Dr
Judith Wusteman, B.Sc.
(Cardiff), Ph.D. (Exeter)
judith.wusteman @ ucd.ie (remove blank
space on either side of @ to use),
phone:
+353 1 716 7612 , fax:
+353 1 716 1161
Judith Wusteman joined the
staff at DepLIS in September 1997 after
seven
years as a lecturer in computer science at the University of Kent at
Canterbury.
Before that, she completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the
University
of Exeter. Judith's research interests are in electronic publishing,
specifically
XML and digital libraries, ejournals, document structure and text
encoding.
She has been involved in various electronic library projects and has
provided
SGML and XML consultancy for ejournal, encyclopedia and digital library
systems.
Areas of Expertise|
Consultancy
& Research | Publications
| Workshops
Electronic
publishing
with
particular emphasis on
- Markup
consultant to Thesaurus
Linguae Hibernicae digitisation
project, Dept of Early Irish, UCD
(2001, 2004 -).
- Member of
OCLC
Systems and Services Journal
editorial board (Sept 2002 - 2005)
- Editor of special
issue of OCLC Systems and
Services Journal on "XML and
Ejournals", vol 19, no 4 2003.
- Member of Library
Hi
Tech Journal
editorial board and columnist on XML
(January 2003 - January 2005)
- Member of CoSEI (Computer
Science and English
Initiative),
a collaboration between Departments of Library and Information Studies,
Modern
English and Computer Science to establish UCD as a centre of expertise
in
Humanities Computing.
- Consultancy to
the Thomas
McGreevy
Hypertext
Archive project (CoSEI).
- UCD President's
Award
granted
(1998) for visits to centres of excellence in Humanities Computing in
Ireland
and Britain.
- Involved in
successful
bid
for £120,000 grant from Forbairt Advanced
Software Technologies Initiative
for INTENTS
(INTElligent
Navigation Tools) project (1997).
- Consultancy and
development
of a DTD (Document Type Definition) for the Academic Press Encyclopaedia
of Immunology; January to June
1997. With F.C.Cole.
- Committee member
of
the British
Computer
Society
Special Interest Group on Electronic Publishing
(1995-7).
- Member of
Programme
Committee
of ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing Conferences in 1998 (Central
European
University, Budapest) and 1997 (University of Kent at Canterbury)
- Member of
Programme
Committee
of SOFSEM'98 (25th Annual Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and
Practice
of Informatics), Slovakia.
- Directed
operations at
University
of Kent at Canterbury for audit and evaluation of the FIGIT Electronic
Libraries Infobike
project from May 1995 to September 1996.
Funded by the
Joint Information Systems Committee:
£51,000
(sterling).
- Beta-tester for
the CAJUN
(CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks)
project, Nottingham
University (1994).
- "From
Ghostbusters to libraries: the Power of XUL",
Library
Hi Tech,
vol 23, no 1, 2005.
- "RSS:
The Latest
Feed", Library
Hi Tech, vol 22, no 4, pp. 404 -
413, 2004.
- "Patently
ridiculous", Library
Hi Tech, vol 22, no 2, pp. 231 -
237, 2004.
- "Whither
HTML?", Library
Hi Tech,
vol 22, no 1, pp. 99 - 105, 2004.
- "XML
and ejournals", editorial,
OCLC Systems and Services Journal,
vol 19, no 4, 2003.
- "Web
Forms: The Next Generation", Library
Hi Tech, vol 21, no 3,
pp 367-381, 2003. Supporting
files.
- "XML
to the desktop", Library
Hi Tech, vol 21, no 2, pp. 238 -
245, 2003.
- "XML
and Ejournals: The State of Play",
Library Hi Tech,
vol
21, no 1, pp. 21 - 33, 2003.
- "XML and Digital
Libraries",
UCD Dept of Library and Information
Studies
25th Anniversary Conference, 11 October 2002, Dublin.
- "Letters, Browsers,
the Bug,
and the Irishman", (co-author: S.
Schreibman), DRH '98 (Digital
Resources in the Humanities)
University of Glasgow,
10th September 1998
- "
The Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology: Digitising Irish Archives
for
the New Millennium" (co-author:
S. Schreibman) Computers
&
Texts
16, CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford University (April 1998).
- "Formats
for the
Electronic
Library'' in Ariadne (Online
version), Issue 8, March 1997.
- "The Evolving Use of
SGML in
Electronic Journals'', Electronic
Publishing
'97: New Models and Opportunities (ICCC/IFIP),
UKC 14-16 April
1997.
Proceedings published by Chapman and Hall.
- Book Review in Program
Vol 31, no 1, January 1997. "Project
ELVYN: an Experiment in Electronic Journal Delivery. Facts, Figures and
Findings''.
Eds: Rowland,F., McKnight,C. and Meadows,J., Bowker Saur, 1995.
- "Electronic Journal
Formats'', Program
Vol 30 No 4,
October 1996.
- "Electronic Journals
Using
Guide'' (co-author: H.Brown), 2nd
International
Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research,
De
Montfort University, May 1995. (Proceedings published by Aslib, 1996.)
- "Electronic Journals
using
Acrobat, Mosaic and Guide" (co-author:
H.
Brown) in Proceedings of
Digital Media and Electronic Publishing,
BCS Conference, December 1994. (Proceedings published by Academic
Press,
1996. Paper reprinted in New
Review of Information Networking,
Volume
1, 1995)
- "
'The End of the Word is Nigh' or A
Weekend
of Soundbites''
(Review of FUSE94: Forum for
Experimental Typography) in
Newsletter
of the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group,
March 1995, Vol 8, No 3. Reprinted in IDeAs,
Newsletter of the
Information
Design Association and the Newsletter of AlphaBugs
International.
- "The Increasing
Importance
of Ethics in Computer Science"
(co-author:
D. Langford), Business Ethics:
A European Review, 1994, Vol. 3,
No.
4, pp. 219 - 222, October 1994.
- "Ethics for Computer
Science
Students" (co-author: D. Langford), Computer
Bulletin, Vol 5, No 2, pp. 22 -
23 April 1993.
- "Explanation-based
Learning:
a survey" Artificial
Intelligence Review,
Vol 6, pp. 243 - 262, 1992.
- "Explanation-based
Learning
as Justification of Knowledge", Expert
Systems, Vol 6, No 3, pp. 139 -
148, 1992.
- "The Implicit
Limitations of
Explanation-based Generalization", AIBS
Quarterly 1992, Vol 80, pp. 40 -
46, 1992.
- "EBKAT: An
Explanation-Based
Knowledge Acquisition Tool'', PhD
thesis,
University of Exeter, awarded June 1991.
Workshops
- "XML: The
Nuts and Bolts",
3 day workshop held in Dept of Computer Science, UCD,
23-25 May 2001
and repeated 12-14
December
2001. Organised by CoSEI and co-presented with S. Schreibman.
These
workshops were aimed at researchers involved in or considering
digitisation projects.
- "An Introduction to
Markup
Languages " at "Wiring
Memory:
Cultural
Heritage On-line",
13-14 September 2001, Department of Computer
Science,
University College Dublin
- "An Introduction
to
XML and
SGML" pre-colloquium workshop at "What's all
the hype in
hypertext
about?",
March 2000, CoSEI , University College Dublin. Aimed
at
researchers developing cultural Web sites. Also chaired sessions in
colloquium.
- "Recent
Developments
in Electronic
Library Formats" at UKSG
'00 (UK Serials Group)
conference,
Warwick, April 2000.
- "A Beginner's
Guide to
Electronic
Library Formats" at UKSG '98
conference, Exeter, April 1998.
- "Electronic
Journals:
What,
How and Why?", Half-day pre-conference tutorial at Computer
Graphics International
'95, Leeds, June 1995.
- "SGML DTDs for
Journals'',
Invited lecture to publishers organised by BH Blackwells, Oxford,
September
1996.
- Organised and
chaired
BCS
day seminars:
-
- "Access to
E-space: Network
Publishing Comes of age'', Warwick, March 1996
- "Programming the
World-Wide
Web'', London, February 1997
- Co-organised and
chaired
BCS day seminar: "Innovations in Online Journal Publishing'', London,
November
1996
Judith Wusteman
Updated Dec
04