James Tauber, M. A.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Promovend)
91052 Erlangen
Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Computing Text and Language
91052 Erlangen
- Email: james.tauber@fau.de
Education |
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| since 05/2026 | Doctoral Candidate, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2021–2023 | MA, Corpus Linguistics (Distinction), Lancaster University |
| 2018–2019 | Professional Certificate, Music Theory and Composition, Berklee College of Music |
| 2017–2019 | Graduate Diploma, Germanic Philology (with honours), Signum University |
| 2017–2018 | Certificate, Educational Research Methodology, University of Illinois Chicago |
| 2014–2017 | Postgraduate Diploma, Greek, University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| 1991–1995 | BSc, Linguistics (with Honours), University of Western Australia |
Employment |
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| 2023–2024 | Director of Educational Software and Digital Humanities / Lecturer and Preceptor, Signum University |
| 2009–2023 | CEO, CTO and Co-Founder, Eldarion, Inc |
| 2002–2009 | Chief Scientist / CTO, mValent, Inc. |
| 1999–2002 | Director XML Technology, Bowstreet, Inc. |
| 1998–1999 | Adjunct Lecturer, School of Information Systems, Curtin University |
- Tolkien’s Invented Languages in The Lord of the Rings (Signum Continuing Education, 2022, 2025)
- Electronic Text Markup With XML and TEI (Signum Cont. Ed., 2024)
- Music Theory for the Mathematically-Inclined (Signum Cont. Ed., 2023)
- A Journey Through The History of Middle-earth (12-course series, Signum Cont. Ed., 2023)
- Ancient Greek Morphology (Signum Cont. Ed.., 2022)
- Digital Text (Signum Graduate Program, 2022)
- Scaife Viewer, Perseus Digital Library
- Digital Tolkien Project
- Greek Learner Texts Project
- Tauber, J. (2019) Character Encoding of Classical Languages in Digital Classical Philology. De Gruyter
- Tauber, J. (2023) Tolkien’s Use of Invented Languages in Lord of the Rings in Reading Fictional Languages. Edinburgh University Press.
- Tauber, J. (forthcoming) Digital Humanities in Oxford Handbook of J.R.R. Tolkien. Oxford University Press.
- Crane, G., et al. (2023) Beyond translation: engaging with foreign languages in a digital library. International Journal on Digital Libraries 24 (3), 163-176.
- Crane, G., et al. (2025) Humanities data reuse: Humanity first. Harvard Data Science Review 7 (2).
- Tolkien and Digital Philology, Tolkien 2019
- Homeric Formula and Meter (with S. Sklaviadis), Quantitative Approaches to Versification, 2019
- Challenges for the Representation of Morphology in Ontology Lexicons (with B. Klimek et al.), eLeX 2019
- Computing the Interlace Structure of Lord of the Rings, International Medieval Congress Leeds, 2022
- Untangling the Second Age Tale of Years, International Medieval Congress Leeds, 2023
- Linguistic Variation in Tolkien’s Writing Styles, Oxonmoot 2023
- Modelling Multi-domain Voicing in the Goldberg Variations (with S. Monnier), Music Encoding Conference 2024
- LOD of the Rings: Tolkien’s Sub-Creation as Linked Open Data, Linked Open Data and Literary Studies, 2024
- Better Greek Learning through Better Greek Databases, BibleTech 2015
- A Morphological Lexicon of New Testament Greek, SBL Annual Meeting 2015
- Corpus-driven Greek Language Learning, BibleTech 2019
- The Vocabulary of the Latin Translation of the Hobbit, Tolkien Society Fall Seminar 2021
- Remaking Text: Text Reuse in Tolkien, Mythmoot IX 2022
- Visualizing the Structure of HoMe, Mythmoot X 2023
- From the Hobbit to Homer and Back Again, Furman University 2024
- The Digital Tolkien Project, Erlangen DH Training Day 2024
- The State of the Digital Tolkien Project, Westmoot 2025
- Three Gems: A showcase of three annotation projects at the Digital Tolkien Project, Forodrim Jubilee