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  • Bamboo Planning Project
    (2008-2010) Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Director. Project Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary and international planning effort to bring together faculty, researchers, computer and information scientists, librarians and campus information technologists to collectively tackle the question of how a diverse community of scholars and professionals can enhance arts and humanities research through the development of global, cloud-based and enterprise-grade shared technology services. Joint $2.4M project with the University of California, Berkeley and funded in part ($1.3M) by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. projectbamboo.org
  • Enterprise Service Bus Evaluation Project
    (2006-2007) Project to explore the application of and requirements for an enterprise service bus that would apply both to academic and administrative information technology needs. Led by Carnegie-Mellon University and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  • Humanities Computing Roundtable Project
    (1998-2002) Joint effort with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University to explore technology use in the humanities.
  • Sun Microsystems Technology Grant
    (1998-1999) Hardware grant to explore the use of thin-client technology in teaching and learning.
  • IBM SUR Grant for Internet Applications
    (1996) Participated in a joint award with Argonne National Laboratory to explore Internet technologies and services. Implemented the docuSPACE system (see below) as part of the project.
  • docuSPACE
    (1995-1997) Project Manager. Developed with Valerie Archambeau and Elizabeth Bartley. Conceived, developed and implemented a metadata-driven Web-based knowledge management and publication workflow system for self-guided user support and IT help desk services.
  • Scribe© Manuscript Viewing Environment
    (1994-1996) Software Developer. Created in conjunction with the Electronic Beowulf Project and the British Library; co-authored with Kathryn Powell and Deborah Coombs (University of Notre Dame). Pilot to develop a Macintosh-based tool for viewing and annotating medieval manuscripts; some functionality was incorporated into Kevin Kiernan’s Electronic Beowulf CD-ROM (London and Ann Arbor: The British Library and the University of Michigan Press, 1999). Funded in part by the University of Notre Dame.