James Cummings
Reader In Digital Textual Studies And Late-Medieval Literature
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cummings is a Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late-Medieval Literature at Newcastle University with over a decade of experience blending medieval scholarship with digital humanities practice. He chairs the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and has shaped TEI governance for more than 15 years, translating deep domain knowledge of XML, markup and digital editions into standards and tooling. A former Senior Academic Research Technology Specialist at Oxford and founding director of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, he routinely bridges academic research and technical delivery as both project lead and hands-on developer. He served as a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (2021–23), signalling a rare cross-over between humanities scholarship and data science/AI communities. Beyond institutional roles, he founded DH Awards to raise public awareness of digital humanities, demonstrating a sustained commitment to community-building as well as scholarly impact.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., English: Contextual Studies of Dramatic Records in the Area Around The Wash c. 1350-1550, Ph.D., English: Contextual Studies of Dramatic Records in the Area Around The Wash c. 1350-1550 at University of LeedsB.A., Medieval Studies with Latin minor, B.A., Medieval Studies with Latin minor at University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College
English, French, English, Latin
Github Skills (42)
odt10
stylesheets10
xslt10
medieval-languages10
css10
xml-schema10
tei10
openoffice10
text-encoding10
encoding10
schematron10
tiddlywiki10
xml10
hebrew10
ontologies8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
atnu-ies/digital-editing-2019
Feb 2019 - Jun 2023
Repo for the "Textual Editing in the Digital Age" training event, 1-5 April 2019
Contributions:31 pushes in 4 years 5 months
nlpaprilagetrainingtextual
jamescummings/LEAP-XSLT
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 35 pushes in 3 months
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