Martin Wynne

Martin Wynne

Head of the Oxford Text Archive
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Martin Wynne is active in the Digital Humanities team in OeRC. He is UK national representative and member of the executive board of CLARIN, a major pan-European initiative to build a research infrastructure for the creation and use of electronic language resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Martin represents arts and humanities communities in the European Grid initiative, and is working with the National Grid Initiative to host CLARIN services on a cloud computing platform. Martin is also working on the Bamboo project to build shared services for the humanities, and is a member of the Project Executive Group. He also initiated and coordinates the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks, a forum for promoting interoperability between the many initiatives in these areas.

Martin has previously worked as a researcher in linguistics at the Universities of Birmingham and Lancaster, and the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Germany, and as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, London, and at the University of Lodz in Poland. His main research interest is in studying the language of literary and non-literary texts using electronic tools and methods. Martin is on part-time secondment from the Oxford University Computing Services, where he is part of the InfoDev team, running the Oxford Text Archive, and coordinating advice and support for researchers in the University.