Kevin S. Hawkins

Contact information is available in the University of Michigan Online Directory

Asterisks (*) indicate work done in the course of employment.

Current Positions

Electronic Publishing Librarian, Scholarly Publishing Office, University Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Associate Librarian January 1, 2008–, Assistant Librarian February 23, 2004 – December 31, 2007)
- Manage content ingest workflow, including conversion to XML, for scholarly literature published online
- Oversee student workers (2006–)
- Staff the Hatcher Graduate Library Information and Reference Center (August 2007–)

Past Positions

Graduate Assistant, Publications Office, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2003–February 2004)
Slavic Digital (Projects) Assistant (Pre-professional Graduate Assistant), Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (May 2003–February 2004)
- Planned, co-developed schema, and built rudimentary website for Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital Projects
- Migrated SGML to XML, normalized content, and updated contextual information for Early 19th-Century Russian Readership & Culture: A Hypertext Archive
Member, Electronic Publishing Research Group, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Jan. 2003–February 2004)
Database Developer, The Book Rack, Timonium, Maryland (January 2003)
Graduate Assistant, Instructional Technology Office (ITO) (now User Services Help Desk), Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2002–May 2003)
Member, MITH XML Working Group, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, College Park (September 2001–July 2002)
Program Assistant, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, College Park (February 2001–August 2002). Helped plan and build infrastructure for Dickinson Manuscript Mark-up Project, Dickinson Electronic Archives (March 2001–August 2002)
Member, Russian Cluster, Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park (January 1999–May 2002)
Administrative assistant for Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Awards Committee, Hillel of Greater Baltimore, Meyerhoff Teen Initiative, and Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds (college breaks 1999–2001)
Peer Mentor, Peer Mentoring Program (PMP), College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park (August 2000–December 2000)
Intern Translator, Национальный Институт Прессы в Санкт-Петербурге [St. Petersburg branch of the National Press Institute] (July–August 2000)
Intern, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) (January–May 2000)
Admissions Representative, Public Inquiry, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, University of Maryland, College Park (August–December 2000)

Unrefereed Publications

*Kevin S. Hawkins, "Plan for implementing a uniform content ingestion system for SPO." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (December 9, 2007) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
*DLPS/SPO Collection Procedure (February 2004–)
*Kevin S. Hawkins, "Plan for an Improved Infrastructure for the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert: Collaborative Translation Project." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (November 21, 2007, revised August 12, 2008) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
*Kevin S. Hawkins, "A comparison of persistent identifier systems for SPO." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (August 2, 2007) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
*Kevin S. Hawkins, "Choice of DocEncodingType and encoding level for SPO publications." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (May 29, 2007, revised August 11, 2008) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
*Kevin S. Hawkins, "Plan for implementing a web-based unified bibliographic database for SPO publications." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (May 11, 2007) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
*Kevin S. Hawkins, "Specifications for implementing web feeds in DLXS." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (April 30, 2007) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
*Kevin S. Hawkins, "Proposals for a New Workflow for Level-4 Content." Scholarly Publishing Office Whitepaper (February 13, 2006) [copy on SPO website, local copy]
Kevin S. Hawkins, "Frequently Asked Questions and Selected Resources on Cyrillic Multilingual Computing." Slavic & East European Information Resources, Vol. 6, No. 2/3 (Binghampton, NY: Haworth, 2005): 3–21 [preprint, doi:10.1300/J167v06n02_02, article website]
К.В. Вигурский, И.А. Пильщиков, К. Хокинс. Каталог сетевых ресурсов по русской филологии и фольклору. // Фундаментальная электронная библиотека «Русская литература и фольклор» [K.V. Vigursky, I.A. Pilshchikov, K. Hawkins. A Catalog of Electronic Resources on Russian Philology and Folklore // Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folkore] (coauthor since version 2.5, released May 24, 2005)

Edited Volumes

English editor of: Современные информационные технологии и письменное наследие: от древних текстов к электронным библиотекам [Текст] : материалы Междунар. науч. конф. (Казань, 26–30 августа 2008 г.) / отв. ред. В.Д.Соловьев, В.А.Баранов. — Казань : Изд-во Казан. гос. ун-та, 2008. — 276 с.

Contributions

"A Bibliography of Publications related to the Text Encoding Initiative" (December 2006, July 2007–)
TEI Wiki ("TEIWiki") (December 2006–) [user contributions]
The Digital Slavist (November 2006–)

Refereed Presentations

Kevin Scott Hawkins, "Long-term Preservation versus Innovation: The Challenge for Producers of Digital Content." Paper presented at panel "(1-46) Creating East European and Eurasian Digital Repositories: Archiving for Preservation and Access," 40th Annual AAASS National Convention (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 20–23, 2008)
Kevin S. Hawkins, "FRBR Group 1 Entities and the TEI Guidelines." Paper presented at 2008 TEI Annual Members Meeting "TEI: Supporting Cultural Heritage Research" (London, England, United Kingdom, November 6–8, 2008) [abstract (local copy), paper, slides, handout]
Kevin S. Hawkins [Кевин С. Хокинс], "Entailment of Entities and Implicature of Attributes in the FRBR Model." ["Импликатура атрибутов в ER-модели «Функциональных требований к библиографическим записям»".] Paper presented at Конференция «Современные информационные технологии и письменное наследие: от древних текстов к электронным библиотекам» [Modern Information Technologies and Written Heritage: From Ancient Texts to Electronic Libraries] (El'Manuscript-08) (Казань/Казан [Kazan], Республика Татарстан/Татарстан Республикасы [Republic of Tatarstan], Российская Федерация [Russian Federation], August 25–30, 2008) [abstract in English with annotation in Russian (corrected version), paper in English, paper in Russian, slides in English, handout]
Hawkins, Kevin (2008) Scalable electronic publishing in a university library, ELPUB2008. Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Toronto, Canada 25-27 June 2008 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Susanne Mornatti. ISBN 978-0-7727-6315-0, 2008, p. 421 [poster, copy on SPO website, abstract in SciX, abstract in OCS (local copy), handout (website)]
Kevin Hawkins, "Copyright Issues in Open Access Publishing for Slavic Studies." Paper presented at panel "(H-01) Copyright and the Changing Arena of Scholarly Communication in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies," 39th Annual AAASS National Convention (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 15–18, 2007) [paper, handout]
Хокинс, К. Научная библиотека как издательство: опыт Мичиганского университета (США) = The Academic Library as Publisher: the Experience of the University of Michigan (USA) // Румянцевские чтения = The Rumyantsev readings : материалы Международной научной конференции (10-12 апреля 2007) / [редкол. вып. Л. Н. Тихонова — сост. и др.]. — Москва : Пашков дом, 2007. — С. ___. Paper accepted to conference «Румянцевские чтения 2007: Издатели – библиотеки – читатели в системе научной коммуникации. Вызовы эпохи Интернет» ["Rumyantsev Readings 2007: Publishers, Libraries, and Readers in the System of Scholarly Communication: The Call of the Internet Era"] (РГБ [Russian State Library], Москва [Moscow], Российская Федерация [Russian Federation], April 10–12, 2007) [paper (with abstract in English), local copy, copy on SPO website]
Kevin Hawkins, "The Peaceful Coexistence of Print and Digital Media, with Special Consideration of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies." Paper presented at Session IVB: Digital Applications: Future Developments of 2006 Fisher Forum: Book Arts, Culture and Media in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia: From Print to Digital, Summer Research Laboratory, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (June 17–18, 2006) [webpage].
Kevin Hawkins, "What Slavic Librarians Need to Know about Revealing Hidden Gems: OAI-PMH versus Open WorldCat." Paper presented at panel "(H-04) Digitization: Practical Issues for Scholars and Libraries," 37th Annual AAASS National Convention (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, November 3–6, 2005) [handout (PDF), project website]
Kevin Hawkins, "E-Text Resources for Scholars in the Humanities: History Resources, FEB, etc. (Hands-On)." Presentation at Pre-Conference Digital Resources Workshop 2005, 37th Annual Annual AAASS National Convention (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, November 3–6, 2005) [webpage]
Kevin S. Hawkins, "From the Bibliographic Stream to the Bibliographic Ocean." Poster presented at Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2005 (Dubrovnik and Mljet, Hrvatska [Croatia], May 30–June 3, 2005) [revised abstract, corrected poster, project website]
Hawkins, K. Libraries as publishers: Increasing access to scholarly literature // Цензура и доступ к информации: история и современность. Тезисы докладов международной научной конференции. СПб.,2005. С.115. Paper presented at Цензура и доступ к информации: история и современность [Censorship and Access to Information: the Past and Present] (Российская национальная библиотека [National Library of Russia], Санкт-Петербург [St. Petersburg], Российская Федерация [Russian Federation], March 16–18, 2005) [corrected abstract, preprint, copy on SPO website]
Kevin Hawkins and Jason Kuznicki, "Engaging the User: The 'Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert: Collaborative Translation Project' and New Scholarly Paradigms." Presentation at Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2004 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 25–27, 2004) [abstract; presentation notes (local copy)]
Kevin Hawkins and Allen Renear, "Theoretical Issues in Text Encoding: A Critical Review." Poster presented at ALLC/ACH 2004: the Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (Göteborg [Gothenburg], Sverige [Sweden], June 11–16, 2004) [revised conference abstract; poster HTML; poster PDF]

Unrefereed Presentations

Kevin Hawkins, "Intellectual Property and the Scholarly Publishing Office." Substitute for panel "Policing Intellectual Property: The Current Plagiarism Panic" at Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Writing (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, September 23-25, 2005)
Kevin Hawkins, "Searching the English-Language Internet." American Center in Moscow [Американский центр, Москва], Российская Федерация [Russian Federation], May 18, 2005) [announcement (in English or Russian), webpage in English, webpage in Russian]
Kevin Hawkins, "Racism in America." Irkutsk American Center (Иркутск [Irkutsk], Российская Федерация [Russian Federation], May 12, 2005) [slides]
*Panel Participant, "Digitization at the University of Michigan: Overview of the University Library's Digital Library Production Service & Scholarly Publishing Office". SALALM XLIX: Women in Latin American Studies: Reshaping the Boundaries (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 5–8, 2004).
*"The Library as Publisher: Creating Scholarly Resources." Presentation to visitors from 天津 [Tianjin], 中华人民共和国 [People's Republic of China] (April 22, 2004) [slides]
*"Research Technologies" (with Miranda Remnek). LIS 433C: Slavic Bibliography, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (December 4, 2003)
*"Slavic Library Projects at the University of Illinois" (with Miranda Remnek). 13th Annual Slavic Librarians' Workshop. Summer Research Laboratory. Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (July 10, 2003)
*"Finding and Using E-Text Sites." 13th Annual Slavic Librarians' Workshop. Summer Research Laboratory. Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (July 10, 2003)
*Technology Applications in Slavic Studies" (with Miranda Remnek). Research Workshop. Summer Research Laboratory. Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*"Finding & Using E-Text Sites"; "Slavic Library Digital Projects" (with Miranda Remnek). Presentation to Russian Librarians visiting under the auspices of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (May 16, 2003)
Kevin Hawkins, "Theoretical Issues in Text Encoding—A Critical Review." Poster presented at Extreme Markup Languages 2003 (Montréal [Montreal], Québec [Quebec], Canada, August 4–8, 2003)

Book Reviews

Kevin S. Hawkins, "Book Review: Modern Language Association of America. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing." In Journal of Electronic Publishing, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Spring 2008) [preprint, online].
Kevin S. Hawkins, Review of: John V. Richardson, comp. Anglo-russkii slovar’ po bibliotechnoi i informatsionnoi deiatel’nosti [Англо-русский словарь по библиотечной и информационной деятельности] = The English-Russian dictionary of library and information terminology. Sankt-Peterburg [Санкт-Петербург]: Izdatel’stvo «Professiia» [Издательство «Профессия»], 2005. [272] p. ISBN: 5939130836. In Slavic & East European Information Resources, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Binghampton, NY: Haworth, 2007): 121-122 [preprint, doi:10.1300/J167v08n01_14]