Curriculum Vitae
Hugh A. Cayless (hcayless at email dot unc dot edu)
Below you'll find a sketch of my rather eclectic career so far. I am a Digital Humanities geek. I'm particularly and especially a Digital Classics geek, but lots of things compete for my attention.
Education
M.S.I.S., School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill, May, 2005.
Ph.D. in Classics from UNC-Chapel Hill May 16, 1999.
M.A. in Latin: UNC-Chapel Hill, December 1994.
B.A. in Classics and History from Cornell University, 1991.
Interests
Digital Humanities
XML, semantic markup
Greek and Latin Literature and History
Electronic publication
Technical Employment
3/2007 to present
Carolina Digital Library and Archives
Head of Research and Development
7/2004 to 3/2007
Software Engineer: Developed on demand publishing tools and services. Web development with PostgreSQL, PHP, Java, and Ruby on Linux.
7/2000 to 7/2004
Office of Arts and Sciences Information Services, UNC-Chapel Hill
Academic Applications Developer: Developed web-based applications for the College of Arts and Sciences. Continued management and development of UNC E-Media Cooperative Project (formerly Digital Library Services). Consulted with faculty and other units on the implementation of new technologies. Database development using Oracle 8i. Web development using Java, Java servlets, Cocoon, XML / XSLT / XSL:FO, ColdFusion, Visual Basic, HTML, and JavaScript. Develop Crosswalks from external database schemata to DLS Dublin Core schema. Supervise contract programmers.
6/1999 to 6/2000
UNC Digital Library Project
Project Manager: Managed project to study the feasibility of developing a digital library at UNC Chapel Hill. Database development using Oracle 8. Web development using ASP, XML / XSL, HTML and JavaScript. Produced technical reports and presentations.
Instructional Employment
Fall 2004 to present
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adjunct Professor: XML
1999 to 2000
Duke School of Continuing Education
Instructor: Beginning Ancient Greek I and II
1998 to 1999
Department of Classical Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lecturer: Classical Mythology.
1995 to 1999
ATN Computer Training Center, UNC-CH
Lead Trainer: Taught various computer applications (including Microsoft Office programs, database development in Access and FileMaker Pro, web page construction, and email) on PC, Macintosh, and UNIX platforms. Developed documentation for various classes.
1992 to 1999
Classics Department, UNC-CH
Instructor: Taught various courses for the Classics Department, from Latin to Greek Mythology.
Projects
National Humanities Center
Database Developer / Consultant: Created and maintain an Access database to track books requested by fellows at the NHC. The application tracks all stages of the process and generates statistics and bibliography for fellows.
EpiDoc / EPAPP
Member of international team working on the development of a set of guidelines for marking up ancient inscriptions using a subset of the TEI guidelines. Responsibilities include help with organization and planning of meetings, Guidelines and DTD development, XSL stylesheet development, and Java programming. Developed the Transcoder, a Java program that handles encoding shifts for Greek text and CHET-C-Java, which translates text with standard epigraphic editorial marks into EpiDoc XML. Both are Open Source and available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/epidoc.
Documenting the American South
Worked on enhancing DocSouth XML markup using Named Entity recognition with GATE (http://gate.ac.uk). As a part of this project, I completed the SGML to XML conversion scripts used by DocSouth. My project aims to develop a process whereby DocSouth's primarily structural markup may be augmented by the addition of tags for personal names, place names, dates, and organizations, with a minimum of editorial intervention.
Presentations
“Ovid and Augustus Tonans” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Nashville, 1996 (received the award for best Graduate paper).
“Liber adest: the Role of Bacchus in Ovid's Metamorphoses” CAMWS Southern Section, Savannah, 1996.
“Graces, Gratitude, and Gratuity: the Rhetoric of Theocritus Idyll 16” UNC-Duke Graduate Colloquium, 1998.
“The Rhetoric of Praise in Theocritus Idylls 16 and 17” CAMWS, Charlottesville VA, 1998.
“Crescendo and Diminuendo: The Triumph Motif in Augustan Poetry” CAMWS, Cleveland, 1999.
Panel Member: “Digital Libraries to support Teaching and Learning,” Digital Library Week, SILS, UNC-CH, 1999.
“Vergil's and Pythagoras' Helenus in Ovid's Metamorphoses” American Philological Association, Dallas, 1999.
“EPAPP/EpiDoc on the Ground; The EpiDocinator” First International EpiDoc Workshop, UNC Chapel Hill, 2002.
“Semantic Markup and Epigraphy” Panel, Second International EpiDoc Workshop, Kings College, London, 2002.
“Using Cocoon in Humanities Digital Libraries” Invited Presentation, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2003.
“Tools for Digital Epigraphy” Poster, Association for Computing in the Humanities / Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Athens GA, 2003.
“Directory Services for Classical Informatics,” Classics@ issue 2, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, March 2004.
“Toward the Next Generation of Scholarly Online Publication,” Invited Speaker, Digital Publication: the example of Aphrodisias, New York University, 2004.