Publications

Kevin Kiernan, “The Source of the Napier Fragment of Alfred’s Boethius,” Inaugural issue of the Digital Medievalist 1.1. Spring 2005.

Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, and Dorothy Carr Porter, “Support for XML Markup of Image-based Electronic Editions,” forthcoming in International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), 2005.

Alex Dekhtyar and Ionut Emil Iacob, “A Framework For Management of Concurrent XML Markup,” Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 185 - 215

Kevin Kiernan and Dorothy C. Porter, “Edition Production Technology (EPT) and the Electronic Boethius Project,” forthcoming in DigiCULT 2005.

Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar and Judy Goldsmith, “A Framework for Management of Semistructured Probabilistic Data,” forthcoming in International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS)

Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, “Checking Potential Validity of XML Documents,” Proceedings, Seventh International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB@SIGMOD/PODS, 2004.

Kevin Kiernan, “The nathwylc Scribe and the Beowulf Palimpsest,” forthcoming in Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico, ed. Catherine E. Karkov and Nancy van Deusen. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 2005.

Kevin Kiernan et al., “Edition Production Technology (EPT) and the ARCHway Project,” DigiCULT.info 8, August 2004, pp. 37-40.

Kevin Kiernan, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Alex Dekhtyar, and Dorothy Carr Porter, with Kenneth Hawley, Sandeep Bodapati, and Ionut Emil Iacob, “The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning,” forthcoming in Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2005 (special issue, papers from Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2003).

Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar and Kazuyo Kaneko, “Parsing Concurrent XML,” Proceedings, 6th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2004), pp. 23-30, November 12-13, 2004, Washington, DC.

Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Miroslaw Kowaluk, Neil Moore, “A web interface to image-based concurrent markup using image maps.” Proceedings, 6th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2004), November 12-13, 2004, Washington, DC.

Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, M. Kowaluk, Neil Moore, “On Visualization of Complex Image-Based Markup,” Proceedings, International Conference on Computer Vision and Geometry. Warsaw, Poland, September 2004.

Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut Emil Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore and Dorothy Carr Porter, “Database Support for Image-based Electronic Editions,” Proceedings, 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS 2004), August 25-27, 2004, College Park, MD.

Dorothy Carr Porter, “Using METS to Document Metadata for Image-Based Electronic Editions,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Abstract in Proceedings (2004), pp. 102-104.

Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar and Judy Goldsmith, “Databases for Interval Probabilities,” International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS), Vol. 19, No. 9, pp 789-815, 2004.

Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar and Michael I. Dekhtyar, “Checking Potential Validity of XML Documents,”  May 2004. (TR 403-04) 

Jerzy W. Jaromczyk and Neil Moore, “Geometric data structures for multihierarchical XML tagging of manuscripts,” Proceedings of the 20th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Seville, Spain, March 2004.

Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar and Wenzhong Zhao, “XPath Extension for Querying Concurrent XML Markup,” February 2004. (TR 394-03) 

Alex Dekhtyar and Ionut E. Iacob, A Framework for Management of Concurrent XML Markup, Proceedings, 1st. International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM'03), LNCS, Vol. 2814, pp. 311-322, 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan and Kenneth Carr Hawley, “An Image-Based Electronic Edition of Alfred the Great’s Old English Version of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Abstract in Proceedings, vol. , (2003), p. 13.

Jerzy Wl. Jaromczyk and Sandeep Bodapati, “An Architecture Promoting Collaborative Research, Teaching and Learning,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Abstract in Proceedings, vol. , (2003), p. 10.

Alexander Dekhtyar and Ionut Emil Iacob, “Management of Data for Building Electronic Editions of Historic Manuscripts,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Abstract in Proceedings, vol. , (2003), p. 11.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “Digital Facsimiles in Editing: Some Guidelines for Editors of Image-based Scholarly Editions,” forthcoming in Electronic Textual Editing, a volume of essays jointly sponsored by the Modern Language Association and the TEI Consortium, funded by the Mellon Foundation, and co-edited by John Unsworth, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, and Lou Burnard.

Kevin Kiernan. “Odd Couples in Ælfric’s Julian and Basilissa in British Library Cotton MS Otho B. x.” Forthcoming in Beatus vir: Studies in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Manuscripts in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano. Kirsten Wolf and A.N. Doane, eds.

Kevin Kiernan, Alexander Dekhtyar, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Ionut Emil Iacob, “Annual Report on The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning,” forthcoming in the Proceedings of the IDM 2003 Workshop on Information Retrieval and Databases: Synergies and Syntheses, Seattle, WA, 14-16 September 2003.

Presentations

Kevin Kiernan, “Image and Text: The Requirements of Medieval Manuscripts,” Plenary Session: Society for Textual Scholarship: The Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York University, 16-16 March 2005.

“The Edition Production Technology (EPT) and the ARCHway and Electronic Boethius Projects,” session accepted, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Victoria, 14-18 June 2005.

Neil Moore and Jurek W. Jaromczyk, “The ARCHway software infrastructure: a demo of a platform and utilities for building applications for electronic editions,” demo accepted, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Victoria, 14-18 June 2005.

Ionut E. Iacob, Kevin Kiernan, and Alex Dekhtyar, “Edition Production Technology: an Eclipse based platform for building Image-based Electronic Editions,” demo accepted, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Victoria, 14-18 June 2005.

Ionut E. Iacob and Alex Dekhtyar, “Concurrent Markup Hierarchies: a Computer Science Approach,” accepted, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Victoria, 14-18 June 2005.

Ionut E. Iacob and Alex Dekhtyar, “A Framework for Processing Complex Document-centric XML with Overlapping Structures,” demo accepted, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2005, June 13-16, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ionut E. Iacob and Alex Dekhtyar, “xTagger: a New Approach to Authoring Document-centric XML,” short paper accepted, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Denver, CO, 7-11 June 2005.

Ionut E. Iacob and Alex Dekhtyar, “Processing XML documents with Overlapping Hierarchies,” demo accepted, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Denver, CO, 7-11 June 2005.

Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, and Dorothy Carr Porter, “Building Image-based Electronic Editions using the Edition Production Technology,” demo accepted, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Denver, CO, 7-11 June 2005.

Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Neil Moore, and M. Kowaluk, On visualization of complex image-based markup, accepted for presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2004), September 22-24, 2004, Warsaw, Poland.

Jerzy W. Jaromczyk and Neil Moore, “Supporting nonstandard queries on collections of intervals,” submitted to the 16th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, August 2004.

Dorothy Carr Porter, “Using METS to Document Metadata for the Image-Based Electronic Editions,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Göteborg University, 11-16 June 2004.

Kevin Kiernan, “Edition Production Technology for the Electronic Boethius and ARCHway Projects,” Using Electronic Technologies to Edit Older Documents: SSHRC-Sponsored Summer Institute, University of Calgary, 19-31 May 2004.

Kevin Kiernan, “Some New Tools for Editors of Old Texts,” Old Wine in New Bottles: Medieval Studies and Computer Technologies, University of Tennessee, 23 April 2004.

Kevin Kiernan, “Alfred the Great’s Boethius: An Electronic Edition,” special session on “The Alfredian Boethius,” sponsored by the Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies, Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6-9 May 2004.

Stephen duBarry, “Automated Image Labeling for Image-Based Electronic Editions of Medieval Manuscripts,” 18th National Conference on Undergraduate Research,  15-17 April 2004, Indianapolis.

Neil Moore, “A Geometric Approach to Efficient Implementation of Concurrent XML Markup,” Eastern Kentucky University 18th Annual Symposium in Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Sciences, 9 April 2004 [First place Graduate Student talk] 

Ionut Emil Iacob, “Management of Document-centric concurrent XML markup,” Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, 10 February 2004.

Alexander Dekhtyar and Ionut Emil Iacob, “A Framework For Management of Concurrent XML Markup,” International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM’03), Chicago, 13 October 2003. 

Sandeep Bodapati, Stephen Hunt, and Jurek W. Jaromczyk, “An Eclipse-Based Hub-and-Spoke Model: Software Development and Deployment in Interdisciplinary Research,” Poster presentation at Eclipse Technology eXchange, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

Alexander Dekhtyar, “Management of Concurrent XML Markup in the ARCHWay Project,” IBM Almaden Research Center, 12 September 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “The ARCHway Project and Damaged Old English Manuscripts in the Cotton Collection,” invited lecture, The British Library, London, 29 July 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “Hand-written Materials and the Science of Information Management,” The Wave of the Future: National Science Foundation, Post Digital Library Futures Workshop, Wequassett Inn, Cape Cod, 15-17 June 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “EPT: Edition Production Technology for Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries,” Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries, sponsored by DELOS (EU Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries) and the National Science Foundation. Chania, Crete, Greece, 2-3 June 2003.

Dorothy Carr Porter, “Introduction” to The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning. Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The University of Georgia, 29 May-2 June 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan and Kenneth Carr Hawley, “An Image-Based Electronic Edition of Alfred the Great’s Old English Version of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The University of Georgia, 29 May-2 June 2003.

Jerzy Wl. Jaromczyk and Sandeep Bodapati, “An Architecture Promoting Collaborative Research, Teaching and Learning,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The University of Georgia, 29 May-2 June 2003.

Alexander Dekhtyar and Ionut Emil Iacob, “Management of Data for Building Electronic Editions of Historic Manuscripts,” Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The University of Georgia, 29 May-2 June 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “Research and Digital Libraries,” Symposium on The Crisis in Scholarly Communication. University of Kentucky, 7 April 2003.

Ionut Emil Iacob, “Editing XML Documents: Principles and Implementation.” Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, 25 March 2003.

Dorothy Carr Porter, “Medievalists, RCH, and Image-based Editions.” Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, 22 March 2003.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “Electronic Editions: Using Digital Facsimiles.” Modern Language Association Convention, New York City, 28 December 2002.

Kevin S. Kiernan, Discussion leader, “Image-Based Electronic Editions: A Discussion.” Media Cloisters, Vassar College Libraries, 15 November 2002.

Kevin S. Kiernan, “Re-Presenting Old English Texts: Beowulf, Boethius, and Other Image-Based Electronic Editions,” Vassar College Libraries series on “Transformations of the Text,” 14 November 2002.

“Building an Electronic Edition of Alfred’s Boethius,” sponsored by the Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies, Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2-5 May 2002, Western Michigan University. Presider, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Univ. of South Florida

Ionut Emil Iacob, “Electronic Editions Editor: a Tool for Producing, Searching and Documenting Electronic Editions.” Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, 12 Feburary 2002.

Related Theses, Dissertations, and Student Projects

Dissertations

Demorah Hayes, “A Manuscript Study of a Middle English Religious Miscellany: British Library MS Additional 37049,” Ph.D. dissertation, estimated completion, July 2004 (director, Kevin Kiernan).

Kenneth Hawley, “The English Translations of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy,” Ph.D. dissertation, estimated completion, July 2004 (director, Kevin Kiernan).

Wenzhong Zhao, “Semistructured Probabilistic Databases,” Ph.D. dissertation topic, estimated completion, July 2004 (director, Alex Dekhtyar).

Ionut Emil Iacob, “Algorithms for Management of Complex XML,” Ph.D. dissertation, estimated completion, 2005 (director, Alex Dekhtyar).

Theses

Stephen F. Hunt, “ Image-line tracer for image-based concurrent markup: Eclipse plug-in implementation,” M.S. project, in progress, estimated completion, Summer 2004 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Jingyu Zhou, “ Backward and forward pixel mapping for turning pages: algorithms and experiments,” M.S. project, in progress, estimated completion, Summer 2004  (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Sandeep Bodapati, “ Solution Space Navigator for the Hub-and-Spoke model for interdisciplinary and collaborative projects: Eclipse plug-in implementation,” M.S. project, in progress, estimated completion, Summer 2004  (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Aditya Tallapally, “Implementation of Pixel Mapping Algorithms for Page Turning Animation - An Eclipse Plug-in,” M.S. project, defended Fall 2004.

Nilesh Ponnala, “A lighweight image re-morphing tool based on line traces: an Eclipse plug-in implementation,” M.S. project, in progress, estimated completion, Fall 2004 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Sravan Kudithipudi, “Thumbnail Generator and Manager: An Eclipse plug-in to generate thumbnails and organize images,” M.S. project, defended February 2004 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Dongying Zhong, “An XML-based tool for linking images with translations for Chinese poems,” M.S. project, defended February 2004 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Chengdong Li, “Implementation, Support and Performance Analysis of Native Calls for Image Processing on Eclipse,” M.S. project, defended November 2003 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk)

Yurong He, “Servlets/SOAP based XML transmission protocol,” M.S. Project, defended November 2003 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk).

Husamuddin Nasir, “A Light-Weight Document-Centric XML editor,” M.S. Project, defended June 2003 (director, Alex Dekhtyar).

J. Adam Turner, “Customized Graphical XML Search tool,” M.S. Project, defended December 2002 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk).

Projects

Prakash Narayanan, “DB2 database and its XML support,” Independent Study project, Summer 2003 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk).

Yan Zhang, “Relations between Java Swing and Eclipse SWT,” Independent Study project, September 2003 (director, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk).

Kenneth Hawley, “Designing an Interface for Searching Image-Based Electronic Editions: An Interdisciplinary Student Research Project,” with J. Adam Turner, final project for Graduate Certificate in Informatics: Humanities Computing, awarded November 2002 (director Kevin Kiernan, with Jerzy W. Jaromczyk).

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0219924. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.