Kevin S. Hawkins

Contact information is available in the University of Michigan Online Directory

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

Current Position

Electronic Publishing Librarian, Scholarly Publishing Office, University Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [original job description]: Associate Librarian (January 1, 2008–), Assistant Librarian (February 23, 2004 – December 31, 2007)

Maintain SPO's standardized workflow for the conversion of born-digital scholarly literature (and some literature reformatted from print) to standard file formats (XML and TIFF) for long-term preservation and output in various media.
Manage digital publishing projects.
Create documentation.
Train and supervise student workers (2006–)
Staff the Hatcher Graduate Library Information and Reference Center (August 2007–August 2009)

Past Positions

Visiting Metadata Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Éire [Ireland] (August 17–28, 2009, December 1, 2009 – May 14, 2010)
- Assist staff of digital humanities projects in establishing metadata schemes and project workflows
- Develop a common denominator metadata schema for use as the indexing scheme for a discovery interface for content in a repository of digital humanities content; mapped content to this schema
- Teach workshops on project management, TEI, and e-publishing.
Graduate Assistant, Publications Office (now Communications 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 GSLIS 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)

Standards, Guidelines, & Best Practices

Michelle Dalmau and Kevin Hawkins, ed., Best Practices for TEI in Libraries
Invited Expert, EPUB Metadata Subgroup, EPUB 2.1 Working Group

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]
*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 (SEEIR), Vol. 6, No. 2/3 (Binghampton, NY: Haworth, 2005): 3–21 [postprint, 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

Guest editor (with Syd Bauman and Malte Rehbein) of first issue of: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (forthcoming)
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. [V.D.Solov'ev and V.A. Baranov, eds. Modern Information Technologies and Written Heritage: From Ancient Texts to Electronic Libraries: Materials from the International Scientific Conference (Kazan, August 26–30, 2008). Kazan: Izdatel’stvo Kazanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2008.]

Invited Publications

Хокинс К. Научная библиотека как издательство : опыт Мичиганского университета (США) // Вестник Пермского университета. Серия История. Выпуск 3 (10) 2009. С. 119-122. [K. Hawkins, "The Academic Library as Publisher: the Experience of the University of Michigan (USA)" Bulletin of Perm University. History Series. Vol. 3, no. 10 (2009), pp. 119-122.] [preprint]

Contributions

TEI @ Sourceforge (January 25, 2009–) [SourceForge user page]
Conferences for Digital Humanities, Digital Archives, Digital Libraries, and Digital Museums (March 2008–)
"A Bibliography of Publications related to the Text Encoding Initiative" (December 2006, July 2007–)
TEI Wiki ("TEIWiki") (December 2006–) [user contributions]
"Education & Awareness" (a bibliography of resources on copyright law for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian materials) (2008–2009)
The Digital Slavist (November 2006–April 17, 2007?)

Refereed Presentations

Kevin Scott Hawkins, "[TBD]." Paper presented at panel "(13-26) Taking Slavic Studies Journals Online: Easy Options for Going Digital Without Breaking the Bank," 42nd Annual ASEEES National Convention (Los Angeles, California, USA, November 18–21, 2010).
Кевин Хокинс и Джереми Йорк [Kevin Hawkins and Jeremy York], «Коллективный репозитарий HathiTrust как хранитель и распространитель всемирной книжной культуры» ["The HathiTrust Shared Digital Repository: Preservation and Access to the World's Print Culture"]. Paper accepted to conference «Румянцевские чтения 2010: Вехи истории России в зеркале книжной культуры. Историческая память народа: из прошлого к будущему» ["Rumyantsev Readings 2010: Milestones in Russian History Mirrored in Print Culture. Historical Memory of the People: From the Past to the Future"] (РГБ [Russian State Library], Москва [Moscow], Российская Федерация [Russian Federation], April 20–22, 2010) [preprint]
Michelle Dalmau, Melanie Schlosser, and Kevin S. Hawkins. "TEI Text Encoding in Libraries." Bird-of-a-feather session at the DLF Spring Forum 2009 (Raleigh, North Carolina, May 5, 2009).
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) [paper]
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) [poster HTML; poster PDF]

Unrefereed Presentations

*Susan Schreibman and Kevin S. Hawkins, "From Text Encoding to Digital Publishing". Two-day workshop presented as part of "DHO Workshops: Text Encoding with the TEI" (Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Éire [Ireland], April 7–8, 2010):
- Lecture: Introduction to XML [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
- Lecture: Introduction to the TEI header [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
- Lecture: Why not encode? [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy), handout (DHO copy (registration required), local copy]
- Lecture: Digital workflows [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
- Lecture: How to publish your TEI documents [handout (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
*Kevin Hawkins, "e-Publishing for Postgrads". Workshop presented at UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (Dublin, Éire [Ireland], March 31, 2010) [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy), list of resources].
*Kevin Hawkins, "Discovering open-access resources", Annual Seminar 2010 "E-MAGINATION: Sourcing, Evaluating & Delivering Electronic Information Resources", Academic & Special Libraries Section, Library Association of Ireland (LAI) (Dublin, Éire [Ireland], February 9, 2010) [slides (DHO copy (registration required), copy on LAI website, local copy)].
*Kevin Hawkins and K. Faith Lawrence, "Digital Humanities Symposium: Metadata, Markup and Digital Management" (University College Cork (UCC), Éire [Ireland], January 14–15, 2010):
- Digital Project Management [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
- Tools to Manage Digital Humanities Projects [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
- Brief Introduction to TEI [slides (DHO copy (registration required), local copy); exercise (DHO copy (registration required), local copy)]
*"So You Want to Start a Journal?" (with Maria Bonn and Shana Kimball) Open Access Week 2009, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (March 26, 2009).
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, doi:10.2998/3336451.0011.210].
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 (SEEIR), Vol. 8, No. 1 (Binghampton, NY: Haworth, 2007): 121-122 [preprint, doi:10.1300/J167v08n01_14]