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Dr Julianne Nyhan, Teaching Fellow, Department of Information Studies / Centre for Digital Humanities University College London Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften Universität Trier {forename.surname}@gmail.com Summary Research Publications Projects Conference papers Consultancy Contact me

Summary

I am a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Information Studies and Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London. I have been a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften at Universität Trier since January 2009. I am Book Reviews Editor of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, a journal that aims to ‘set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts’ (X). In January 2010 I was elected to the Council of the TEI

Research

My PhD (2006) was interdisciplinary and covered digital humanities, meta-lexicography and the history of medieval Irish lexicography. My thesis The Application of XML to the Historical Lexicography of Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish: a lexicon-based analysis is available here. My current research interests include:

• The intersection of computing with the Humanities and Cultural Heritage. This covers all aspects of Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on Historical dictionaries.


• Cultural Studies and Digital Culture, especially the history of the remediation of the dictionary at the intersection of Culture, Learning and Society from medieval to modern times


• Digital History and Museum Computing with a special focus on Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technologies and applications


• The History of Computing and Digital Humanities


• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), especially the theory and practice of e-learning.

Teaching

In 2010 and 2011 year I am teaching the following MA modules in the Department of Information Studies, UCL:

• INSTG008: Digital Resources in the Humanities
• INSTG017: Internet Technologies
• INSTG036: Web Publishing

With Dot Porter I will be teaching a course that we have designed entitled ‘Digital History and Culture: methods, sources and future looks’. It is a 30 hour course, and we will teach it in July 2010 at the European Summer School of Culture and Technology, Universität Leipzig. Here is the draft syllabus.

Publications

Articles

1. (submitted). Rockwell, Geoffrey, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera, Stan Ruecker, Julianne Nyhan and 79 other digital humanists around the world. ‘A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 2009’. Digital Humanities Quarterly.

2. 2008. Developing Integrated Editions of Heritage Language Dictionaries: the Irish example. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23: 3-12.

3. 2007. ‘Foclóir an Duinnínigh: Cnuasaigh na nDéise agus Oirthear Chorcaí’. An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise 11: 144-152. (ISSN 1393-4260).

4. 2007. ‘Dúil d'fhocail ó Thiobraid Árann’. Tipperary Historical Journal 142-144. (ISSN 0791-0655).

5. 2006. ‘Findfhocla an Chomaraigh’. An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise 10: 97-111. (ISSN 1393-4260).

Book Chapters

1. (submitted). Moulin, Claudine and Julianne Nyhan. ‘Exploring the dynamics of digital publications in the Humanities through the lens of Digital Lexicography’. Dávidházi Péter Ed. Proceedings of the International Conference on 'Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities 2009, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities.

2. 2009. ‘Some Digital Humanities methodologies and their importance to Irish Studies’. In Lesser Used Languages Computer Linguistics (LLUCL): Proceedings of the LULCL Conference, November 2008. EURAC Research: Bolzano.

3. 2008. ‘The problem of date and context in electronic editions of Irish historical dictionaries’. In Yesterday's words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography, ed. Marijke and Van der Val, 319-332. Cambridge Scholar's Publishing: UK. (ISBN 978-1-8471846-9-6).

4. Submitted 2007. ‘Establishing the sophistication of the ordering systems used in the major glossaries of Medieval Irish’. In The History of the Irish Book, Alan Titley ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford (forthcoming).

5. 2006. Griffin, Carrie and Julianne Nyhan, ‘Transcending Textual Borders? Digitising a Middle English Lunary from British Library Egerton MS 827, and a brief introduction to XML mark-up in the Humanities’. In Proceedings of Borderlines Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2003, ed. Julianne Nyhan, Carrie Griffin and Kenneth Rooney. Electronic Publishing Unit: University College Cork. http://epu.ucc.ie/borderlines/Carrie_Julie_paper (accessed 01/04/09). (ISBN 978-0-9552229-8-6).

Reports

1. TextGrid report 4.3.1 (in progress). Marc Wilhelm Küster (FH Worms), Thomas Selig (FH Worms), Julianne Nyhan (Universtität Trier / University College London), Wolfgang Pempe (SUB Göttingen), Kathleen Smith (University of Illinois / SUB Göttingen) Bericht zu eHumanities-Themen mit Relevanz für die allgemeine Informatik / Report on eHumanities research topics relevant in Computer Science.

Editorial

1. 2008, vol. 33.3 -. Book Reviews editor, Interdisciplinary Science reviews. Manley Press.

2. 2006. Nyhan, Julianne, Carrie Griffin and Kenneth Rooney (eds), Proceedings of Borderlines Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2003. Electronic Publishing Unit: University College Cork. http://epu.ucc.ie/borderlines/ (accessed 01/04/09) (ISBN 978-0-9552229-8-6).

Electronic resources

1. 2010 [forthcoming]. An enhanced, TEI-encoded edition of Patrick S. Dinneen's Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla [An Irish-English Dictionary], Irish Text Society: Dublin. 1936 to be published on the CELT website

2. 2007. A prototype electronic lexicon of Medieval Irish: contribution I, based on a re-edited subset of Marstrander, C. J. S., et al. (ed), Dictionary of the Irish language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (compact edition). Dublin: 1988.

3. Numerous TEI-encoded editions of Irish, English and Latin texts of Irish literature, politics and history on the CELT website. See individual TEI headers on the published page.

Reviews

1. 2010. Review of Literate technologies: Language, Cognition and Technicity, by L. Armand. Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access published on November 30, 2009. doi:10.1093/llc/fqp042

2. 2009. Review of Deep time of the Media. Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, by S. Zelinski, trans. by Gloria Custance. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34.1

3. 2008. Review of The Virtual window: From Alberti to Microsoft, by S. Freidberg S. Literary and Linguistic Computing 23: 497-499.

Posters

1. 2008. ‘E-portfolios and the dimensions of understanding’. In International perspectives in teaching and learning in Higher Education: NAIRTL Conference proceedings November 2007, ed. Norma Ryan. NAIRTL: University College Cork (ISBN 978-0-9556109-4-3)

Conference papers

Invited presentations

1. 2009. Teaching and Learning TEI: an introduction to TEI-EJ, TEI Praxis Symposium, Cologne Centre for e-Humanities, Germany.

2. 2008. The advantages and disadvantages of the application of XML to medieval inflected languages: a case study of electronic resources for medieval Irish, Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II, European Academy, Bolzano

3. 2008. Encoding Old Irish glossaries with TEI P5, Old Irish Glossary Symposium, Cambridge University

4. 2008. This history, context and organisation of the European Reference Index for the Humanities, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal

5. 2007. Electronic lexicography: medieval and modern, Trinity College Dublin, Seminar in Medieval History.

6. 2007. Historical dictionaries versus Literary works?, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Conference presentations

1. 2010. Dan Blackshields, James Cronin and Julianne Nyhan. Integrative learning and technoculture: what's at stake?, National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL), Ireland, October 2010.

2. 2010. Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera and Julianne Nyhan. What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data, SDH/SEMI, Concordia, Montreal, Canada

3. 2010. Julianne Nyhan. Tool making, technological determinism and the role of memory: absolute alphabetical organisation in medieval glossaries, Arbeitsgespr&aunl;ch zur historischen Lexikographie, Bullay, Germany

4. 2009. Stephanie A. Schlitz and Julianne Nyhan. TEI-EJ: a quarterly publication of the TEI Education SIG to appear on the TEI website, TEI Members Meeting 2009, University of Michigan, USA (poster presentation)

5. 2009. [with Oliver Schmidt]. TextGrid tools and concepts: present and future, Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web, University of Birmingham, UK

6. 2007. Emerging electronic research infrastructures for Irish lexicography, Tionól symposium, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

7. 2007. Digital futures in Irish studies, panel with Susan Schreibman and Deirdre Wildy; Susan Schreibman Chair. IASIL, University College Dublin

8. 2007. E-portfolios and the Dimensions of Understanding, International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference, University College Cork, Ireland (poster presentation)

9. 2006. Establishing the relative sophistication of the ordering systems used in the major glossaries of medieval Irish, Tionól symposium, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

10. 2006. The digital Dinneen project: further avenues for CELT, Digital Humanities Conference, Paris-Sorbonne

11. 2006. The problem of date and context: migrating an Irish language dictionary from hard copy to digital format, Third international conference of Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, Leiden University

12. 2005. [with Gregory Toner], Enhancing scholarship through linking electronic resources, Digital Resources for the Humanities, Lancaster University

13. 2004. Linking Dictionaries and Texts: New Avenues for CELT, Digital Image, Digital Text colloquium, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

14. 2004. [with Peter Flynn], Ending the Tyranny of the Lemma, The 16th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Göteborg University Sweden

15. 2004. [with Carrie Griffin], Transcending textual borders? Electronic edition as artefact, the Book as Artefact Conference, Marsh's Library Dublin

16. 2003. [with Carrie Griffin], Digitising an Unedited Middle English Lunary from British Library Egerton MS 827, Borderlines 7, University College Cork

17. 2002. Digitising the Dictionary of the Irish Language, Borderlines 6, Trinity College, Dublin

Current projects

Some of the projects that I am currently involved in:

1. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
2. TEI Council
3. Das Wörterbuchnetz
4. Digital Dinneen project
5. Day of Digital Humanities

Consultancy

From time to time I work as an XML/XSLT consultant. For example, I contributed to the automation of the XML encoding of some portions of the electronic Dictionary of the Irish language (eDIL). Aspects of this work are discussed here.

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