topic Maps and the Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. The Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas. 10-12 April 2006.
  • Piez, Wendell and John A. Walsh. "SVG Visualization of TEI Texts." Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Members Meeting 2005. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. 28-29 October 2005.
  • Walsh, John. "The Need for Coordinated Efforts to Develop Digital Annotation Tools." Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 28-30 September 2005.
  • Dalmau, Michelle and John A. Walsh. "Topic Maps in Digital Humanities: Sure They're Cool, but Do They Make a Difference?, A User Study." Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2005. Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK. 4-7 September 2005.
  • Walsh, John A. "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: New Technologies and Old Science" (poster). Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2005. Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK. 4-7 September 2005.
  • Walsh, John A. "'Are You a Boy?': Masculinities Outside the Panels." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 14-17 July 2005.
  • Walsh, John A. "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: New Technologies and Old Science" (poster). Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section (STS), American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago. 23-29 June 2005.
  • Walsh, John A. "TM4DH: Topic Maps for Digital Humanities: Examples and Tool Kits." Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 15-18 June 2005.
  • Walsh, John A., Jenn Riley, Michelle Dalmau, and David Jiao. "METS Navigator: A METS-based Display and Navigation Utility for Multi-Part Digital Objects." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego. 13-15 April 2005.
  • Hess, Charlotte, Andy Revelle, and John A. Walsh. "Digital Libraries, Digital Commons, and the Digital Library of the Commons." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego. 13-15 April 2005.
  • Kumar, Amit, Alejandro Bia, Martin Holmes, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John A. Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library." European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). University of Bath, Bath, England, UK. 12-17 September 2004.
  • Walsh, John A. "Topic Maps and TEI-Encoded Literary Texts." Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2004. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, England, UK. 5-8 September 2004.
  • Walsh, John A. "The Marvel Age as Romantic Age." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 22-25 July 2004.
  • Kumar, Amit, Susan Schreibman, Stewart Arneil, Alejandro Bia, Martin Holmes, and John Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: A Repository Management System for TEI Documents." Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). University of Göteburg, Göteburg, Sweden. 11-16 June, 2004
  • Walsh, John A. "Pop Goes the TEI: TEI Markup Applied to Comic Books and Graphic Novels." Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) 2003. University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England, UK. 31 August - 3 September 2003.
  • Walsh, John A. "XML and Comics: Comic Book Markup Language (CBML)." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 17-20 July 2003.
  • Walsh, John A. "CBML: Comic Book Markup Language." XML Conference and Exposition 2002. Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore. 8-13 December 2002.
  • Walsh, John A. "'Unicode Ate My Brain,' or The Trials and Tribulations of Implementing a Unicode-Dependent Digital Library Project." Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2002. Hilton Seattle, Seattle. 4-6 November 2002.
  • Walsh, John A. "Free the Data: Accessibility, Format, and Transformation Issues Related to XML-Based Humanities Resources." Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH) 2002. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 9 September 2002.
  • Walsh, John A. "Creating an XML-Based Scholarly Research Tool: Challenges and Methodology." XML Conference and Exposition 2001. Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Orlando. 9 December 2001.

Invited Talks

  • Walsh, John A. "Comic Book Markup Language." Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Lecture. Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 29 November 2007.
  • Walsh, John A. "Annotation in The Chymistry of Isaac Newton." Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Sponsored by Illinois Institute for Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. Hotel Orrington, Northwestern, Illinois. 21-22 October 2007.
  • Walsh, John A. and Michelle Dalmau. "Navigating a Sea of Texts: Topic Maps and the Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne." Text Encoding Initiative Day. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. 17 May 2006.
  • Walsh, John A. "TEI Markup and the Power of Heavy Encoding." Roman de la Rose Workshop. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 28-29 March 2006.
  • Walsh, John A. "Digital Content Selection" (panel). Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Spring 2006 Meeting. Fort Myers, Florida. 12-14 March 2006.
  • Walsh, John (panel moderator). "Digital Victorianism." North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 30 September - 2 October 2005.
  • Kumar, Amit and John A. Walsh. "<teiPublisher>: A Repository Management System for TEI Documents." Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Members Meeting. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 22-23 October 2004.

teaching

Courses Taught

  • Digital Humanities (graduate course)
  • Digital Libraries (graduate course)
  • Electronic Publishing Standards and Systems (graduate course)
  • Information Architecture for the Web

service

National & International Professional Activities

  • Technical Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/>, an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities and published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/>. 2005 - present.
  • Member, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Technical Council. Elected member (two consecutive two-year terms) of the Technical Council that oversees the ongoing development of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. 2005-2008.
  • Steering Committee & Victorian Editorial Board of Nines (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) <http://www.nines.org/>, a project, funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to found a publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed online scholarship centered in nineteenth-century studies, British and American. May 2003 - present.
  • Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) "Text and Graphics" Special Interest Group (SIG). TEI Members Meeting 2003. University of Nancy, Nancy, France. 7-8 November 2003. I initiated and organized the first meeting of this special interest group focusing on the special concerns of graphics-intensive electronic text projects.
  • Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) / National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Task Force on SGML/XML Migration. 2002-2005.

State & Local Service

  • Trustee, Monroe County Public Library, 2006 - present.
  • Secretary, Indiana Library Trustee Association, 2006 - present.

University Service

  • Indiana University Digital Library Program Advisory Committee, 2006 - present.
  • University Libraries, Fee-Based Library Services Procedural Working Group, 2006
  • Bloomington Faculty Council, Technology Policy Committee, 2005-06.
  • Bloomington Library Faculty Council, Continuing Education Committee, 2005-07.
  • Bloomington Library Faculty Council, Research Committee, 2005-06.
  • University Libraries, NEH Endowment Selection Committee, 2005.
  • University Libraries, Institutional Repository Working Group, 2004-06.
  • University Libraries, Collections Digitization Committee, 2004-05.
  • University Libraries, Student Advisory Committee, 1995-96.
  • Department of English, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1994-95