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Digging into Data Challenge Award Recipients, 2009: Project Participants

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Using Zotero and TAPOR on the Old Bailey Proceedings: Data Mining with Criminal Intent (DMCI)

Dan Cohen (George Mason University [GMU], US) served as principal investigator for the NEH-funded portion of the project and managed the workflow and partnership at GMU.

Fred Gibbs (George Mason University, US) wrote the Zotero plug-in that extracts trial transcripts from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, organized them, and sent their text to mining services. He also conducted research using the project’s tools.

Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire, UK) served as principal investigator for the JISC-funded portion of the project as well as liaison between the Old Bailey team and other project partners, ensuring that data were available in the right form. He also worked with Turkel on detailed textual analysis and on organizing the stakeholders’ engagement with the project.

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) served as co-principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded portion of the project and worked with Sander and John Simpson to implement the data warehouse model for data from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online in preparation for the Old Bailey Application Programming Interface (OBAPI).

Jörg Sander (University of Alberta, Canada) worked with Rockwell and John Simpson to select and then implement the data warehouse model for data from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online in preparation for the Old Bailey Application Programming Interface (OBAPI).

Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield, UK) managed the implementation of the Old Bailey Application Programming Interface (OBAPI) at Sheffield.

Stéfan Sinclair (McGill University, Canada, previously McMaster University) served as co-principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded portion of the project and designed a new, simplified skin (a combination of tools) to optimize Voyeur/Voyant Tools’ visual ease of use.

Sean Takats (George Mason University, US) worked with Cohen and Gibbs on the incorporation of the plug-in that extracts trial transcripts from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online and imports them into the Zotero research management tool.

William Turkel (University of Western Ontario, Canada) imported project data into Mathematica to create visualizations for the project.

Other contributors and stakeholders:
Cyril Briquet (McMaster University, Canada)
Hugh Couchman (SHARCNET, Canada)
Clive Emsley (Open University, UK)
Margaret Hunt (Amherst College, US)
Jamie McLaughlin (University of Sheffield, UK)
Michael Pidd (University of Sheffield, UK)
Milena Radzikowska (Mount Royal University, Canada)
Kevin Sienna (Trent University, Canada)
John Simpson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Kirsten C. Uszkalo (Independent Scholar)

Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters

Nicole Coleman (Stanford University, US) provided leadership for the day-to-day work on the project, including providing collaborative research support and facilitating project documentation and communication.

Peter Damian-Grint (Electronic Enlightenment Project, University of Oxford, UK) serves as correspondence editor for the Electronic Enlightenment Project and contributed subject expertise in French language and literature.

Dan Edelstein (Stanford University, US) served as principal investigator of the NEH-funded portion of the project and provided subject expertise in European history, literature, and culture.

Paula Findlen (Stanford University, US) lent subject expertise for the project in European history and culture and coauthored a project white paper with Edelstein.

Robert McNamee (University of Oxford, UK) served as principal investigator of the JISC-funded portion of the project. He heads the Electronic Enlightenment Project, the major source of data and metadata for the initiative, and offered both technical and subject expertise.

Mark Rogerson (University of Oxford, UK) is technical editor of the Electronic Enlightenment Project and offered data expertise for the project.

Rachel Shadoan (University of Oklahoma, US) worked with Weaver on the analysis of project data using the Improvise advanced visual analytics tool, including software engineering and usability evaluation.

Chris Weaver (University of Oklahoma, US) served as principal investigator of the NSF-funded portion of the project, involving implementing the Improvise advanced visual analytics tool.

Other contributors and stakeholders:
Density Design Research Lab (Polytechnical Institute, Italy)
Keith Baker (Stanford University, US)
John Bender (Stanford University, US)
Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University, US)
Jon Christensen (Stanford University, US)
Dario Generali (National Publication of the Works of Antonio
Vallisneri, Italy)
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University, US)
Carl-Olof Jacobson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Wijnand W. Mijnhardt (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Peter M. Miller (Bard Graduate Center, US)
Guliano Pancaldi (International Center for the History of
Universities and Science, Italy)
Mark Peterson (University of California at Berkeley, US)
Jessica Riskin (Stanford University, US)
Jacob Soll (Rutgers University, US)
Francoise Wacquet (French National Center for Scientific Research, France)
Caroline Winterer (Stanford University, US)

Towards Dynamic Variorum Editions

Alison Babeu (Tufts University, US) is the digital librarian for the Perseus Digital Library and contributed both data and subject expertise to the project.

David Bamman (Tufts University, US) is a computational linguist who contributed both technical and subject expertise to the project.

Federico Boschetti (Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council, Italy) worked with Robertson on customizing optical character recognition engines for ancient Greek source texts.

Lisa Cerrato (Tufts University, US) is managing editor of the Perseus Project and contributed both data and subject expertise.

Gregory Crane (Tufts University, US) served as principal investigator for the NEH-funded portion of the project.

John Darlington (Imperial College London, UK) served as principal investigator for the JISC-funded portion of the project.

Brian Fuchs (Imperial College London, UK) designed and implemented a scalable computer infrastructure for processing large data sets of page images from books.

David Mimno (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US) is a computer scientist who contributed both technical and analytical expertise to the project.

Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) served as principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded portion of the project and worked with Boschetti and a team of undergraduate students on producing classifiers suitable for the optical character recognition of ancient Greek source texts.

Rashmi Singhal (Tufts University, US) is lead programmer for the Perseus Project and contributed technical expertise.

David Smith (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US), a computer scientist, contributed technical and analytical expertise to the project.

Mining a Year of Speech

Lou Bernard (University of Oxford, UK) is assistant director of Oxford Computing Services and has long been responsible for the distribution and maintenance of the British National Corpus, the data set at the heart of the JISC-funded portion of the project.

Christopher Cieri (University of Pennsylvania, US) is executive director of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania and contributed administratively and substantively to the project. He is an expert in corpus-based phonetics.

John Coleman (University of Oxford, UK) is professor of phonetics and served as principal investigator for the JISC-funded portion of the project, based at Oxford’s Phonetics Laboratory, which he directs.

Sergio Grau (University of Oxford, UK) is a research fellow at University of Oxford and performed most of the analysis on the British National Corpus data for the project.

Gregory Kochanski (University of Oxford, UK) is a senior research fellow at Oxford’s Phonetics Laboratory and contributed subject and analytical expertise to the project.

Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, US) served as principal investigator for the NSF-funded portion of the project, based at the Linguistics Data Consortium.

Ladan Ravary (University of Oxford, UK) is a research fellow at Oxford’s Phonetics Laboratory and an expert in the engineering of speech recognition and alignment technologies.

Jonathan Robinson (British Library, UK) is lead content specialist in Sociolinguistics and Education at the Social Sciences Collections and Research Department of the British Library and contributed technical, managerial, and subject expertise to the project.

Joanne Sweeney (British Library, UK) is a content specialist in the Social Sciences Collections and Research Department of the British Library and contributed technical expertise and support to the project.

Jiahong Yuan (University of Pennsylvania, US) is assistant professor of linguistics and the developer of the Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner, a tool that was adapted and used extensively for the project.

Harvesting Speech Data Sets for Linguistic Research on the Web

Mats Rooth (Cornell University, US) served as principal investigator for the NSF-funded portion of the project. A computational linguist, he was responsible for working with graduate and undergraduate students at Cornell to design and implement the harvesting methodology used for the project.

Michael Wagner (McGill University, Canada), a linguist, served as principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded portion of the project and was responsible for leading the analysis of data harvested during the course of the project, which included the comparison of results of computational statistical analysis with analysis using traditional formal-linguistics methodologies.

Jonathan Anthony Howell (McGill University, Canada) is a postdoctoral fellow who specializes in statistical and machine learning methodologies for phonetic analysis. His doctoral dissertation project formed the basis for the collaboration funded through the Digging into Data program.

Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information

J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US) is a music information retrieval and computational musicology specialist based at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC who led the NSF-funded portion of the project, which, once complete, will have generated hundreds of thousands of structural analysis files for musical pieces.

David De Roure (formerly University of Southampton, now University of Oxford, UK) is a computer scientist with expertise in distributed information systems, Web 2.0, and Semantic Web technologies and served as the principal investigator of the JISC-funded portion of the project, which included the development of a standardized ontology for musical structures based upon the Resource Description Framework.

Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University, Canada), associate professor of music technology, is the principal investigator of the SSHRC-funded portion of the project. He directed the preparation of the open-source “ground truth” data against which the team measured the performance of the structural analysis algorithms.

Advisers, data contributors, and other contributors:

Mert Bay (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)
John Ashley Burgoyne (McGill University, Canada)
Alan B. Craig (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)
Tim Crawford (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Andreas Ehmann (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)
Benjamin Fields (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Linda Frueh (Internet Archive, US: data contributor)
Eric J. Isaacson (Indiana University, US)
Lisa Kahlden (Anthology of Recorded Music, Database of Recorded American Music: data contributor)
Kevin R. Page (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK)
Yves Raimond (British Broadcasting Corporation, UK)
Jordan B. L. Smith (formerly McGill University, Canada, now Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Michael Welge (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)

Music annotators:
Christa Emerson, David Adamcyk, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Meghan Goodchild, Michel Vallières, Mikaela Miller, Parker Bert, Rona Nadler, and Rémy Bélanger de Beauport

Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship-Related Questions

Core participants involved in all project elements:

Peter Ainsworth (University of Sheffield, UK) served as principal investigator for the JISC-funded portion of the collaboration and contributed subject and technical expertise as director of the Online Froissart Project.

Simon Appleford (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US) is a cultural historian and digital humanist based at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois. He contributed as a subject specialist to the project.

Peter Bajcsy (formerly University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, now National Institute of Standards and Technology, US) was the founder and leader of the Image Spatial Data Analysis Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois. He led project planning and served as co-principal investigator for the NSF-funded portion of the project.

Steve Cohen (Michigan State University, US), an evaluation specialist, helped with project assessment throughout the grant.

Matthew Geimer (Michigan State University, US), a computer scientist, contributed technical and analytical expertise to the project.

Jennifer Guiliano (formerly University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, now assistant director for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland) served as project manager for the NSF-funded portion of the grant and contributed subject expertise as a cultural historian and digital humanist.

Rob Kooper (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US) is a computer scientist and senior research programmer for the Image Spatial Data Analysis Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He served as co-principal investigator for the NSF-funded portion of the project.

Michael Meredith (University of Sheffield, UK) contributed computer science expertise and served as developer for the JISC-funded portion of the project.

Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University, US) is director of MATRIX, the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University (MSU) and history adjunct curator of the MSU Museum. He served as principal investigator for the NEH-funded portion of the project and contributed subject expertise in the digital humanities generally as well as expertise specific to his involvement with the Quilt Index.

Justine Richardson (Michigan State University, US) served as project manager for the NEH-funded portion of the project based at MATRIX, Michigan State University. She also contributed subject expertise in cultural history and digital humanities as well as expertise specific to her involvement with the Quilt Index.

Michael Simeone (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US) contributed as a subject expert in historical cartography and served as project manager for the NSF-funded portion of the project based at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, University of Illinois.

Contributing additional expertise in computer science:
Wayne Dyksen (Michigan State University, US)
Alhad Gokhale (Independent Researcher)
Zach Pepin (Michigan State University, US)
William Punch (Michigan State University, US)
Tenzing Shaw (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)

Contributing additional expertise in quilt making and quilt history:

Beth Donaldson (Michigan State University Museum, US)
Amy Milne (Alliance for American Quilts, US)
Marsha MacDowell (Michigan State University and MSU Museum, US)
Amanda Silkarskie (Michigan State University, US)
Mary Worrall (Michigan State University Museum and Quilt Index Project, US)

Other consulting quilt experts:
Karen Alexander, Barbara Brackman, Janneken Smucker, Merikay Waldvogel, Jan Wass and members of the American Quilt Study Group e-mail discussion list

Contributing art historical and other expertise related to medieval manuscripts:
Heather Tennyson (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)
Colin Dunn (Scriptura Limited, University of Oxford, UK)
Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool, UK)
Caroline Prud’homme (University of Toronto, Canada)
Victoria Turner (University of Warwick, UK)
Anne D. Hedeman (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)
Natalie Hanson (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)

Contributing expertise in historical cartography and environmental literatures:
Robert Markley (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US)

Railroads and the Making of Modern America

William G. Thomas III (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) served as principal investigator of the NEH-funded portion of the project and contributed as a data and subject expert in American history.

Richard Healey (University of Portsmouth, UK) served as principal investigator of the JISC-funded portion of the project and contributed as a data and subject expert in American railroad history, geography, and geographic information systems.

Ian Cottingham (University of Nebraska-Lincoln [UNL], US) is chief software architect in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UNL and contributed technical and analytical expertise, leading the team designing and building the Aurora Engine for the exploration of geographic data.

Leslie Working (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) is a graduate instructor in history based at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She contributed project management expertise for the NEH-funded portion of the project, helping to supervise a team of students doing data checking and correction for the project.

Nathan B. Sanderson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who contributed subject and project management expertise to the Railroads and the Making of Modern America Project based at the University of Nebraska.

Other participants and advisers:
Anne Bretagnolle (Paris One University, France)
Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster, UK)
Anne Kelley Knowles (Middlebury College, US)
John Lutz (University of Victoria, Canada)
Sherry Olson (McGill University, Canada)
Ashok Samal (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)
Martin Schaefer (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Stephen Scott (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)
Richard White (Stanford University, US)

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