Appendix I

Burlington Agenda Meeting Participants

Charlene Bickford -- A seasoned documentary editor who heads the First Federal Congress project at George Washington University and has created some of the most analytical indexes in the documentary editing community.

David Chesnutt -- Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. He headed the team which developed the Model Editions Partnership collections and the DTD with which it is published. He has a substantial background in documentary editing and indexing, as well as long involvement with SGML issues and DTD development.

Mary-Jo Kline -- A seasoned documentary editor and indexer whose Guide to Documentary Editing helps people learn how to do it. Kline has broad understanding of the way documentary editors work. In addition, as a veteran of the Library of Congress's "American Memory" project and the American history specialist for the general library and Special Collections at Brown University, she brings day-to-day experience in the creation of sources in an electronic environment and the needs of people looking for information in such a setting.

Daniel Pitti - The architect of the EAD DTD and now a Project Manager in the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. He has a deep and thorough knowledge of SGML/XML, DTD development and use as well as more general issues related to electronic publications.

Helen Tibbo -- Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina. She has focused her research on how humanities scholars search for information and how to design information surrogates for the humanities so as to optimize retrieval. She has also lead extensive research on information retrieval and on web-based search engines.

William Underwood - Senior Researcher in computer science and information retrieval at Georgia Tech. He has years of experience researching information retrieval within large collections of unprocessed electronic records, including work with NARA in their electronic records projects.

Christopher A. Welty - Researcher in computer science and knowledge representation at Vassar. He has deep experience in the development of ontologies. On sabbatical in Italy, he consulted from afar.

The Vermont team -- consisting of the people involved with the University of Vermont's George Perkins Marsh Online Research Center Project: Elizabeth Dow, Project Director of the Marsh Project and PI on this project. Harry Orth, Senior Editor, a distinguished scholar who edited the Emerson notebooks. Ellen Thomson, Project Archivist and Editorial Assistant. Steve Chupack, Project Indexer. As the people most thoroughly familiar with the content of the UVM project letters, they brought specific examples of problems to the conversation.