Curriculum Vitae

Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, UCL

Born Halifax, UK. Married to Martin Hockey

Now resides in Oxford. Contact: s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk

  • BA Oxford University, Oriental Studies (Egyptian with Akkadian): Class I; Mary Hammill Exhibitioner at Lady Margaret Hall 1969
  • MA Oxford University 1975
  • Founder Member, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), 1973
  • Founder Member, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 1978
  • Editor of ALLC Bulletin, 1979-83
  • Chair, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), 1984-97
  • Member (Chair 1991-93 and 1996-97) of the Steering Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), 1987-99
  • Fellow by Special Election, St Cross College Oxford, 1979-91; Emeritus Fellow, 1991—
  • Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Alberta, 1984
  • Visiting Professor, Summer Institute of University of Pennsylvania, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1988
  • Lucille Kelly Henderson Lecturer, School of Library and Information Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995
  • Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1996

1969-75 Assistant Research Officer, Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire, UK

  • Developed software for display of non-standard characters
  • Participated in design and testing of COCOA version 2

1975-1991 Oxford University Computing Services

  • Director, Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford University, 1990-91
  • Director, Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, 1989-91
  • Project Director for Oxford Concordance Program
  • Taught various computing in the humanities courses including text analysis and SNOBOL Programming

1991-97 Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities

  • Directed research on the delivery of SGML and TEI for the Humanities, also cataloguing and description for electronic texts in the humanities
  • Co-Director of CETH Summer Seminar on Electronic Texts for the Humanities

1997-99 Professor and Director, the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts, University of Alberta

  • Co-investigator, Orlando Project; Co-coordinator and Chair of the Steering Committee, Model Editions Partnership; Co-chair of the Society of Biblical Literature Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Languages
  • Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Computing for the Humanities

2000-2004 Professor of Library and Information Studies, School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS), University College London; Director of the School from 2001

  • Project Director, LEADERS (Linking EAD to Electronically Retrievable Sources)
  • Taught graduate courses on Digital Resources for the Humanities and XML

2004— Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London

Extracted 25/11/08 from: http://www.allc.org/content/busa/shockey.html