The DHO is pleased to announce the appointment of Dot Porter as Metadata Manager.
Dot joins us from the University of Kentucky, where she currently serves as Program Coordinator for the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities at the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments.
Dot has worked on several digital editing projects including the Electronic Boethius (dir. Kevin Kiernan), the Electronic Aelfric (dir. Aaron Kleist) and the Pembroke 25 Project (dir. Paul Szarmach), and has provided metadata development support for the Homer Multitext Project (dir. Casey Due and Mary Ebbott) and text encoding support for several projects directed by faculty at the University of Kentucky. Dot has served on the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative and is currently the Executive Secretary of the Association for Computing and the Humanities, the Chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources, and serves on the Executive Board of the Digital Medievalist.
Dot holds an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC-Chapel Hill.
