Map of London: Technical Assistants
| Name | Bio |
| Stewart Arneil |
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, who
maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011.
Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–2016.
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| David Badke |
Contract programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media
Centre, who created the first version of the multi-layered map (the "experimental
map"), based on his image markup and presentation application in 2006.
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| Cameron Butt |
Encoder, research assistant, and copy editor, 2012–13. Cameron completed his
undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He
minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, and
popular culture. He is also passionate about en dashes, em dashes, Canadian
spelling, down style capitalization, and the Oxford comma.
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| Mike Elkink |
Mike is a graduate of the University of Victoria in anthropology and computer
science. During his contract with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre in the
mid-2000s, he co-developed the TEI encoding guidelines for The Map
of Early Modern London with Eric Haswell, redesigned the look of the site,
and created the application framework and the database interface using PHP,
interfaced with an early version of the eXist XML database. Since working on MoEML, he has contributed to various encoding projects for the
Humanities Computing and Media Centre as well as for the electronic textual cultures
lab at the University of Victoria. He has continued his career in information
technology and is currently the technology administrator for the Art Gallery of
Greater Victoria.
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| Eric Haswell |
Eric collaborated with Mike Elkink on the creation of the initial schema and
encoding guidelines for The Map of Early Modern London.
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| Martin D. Holmes | (b. 5 August 1959) Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre who
worked on porting the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist
database implementation in the fall of 2011. Co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant
for 2012–16.
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| Greg Newton | (b. 4 December 1966) Programmer at the University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre who worked on
graphics and layout for the site in the fall of 2011.
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| Liam Sarsfield |
Encoder, 2010. At the time of his work with MoEML, Liam
was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. He now
works at MetaLab.
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This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.