Peter A. Stokes

Offices, Project Boards and Consultancies

Professional Associations

Member (elected), Comité de coordination, Humanistica : l’association francophone des humanités numériques, 2021–.
Bureau Member (elected), Comité International de Paléographie Latine 2020–.
Member, Committee on Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies, The Medieval Academy of America 2017–.
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

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–.
Associated Member, Équipe Humanités Numériques, Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM, CNRS/ENS, UMR 8132).
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–.
Inter-Comité de Pilotage Programmatique « Humanités Numériques », Agence National de la Recherche (ANR), France, 2018–.
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

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–.
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/>

Conference Programme Committees

XXIIe Colloque de paléographie latine, Prague. 2022.
International Workshop on Computational Paleography (IWCP@ICDAR), Lausanne. 2021
International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP@ICDAR), Kyoto and Lausanne. 2017, 2021.
Dark Archives: A Conference on the Medieval Unread, Oxford. 2019.
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference, Victoria. 2017.
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS, now ISSEME) Biennial Conference. 2015, 2017.
On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts, London. 2015.
Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis, Hamburg. 2013.

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

Listed on register of Peer Reviewers for ERC/EU projects. 2012–
Listed on REPRISE register of Expert Peer Reviewers for Italian Scientific Evaluation. 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.
Reviewer for International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), ISSN 1433-2833 (print) and 1433-2825 (electronic). 2013–.
Reviewer for ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations) annual conference of Digital Humanities, 2008–.
Ad hoc pre-publication reviews for various publishers (details available on request).
Reviewer of other grant applications for UK, EU and other national funding agencies (details available on request, subject to confidentiality requirements).