Lou Burnard (born 1946 in Birmingham, England) is an internationally recognised expert[1] in digital humanities, particularly in the area of text encoding and digital libraries. He was assistant director of Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) from 2001 to September 2010, when he officially retired from OUCS. Before that, he was manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS for five years. He has worked in ICT support for research in the humanities since the 1990s. He was one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and continues to play an active part in its maintenance and development, as a consultant to the TEI Technical Council and as an elected TEI board member. He has played a key role in the establishment of many other activities and initiatives in this area, such as the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service and the British National Corpus, and has published[2] and lectured widely. Since 2008 he has worked as a Member of the Conseil Scientifique for the CNRS-funded "Adonis" TGE.[3][4]
He won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford University, graduated with a first in English in 1968, and gained an MPhil in 19th-century English Studies (1973), MA (1979). He taught English at the University of Malawi between 1972 and 1974.[5][6]
His first job at the University Computing Services was as a data centre operator. He described it as sitting in a large room in the Department of Atmospheric Physics with a line printer, a card reader, a card punch and three teletype devices. The one he sat in front of told the time every five minutes and the date every half hour. If it stopped doing either, he had instructions to call an engineer. Aside from light duties tearing up output from the line printer, that was essentially all he had to do for his 8-hour shift. He learned to program in Algol68, created a concordance to the songs of Bob Dylan, and finally got a job as a programmer in 1974.
He claimed that the first real program he wrote was 12 lines of assembler to link a PDP-8-driven graphics display to an ICL 1900 mainframe. He learned Snobol4, and worked with Susan Hockey on the design of the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP). He also worked on network database management systems, notably Cullinane's IDMS, and on ICL's CAFS text search engine.[7]
After flirting briefly with applications of computers in History under the tutelage of Manfred Thaller, he succumbed to the lure of SGML in 1988 following the Poughkeepsie Conference, which launched the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) project of which he has been European editor since February 1989.
The Oxford electronic Shakespeare (1989), published by the Oxford University Press, was the first to offer a commercial e-text encoded for analysis. William Montgomery, one of the associate editors, and Lou Burnard encoded each poem or play with COCOA tags so that it could be processed by Micro-Oxford Concordance Program.[8]
Since October 1990 he has also been responsible for OUCS participation in the British National Corpus Project[9] a 100- million-word corpus of modern British English.[6]
He initiated the Xaira (XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture) project, an advanced text-searching software system for XML resources. Originally developed for searching the British National Corpus, it was funded by the Mellon Foundation in 2005–6.[10]
Publicationsedit
Booksedit
Burnard, Lou; Aston, Guy (1998). The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. xiii. ISBN0-7486-1055-3.
Burnard, Lou (2015). What is the Text Encoding Initiative? How to add intelligent markup to digital resources. Marseille: OpenEdition Press. 114 pp. ISBN9782821834606.
Burnard, Lou; oxeye: a text processing package for the 1906A OUCS User Guide (1975).
Burnard, Lou; SNOBOL: The language for literary computing, ALLC Journal, 6 (1978), 7 (1979)
Burnard, Lou; Using Magnetic Tape OUCS User Guide (1979)
Burnard, Lou; An application of CODASYL techniques to research in the humanities Databases in the humanities and social sciences, eds. Raben and Marks (1980)
Burnard, Lou; OUCS User Guide (1982, 1986)
Burnard, Lou; From archive to database Méthodes quantitatives et informatiques dans l'étude des textes, ed. Brunet (1986)
Burnard, Lou; CAFS and text: the view from Academia ICL Technical Journal 4, (1985)
Burnard, Lou; editor, CAFS in action Report of the ICL CUA CAFS SIG, (1985)
Burnard, Lou; A new solution to an old problem, Literary & Linguistic Computing, 2 (1987)
Burnard, Lou; Knowledge Base or Database? Towards a Computer Ethnology, eds. Raben, Sugita and Kubo, Senri Ethnological Studies 20 (1987)
Burnard, Lou; Principles of Database Design, Information Technology in the Humanities, ed. Rahtz (1987)
Burnard, Lou; Primary to Secondary History and Computing, eds. Denley and Hopkin (1987)
Burnard, Lou; Famulus Redivivus: a case history in software development University Computing (1987)
Burnard, Lou; Report on the Computers and Teaching in the Humanities Conference Literary & Linguistic Computing, 2 (1987)
Burnard, Lou; HUMANIST so far ACH Newsletter, 10.1 (1988)
Burnard, Lou; Report of Workshop on Text Encoding Guidelines, Literary & Linguistic Computing, 3 (1988)
IZE: Software Review Computers and the Humanities vol 23 no 6, 1989
Burnard, Lou; The Oxford Text Archive: Principles and Prospects Standardisation et Echange des bases de données historiques ed. Genet (Paris, CNRS, 1988)
Burnard, Lou; Relational Theory and Historical Practice: the Case for SQL in History and Computing II eds.P. Denley, S. Fogelvik and C. Harvey (Manchester Univ Pr, 1989)
Burnard, Lou; Malcolm Bain et al.; Free Text Retrieval Systems: a review and evaluation (Taylor Graham, 1989)
The Text Encoding Initiative: a progress report Humanistiske Data 3-90, (Bergen, 1990)
Analysing information for database design: an introduction for archaeologists Computing for Archaeologists eds. J. Moffett and S. Ross. (Oxford Committee for Archaeology, Monograph no 18, 1991)
The Historian and the Database Historians, Computers and Data: applications in research and training ed E. Mawdsley, N. Morgan et al. (Manchester Univ Pr, 1990)
On the intelligent handling of text retrieval Prospects for Intelligent Retrieval (Informatics 10) ed K.P. Jones (Assoc. for Information Management, 1990)
Publishing Presenting and Archiving the Results of Research (Keynote Address), Information Technology and the Research Process eds M. Feeney and K. Merry (Bowker-Saur, 1990)
(with C.M. Sperberg-McQueen) Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of machine-readable texts: draft P1 (Chicago and Oxford, ACH-ACL-ALLC Text Encoding Initiative, 1990)
The Text Encoding Initiative: a further report in Corpus-based Computational Linguistics ed C. Souter and E. Atwell (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1990)
Burnard, Lou; Information Management in The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989–90, ed I. Lancashire (OUP, 1991)
What is SGML and how does it help? and An introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Modelling Historical Data: towards a standard for encoding and exchanging machine-readable texts ed D. Greenstein (Göttingen, St Katherinen, 1991)
Burnard, Lou; Tools and techniques for computer-assisted text processing in C.S. Butler Computers and Written Texts, (Blackwell, 1992)
Burnard, Lou; The Text Encoding Initiative: a progress report New Directions in Corpus Linguistics ed G. Leitner (Berlin, de Gruyter, 1992)
Burnard, Lou; Rolling your own with the TEI Information Services and Use vol 13 no 2 (Amsterdam, IOS Press, 1993)
Burnard, Lou; ed S. Ross; The TEI: towards an Extensible Standard for the Encoding of Texts in Electronic Information Resources and Historians (London, British Academy, 1994)
Burnard, Lou ed; 1994 Users Reference Guide to the British National Corpus version 1.0 (Oxford, OUCS, )
Burnard, Lou; Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1994) Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3) Chicago and Oxford, ACH-ACL-ALLC Text Encoding Initiative)
Burnard, Lou; Short, Harold; An Arts and Humanities Data Service (Oxford, OHC, 1995)
Burnard, Lou; What is SGML and how does it help? Computers and the Humanities 29: 41-50, 1995.[12]
Burnard, Lou; Rahtz, Sebastian (2004), "RelaxNG with Son of ODD", Extreme Markup Languages 2004.[13]
Burnard, Lou; Bauman, Syd, eds. (2007). TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, TEI Consortium, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.[14]
Burnard, Lou; Rahtz, Sebastian (June 2013). "A complete schema definition language for the Text Encoding Initiative". XML London.
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^"Microsoft Word - SQA Advisory Forum pack.doc" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
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Lou Burnard born 1946 in Birmingham England is an internationally recognised expert 1 in digital humanities particularly in the area of text encoding and digital libraries He was assistant director of Oxford University Computing Services OUCS from 2001 to September 2010 when he officially retired from OUCS Before that he was manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS for five years He has worked in ICT support for research in the humanities since the 1990s He was one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative TEI and continues to play an active part in its maintenance and development as a consultant to the TEI Technical Council and as an elected TEI board member He has played a key role in the establishment of many other activities and initiatives in this area such as the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service and the British National Corpus and has published 2 and lectured widely Since 2008 he has worked as a Member of the Conseil Scientifique for the CNRS funded Adonis TGE 3 4 Lou BurnardLouis Deryck BurnardBorn 1946 12 09 9 December 1946 age 77 Birmingham EnglandNationalityBritishKnown forOxford Text Archive Text Encoding InitiativePartnerLiletteChildren3Academic backgroundAlma materBalliol College Oxford Contents 1 Education and career 2 Publications 2 1 Books 2 2 Papers 3 ReferencesEducation and career editHe won a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford University graduated with a first in English in 1968 and gained an MPhil in 19th century English Studies 1973 MA 1979 He taught English at the University of Malawi between 1972 and 1974 5 6 His first job at the University Computing Services was as a data centre operator He described it as sitting in a large room in the Department of Atmospheric Physics with a line printer a card reader a card punch and three teletype devices The one he sat in front of told the time every five minutes and the date every half hour If it stopped doing either he had instructions to call an engineer Aside from light duties tearing up output from the line printer that was essentially all he had to do for his 8 hour shift He learned to program in Algol68 created a concordance to the songs of Bob Dylan and finally got a job as a programmer in 1974 He claimed that the first real program he wrote was 12 lines of assembler to link a PDP 8 driven graphics display to an ICL 1900 mainframe He learned Snobol4 and worked with Susan Hockey on the design of the Oxford Concordance Program OCP He also worked on network database management systems notably Cullinane s IDMS and on ICL s CAFS text search engine 7 In 1976 he set up the Oxford Text Archive with Susan Hockey After flirting briefly with applications of computers in History under the tutelage of Manfred Thaller he succumbed to the lure of SGML in 1988 following the Poughkeepsie Conference which launched the Text Encoding Initiative TEI project of which he has been European editor since February 1989 The Oxford electronic Shakespeare 1989 published by the Oxford University Press was the first to offer a commercial e text encoded for analysis William Montgomery one of the associate editors and Lou Burnard encoded each poem or play with COCOA tags so that it could be processed by Micro Oxford Concordance Program 8 Since October 1990 he has also been responsible for OUCS participation in the British National Corpus Project 9 a 100 million word corpus of modern British English 6 He initiated the Xaira XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture project an advanced text searching software system for XML resources Originally developed for searching the British National Corpus it was funded by the Mellon Foundation in 2005 6 10 Publications editBooks edit Burnard Lou Aston Guy 1998 The BNC Handbook Exploring the British National Corpus Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press p xiii ISBN 0 7486 1055 3 Burnard Lou 2015 What is the Text Encoding Initiative How to add intelligent markup to digital resources Marseille OpenEdition Press 114 pp ISBN 9782821834606 Papers edit 11 unreliable source Burnard Lou oxeye a text processing package for the 1906A OUCS User Guide 1975 Burnard Lou SNOBOL The language for literary computing ALLC Journal 6 1978 7 1979 Burnard Lou Using Magnetic Tape OUCS User Guide 1979 Burnard Lou An application of CODASYL techniques to research in the humanities Databases in the humanities and social sciences eds Raben and Marks 1980 Burnard Lou OUCS User Guide 1982 1986 Burnard Lou From archive to database Methodes quantitatives et informatiques dans l etude des textes ed Brunet 1986 Burnard Lou CAFS and text the view from Academia ICL Technical Journal 4 1985 Burnard Lou editor CAFS in action Report of the ICL CUA CAFS SIG 1985 Burnard Lou A new solution to an old problem Literary amp Linguistic Computing 2 1987 Burnard Lou Knowledge Base or Database Towards a Computer Ethnology eds Raben Sugita and Kubo Senri Ethnological Studies 20 1987 Burnard Lou Principles of Database Design Information Technology in the Humanities ed Rahtz 1987 Burnard Lou Primary to Secondary History and Computing eds Denley and Hopkin 1987 Burnard Lou Famulus Redivivus a case history in software development University Computing 1987 Burnard Lou Report on the Computers and Teaching in the Humanities Conference Literary amp Linguistic Computing 2 1987 Burnard Lou HUMANIST so far ACH Newsletter 10 1 1988 Burnard Lou Report of Workshop on Text Encoding Guidelines Literary amp Linguistic Computing 3 1988 IZE Software Review Computers and the Humanities vol 23 no 6 1989 Burnard Lou The Oxford Text Archive Principles and Prospects Standardisation et Echange des bases de donnees historiques ed Genet Paris CNRS 1988 Burnard Lou Relational Theory and Historical Practice the Case for SQL in History and Computing II eds P Denley S Fogelvik and C Harvey Manchester Univ Pr 1989 Burnard Lou Malcolm Bain et al Free Text Retrieval Systems a review and evaluation Taylor Graham 1989 The Text Encoding Initiative a progress report Humanistiske Data 3 90 Bergen 1990 Analysing information for database design an introduction for archaeologists Computing for Archaeologists eds J Moffett and S Ross Oxford Committee for Archaeology Monograph no 18 1991 The Historian and the Database Historians Computers and Data applications in research and training ed E Mawdsley N Morgan et al Manchester Univ Pr 1990 On the intelligent handling of text retrieval Prospects for Intelligent Retrieval Informatics 10 ed K P Jones Assoc for Information Management 1990 Publishing Presenting and Archiving the Results of Research Keynote Address Information Technology and the Research Process eds M Feeney and K Merry Bowker Saur 1990 with C M Sperberg McQueen Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of machine readable texts draft P1 Chicago and Oxford ACH ACL ALLC Text Encoding Initiative 1990 The Text Encoding Initiative a further report in Corpus based Computational Linguistics ed C Souter and E Atwell Amsterdam Rodopi 1990 Burnard Lou Information Management in The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989 90 ed I Lancashire OUP 1991 What is SGML and how does it help and An introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Modelling Historical Data towards a standard for encoding and exchanging machine readable texts ed D Greenstein Gottingen St Katherinen 1991 Burnard Lou Tools and techniques for computer assisted text processing in C S Butler Computers and Written Texts Blackwell 1992 Burnard Lou The Text Encoding Initiative a progress report New Directions in Corpus Linguistics ed G Leitner Berlin de Gruyter 1992 Burnard Lou Rolling your own with the TEI Information Services and Use vol 13 no 2 Amsterdam IOS Press 1993 Burnard Lou ed S Ross The TEI towards an Extensible Standard for the Encoding of Texts in Electronic Information Resources and Historians London British Academy 1994 Burnard Lou ed 1994 Users Reference Guide to the British National Corpus version 1 0 Oxford OUCS Burnard Lou Michael Sperberg McQueen 1994 Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange TEI P3 Chicago and Oxford ACH ACL ALLC Text Encoding Initiative Burnard Lou Short Harold An Arts and Humanities Data Service Oxford OHC 1995 Burnard Lou What is SGML and how does it help Computers and the Humanities 29 41 50 1995 12 Burnard Lou Rahtz Sebastian 2004 RelaxNG with Son of ODD Extreme Markup Languages 2004 13 Burnard Lou Bauman Syd eds 2007 TEI P5 Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange TEI Consortium Charlottesville Virginia USA 14 Burnard Lou Rahtz Sebastian June 2013 A complete schema definition language for the Text Encoding Initiative XML London References edit SCOTS Board Members www scottishcorpus ac uk Archived from the original on 22 February 2019 Retrieved 22 February 2019 dblp Lou Burnard dblp uni trier de Archived from the original on 22 February 2019 Retrieved 22 February 2019 Lou Burnard his home page users ox ac uk Archived from the original on 15 January 2019 Retrieved 22 February 2019 Lou 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