About: People
The people behind CBP.
About the Editor
John A. Walsh is the Director of the HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. His research applies computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive, the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. He developed Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) for scholarly encoding of comics and graphic novels, and TEI Boilerplate, for publishing documents encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. He is the founding Technical Editor and a current General Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access online journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Walsh’s research interests include: computational literary studies; textual studies and bibliography; text technologies; book history; 19th-century British literature, poetry and poetics; and comic books.
About the team
The editor has been assisted by a wonderful team of undergraduate and graduate students at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. These students have helped select paratexts, edit image files, and contribute metadata. They are:
- Evan Brandon
- Callie Martindale
- Victor Wynn
- Brandon Ison
Acknowledgments
Editor John A. Walsh and the CBP Team want to express special thanks to the team behind CollectionBuilder, the excellent open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
Comic Book Paratexts is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collections and exhibits. CollectionBuilder is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.