Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century

Michael Pidd is Director of the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield. He has nearly 30 years of experience in developing, managing and delivering large collaborative research projects and technology R&D in the humanities and heritage subject domains. During that time the DHI has been the technical partner in over 120 national and international projects with over 100 clients. He is the Principal Investigator (UK) on 'C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age', funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. Michael was Principal Investigator on the following projects: 'Connecting Shakespeare' (HEIF), Dewdrop (Jisc), 'Reinventing Local Public Libraries' (HEIF), and 'Manuscripts Online' (Jisc); as well as Co-Investigator on 'Intoxicants and Early Modernity' (ESRC/AHRC), 'Linguistic DNA' (AHRC), 'Beyond the Multiplex' (AHRC) and 'Ways of Being in the Digital Age' (ESRC). He has been the technical lead on a wide number of projects, such as 'Digital Panopticon' (AHRC).

Sophie Whittle is a Research Associate on 'C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age' project, responsible for developing a prototype online teaching edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale using machine assisted methods. Sophie has taught on modules in the history of English, historical pragmatics, research methods and syntax. She has co-ordinated interdisciplinary workshops on centring anti-racist research in the linguistics curric-ulum, inviting speakers from across the globe to present their research on the pragmatics of postcolonial communities, language and culture sharing and human rights, and has since become a member of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain’s racial justice subcommittee. She is also an organiser at the Sheffield Feminist Archive, and has recently contributed to the creation of a digital archive named 'Women in Lockdown', a project that houses women’s stories and experiences of the pandemic via oral history, testimony, diary entries and artwork submissions.

Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequalities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication. She is co-lead of the ESRC’s Productivity Institute’s Scottish Forum, as well as a founding member of the Digital Technology and Social Change hub of the European University Alliance CIVIS network. She has a strong track record of research funding from UKRI and the EU, as well as other research foundations. Bridgette is a Co-Investigator on 'C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age', funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.

Michael Kurzmeier is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the 'C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age' project. His work revolves around the intersections of technology and society. His IRC-funded PhD thesis, 'Political Expression in Web Defacements', investigated political expression through hacking and introduces novel methods for retrieval and analysis of this special kind of archived web material. Michael is a chair of the research methods work group at the Aarhus-led Web ARChive studies network, researching web domains and events (WARCnet), as well as one of the founders of the Engaging with Web Archives (EWA) conference, Ireland’s first dedicated web archiving conference.

Órla Murphy is Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork. Her EU international leadership as service roles include National Co-ordinator of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, National Representative and vice chair on the Scientific Committee of CoST-EU, Cooperation in Science and Technology and National Representative on the Social Science and Humanities Strategy Working Group of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. Nationally, she is a board member of the Digital Repository of Ireland and co-chair of The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository. Órla is a Co-Investigator on 'C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age', funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.