Curriculum Vitae for Martin Holmes
2023
Martin
David
Holmes
mholmes@uvic.ca
https://www.mholmes.com
[EMail me if you need my mailing address]
Victoria
British Columbia
Canada
250-721-8754
RSA Dip. TEFLA (Royal Society of Arts/University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults)
Distinction (written)
Bell College
Saffron Walden, UK
June 1994
MPhil (English Phonology)
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
1986
Thesis title: Approaches to Syllable Structure in English
B.A. (Hons) (English Language and Literature)
1st Class
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
1984
Courses taken include Old English, Middle English and Modern English Language and Literature, The History of the English Language, The Structure of Modern English, English Historical Linguistics, George Eliot (special author), Shakespeare, and a subsidiary drama course. Dissertation Title: The Five Senses in Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
Natural Language Processing
85.9%
Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp
May 2012
Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
November/December 2003
Leadership Strategies
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
November 2003
Productive Business Meetings
Saudi Aramco Management Training
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
August 1993
Classroom Management
Saudi Aramco Management Training
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
March 1993
Workshops and presentations on a variety of topics
Saudi Aramco Annual In-Service Training Days
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Autumn 1991 & 1992
In 1991 I gave one of the presentations, on creating reading exercises.
Presentation Skills
Saudi Aramco Management Training
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
September 1991
Teaching Listening Skills
British Council
Jambi, Indonesia
March 1990
Language Laboratories; Course Design
British Council
Aceh, Indonesia
November 1989
Indonesian Language
WISMA Realino
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Autumn 1987
6-week intensive Indonesian language course
ELT Training Course
VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)
Bristol, UK
Summer 1987
Pre-departure training course for Indonesia posting
University of Victoria President's Distinguished Service Award, 2008.
http://web.uvic.ca/hr/pdsa/2008pdsawinners.html
Text-Encoding Initiative. I served as an elected member of the TEI Technical Council for six years (2010-2011, 2012-2013, and 2014-2015).
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH)
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN)
Managing Editor of the TEI Journal, 2013-2015.
Elected member of the Technical Council of the Text-Encoding Initiative, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, and 2014-2015. http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/
Abstract reviewer for Digital Humanities conference.
Abstract reviewer for the conference of the Text-Encoding Initiative.
Abstract reviewer for the conference of the Canadian Society for
Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN).
University of Victoria President's Distinguished Service Awards committee, 2010 and 2011.
University of Victoria Humanities Dean Search Committee, 2009-2010.
Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2017. With Syd Bauman.
Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists, Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School, University of Oxford, 2013. With Alex Dutton.
Introduction to TEI Encoding, University of Victoria HCMC, 2012.
Text Encoding Fundamentals, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, 2010. With Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman.
Programmer / Consultant
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (formerly the Language Centre)
01-04-1998
present
PO Box 3045 STN CSC,
Victoria, B.C.,
V8W 3P4, Canada
Developing standalone and Web-based software and materials to support teaching and research within the Humanities (see the Publications section for examples); setting up and administering large Windows network (several servers and 60 workstations) for computerized language laboratories.
Founder, Director, Secretary/Treasurer
Half-Baked Software Inc.
01-05-1999
present
Half-Baked Software Inc.,
Innovation Development Corporation,
PO Box 3075, STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, V8W 3W2,
Canada
Half-Baked Software is a company formed by Stewart Arneil, myself, and the University of Victoria to develop the commercial potential of software created at the Humanities Computing and Media Centre.
ESL Instructor / Materials Developer
University of Victoria English Language Centre
03-04-1995
31-03-1998
Box 1700 MS 8452,
Victoria, B.C., V8W 2Y2,
Canada
I developed and taught the University Admissions Preparation Course, for students moving from the ESL program into regular classes. I also developed and taught the Online Writing Course, one of the University's first Web-based courses, as well as teaching a range of regular ESL classes from lower-intermediate to advanced level.
Instructor (English Literature)
Department of English, Camosun College
02-05-1995
21-07-1995
Lansdowne Campus,
3100 Foul Bay Road,
Victoria, B.C., V8P 5J2,
Canada
Part-time term appointment teaching English 084E literature course, a basic introduction to English literature with a multi-cultural slant for students intending to enter credit courses.
Advanced English Teacher
Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabian Oil Company)
01-02-1991
08-12-1994
Rahima Academic Training Center, Saudi Aramco,
Ras Tanura 31311,
Saudi Arabia
Teaching all levels of English, but mainly intermediate and advanced English to apprentices and company employees. Chairman of the English Reading and English Writing courses for employees. Production of supplementary materials for the Academic Curriculum Unit as well as in-house tests. In charge of test administration and scoring teams. Handled a variety of bureaucratic duties, including administering student records.
Lecturer in English (Voluntary Service Overseas development agency posting)
University of Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia
01-11-1987
01-04-1990
Telanaipura,
Jambi,
Sumatra,
Indonesia
Solely responsible for organizing and teaching English courses for lecturers preparing for Masters courses in-country and abroad, including EAP, study skills and TOEFL preparation. Collating information about scholarships, assisting with applications and research proposals. ELT teacher-training both for lecturers and students in the Education Faculty. Supervision and grading of teaching practice in a Senior High School.
Monbusho British English Teacher (Japanese Government BETS Programme)
Kurayoshi West Senior High School
01-09-1984
01-09-1985
Kurayoshi-shi, Tottori-ken, Japan.
Teaching English in Junior and Senior High Schools.
JavaScript / HTML / XML / CSS / XSLT / XSL:FO / XQuery / mySQL / PHP
Web
Creating interactive Web applications and online database systems; digitizing/marking up academic texts using XML, and rendering as dynamic Websites using XSL, JavaScript and CSS; producing print publications based on XML sources
Ubuntu server maintenance
Linux
Setting up and running two Continuous Integration servers using Jenkins on Ubuntu,
starting in 2012.
TEI XML
Any
Designing and implementing schemas for TEI XML projects, serving on the TEI Technical Council,
working on the TEI infrastructure, build process, and Guidelines.
Windows networking
Windows
Setting up and maintaining a Windows network including 60 workstations and 7 servers (2001-4)
Borland Delphi v2, v5, v2005 and v2009
Windows
Building in-house and commercial authoring tools for creating interactive Web pages, marking up text, and other teaching and research tools
Intuit Quickbooks v6-2010
Windows
Accounting for small business (Half-Baked Software)
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator; The Gimp and Inkscape
Windows, OSX, Linux
Basic graphics manipulation
Range of audio/video digital editors
Windows, Linux
Digitizing/preparing multimedia content for the Web
OpenLayers
Web
Building maps and other geographic and tile-based resources
using the OpenLayers JavaScript library.
English
Native
Native
Native language
French
Good
Fair
My spoken French is a little rusty through lack of use, but I read and listen in the language regularly.
Indonesian
Good
Good
I lived in an isolated area of Indonesia for two and a half years, and during that time I did a great deal of translation work, mainly academic documents, both Indonesian-English and English-Indonesian. A few years ago, I also worked on the University of Victoria's Indonesian 100 Website, so I have had some practice with the language, and I regularly listen to podcasts in Indonesian.
Japanese
Fair
Fair
After many years of neglecting my Japanese, I began studying seriously again in 2016. In December 2017 I passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test at level N4, in December 2018 at level N3. and in December 2019 at level N2. I listen to a lot of Japanese podcasts, watch Japanese TV shows regularly, and I'm now able to read novels, albeit slowly.
Modern Wendat Lexicography:Using XML to Reflect the Grammar and Lexicon of an Iroquoian Language.
Journal article.
With Megan Lukaniec. In Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America.
Dictionary Society of North America.
2023. Issue 44.2, 2023: Special Issue on Indigenous Lexicography, p.75-105. Edited by
Christine Schreyer and Mark Turin.
https://doi.org/10.1353/dic.2023.a915066
From Tamagotchis to Pet Rocks: On Learning to Love Simplicity through the Endings Principles.
Journal article.
With Joey Takeda. In Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
2022. Issue 17.1 | 2023: Special Issue on Project Resiliency. Edited by
Martin Holmes, Matt Huculak, and Janelle Jenstad.
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/1/000668/000668.html
Encoding sonic devices: what is it good for?
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Initiative Conference 2022, Newcastle, UK.
14/09/2022.
https://zenodo.org/record/7089666
Serverless Searching with XSLT and JavaScript.
Conference presentation.
With Joey Takeda. Balisage 2022 Conference.
01/08/2022.
Getting Along with Relational Databases.
Journal article.
In The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
2022. Issue 14 | 2021: Selected Papers from the 2019 TEI Conference.
https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/3874
How big can a static site be? Staticizing a census database.
Conference presentation.
With Greg Newton. Digital Humanities 2022 Conference, Tokyo (online).
28/07/2022.
What the Book Got Right, or, Lots of Static Copies Keep Stuff Safe.
Conference presentation.
With Janelle Jenstad. Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
17/05/2022.
Are the TEI Stylesheets really broken beyond repair?
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Initiative Conference 2021 (online).
25/10/2021.
Using ODD for HTML.
Journal article.
In The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
2021.
https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/3106
Using open-source, sustainable tools for language reclamation: Preliminary findings from building a digital corpus of Wendat.
Conference presentation.
With Megan Lukaniec, Sally Cartwright, Erin Hashimoto, Emma Pearce-Marvell, Jamie Quibell, and Bethany Scholfield. 7th International
Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation
(ICLDC 7), 2021, Hawaii, USA. / online.
https://youtu.be/1A0G-kG79m4
04/03/2021.
Nine Projects, One Codebase: A Static Search Engine for Digital Editions.
Conference presentation.
With Joey Takeda. COLLABORATION Digital Humanities Conference, University of British Columbia / online.
http://dhconference.sites.olt.ubc.ca/conference-info/program/day-4/
31/10/2020.
Static Search: An Archivable and Sustainable Search Engine for the Digital Humanities.
Conference presentation.
With Joey Takeda. Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Colloquium (#VirtualDHSI).
https://zenodo.org/record/3883150
06/06/2020.
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative: Selected Papers from the 2017 TEI Conference.
jTEI Issue 12.
Guest-edited with Janelle Jenstad and Kathryn Tomasek.
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
2019-2020.
http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1076
Getting Along with Relational Databases.
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Graz, Austria.
https://zenodo.org/record/3451277
20/09/2019.
How we tripled our encoding speed in the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry project.
Conference presentation.
With Kaitlyn Fralick, Kailey Fukushima and Sarah Karlson. Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Graz, Austria.
https://zenodo.org/record/3449241
19/09/2019.
The Prefabricated Website: Who needs a server anyway?
Conference presentation.
With Joey Takeda. Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Graz, Austria.
https://zenodo.org/record/3449197
19/09/2019.
Clearing the Air for Maintenance and Repair: Strategies, Experiences, Full Disclosure; Paper Three: Ruthless Principles for Digital Longevity
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil and Greg Newton. Presented by Greg Newton. Digital Humanities 2019 Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0648.html
12/07/2019.
Project Endings: Early Impressions From Our Recent Survey On Project Longevity In DH
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil and Greg Newton. Presented by Greg Newton. Digital Humanities 2019 Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0891.html
10/07/2019.
Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI.
Journal article.
In The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.
2019.
http://journals.openedition.org/jtei/2222
Beyond Validation: Using Programmed Diagnostics to Learn About, Monitor, and Successfully Complete Your DH Project.
Journal article.
With Joey Takeda. In Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
Oxford University Press/EADH.
2019.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz011
Algorithmic Determination of Japanese Ethnic Identity Based on Name.
Journal article.
In the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities.
Volume 3 (2018) Issue 1 pages 73-97.
https://doi.org/10.17928/jjadh.3.1_73
2018.
Encoding GeoJSON Geometries in TEI.
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
13/09/2018.
Using ODD for HTML.
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
13/09/2018.
Confronting Challenges in Marking Up Pre-modern East Asian Documents.
Conference presentation.
Chair/Discussant: Marcus Bingenheimer; Duncan Paterson; Martin Holmes; Organizer: Hanna McGaughey. Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
11/09/2018.
Why do I need four search engines?
Conference presentation.
With Joey Takeda. Japanese Association for Digital Humanities Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
https://conf2018.jadh.org/files/Proceedings_JADH2018.pdf#page=58
11/09/2018.
Encoding Cryptic Crossword Clues with TEI.
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Initiative Conference, Victoria, Canada.
http://hcmc.uvic.ca/tei2017/abstracts/t_102_holmes_crosswords.html
14/11/2017.
Beyond Validation: Using Programmed Diagnostics to Learn About, Monitor, and Successfully Complete Your DH Project.
Conference presentation.
With Joey Takeda. Digital Humanities 2017 Conference, Montreal, Canada.
https://dh2017.adho.org/abstracts/140/140.pdf
11/08/2017.
Archiving form and function: preserving a 2003 digital project.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil; presented by Stewart Arneil. DPASSH Conference 2017: Digital Preservation for Social Sciences and Humanities, Brighton, UK.
14/06/2017.
Selecting Technologies for Long-Term Survival.
Conference presentation.
SHARP Conference 2017: Technologies of the Book, Victoria, BC, Canada.
https://github.com/projectEndings/Endings/raw/master/presentations/SHARP_2017/mdh_sharp_2017.pdf
10/06/2017.
Whatever happened to interchange?
Journal article.
In Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. (2017) 32 (suppl_1): i63-i68.
Oxford University Press/EADH.
https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/32/suppl_1/i63/2957398/Whatever-happened-to-interchange?guestAccessKey=f85310aa-29d1-45de-9936-ac9ed9668e94
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqw048
2016.
How To Edit a Map in TEI.
Conference presentation.
With Janelle Auriol Jenstad, Kim McLean-Fiander, and Greg Newton. Digital Humanities 2015 Conference, Sydney, Australia.
http://dh2015.org/abstracts/xml/JENSTAD_Janelle_Auriol_How_To_Edit_a_Map_in_TEI//JENSTAD_Janelle_Auriol_How_To_Edit_a_Map_in_TEI.html
03/07/2015.
Whatever Happened to Interchange?
Conference presentation.
Digital Humanities 2015 Conference, Sydney, Australia.
http://dh2015.org/abstracts/xml/HOLMES_Martin_Whatever_Happened_to_Interchange_//HOLMES_Martin_Whatever_Happened_to_Interchange_.html
02/07/2015.
First steps in integrating diverse data sources to tell a fuller story of the treatment of Japanese Canadians in WW2.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil; presented by Stewart Arneil. Joint CSDH/SCHN & ACH Digital Humanities Conference 2015.
02/06/2015.
Landscapes of Injustice: Preliminary Returns of Partnered Research.
Conference presentation (panel).
With Beth Carter, Nick Blomley, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Sarah Fitterer, Sonja Aagesen, and Samantha Bets; BC Studies 2015 Conference, Vancouver, BC.
http://www.kpu.ca/sites/default/files/Faculty%20of%20Arts/BC_Studies%202015_Program.pdf
08/05/2015.
CodeSharing: a simple API for disseminating our TEI encoding.
Conference presentation.
Text Encoding Inititative 2014 Conference, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
http://tei.northwestern.edu/files/2014/10/mholmes_codesharing-1ybmalo.pdf
22/10/2014.
Using TEI for an Endangered Language Lexical Resource: The Nxaʔamxcín Database-Dictionary Project.
Journal article.
With Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins and Sarah M. Kell. In Language Documentation & Conservation. Volume 8, pp. 1-37.
University of Hawaii
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4604
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4604
2014.
Encoding historical dates correctly: is it practical, and is it worth it?
Conference presentation.
With Janelle Jenstad. Digital Humanities 2013 Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-179.html
19/07/2013.
Practical Interoperability: The Map of Early Modern London and the Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Conference presentation.
With Janelle Jenstad. Digital Humanities 2013 Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-180.html
17/07/2013.
Interoperability in Practice: The
Nxa’amxcín Dictionary.
Conference presentation.
With Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins and Sarah Kell. Canadian Society for
Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN) 2013, Victoria, BC, Canada.
https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2013/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=show&form_session=15
05/06/2013.
Technology in documentation: TEI and the
Nxa’amxcín Dictionary.
Conference presentation.
With Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins. 3rd International
Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation
(ICLDC 3), 2013, Hawaii, USA.
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc/2013/ICLDCprogram_020513.pdf
02/03/2013.
Image Markup Tool 2.0.
Conference presentation.
With Meagan Timney. Digital Humanities 2011 Conference, Stanford, California.
http://dh2011abstracts.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=tei/ab-128.xml
22/06/2011.
The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia: a Digital Edition of a Large-Scale Document Collection.
Conference poster presentation.
With Kim Shortreed-Webb. Digital Humanities 2011 Conference, Stanford, California.
http://dh2011abstracts.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=tei/ab-136.xml
20/06/2011.
Using the Universal Similarity Metric to Map Correspondences between
Witnesses.
Conference presentation.
Digital Humanities 2010 Conference, Kings College London.
http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/abstracts/papers/html/ab-693.html
08/07/2010.
Encoding models for scholarly literature.
Book chapter.
With Laurent Romary. In Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational
Issues. Ed. Ioannis Iglezakis, Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou, Sarantos Kapidakis. pp. 88-110.
IGI Global
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00390966/fr/
2010.
Markin version 4.1.
Software program.
shareware Windows program for marking student essays.
Creative Technology (Microdesign) Ltd.
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/markin/
Current release June 2010; previous versions dating back to 2007.
Hot Potatoes version 6.3.
Software application suite.
Version 6.3/Windows; authoring suite for creating interactive teaching exercises for the WWW.
Half-Baked Software Inc
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Current release June 2010; previous versions dating from 1997.
Image Markup Tool 1.8.
Software application.
Tool for annotating images using TEI P5 XML.
Martin Holmes / UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre
http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/
Current release January 2010; previous versions dating back to 2006.
Rescuing old data: case studies, tools and techniques .
Conference presentation.
With Greg Newton; Digital Humanities 2008.
http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/Digital%20Humanities%202008%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf
27 June 2008.
Domestic strife in early modern Europe: images and texts in a virtual anthology.
Conference presentation.
With Claire Carlin. Digital Humanities 2008.
http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/Digital%20Humanities%202008%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf
26 June 2008.
Hot Potatoes: Taking an academic software project into the commercial domain.
Book chapter.
With Stewart Arneil. In Aprendizaje de Lenguas Asistido por
Ordenador: Herramientas de Autor para
el Desarrollo de Cursos a Través de la
Web., ed. Ana Gimeno Sanz, pp. 5-33.
Editorial Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
http://www.upv.es/pls/obib/est_publ.FichPublica?P_ESTILO=200&P_IDIOMA=i&P_ARM=2154
2008.
Transformer 2.0.
Software application.
Tool for complex sequential search-and-replace operations on Unicode text files.
Martin Holmes / UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre
http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/transformer/
Current release May 2008; previous versions dating back to 2006.
teiJournal: Online and print journals through XML.
Conference presentation.
presented by Karin Armstrong. PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007.
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/viewabstract.php?id=73
July 2007.
No More HTML: Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to present XML for the Web.
Conference workshop.
With Greg Newton. CaSTA 2006 Conference.
http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/workshops/NoMoreHTML.html
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/casta_2006/
October 2006.
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies Journal.
ISSN 0823-1796.
I am Technical Editor on the project to produce volumes 15 onwards,
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
http://scancan.net
2006-2017 (Vol. 15 to 23).
The Nxaamxcín Online Database.
Conference presentation.
With E. Czaykowska-Higgins; presented by E. Czaykowska-Higgins. 41st International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages.
August 2006.
Problems with Marriage: Annotating Seventeenth-century French Engravings with TEI and SVG.
Conference presentation.
With Claire Carlin and Eric Haswell. Digital Humanities 2006 Conference.
https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/viewabstract.php?id=17
http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/DHs.pdf
July 2006.
Quandary version 2.3.
Software application suite.
Version 2.3/Windows; authoring suite for creating action mazes for the WWW.
Half-Baked Software Inc
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php
Current release November 2007; previous versions dating from September 2000.
Hacking Hot Potatoes: An introduction to customizing your exercises (second iteration, expanded format).
Conference workshop.
With Stewart Arneil. FLEAT 5 Conference, Provo, Utah, USA, August 2005.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/howto/hacking_workshop/index.htm
August 2005.
ACH/ALLC 2005 Conference Abstracts.
ISBN 1-55058-308-5 (printed first edition), ISBN 1-55058-312-3 (online 2nd edition).
I was programmer/editor/designer on the project to produce this book.
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/abstracts.htm
June 2005.
I want my widgets! Using new XML technologies to build reusable GUI components.
Conference presentation.
Text Analysis Summit (Text Analysis Developers Alliance).
http://web.uvic.ca/lancenrd/martin/hamilton_2005/presentation.xml
May 2005.
<teiPublisher>: A Repository Management System for TEI Documents .
Journal article.
With Amit Kumar, Alejandro Bia, Susan Schreibman, Stewart Arneil and John Walsh. In Literary and Linguistic Computing 20: 117-132.
OUP
http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/1/117
March 2005.
<teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library.
Journal article.
With Amit Kumar, Alejandro Bia, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Walsh. In ECDL 2004: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 8th European Conference, proceedings.
Springer-Verlag
September 2004.
User in control: A highly-configurable instructional Website.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. EuroCALL 2004 Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2004.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/eurocall2004/presentation/presentation.xml
September 2004.
Hacking Hot Potatoes: An introduction to customizing your exercises.
Conference workshop.
With Stewart Arneil. EuroCALL 2004 Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2004.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/eurocall2004/workshop/index.htm
September 2004.
<teiPublisher>:a repository management system for TEI documents.
Conference presentation.
With Amit Kumar, Alehandro G. Bia-Platas, Susan Schreibman, Stewart Arneil and John A. Walsh. Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Göteborg University, June 2004.
http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/AP/html/prop118.html
June 15, 2004.
Hacking in Hot Potatoes: A little knowledge brings a lot of power.
Magazine article.
With Stewart Arneil. In TEL & CAL.
CALL-Austria Assn
http://www.e-lisa.at/magazine/tellcall/
January 2004.
Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher version 2.0.
Software application suite.
Version 3.0 for Windows and Mac; database program incorporating tens of thousands of English sentences to teach over 2500 core vocabulary items. Content by Gerry Luton.
CPR4ESL
http://www.cpr4esl.com/gerrys_vocab_teacher/
June 2011; previous versions dating from 2003.
Old English, New Techniques: Bringing OE Texts Alive With XML and XSLT.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil, Dr. John Tucker, Spencer Rose, and Patricia Baer. WorldCALL 2003 Conference, Banff, Canada, May 2003; also IALLT 2003 Conference June 2003.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/iallt2003/oldenglish/index.htm
May 2003.
Unicode and Software Development: Hot Potatoes Goes Multilingual.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. WorldCALL 2003 Conference, Banff, Canada, May 2003; also IALLT 2003 Conference June 2003.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/iallt2003/unicode/presentation.xml
May 2003.
Servers, Clients, Testing and Teaching.
Book chapter.
With Stewart Arneil. In Language Learning On-line: Towards Best Practice., ed. Uschi Felix, pp. 59-80.
Swets and Zeitlinger
http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/books/19486.htm
2003.
The Development of Hot Potatoes.
Magazine article.
With Stewart Arneil. In TELL & CALL.
CALL-Austria Assn
January 2002.
XML and Beyond: Markup, Display and the University of Victoria Lydgate MS and Robert Graves' Diaries.
Poster session.
With Undine Bruckner. The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities conference.
http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/abstracts.htm#Holmes
November 2001.
Hot Potatoes, History and Future.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. EuroCALL 2001 Conference, Nijmegen.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/eurocall2001/HotPotPastFuture/PastFutureHome.htm
August 2001.
The Future of the Exercise.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. EuroCALL 2001 Conference, Nijmegen.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/eurocall2001/FutureExercise/
August 2001.
Extracts from the Diary of Robert Graves.
Web-based presentation.
With Undine Bruckner. experimental project to digitize part of Robert Graves's diary in an interactive format useful for students and scholars.
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/graves/
August 2001.
De Casu Cizaris Dutis Regis Iabin.
Web-based presentation.
With Undine Bruckner. experimental project to digitize part of a medieval manuscript and present it on the Web in a highly interactive format useful for students and scholars.
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/lydgate/
July 2001.
The Ethical Exploitation of Academic Property.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Edmonton, Canada.
May 2000.
Quandary: Building and Using Web-based Action Mazes.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. McGraw-Hill Educational Technology Conference Series, Victoria, Canada.
May 2000.
Put a Hot Potato on your Internet Menu.
Magazine interview.
interview with Martin Holmes by Barry Bakin in American Language Review., Vol. 4 No. 1.
ESL Publications
January/February 2000.
Juggling hot potatoes: Decisions and compromises in creating authoring tools for the Web.
Journal article.
With Stewart Arneil. In ReCALL Journal., Vol. 11 No. 2 (Web edition) and College and University Media Review., Vol. 6 No. 1.
CUP; CCUMC
http://www.eurocall-languages.org/recall/pdf/rvol11no2.pdf
September 1999.
A Multimedia Approach to Learning Phonetic Transcription.
Conference presentation and publication.
With Jocelyn Clayards and John H. Esling. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS1999/papers/p14_1133.pdf
1999.
Hot Potatoes: Free Tools for Creating Interactive Language Exercises for the World Wide Web.
Conference presentation.
With Stewart Arneil. EuroCALL 1998 conference, Leuven.
September 1998.
Approaches to Marking Electronic Texts.
Conference presentation and article.
Proceedings of the FLEAT III Conference.; IALL Journal., Vol. 31 No. 3.
University of Victoria; IALL
1997; 1999.
Marking Student Work on the Computer
Article.
The Internet TESL Journal (ITESLJ), Vol. II No. 9.
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Holmes-ComputerMarking/index.html
September 1996.
TexToys version 3.1.
Software program.
Two shareware Windows applications for creating interactive exercises based on reading texts.
Creative Technology (Microdesign) Ltd.
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/textoys/
1999-present.
Creating and Implementing an Online Writing Course.
Journal article.
in PASAA: A Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand.
Chulalongkorn University
December 1997.
Some notes on the structure of acronyms.
Journal article.
With Christopher McCully. In Lingua 74(1) 20:27-43.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(88)90047-2
January 1988.
My other interests include music and multitrack recording, travel, snorkelling and swimming, cycling, linguistics and languages, and English novels and poetry. I have had no serious illnesses of any kind and am physically quite fit. I am a non-smoker.