Credits

The Versioning Machine was conceived in 2000 by Susan Schreibman, who remains its Founding Editor. She gratefully acknowledges the University of Maryland Libraries, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology for their generous support. She also thanks her colleagues, programmers, designers, and literary scholars, who have so graciously given their time, skills, and energy to the development of the Versioning Machine.

The Versioning Machine Development Team

The Versioning Machine 3.2 (released July 2007)

• Susan Schreibman is General Editor and Project Manager of the MacGreevy Archive, published by the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. Dr. Schreibman is Assistant Dean at University of Maryland Libraries and Head of Digital Collections and Research. She is coeditor of A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell Press, 2004), and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell Press, forthcoming).
• Sean Daugherty is a graduate assistant at Digital Collections and Research at the University of Maryland Libraries. He is a graduate of the History and Library Science program (HiLS) at the the University of Maryland College Park. He has previously worked at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) at the National Park Service.
• Ann Hanlon is the University of Maryland/National Agricultural Library Cooperative Agreement Project Archivist at the University of Maryland Libraries. She is Team Leader for the Special Collections Digital Initiatives Team. She manages digital object workflows for the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, and is investigating ways to coordinate those processes with electronic finding aids. Previously, Ann was Electronic Resources Librarian for Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.
• Amit Kumar is an Instructional Technology Developer at the Graduate School of Library Information Sciences (GISLIS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research are whiteboard applications and service location protocols, with particular interest in XML based protocols for distributed environments. He received a MS in Computer Science from University of Kentucky in 2002. His other humanities computing work includes teiPublisher and the Virtual Lightbox.
• Tony Ross worked as a graduate assistant at Digital Collections and Research at the University of Maryland Libraries until July 2007, when he earned his Masters in Library Science at the University of Maryland College Park. He has previously worked in book and magazine publishing industries, and for several advertising agencies.
• The Versioning Machine team gratefully thanks Tamara Lopez and John A. Walsh at Indiana University for code used in the Versioning Machine image and note viewer. This code was original developed for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project.

The Versioning Machine 1.0 (released May 2003) and 2.0 (released December 2003)

The Versioning Machine debuted at the 2002 ALLC/ACH (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing / Association for Computers and the Humanities) Conference in Tübingen, Germany. Version 2.1 supported the following new features: support for multiple web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla 1.7+ and Firefox 1.0+ (with all Mozilla-based browsers functioning on Windows and Macintosh); the ability to statically transform documents to HTML prior to upload; the pretransformed HTML gave greater access across multiple browsers, including Netscape 7.0 and Mozila 1.3+ (Windows and Mac), Internet Explorer 5.5 (Windows), and Safari 1.2+ (Mac). The Development Team included Susan Schreibman and Amit Kumar, with the assistance of:

• Jarom McDonald is Assistant Research Professor at the Humanities Technology and Research Support Center, Brigham Young University. He was previously project manager of the Dickinson Electronic Archives at the University of Maryland, where he received his Ph.D in 2005.
• Lara Vetter is Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is General Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives; coeditor of the writings of Emily Dickinson and several members of her family; and head of a project to encode Dickinson's manuscripts, the Dickinson family papers, and related secondary works in TEI-conformant XML.
• Eric White is a former graphic designer and webmaster at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). He received his BA in art history from the University of Maryland in 2002. He is currently a freelance web designer.

Other Contributions

• Jose Chua was an early contributor to the Versioning Machine. He wrote the JavaScript and XSLT for the first version of the VM which was launched at a poster session at the 2001 ACH/ALLC in New York City.
• Michael Beddow was one of the first Beta-testers for the Versioning Machine. He made several improvements to the code, including making the VM fully functional in Netscape.