HATII Office: 101 George Service House 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QH Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5083 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3788 Email: G.Cannon@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

Research Support Coordinator

Since 1997 Graeme Cannon has been providing technical support for a number of research projects within the Faculty of Arts. This work has included database management, website design and the digitisation of research material using text encoding and imaging. Graeme also offers assistance in the preparation of research grant applications for projects that involve the creation of electronic resources.

Current projects include:

• James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonne
• Digital Preservation Europe (DPE)
• PLANETS

Previous projects have included:

• The Alciato Project
• French Emblems at Glasgow
• The Study and Digitisation of Italian Emblems
• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler
• The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot

Technical interests/skills:

• Text encoding - TEI, XML, XSLT, XQuery, native XML databases
• Database development - Access, MySQL
• Digital Imaging - Photoshop, image optimisation/calibration
• Web development - XHTML, CSS, ASP, PHP
• Standards for metadata and controlled vocabularies

Before 1997, Graeme worked for Glasgow Museums, at the Burrell Collection, in the area of conservation and collections management. Museum and conservation interests include: electronic collections management systems, polychrome sculpture, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the technical examination of paint surfaces, polarized light microscopy, record photography and wood carving. He was involved with the conservation and installation of objects prior to the opening of the Burrell Collection in 1983 and with the conservation of the Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Mackintosh) between 1993 and 2000.

Graeme lives in Glasgow with his wife and two children. He also assists his wife, Linda, with a stained glass design and conservation partnership Cannon-MacInnes.

Publications:

• Workshop review: XML as a Digital Preservation Strategy (ERPANET, Urbino, Oct 2002), SSCR Journal.
• A Note on the Materials used by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Decoration of the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Traditional Paint News, September 1999.
• A Short Note on the Use of a Stereo Microscope In Situ, Traditional Paint News, September 1999.
• With Dr Nigel Thorp. 'The Electronic Edition of the Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler', 1999, in Making Information Available in Digital Format, ed. T. Coppock, The Stationery Office.
• Conference review: Traditional Paint Forum: First Annual Conference, 1996, SSCR Journal.
• Conference review: Computer Technology for Conservators, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1993, SSCR Journal.
• Report on a Churchill Travelling Fellowship to Study the Development of Medieval Polychrome Sculpture in Germany and Austria, 1986, Conservation News, UKIC.