Lou Burnard

Lou Burnard
Louis Deryck Burnard
Born (1946-12-09) 9 December 1946 (age 77)
Birmingham, England
NationalityBritish
Known forOxford Text Archive, Text Encoding Initiative
PartnerLilette
Children3
Academic background
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford

Lou Burnard (born 1946 in Birmingham, England) is an internationally recognised expert[1] in digital humanities, particularly in the area of text encoding and digital libraries. He was assistant director of Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) from 2001 to September 2010, when he officially retired from OUCS. Before that, he was manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS for five years. He has worked in ICT support for research in the humanities since the 1990s. He was one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and continues to play an active part in its maintenance and development, as a consultant to the TEI Technical Council and as an elected TEI board member. He has played a key role in the establishment of many other activities and initiatives in this area, such as the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service and the British National Corpus, and has published[2] and lectured widely. Since 2008 he has worked as a Member of the Conseil Scientifique for the CNRS-funded "Adonis" TGE.[3][4]

  1. ^ "SCOTS - Board Members". www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. ^ "dblp: Lou Burnard". dblp.uni-trier.de. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Lou Burnard: his home page". users.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Lou Burnard - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.