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Linda Miller Cantara was born on December 19, 1952, in Toledo, Ohio. She received a B.A. in English with departmental honors from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky, in 1996, and a M.S.L.S. in Library and Information Science from the School of Library Science, College of Communications and Information Studies, University of Kentucky, in 1998. From 1998 until 2000 she worked as a research assistant to Kevin Kiernan, Department of English, and also served as the Production Manager for the Electronic Beowulf Project. In the summer of 2000 she became the Project Coordinator for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH), William T. Young Library, University of Kentucky.

Ms. Cantara's print and electronic publications include:

"The Electronic Beowulf Project." SAXON Newsletter 32 (2000), 3-4.

"The Digital Atheneum: New Technologies for Restoring and Preserving Old Documents." With W. Brent Seales, James Griffioen, Kevin Kiernan, and Cheng Jiun Yuan. Computers in Libraries 20:2 (February 2000), 26-30.

"Guide to Electronic Beowulf." With Kevin Kiernan. User's Guide to the Electronic Beowulf CD-ROM, British Library Publications and University of Michigan Press, 1999.

"Extending the TEI: A Case Study." Text Encoding Summer School, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University, 1998.

Her presentations include:

"CLEARS: The Cotton Library Electronic Archive Retrieval System." 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 2000.

"Mary of Egypt in Old English: Building an SGML-DTD for Encoding an Old English Glossary." Research in Computing for Humanities Lecture Series, University of Kentucky. 2000.

"Encoding the Bibliographical Codes of Mary of Egypt in Otho B. x." 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 1999.

"Beyond the TEI: Designing an SGML DTD for the Markup of Digital Manuscript Images." Research in Computing for Humanities Lecture Series, University of Kentucky. 1998.

"The TEI and Beyond: Testing the Extensibility of the TEI Guidelines in the Transcription of BL MS Otho B. x Manuscript Fragments." Third International Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference (DRH98), Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland. 1998.

"Testing the Extensibility of the TEI Guidelines in the Transcription of BL MS Otho B. x Manuscript Fragments." 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 1998.

"Digital Preservation of Primary Resources in the Humanities: a Librarian's Perspective on the Text Encoding Initiative." College of Communications and Information Studies Graduate Student Symposium, University of Kentucky. 1998.

"Digital Preservation of Primary Resources in the Humanities: Exploring the Text Encoding Initiative and Beyond." Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky. 1998.