Michael Sperberg-McQueen
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C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (18 May 1954 – 16 August 2024) was an American medieval German philologist and markup language specialist. He was co-chair of Balisage: The Markup Conference, founder and principal of Black Mesa Technologies, co-editor of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 spec (1998), and chair of both the W3C XML Coordination Group and the XML Schema Working Group. [1]
Biography
[edit]Sperberg-McQueen was also instrumental in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), an international cooperative project to develop and disseminate guidelines for the encoding and interchange of electronic text for research. He was co-editor, with Lou Burnard, of the TEI's Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange in 1994. He also served as editor in chief of the TEI from 1988 to 2000.[2]
XML and TEI have become ubiquitous in their domains. Sue Polanka (Head of Reference/Instruction, Wright State University Libraries) notes that the TEI "...in the 1980s and 90s established a fundamental set of methods and practices that now underpin most digital humanities scholarship."[3] Sperberg-McQueen was a key leader of these and other standards efforts through extensive speaking, teaching, writing, and research.
He held a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University, and taught and published widely on markup systems,[4] overlapping markup,[5] formal languages,[6] semantic theory,[7] and other topics.
In 2015, Sperberg-McQueen held courses on Digital Humanities at the Technische Universität Darmstadt as visiting professor.[8] He also talked in an interview about his work experience for the Princeton University and the Symbiose of computers and humanities.[9]
Sperberg-McQueen died on 16 August 2024, at the age of 70. Death notices were posted by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium[10] and Balisage.[11]
Education
[edit]Sperberg-McQueen had a background in German Studies with education at: the University of Bonn, Free University of Berlin (1975–76); an A.B. in German Studies and Comparative Literature, with distinction, and with Honors in Humanities and Honors in German Studies, Stanford University (1977); an A.M., German Studies, Stanford University (1977); Paris-Sorbonne University (1978–79), and University of Göttingen (1982–83). He was awarded a Ph.D in Comparative Literature by Stanford University for a dissertation on "An Analysis of Recent Work on Nibelungenlied Poetics." in 1985.
References
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- http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/ – Home page at the Web Consortium
- http://cmsmcq.com/ – personal Web page, with selected publications at http://cmsmcq.com/doclist.html
- http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2001/papers/bio/s02-1auth1.html—bio[permanent dead link] from XML Europe 2001 conference
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_Dec_10/ai_111110786/ -- "XML Cup 2003 Awards Presented"
- ^ Diane Jakacki. (August 18, 2024). "C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954 – 2024): In Memoriam". Archived from the original on August 18, 2024.
- ^ Nancy Ide; C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (1995). "The TEI: History, goals, and future". Computers and the Humanities. 29 (1): 5–15. doi:10.1007/bf01830313. S2CID 32868213.
- ^ Sue Polanka. (July 26, 2012). "DPLA receives $1 million award from the NEH". Archived from the original on July 30, 2012.
- ^ Allen Renear; David Dubin; C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (2002). Towards a semantics for XML markup. ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. pp. 119–126.
- ^ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen; Claus Huitfeldt (2000). GODDAG: A Data Structure for Overlapping Hierarchies. 8th International Conference on Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing, DDEP 2000, 5th International Workshop on the Principles of Digital Document Processing, PODDP 2000. Munich, Germany. pp. 139–160. ISBN 9783540210702.
- ^ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (2005). Applications of Brzozowski derivatives to XML Schema processing. Extreme Markup Languages.
- ^ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (2011). What Constitutes Successful Format Conversion? Towards a Formalization of 'Intellectual Content. International Journal of Digital Curation. Vol. 6. pp. 153–164.
- ^ "Sperberg-McQueen, Michael". www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ Nyhan, Julianne; Flinn, Andrew (2016). Computation and the Humanities. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20170-2. ISBN 978-3-319-20169-6. S2CID 35935691.
- ^ "C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1954 – 2024): In Memoriam – TEI: Text Encoding Initiative".
- ^ "Remembering CM Sperberg-McQueen".