Kevin Hawkins

About

I am part librarian, part programmer, part editor, and part project manager.  I supervise the unit responsible for digitization and document format conversion operations for MPublishing. This involves developing and overseeing standardized workflows 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. I am very involved in the activities of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and sometimes pretend to be an expert on copyright law.

Background

I have worked at U-M since early 2004, except for two leaves of absence: one to accept a Fulbright grant to work with digital libraries in Russia and another to accept a temporary position as visiting metadata manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish Academy. I have BAs in Russian and linguistics from the University of Maryland and an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Publishing Services, Outreach, & Strategic Development and with Publishing Technology Group to establish sustainable content intake and workflow.
• Coordinate closely with digital production activities at UM Press with the goal of creating the greatest possible efficiency in MPublishing activities.
• Manage publishing production, workflow design, and documentation.
• Research and recommend the adoption and use of standards and production tools.
• Negotiate and manage relationships with internal and external business services.
• Mange continuing relationships with publishing partners.
• Participate in MPublishing management and planning.