Curriculum Vitae: Claus Huitfeldt
Claus
Huitfeldt, Associate Professor, Universiy of
Year of birth: 1957
Nationality: Norwegian
Email: Claus.Huitfeldt@fof.uib.no
URL: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Filosofisk/Claus/
Telephone: +47-5558
3013
Postal aderess: Department
of philosophy, P.P.Box 7805, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Visiting address: Øysteins gate 3, rom 211
Mag.art. Claus Huitfeldt
(born 1957) is Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) at the Department of
Philosophy of the
He was founding Director
(1990-2000) of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, for which
he developed the text encoding system MECS as well as the editorial methods for
the publication of Wittgenstein´s
Nachlass – The Bergen Electronic Edition (Oxford University Press, 2000).
He was Research Director
(2000-2002) of Aksis (Section for Culture, Language and Information Technology
at the Bergen University Research Foundation). In 2003 he returned to his
position at the Department of Philosophy, where he teaches modern philosophy
and philosophy of language, and also gives frequent courses in text technology
at the The Department of Humanistic Informatics.
He was active in the Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI) since 1991, and was centrally involved in the
foundation of the TEI Consortium in 2001. The consortium now counts more than
90 member institutions.
Huitfeldt's research interests
are within philosophy of language, philosophy of technology, text theory,
editorial philology and markup theory. He is currently leader of the project
Markup Languages for Complex Documents (MLCD): http://teksttek.aksis.uib.no/projects/mlcd/
Education:
Mag.art.-degree
in philosophy from
Employment:
1994-present: Associate Professor
(førsteamanuensis), Department of Philosophy,
2001-2002: Research Director, Aksis (Section for
Culture, Language and Information Technology),
2000-2001: Director, The
HIT Centre (Humanities Information Technologies Research Programme),
1995 (February - August): Acting Director, The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities.
1990-1999: Project Director, Wittgenstein
Archives at the
1989-1993: Doctoral student at Dept. of
Philosophy,
1985-89: Staff member and Senior staff member at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities. Project Director of the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project 1985-1987.
1984-85: Transcriber at the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project
Teaching:
Various courses in philosophy
at the
Courses in theory of text encoding at the
Section for Informatics in the Humanities,
Courses in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Trondheim, 1984-85.
Courses in logic and history
of philosophy for Examen Philosophicum,
Teaching Assistant at the
Other professional activities:
Board member (Treasurer) of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium 2000-2004.
Member of Editorial committee of Henrik Ibsens skrifter ("Henrik Ibsens Writings") 2000-2002.
On the Board of Editors for Markup Languages -- Theory and Practice (MIT Press) 2000-2002
On the Board of Editors for Computers and the Humanities (Kluwer) 1994-2004.
Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative's Manuscript Work Group 1992-94.
Member of the Text Encoding Initiative's Committee on Text Representation 1990-94.
Languages:
Mother
tongue: Norwegian. Written and spoken fluency in English. Reasonable
competence in German.
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