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The Visionary Rood project is an international collaboration directed by Karkov, O’Donnell, and Rosselli Del Turco. Digital Humanities aspects of the project are being overseen by O’Donnell, Graham, and Osborn with the collaboration of Rosselli Del Turco and Karkov. Karkov will be leading research in traditional humanities disciplines on the larger project together with O’Donnell and Rosselli Del Turco.
Graham
James Graham is an Associate Professor in the Department of New Media at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). He is a digital 3D specialist who is experienced with scientific visualization and professional video games production methods. He will be responsible for assisting with the laser scans of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses and developing methods for real-time navigation, visualization and interactivity using technologies borrowed from next-generation video game production.
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Karkov
Catherine E. Karkov is Professor of Art at Miami University, Ohio (until December 31st 2006) and Professor of Art History, University of Leeds (from January 1st, 2006). She is an art historian who has published and lectured on both the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses. Karkov will be directing bibliography and art historical aspects of the project. She has just completed a multi-year international project on the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England and is currently working on a book on Anglo-Saxon art.
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O'Donnell
Daniel Paul O’Donnell is Chair and CEO of the Text Encoding Initiative, founding Director of the Digital Medievalist Project, and Associate Professor and Department Chair of English at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). He is also editor of Caedmon’s Hymn: A multimedia study, edition, and archive (Boydell and Brewer/Medieval Academy of America, 2005). He is a specialist in humanities computing and Anglo-Saxon textual studies and is responsible with Rosselli Del Turco for general oversight of Humanities Computing aspects of this project.
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Osborn
Wendy Osborn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta). She is a computer scientist, director of the Southern Alberta Digital Library (SADL), and a specialist in digital library technology and content-based indexing of multimedia objects. Osborn will have particular responsibility for development of the search and retrieval engine.
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Rosselli Del Turco
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco is an Assistant Professor at the Università degli studi di Torino, where he teaches Germanic Philology and Old English language and literature. He is director of the Digital Vercelli Book, an independent project which will supply images of the folios containing the Dream of the Rood poem and related bibliography. In collaboration with O’Donnell, Rosselli Del Turco will supply TEI compliant XML transcriptions of the poem, and will direct work on extensibility. Rosselli Del Turco is a founding Board member of the Digital Medievalist Project.
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