Susan Hockey - Curriculum Vitae & Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, UCL

Born Halifax, UK. Married to Martin Hockey

Now resides in Oxford. Contact: s.hockey[at]ucl.ac.uk

BA Oxford University, Oriental Studies (Egyptian with Akkadian): Class I; Mary Hammill Exhibitioner at Lady Margaret Hall 1969
MA Oxford University 1975

Founder Member, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), 1973
Founder Member, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 1978
Editor of ALLC Bulletin, 1979-83
Chair, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), 1984-97
Member (Chair 1991-93 and 1996-97) of the Steering Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), 1987-99

Fellow by Special Election, St Cross College Oxford, 1979-91; Emeritus Fellow, 1991—
Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Alberta, 1984
Visiting Professor, Summer Institute of University of Pennsylvania, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1988
Lucille Kelly Henderson Lecturer, School of Library and Information Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995
Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1996

1969-75 Assistant Research Officer, Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire, UK

Developed software for display of non-standard characters
Participated in design and testing of COCOA version 2

1975-1991 Oxford University Computing Services

Director, Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford University, 1990-91
Director, Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, 1989-91
Project Director for Oxford Concordance Program
Taught various computing in the humanities courses including text analysis and SNOBOL Programming

1991-97 Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities

Directed research on the delivery of SGML and TEI for the Humanities, also cataloguing and description for electronic texts in the humanities
Co-Director of CETH Summer Seminar on Electronic Texts for the Humanities

1997-99 Professor and Director, the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts, University of Alberta

Co-investigator, Orlando Project; Co-coordinator and Chair of the Steering Committee, Model Editions Partnership; Co-chair of the Society of Biblical Literature Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Languages
Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Computing for the Humanities

2000-2004 Professor of Library and Information Studies, School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies (SLAIS), University College London; Director of the School from 2001

Project Director, LEADERS (Linking EAD to Electronically Retrievable Sources)
Taught graduate courses on Digital Resources for the Humanities and XML

2004— Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London

Publications

Books

Hockey, S., A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities, London, Duckworth and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980; reprinted as Johns Hopkins paperback, 1984.
—, SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. [Also translated into Japanese and published in Japan]
— (series editor with Nancy Ide, guest editor Ian Lancashire), Research in Humanities Computing 1, Oxford University Press, 1991.
— (editor with Nancy Ide), Research in Humanities Computing 2, Oxford University Press, 1994.
— (editor with Nancy Ide), Research in Humanities Computing 3, Oxford University Press, 1994.
— (editor with Nancy Ide), Research in Humanities Computing 4, Oxford University Press, 1996.
— (series editor with Nancy Ide), Research in Humanities Computing 5, Oxford University Press, 1996.
—, Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Articles and Chapters

Hockey, S. (with R.F. Churchhouse), "The Use of an SC4020 for Output of a Concordance Program" in The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research, edited by R.A. Wisbey, Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 221-29.
—, "A Concordance to the Poems of Hafiz with Output in Persian Characters" in The Computer and Literary Studies, edited by A.J. Aitken, R.W. Bailey and N. Hamilton-Smith, Edinburgh University Press, 1973, p. 291-306.
—, "Input and Output of Non-standard Character Sets", ALLC Bulletin, 1.2 (1973), 32-37.
— (with Alan Jones and George Mandel) "Indexing Hebrew Periodicals with the Aid of the FAMULUS Documentation System" in The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Studies (Proceedings of the Third International Symposium), edited by Alan Jones and R.F. Churchhouse, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976, p. 38-46.
— (with Ian Marriott), "The Oxford Concordance Project (OCP)", series of four articles in ALLC Bulletin, 7 (1979), 35-43, 155-164, 268-275 and 8 (1980), 28-35.
—, "The Oxford Courses for Literary and Linguistic Computing" in Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research: Proceedings of the VII ALLC International Symposium, edited by L. Cignoni and C Peters, Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori, 1983, p. 175-182.
—, "OCR: The Kurzweil Data Entry Machine", Literary and Linguistic Computing, 1 (1986), 63-67. [This article was translated into Japanese and reproduced in the Journal of Tokyo University Computing Centre.]
—, "An Historical Perspective" in Information Technology in the Humanities: Tools, Techniques and Applications, edited by Sebastian Rahtz, Ellis Horwood, 1987, p. 20-30.
—, (with Jeremy Martin), "The Oxford Concordance Program Version 2", Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2 (1987), 125-131.
—, "Some Considerations in Providing an Academic Typesetting Service: Experiences at Oxford University" in Studies in Honour of Roberto Busa S.J., edited by Antonio Zampolli, Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori, 1987, p. 91-102.
—, "A Survey of Practical Aspects of Computer-Aided Maintenance and Processing of Natural Language Data" in Computational Linguistics. Ein internationales Handbuch zur computergestutzten Sprachforschung und ihrer Anwendung, edited by I. Batori, W. Lenders and W. Putschke, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989, p. 752-759.
—, "Tools for Literary and Linguistic Computing What is There? What is Emerging and What is Needed?" in Proceedings of 15th ALLC conference, edited by Y. Choueka, Geneva: Slatkine, 1990, p. 29-25 .
— (with Jo Freedman and John Cooper), The Oxford Text Searching System, in Research in Humanities Computing I, series editors Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide, guest editor Ian Lancashire, Oxford University Press, 1991, 113-122.
—, "Creating and Using Large Text Databases for Scholarly Research in the Humanities: Some Practical Issues", in Linguistica Computazionale VI, Computational Lexicology and Lexicography, special issue dedicated to Bernard Quémada, 1991, 395-410.
—, "Literary and Linguistic Computing", in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, ed. Bill Bright, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, 351-353. [Revised and updated for 2003 edition.]
—, "Some Perspectives on Teaching Computers and the Humanities", Computers and the Humanities, 26 (1992), 261-266.
—, "Encoding Standards, SGML and the Text Encoding Initiative: What and Why?", in Visions and Opportunities in Electronic Publishing: Proceedings of the Second Symposium, December 5-8, 1992, edited by Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries, 1993, 59-64.
—, "SNOBOL in the Humanities", Text and Technology, 3.2, (1993) : 7-15. Revised version of article which first appeared in ICEBOL '86 Proceedings (1987). [Revised version of article which first appeared in ICEBOL '86 Proceedings (1987)]
—, "The Role of the Text Encoding Initiative in Creating, Maintaining and Using Well-Documented and Multi-Purpose Electronic Resources", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases '93, Japan Information Development Centre, Tokyo, 1993, 143-50.
— (with Donald Walker), "Developing Effective Resources for Research on Texts: Collecting Texts, Cataloging Texts, Tagging Texts, Using Texts and Putting Texts in Context", Literary and Linguistic Computing, 8 (1993): 235-42.
—, "Evaluating Electronic Texts in the Humanities", Library Trends, 42 (1994): 676-93.
—, "The Centre for Electronic Texts in the Humanities", in Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: in Honour of Don Walker, edited by A. Zampolli, N. Calzolari and M. Palmer, Pisa: Giardini Editori and Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, 467-478.
—, "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: A Coming of Age", in Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services, edited by Brett Sutton, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994, 21-34
—, "Standards in Relation to Electronic Publishing in the Humanities", in Networking in the Humanities: Proceedings of the Second Elvetham Hall Conference on Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities, papers in honour of Michael Smethurst, edited by Stephanie Kenna and Seamus Ross, Bowker-Saur, 1995, 157-171.
—, "Information Objects in the Digital Library", in Building the Digital Library: Content Issues, Proceedings of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee, June 1995.
—, "Text is More than Just Words on a Page", Guest Editorial, D-Lib Magazine, November 1995.
—, "Computer Networking and Textual Sources in the Humanities", in Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University, edited by Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen, SUNY Press, 1996, 83-93.
—, "Developing Access to Electronic Texts in the Humanities", in The Evolving Virtual Library: Visions and Case Studies, edited by Laverna Saunders, Information Today, 1996, 119-133.
—, "Knowledge Representation", in Research Agenda for Cultural Heritage on Information Networks, Getty Art History Information Program, 1996, 31-34. [One of eight papers commissioned by the Getty to promote a research agenda in networking cultural heritage material.]
—, "Creating and Using Electronic Editions", in The Literary Text in the Digital Age, edited by Richard Finneran, University of Michigan Press, 1996, 1-21.
—, "Textual Databases", in Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide, edited by John Lawler and Helen Aristar-Dry, Routledge, 1998, 101-37.
—, "An Agenda for Electronic Text Technology in the Humanities", Classical World, 91 (1998), 521-42.
—, "Changing Scholarly Requirements for Information Resources", in The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Brian Hawkins and Patricia Battin, Council on Library Resources and Association of American Universities, 1998, 117-26. [Invited contribution for a volume intended for University Presidents and senior administrators.]
— (with Susan Brown, Sue Fisher, Patricia Clements, Katherine Binhammer, Terry Butler, Kathryn Carter and Isobel Grundy), "‘SGML and the Orlando Project: Descriptive Markup for an Electronic History of Women's Writing’, Computers and the Humanities, 31 (1998), 271-84.
— (with Patricia Clements, Susan Fisher, Susan Brown, Isobel Grundy, Terry Butler, Katherine Binhammer, Kathryn Carter, Kathryn Harvey and Jeanne Wood), "Building Digital Resources for an Integrated History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles", in The Digital Demotic: a Selection of Papers from Digital Resources in the Humanities 1997, edited by Lou Burnard, Marilyn Deegan and Harold Short, Office for Humanities Communication, 1998, 25-38.
—, "Making Technology Work for Scholarship: Investing in the Data", in Technology and Scholarly Communication, edited by Richard Ekman and Richard Quandt, University of California Press, 1999, 17-36. [Invited contribution originally presented at a conference organized by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on the implications of technology on scholarship.]
—, 'Is There a Computer in this Class?'. Seminar on Is Humanities Computing an Academic Discipline?, University of Virginia, October 1999, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/hcs/hockey.html.
—, ‘Making Electronic Resources Work for Humanities Scholarship’, Historical Social Research, 25, 134-42, 2000.
—, 'Towards a Model for Web-based Language Documentation and Description: Some Contributions from Digital Libraries and Humanities Computing Research', Linguistic Exploration: Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description. University of Pennsylvania, 12-15 December 2000, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/papers/hockey/hockey.htm .
—, ‘Concordance Programs for Corpus Linguistics’ in Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 Symposium, edited by Rita C. Simpson and John M. Swales, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001, 76-97.
—, 'Digital Resources in the Humanities: Past, Present and Future. Towards a Universal Digital Library for the Humanities’, in Standards und Methoden der Volltextdigitalisierung: Beiträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums an der Universität Trier 8/9 Oktober 2001, edited by Thomas Burch, Johannes Fournier and Andrea Rapp, Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 2003, 51-69.
— (with Anna Sexton, Chris Turner and Geoffrey Yeo), 'TEI, EAD, and Integrated User Access to Archives: Towards a Generic Toolset', in DRH 2001 and 2002 Selected Papers from the Digital Resources for the Humanities Conferences 2001 and 2002, edited by Jean Anderson, Alistair Dunning and Michael Fraser, Office for Humanities Communication, 2003, pp. 243-262.
— (with Anna Sexton, Chris Turner and Geoffrey Yeo), 'Understanding Users: a Prerequisite for Developing New Technologies', Journal of the Society of Archivists 25 (2004), 33-49.
— (with Anna Sexton, Chris Turner,and Geoffrey Yeo), 'User Feedback: Testing the LEADERS Demonstrator Application', Journal of the Society of Archivists, 25 (2004), 189-208.
—, 'The Reality of Electronic Editions', in Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies, edited by Raimondo Modiano, Leroy F. Searle and Peter Shillingsburg, University of Washington Press, 2004, 361-377.
—,'The History of Humanities Computing', in A Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 3-19.
—, ‘Living with Google: Perspectives on Humanities Computing and Digital Libraries: Busa Award Lecture, June 2004 ’, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 20 (2005), 7 - 24.

Refereed and invited conference presentations (most recent to last recent, excluding those taken up above as published articles)

Hockey, S., "The Documentation of Electronic Linguistic Resources". Invited paper, Workshop on Digital Documentation for Endangered Languages, Conference on Dialogue of Cultures, Reykjavík, Iceland, April 2005.
—, Session chair and organizer, "Integrating TEI and EAD to Create Usable and Re-usable Archival Resources". Speakers: Elizabeth Hallam-Smith, Anna Sexton and Chris Turner. ACHALLC2003 Conference, Athens, Georgia, June 1993.
—, "Markup, TEI, Digital Libraries and Humanities Scholarship". Keynote talk at TEI Consortium Meeting, Chicago, October 2002.
—, "Re-usable Electronic Texts: Towards a Digital Library for Humanities Scholarship". Invited paper, European Science Foundation Expert Workshop, Strasbourg, June 2002.
—, "Towards a Curriculum for Humanities Computing: Theoretical Goals and Practical Outcomes". Invited paper, Conference on The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities, Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, British Columbia, November 2001.
—, "The Long-term Implications of Electronic Resources in the Humanities". Invited paper, New Technologies for the Arts and Humanities Conference, School of Advanced Study, University of London, September 2001.
—, "Putting Humanities Electronic Resources into the Digital Library". Invited 2-hour seminar, Symposium on A Practicable Future for Humanities Computing, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, July 2001.
— (with Iain Brown), "The MA in Electronic Communication and Publication at UCL". ACHALLC2001 Conference, New York University, June 2001.
—, "Corpus Linguistics and Digital Libraries". Keynote lecture, Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching, Boston, March 2001.
—, "Humanities Computing: Where is it Going?". Invited presentation, Digital Arts: Workshop on Computing and the Internet in the Humanities, Birkbeck College, London, February 2001.
—, "How Well Have We Done?" Invited presentation, CARG Special Millenial Session, Society of Biblical Literature, Nashville. November 2000.
—, "The Role of the Scholarly Associations in Humanities Education". Panelist, ALLCACH2000, University of Glasgow, July 2000.
— (with Sue Fisher, Terry Butler and Greg Coulombe), "Can a Team Tag Consistently? Experiences on the Orlando Project", ACH/ALLC99 Conference, University of Virginia, June 1999.
—, Session chair and organizer of session, "What is Text? A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research". Speakers: Jerome McGann, University of Virginia and Allen Renear, Brown University. ACH/ALLC99 Conference, University of Virginia, June 1999.
—, "Electronic Text and Humanities Research". Netspeed98 Conference of Alberta Libraries, University of Calgary, September 1998.
— (with Susan Brown, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Susan Fisher and Terry Butler), "Delivering a Complex Dynamic Chronology of Women’s Writing", ALLC-ACH98 Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, July 1998.
—, "Information Technology and the Humanities: An Assessment". Invited presentation. International Humanities Forum, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ottawa, May 1998.
—, "The Reality of Electronic Editions". Invited presentation. International Conference on Methods for Editions in the German Tradition (Produktion und Kontext), Constantijn Huygens Instituut, The Hague, Netherlands, March 1998.
—, "An Overview of Electronic Texts for Scholars", Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 1997.
—, Session chair and organizer, "Humanities Computing in the Graduate Curriculum", ACHALLC97, Conference, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, June 1997.
—, "Delivering Model Editions to the Scholarly Community", Society for Textual Scholarship Meeting, New York, April 1997.
—, "Scholarly Editions and the Internet", Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, December 1996.
—, "Tools for Biblical Computing", panelist at Society for Biblical Literature Conference, New Orleans, November 1996.
—, "The Activities of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Developing New Models for Scholarship", Symposium on Humanities Computing, National Institute for Japanese Literature, Tokyo, October 1996.
—, "Electronic Texts: What's Important for Scholarship", Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, New Orleans, September 1996.
—, "Delivering Electronic Scholarly Editions", Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, San Diego, August 1996.
—, "The Arts and Humanities and the National Information Infrastructure". Invitational Workshop, Toward an Every-Citizen Interface to the National Information Infrastructure, National research Council, Washington, DC, August 1996.
—, "Text Analysis Software: Function, Requirements and Architecture", Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Bergen, Norway, Norway, June 1996.
—, "Advanced Technologies, Resources and Access". Planning meeting on Scholarly and Educational Applications of Advanced Technology, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, May 1996.
—, "Electronic Texts: What Librarians Need to Know". New Jersey Library Association Annual Spring Conference, Atlantic City, April 1996.
—, "Electronic Texts: The Promise and the Reality". ACLS Annual Meeting, Washington, April 1996.
—, "The TEI and the Model Editions Partnership". Workshop on Mixed Media in the Digital Age, University of Glasgow, Scotland, January 1996.
—, "Computers and the Humanities: Visions for the 21st Century". Conference on Computers and Teaching in the Humanities, Royal Holloway College, London, September 1995.
—, "The Humanities Scholar and the Digital Library". Coalition for Networked Information Spring Task Force Meeting, Washington DC, April 1995.
—, "Developing Access to Electronic Text". Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, April 1995.
—, "SGML, the TEI and the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities". Meeting of Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries, American Library Association Mid-Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, February 1995.
—, "Electronic Critical Editions: How do People Use Them?". Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego, December 1994.
—, "Developing Access to Electronic Texts". Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Tucson, October 1994.
—, "Describing Electronic Texts: The Text Encoding Initiative and SGML". Seminar on Cataloging Digital Documents, Library of Congress, October 1994.
—, "Managing Textual Data". Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Electronic Records Technical Special Focus Session, September 1994.
—, "The Future of Electronic Texts". Special Libraries, North East Region Conference, Rye, New York, November 1993.
—, "Beyond the Reference Tool: Large Fulltext Databases and their Importance to Scholarship". Society for Scholarly Publishing seminar on Profit, Technology and Scholarship, Alexandria, VA, October 1993.
—, (with C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen), "The Text Encoding Initiative", session at American Society of Information Science Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 1993.
—, "Developing Text Standards". Museums and Interactive Multimedia Conference, Cambridge, England, September 1993.
—, Panel chair and organizer, "Design Principles for Electronic Resources", participants: Elaine Brennan, Robin Cover and Nicholas Belkin. ACHALLC93 conference, Georgetown University, June 1993.
— (with Donald Walker), "Putting the Corpus into the Library and Taking It Out Again". Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics Pre-Session on Corpus-Based Linguistics, March 1993.
—, "Electronic Archives". Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, December 1992.
—, "Developing Full Text Electronic Resources in the Humanities". Library and Information Technology Conference, Denver, September 1992.
—, "The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities". Plenary lecture, IASSIST Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, May 1992.
—, "Electronic Texts: Policy, Acceptability and Control". Panelist, ALLCACH Conference, Oxford, England, April 1992.
—, "The Role of Technology in Higher Education: The Faculty Perspective". OCLC Research Library Directors' Conference, March 1992.
—, "The Documentation of Electronic Texts". Corpus Workshop, Pisa, January 1992.
—, Chair of panel on standards; participant in panels on user needs and corpora. Workshop of Consortium for Lexical Research, Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 1992.
—, Workshop on Text Encoding Initiative, also invited presentation at one-day planning meeting for Japanese Humanities Computing Institute, Tokyo, June 1991.
—, "Information Technology in the Humanities from the Users' Perspective". Invited paper, British Library Anglo-Nordic Information Workshop, Copenhagen, June 1991.
—, "The Text Encoding Initiative". European Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Berlin, April 1991.
—, Keynote address, ACH conference on Computers and Teaching in the Humanities, Fordham University, New York, June 1990.
—, "SGML and the Text Encoding Initiative". Invited presentation, Workshop on Sanskrit Database, Austin, Texas, October 1998.
—, "Tools and Techniques for Literary and Linguistic Computing". Invited paper at conference to inaugurate humanities computing centre in Turin, Italy, October 1988.
—, "Creating and Using Text Databases for Scholarly Research". Association for History and Computing UK Branch conference, Glasgow, March 1988.
—, Chair of final (summing up) session. Workshop on Standardization of Text Encoding Practices (Planning meeting for Text Encoding Initiative), Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, November 1987.
—, "Micro-OCP". International Conference on Computing in the Humanities, University of South Carolina, Columbia, March 1987.
—, "The Oxford Facilities for Computing in the Humanities". Invited paper, Conference on Computing in the Humanities, Toronto, April 1986.
—, "The Oxford Lasercomp Service". Workshop on the Impact of Author's Manuscripts in Electronic Form, Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, November 1985.
—, "The Future of Arts Computing". Invited paper, 20th Anniversary Conference, Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre, Cambridge, October 1985.
—, "The OUCS Lasercomp Typesetting Service". ICCH Conference, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, June 1985.
—, "The Future of Humanities Computing". Invited paper, Conference on Computing in the Humanities, Westfield College, London, April 1984.
—, "Design Considerations for Computer Typesetting". ALLC Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, April 1984.
—, "Facilities at Oxford". Invited paper, Conference on Computing in the Humanities, University of Victoria, BC, January 1984.
—, "The Oxford Facilities for Computing in the Arts". Invited paper, Workshop on Humanities Computing Facilities, McGill University, Montreal, April 1982.
—, "The Oxford Facilities for Computing in the Humanities". Canadian Conference on Text Data Processing, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1981.
—, "The Kurzweil Data Entry Machine". ICCH Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 1981.
—, Contribution to Workshop on Text Archives, Institut de la Langue Française, Nancy, May 1980.
—, "The Oxford Concordance Program: a Machine-Independent Text Analysis Package". Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing, Netanya, Israel, April 1979.
—, "Some Oxford Projects in Computing in the Humanities". ICCH Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, August 1977.

Invited lectures delivered in other universities

—, "The Convergence of Humanities Computing and Digital Libraries". Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 2002.
—, "Education and Experience in the Information Field". Libraries and Librarianship Past Present and Future, UNC Summer Programme in Oxford, May 2002.
—, "Putting Humanities Electronic Resources into the Digital Library". University of Sydney, July 2001.
—, "Introduction to the Use of Computer Corpora for Linguistics". Three-hour workshop presented at the North American Symposium on Corpora in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Michigan, May 1999.
—, "The TEI and Electronic Scholarly Editions". University of Calgary, April 1998.
—, "Humanities Computing and Scholarship in the 21st Century". New York University, April 1998.
—, "Computing in the Humanities: the Implications for Scholarship". Lansdowne Lecture, University of Victoria, BC, March 1996.
—, "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Potential and Strategies". Cam Lecture Series, New York Public Library, February 1996.
—, "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: A Vision for the 21st Century". Stanford University, also at University of California at Berkeley, September 1995.
—, "Information Objects in the Digital Library". Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee, June 1995.
—, "Introduction to Electronic Text". University of Cincinnati Law Library, SGML Workshop, May 1995.
—, "Developing Access to Electronic Texts in the Humanities". Yale University, May 1995.
—, "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Markup and Access Techniques". Davidson College, North Carolina, March 1995.
—, "Computing, Electronic Information and the Humanities: a View Toward the 21st Century". University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Lucille Kelly Henderson Lecture, School of Information and Library Science, March 1995.
—, "Arts and Humanities Data Service: a View from the USA". Kings College, London, Seminar on Humanities Computing, December 1994.
—, "Building the Library of Tomorrow". Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, October 1994.
—, "Developing Access to Electronic Texts in the Humanities". University of Arizona, Tucson, October 1994.
—, "Electronic Texts: Some Current Issues". American Society for Information Science, New Jersey Chapter, September 1994.
—, "The Humanities Electronic Resources Center at CETH". North East Association for Computers and the Humanities, May 1994.
—, "Electronic Texts and Scholarship in the Humanities". University of Kentucky, March 1994.
—, "Literary and Linguistic Computing: its Present Status and Future". Kyoritsu University, Tokyo, December 1993. Also at Tokyo University, Department of Language and Information Science.
—, "TEI and SGML". National Center for Science Information Systems, Tokyo, December 1993.
—, "Trends in Humanities Computing". Dalhousie University, Halifax, November 1993.
—, "Future Directions for Humanities Computing". Panelist, North East Association for Computers and the Humanities, New York, October 1993.
—, "SGML and TEI". Presentation to "Federal Funders" group, Washington, DC, September 1993.
—, "The Promise and Reality of Electronic Texts in the Humanities". College of William and Mary Seminar on Scholarly Humanities Communication, April 1993.
—, "Developing Full-Text Electronic Resources for the Humanities". Association for Asian Studies, Committee on East Asian Libraries Subcommittee on Library Technology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 1993.
—, "Humanities Computing: Is there a Future?" Computing in the Humanities User Group, Brown University, November 1992.
—, "Electronic Texts: What are they? Why do we need them? And how can we make them better?" Brown University Computing and Information Systems (invited audience), also at Harvard University Libraries Professional Development Committee, November 1992.
—, "Electronic Resources for the Humanities". Association of College and Research Libraries, Delaware Valley Chapter, October 1992.
—, "Methodologies for Electronic Texts". University of Missouri, Kansas City, May 1992.
—, "Developing Electronic Resources in the Humanities". University of Pennsylvania Computing Lecture Series, March 1992.
—, "Future Developments for Electronic Texts". Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Toronto, March 1992.
—, "The New Media and their Impact on Preservation". Oxford University Libraries Board Preservation Seminars, February 1992.
—, "Humanities Computing Towards the Next Decade". Queen's University, Kingston, January 1992.
—, "The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities". North East Association for Computers and the Humanities, New York, December 1991.
—, "Current Issues in Humanities Computing". Thompson lecture, Vassar College, October 1991.
—, "The Text Encoding Initiative". Japanese SGML Forum, Tokyo, June 1991.
—, "TEI and Language Corpora". Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Tokyo, June 1991
—, "The Computers in Teaching Initiative and the Text Encoding Initiative". Centre for Medieval Studies, Tokyo University, June 1991.
—, "Developments in Humanities Computing". UCLA, March 1991.
—, "Technology and Information in the Humanities". Getty Art History Information Program, Santa Monica, California, February 1991.
—, "Some Current Issues in Humanities Computing". Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey, February 1991.
—, "Micro-OCP: a Flexible Tool for the Analysis of Textual Corpora". North East Association for Computers and the Humanities, New York, October 1998.
—, Workshop on Micro-OCP. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, September 1998.
—, "Some Current Issues in Humanities Computing". Brown University Computing in the Humanities User Group, September 1988.
—, "Concordances and their Uses". Boston College, September 1988.
—, "The Text Encoding Initiative and SGML". Workshop on Computing and Classical Greek, University of Manchester, July 1988.
—, "Humanities Computing at Oxford". Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey, March 1988.
—, "Software Resources for Literary Analysis". University of Michigan, April 1987.
—, "Humanities Computing at Oxford University". Rutgers University, also at Johns Hopkins University, April 1987.
—, "Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research". University of the District of Columbia, also at University of California at Irvine, April 1987.
—, "Computers and Literature". US Coast Guard Academy, New London, April 1987.
—, "The Oxford Concordance Program". Swarthmore College, also at Brigham Young University, April 1987.
—, "Computing in the Humanities at Oxford University". University of Pennsylvania, October 1986.
—, "Text Analysis and the Computer". Princeton University, October 1986.
—, "The Oxford Facilities for Humanities Computing". New OED Centre, University of Waterloo, April 1986.
—, Two days of general lectures and an OCP tutorial. University of Saskatchewan, April 1986.
—, "Humanities Computing". University of Calgary, April 1986.
—, Two lectures on computing in the humanities. University of Bergen, Norway, October 1985.
—, Two lectures on KDEM and Lasercomp. Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, October 1985.
—, Half-day workshop on OCP before the ICCH conference at Brigham Young University, April 1985.
—, Seminars on KDEM, text archive and text storage. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, December 1984. (Introduced by Father R Busa.)
—, "Text Analysis Applications". University of Rome, March 1983.