Peter A. Stokes

See also 'Conference Programme Committees' under Conference Activities, Invited Lectures and Talks.

Professional Associations

• Member (elected), Comité de coordination, Humanistica : l’association francophone des humanités numériques, 2021–24.
• Bureau Member (elected), Comité International de Paléographie Latine 2020–25.
• Member, Committee on Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies, The Medieval Academy of America 2017–22.
• Board Member (elected), International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS, now ISSEME), 2013–17.
• Director (elected), Digital Medievalist international Community of Practice, 2012–2015; Executive Board Member (elected), 2009–15. <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>

Other External or International Offices and Roles

• Member, Collegio del Dottorato in Studi Storici, "Scienze del Libro, Instituzioni e Archivi", Università degli Studi, Firenze. 2024–.
• Visiting Professor, Università di Roma 1 'La Sapienza', Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Dipartimento 'Istituto Studi Orientali', Rome, Italy. September–October 2024.
• Visiting Professor of Palaeography, Dipartimento di Eccellenza SAGAS, Università degli Studi, Florence, Italy. April–May 2019.
• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Digital Humanities and King's Digital Lab, King's College London, 2018–2020.
• Associated Member, Équipe Humanités Numériques, Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (CNRS/ENS), Paris.
• Chercheur invité (Invited Researcher), Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS), Paris, 2015.
• Correspondant scientifique, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS), Paris, 2015–.
• Advisor/Consultant, ViGOTHIC, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Incoming Fellowship, awarded to Dr Ainoa Castro, for ViGOTHIC: Towards a typology of Visigothic script: the Beatus British Library Add. 11695 and its potential for dating and localising Visigothic script manuscripts. H2020 Grant Agreement No. 656298. 2015–17.
• Scientific Project Manager for King's College London, Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Training Network, for DiXiT: Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network. FP7 Grant Agreement No. 317436. 2014–17.
• Scientist in Charge, Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Incoming Fellowship, awarded to Dr Toby Burrows (University of Western Australia/King's College London), for PHILLIPPS: Reconstructing the Phillipps Manuscript Collection using Linked Data Technologies to analyse the creation and dispersal of a major European cultural heritage collection. FP7 Grant Agreement No. 626696. 2014–16.

Project Committees and Boards

• International Advisory Board, The Medieval Book and Networks of Northern Europe c. 1000–1500: Texts, Crafts, Fragments (CODICUM), ERC Synergy Grant, PIs Åslaug Ommundsen (Bergen), Tuomas Heikkilä (Helsinki), Lars Mortensen (Sountern Denmark), and Matthew Collins (Copenhagen). 2025–30
• International Advisory Board, Manuscripts in the Age of Print (PRIMA), ERC Advanced Grant, PI Elena Piearzzo, The University of Tours. 2024–2029
• External Advisory Board, Trinity Centre for the Book, Trinity College Dublin. 2022–
• International Digital Editing Advisory Group, Scribal autonomy in multi-scribe manuscripts: digital visualisations through the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship, PI Joanna Tucker. The University of Glasgow. 2023–24
• Comité consultatif, Observatoire Euro-Africain de l'Intelligence Artificielle. 2022–. <https://observatoireia.org>
• Scientific Advisory Board, From Digital to Distant Diplomatics (DiDip), ERC Advanced Grant, PI Georg Vogeler. The University of Graz. 2022–26.
• Project Board, Representative of the EPHE, Consortium pour la Reconnaissance d'Écriture Manuscrite des Matériaux Anciens (CREMMA). 2021–. <https://www.dim-map.fr/projets-soutenus/cremma/>
• International Advisory Board, CROSSREADS: Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean, ERC Advanced Grant, PI Jonathan Prag. The University of Oxford, 2020–25. <https://crossreads.web.ox.ac.uk/>
• International Advisory Board, PeopleAndWriting. The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (c. 900–1200), ERC Starting Grant, PI Ainoa Castro, The University of Salamanca, 2020–25. <https://peopleandwriting.wordpress.com>
• Technical Council, International Standard Manuscript Identifier (ISMI). 2020
• International Advisory Board, The Community of the Realm in Scotland, King's College London, 2017–20. <https://cotr.ac.uk>
• Advisory Committee, Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP), 2016–. <http://imep.lib.cam.ac.uk>
• Advisory Committee, Digital Learning Resource on Premodern Medicine and Health, The Wellcome Library, London, 2014–17. <http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/about-early-medicine/>
• Scientific Advisory Committee, Album interactif de paléographie médiévale / Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography, EHESS Lyon, 2011–. <http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/paleographie/>
• Project Board, InScribe: VLE for Palaeography, Diplomatic and Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 2011–2012.
• Project Board and Advisory Committee, Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership, 2009–2011. <http://wamcp.bibalex.org/>
• Project Member, Medieval Medicine Documents Identification System (MMEDIS), 2009–10. <http://www.mmedis.com/>

Editorial Roles

• Review Editor for Digital and Multimedia Publications, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (ISSN 0038-7134) 2017–22.
• Specialty Chief Editor, Digital Paleography and Book History, a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Digital Humanities (ISSN 2297-2668), 2014–18. <http://www.frontiersin.org/Digital_Paleography_and_Book_History/>
• Associate Editor of Digital Medievalist journal (ISSN 1715-0736), 2009–2014. <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/>

Other Advisory and Consultancy Roles

• Invited Participant, Summit on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages, Google Arts and Culture [Online] 2021. One of fifteen invited expert participants.
• External evaluator of proposal for new BA programme in Humanities and Digital Technologies, The University of Hong Kong. 2021.
• Invited Participant, Joint meeting of the Council of European Research Libraries (CERL) 'Portal' and 'Manuscripts Experts' Working Groups, The Hague. 2020.
• Ad hoc advice to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Sub-Committee 2, Working Group 2 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2), 'Universal Coded Character Set [Unicode]'. 2018–.
• Invited Participant, European Research Council Workshop on Research Data Management and Sharing, Brussels. 2014. One of nine invited ERC grantees.
• Consultant/Advisor, Tikkoun Sofrim: Digitization of HTR Hebrew Manuscripts by Adaptive Crowdsourcing Project, EPHE – PSL, University of Haifa, and the National Library of Israel. 2018–9.
• Consultant/Advisor on development of Digital Humanities centre, Comue Lyon Saint-Etienne, France, 2016.
• Consultant/Advisor, development of MA in Digital Humanities, University Paris Sciences Lettres. 2015–16.
• Project Advisor, Digital Codex Mendoza, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH Mexico), 2013–14. <http://www.codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/>
• Member, Working Group on Manuscripts and Textual Tradition, 'Medioevo Europeo - Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources' COST Action IS1005, 2012–15. <http://www.medioevoeuropeo.org>
• Project Consultant, Linguistic Geographies: The Gough Map of Great Britain, 2010–2011. <http://www.goughmap.org/>

Review Activities and Scientific Evaluations

• Agence national de recherche (ANR) Comité d'Évaluation Scientifique CES54 ('Arts, langues, littératures, philosophies'), Appel à projets génerique (AAPG). 2023
• Expert Peer Reviewer for Italian Scientific Evaluation (REPRISE). 2021–
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College, 'Academic', 'Technical' and 'International' categories, 2012–2018 ('Technical' from 2013).
  • Formally recognised for 'outstanding contribution' to the Peer Review College, 2014 and 2018.
• Regular reviewer for ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations) annual conference of Digital Humanities, 2008–.
• Ad hoc pre-publication reviews for various publishers and journals, including International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) and Journal Of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH) (further details available on request).
• Regular ad hoc peer reviewer for ERC and other EU and national funding bodies (details available on request, subject to confidentiality requirements). 2012–