James Cummings

James Cummings manages the InfoDev section at the University of Oxford which provides data solutions, web projects, research support and advice. From 2012, he has been chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Technical Council. From 2009-2012 he was elected director of the Digital Medievalist project which runs an open access journal, wiki, mailing-list and conference sessions. James undertook a BA in Medieval Studies from University of Toronto and an MA in Medieval Studies and PhD on the archival records of medieval drama from University of Leeds.

He organizes the annual Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School and is part of an emerging international network of Digital Humanities Institutes which includes the European Summer School in Digital Humanities.