Paul Schaffner
(TCP Production Mgr--remote) at Jackson Community College
Saline, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Schaffner is a veteran digital-text production manager with over two decades leading large-scale SGML/XML e-text initiatives for the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford, including stewardship of 70,000+ transcribed works for the Text Creation Partnership. Trained as a medievalist and librarian (PhD in Medieval Studies; MILS), he combines deep expertise in TEI, historical linguistics, and lexicography with hands-on e-publishing, transcription, and quality control. As sole editor of the online Middle English Compendium and a long-time cataloguer and technical services head, he bridges scholarly rigor and practical library workflows. He also contributes broadly to the bibliographic community—volunteering as an OED pre-publication reviewer and maintaining a personal collection of 15,000 books and maps that informs his metadata and preservation judgment. Comfortable managing both legacy rare-book complexities and modern XML toolchains, he is known for meticulous document analysis and a collector’s eye for useful tools and hardware. Based in Saline, Michigan, he continues to run remote TCP production while supporting local library services and community thrift-sale operations.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at Haverford CollegeMILS, Librarianship, MILS, Librarianship at University of Michigan - School of InformationEnglish, English at Bryn Mawr CollegeMA, Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic, MA, Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at University of CambridgePhD, Medieval Studies, PhD, Medieval Studies at Cornell University
Latin, Greek, Welsh
Github Skills (18)
text-encoding10
encoding10
xml10
schematron8
xml-schema8
stylesheets7
xslt7
tei6
openoffice5
css5
odt5
mass3
ontologies2
describe2
subset2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
textcreationpartnership/A48148
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 14 days
textcreationpartnership/A09214
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 15 days
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