John Bradley is a Senior Analyst for Humanities Computing at King's College London. He began working in the Centre for Computing in the Humanites at King's in March, 1997, and worked previously in the Information Commons at the University of Toronto. John has a particular interest in Humanities Computing and is enjoying focusing on this field in his current position. Within the Humanities computing field John's particular interests and responsibilities include:

• Text Markup and Analysis Tools
• Web based Electronic Publishing
• Humanities applications for Databases

TACT

John was the original author of the DOS-oriented TACT system, and subsequently developed two further components for this system:

• TACTweb, which makes TACT's databases searchable over the Web (a project done with Geoffrey Rockwell), and
• sgml2tdb, which allows document's marked up in sgml (including TEI) to be brought into the TACT system.

Graphical Text Analysis Environments

With Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster University, Hamilton Ont. Canada), John has investigated the role of the graphical display of materials in the context of text analysis. Here are several papers jointly authored by John and Geoffrey on this subject:

• Towards new Research Tools in Computer-Assisted Text Analysis (presented at The Canadian Learned Societies Conference, June, 1992)
• What Scientific Visualization Teaches us about Text Analysis (presented at the Paris ALLC/ACH conference, 1994)
• EyeContact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools
• TACTweb: Argument and Evidence on the Internet, with Geoffery Rockwell (Presented at the ACH/ALLC Conference 1995).
• The Components of a System for Computer Assisted Text Analysis (Prepared for CETH Workshop on Future Text Analysis Tools October 1995).

More recently John has proposed a general purpose architecture for text analysis tools that supports a range of analytical models:

• New TA software: Some Characteristics, and a Proposed Architecture (prepared for workshop on Text Analysis Tools Bergen 1998).
• Tools to augment scholarly activity: an architecture to support text analysis (prepared for conference "Informatica umanistica: filosofia e risorse digitali" (Bologna, September 2000).
• Finding the middle ground between "determinism" and "aesthetic indeterminacy": A model for Text Analysis Tools, presented at the ALLC/ACH conference in Tuebingen 2002.
• Highlighting the past: Annotation of historical texts to support Humanities Scholarship [pdf] slides for invited seminar at University of Kentucy, Centre for Computation Sciences
• What you (fore)see is what you get: Thinking about usage paradigms for computer assisted text analysis: invited paper for Face of Text Conference, McMaster University, Canada, November 2004.
• Supporting annotation as a scholarly tool: experiences from the Online Chopin Variorum Edition: paper given with Paul Vetch (CCH, KCL) at ACH/ALLC annual conference 2005, Victoria BC, Canada.

Humanities Applications for Databases and Structured Text

Papers on the subject of Database applications for the Humanities:

• Using Formal Structures to Create Complex Relationships: The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire - A Case Study (Given at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Summer 2001), with Harold Short.
• Texts into databases: The Evolving Field of New-style Prosopography (Given at the ACH/ALLC Conference, University of Georgia, Athens Georgia, Summer 2003), with Harold Short.
• Documents and Data: modelling materials for Humanities research in XML and relational databases (Given at the ALLC/ACH Conference, Göteborg University, Sweden, June 2004)

John is collaborated in the DB/structured text design and/or development for several projects:

• Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCED)
• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE)
• Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach
• Modern Poetry in Translation
• Open-source information on nuclear proliferation (OSINP)
• Relics and Selves: Iconographies of the National in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 1880-1890
• Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI)
• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Digitisation Project (CVMA)
• Online Chopin Variorum Edition

In addition, he has provided some development support for Willard McCarty's Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Finally, John has had some continued interest in the professional development of those who choose to take up software work in academia:

• Peer Review of Humanities Computing Software: How, what, and by whom?, presented as a part of a panel on Peer Review at ACh/ALLC Summer 2003 (Presentation materials [pdf])