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| Susan Hockey | |
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| Name | Susan Hockey |
| Birth date | 1946 |
| Birth place | Yorkshire |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Fields | Digital humanities, Computer science, Library science |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, UCL |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, University of Oxford |
| Known for | Text encoding, humanities computing, TEI |
Susan Hockey (born 1946) is a British scholar in digital humanities and computer science noted for pioneering work in humanities computing, text encoding, and scholarly computing infrastructure. She held senior academic posts at institutions including University College London, University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge, and contributed to standards and training that influenced projects across libraries, archives, and publishing. Her work spans pedagogy, software development, and leadership in international consortia for text encoding and digital scholarship.
Born in Yorkshire, she read English literature and computational approaches at the University of Cambridge and pursued postgraduate study at the University of Oxford where she combined interests in textual scholarship and emerging computer science techniques. During her formative years she engaged with archival practice at institutions such as the Bodleian Library and collaborated with scholars connected to the British Library and the J. Paul Getty Trust on early digitisation experiments.
Hockey began her career teaching in departments that bridged Library of Congress-style cataloguing, scholarly editing at the Oxford Text Archive, and computing at University College London. She served in leadership roles at the Oxford University Computing Services and later took a professorial chair at the University of Cambridge where she developed curricula linking Medieval studies, computational methods, and digital curation. Hockey participated in national initiatives with agencies including the Arts and Humanities Research Council and worked with international bodies such as the Text Encoding Initiative consortium and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
Hockey was instrumental in defining practices for text encoding, markup, and corpus-based scholarship that informed projects at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and university presses like the Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. She advocated for interoperable standards promoted by the Text Encoding Initiative, collaborated on software for scholarly editing used by the Early English Books Online project and linked-data initiatives involving the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data communities. Her pedagogical models influenced training programs at the Centre for Digital Scholarship and contributed to methodological handbooks adopted by research libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
Hockey authored and edited key texts used across humanities computing and archival science, producing works cited in syllabi at the School of Library and Information Science and referenced by researchers using repositories like the Oxford Text Archive and the Electronic Text Center. She led or advised major grants and projects that involved partnerships with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the European Commission, and consortia including the Text Encoding Initiative and national library infrastructures. Her projects addressed issues such as long-term digital preservation with stakeholders from the National Archives (United Kingdom), text markup for editorial practice linked to the Scholarly Editing community, and user-focused interfaces developed in collaboration with the Human-Computer Interaction research groups.
Recognised by professional bodies including the British Academy and the Royal Society of Arts, she received awards and honorary appointments from university presses and learned societies such as the Modern Language Association and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. She has been invited as a keynote speaker at conferences organized by the Text Encoding Initiative consortium, the Digital Humanities conference, and national gatherings hosted by institutions like the British Library and the National Archives (United Kingdom).
Hockey’s influence is evident across university departments in the United Kingdom and international centres of digital scholarship; her students and collaborators hold posts at institutions including the University of Toronto, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her legacy includes methodological frameworks adopted by curatorial teams at the Library of Congress and by editorial projects supported by the Council of Research Libraries. She continues to be cited in discussions of digital curation, text encoding, and the professionalisation of digital humanities.
Category:British computer scientists Category:Digital humanities scholars