Current work
- Raven Tracks - Resources for students of Ancient Greek (so far)
- XProc Zone - XProc 3.0 resources for learners and experts
- Pellucid Literature - archive of older projects
- XML Jelly Sandwich projects - XSLT applications in your browser using SaxonJS, including the Electronic Verse Engineer (2022)
- The Laminator, a MNML LMNL processor (markup supporting overlap)
For more links, with PDFs of older presentations (slides) see the Projects page.
Bio
- 1962 - Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; raised in US foreign service posts (Afghanistan, Philippines, Japan) and Washington DC area (Reston, VA)
- 1975 - 1980 Attended American School in Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
- 1980 - 1985 Attended Yale College (MC) majoring in Ancient Greek - BA 1984 (magna cum laude)
- 1983 Attended Middlebury College Summer School (immersion program in German)
- 1985 Enrolled as Special Student, Yale University (Department of English)
- 1985 - 1987 Served as assistant editor for Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers (New York, NY) Modern Critical Interpretations and Modern Critical Views
- 1986 - 1991 Attended Rutgers University (Department of English) - PhD 1991 (Dissertation: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Discipline)
- 1987 Attended NYU Paris Summer School
- 1991 - 1996 - Worked as a university instructor (Composition, English Literature) and library archivist (Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives)
- 1992 - 1993 - Contributed to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, researching and writing articles about Henry David Thoreau; Elizabeth Peabody; and Edwin Arnold (The Light of Asia)
- 1994 Contributed to Dhalgren MOO, a text-based, programmable online virtual reality environment (see an archived copy online)
- 1994 Attended CETH (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities) Summer Seminar, Princeton University
- 1995 Joined CETH faculty (Rutgers University Libraries)
- 1997 Left CETH and moved to Shepherdstown, WV pursuing a doomed startup opportunity
- 1998 Found the groove again at Mulberry Technologies, Inc. (Rockville MD)
- 2001 - 2007 Contributed to Extreme Markup Languages conference sponsored by IDEAlliance (formerly GCA) in Montreal, Quebec; designed and built its Proceedings publication platform
- 2004 Best Speaker Award at XML 2004 for my paper and demonstration
Way Beyond Powerpoint
- 2001 Co-authored a late-breaking conference paper on LMNL with Jeni Tennison
- 2008 Co-founded Digital Humanities Quarterly (ADHO journal) with Julia Flanders (Editor in Chief), Melissa Terras, John Unsworth, John Walsh
- 2008 - 2012 Served as Adjunct Faculty, UIUC GSLIS (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Graduate School of Library and Information Science)
- 2008 - 2026 Contributed to Balisage: The Markup Conference, offering papers and building its first Proceedings production platform
- 2012 Demo Jam First Place for Luminescent, presented at Balisage
- 2012 Formed independent consultancy
- 2017 Joined NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technologies, US Department of Commerce), ITL (Information Technology Laboratory) working on compliance automation (OSCAL, the Open Security Controls Assessment Language)
- 2025 Retired from Federal service
- 2025 Conceived and built XProc Zone and Raven Tracks projects, for XML practitioners and students of ancient languages respectively (but not exclusively)