Joel Kalvesmaki
XML Specialist at Dumbarton Oaks
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Kalvesmaki is an XML specialist and seasoned scholarly communications manager with over a decade of experience shaping print and digital publications, currently applying his expertise at the U.S. Government Publishing Office and Dumbarton Oaks. He combines deep technical mastery of XML/TEI, XSLT, XPath, Schematron, and Unicode with hands-on skills in typography, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to streamline editorial-to-production workflows. His background as an editor in Byzantine studies and training in Early Christian Studies and classics gives him rare domain fluency—vetting translations in Latin and Greek and guiding five to ten scholarly titles annually. Comfortable moving between developmental editing and low-level XML engineering, he optimizes both content quality and machine-readable outputs. Based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, he brings a scholarly rigor to publishing technology that ensures accuracy, accessibility, and longevity of complex humanities texts.
11 years of coding experience
BA, Philosophy, classics, BA, Philosophy, classics at University of WashingtonPhD, MA, Early Christian Studies, PhD, MA, Early Christian Studies at The Catholic University of America
German, French, Greek, coptic, classical syriac, Latin
Github Skills (69)
tuple10
ubl10
xquery10
linguistics10
xslt10
1c10
schematron10
xml10
text-encoding9
encoding9
xpath8
computational-linguistics8
lexicon8
saxon7
tagging7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Arithmeticus/Athena-Ruby
Jun 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 11 months
textalign/TAN-1-dev
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 2 years 1 month
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