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Jean-Baptiste Botul Jean-Baptiste Botul is a fictional French philosopher created in 1995 by the journalist Frédéric Pagès and other members of a group calling itself the Association of the Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul. Originating as a literary hoax, the names of both Botul and his philosophy of botulism derive from botulism, an illness caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. References to Botul were first made in publications by members of the association and later turned up in texts by writers who were not party to the hoax and thought Botul was a real person. There is now an annual Botul Prize awarded for a book that mentions Botul.

Josiah Carberry Professor Carberry is a fictious person, born on a bulletin board in 1929. He is said to still teach at Brown University, and to be known for his work in psychoceramics, the supposed study of cracked pots. He is also used by ORCID, Crossref, and now DHQ as a dummy account. His work has been published many times throughought in the intervening decades, most recently in the British Medical Journal in 2016.

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Silence Dogood Mrs. Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. She graciously translated this sample article from the original gibberish into English.

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Anouk Lang Anouk Lang is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also an affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is the co-editor of Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (with Gabriel Hankins and Simon Appleford, 2024), Patrick White Beyond the Grave: New Critical Perspectives (with Ian Henderson, 2015), and the editor of From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2012). Her research and teaching range over twentieth and twenty-first century literature, critical AI, reception studies and computational approaches to the study of literature, culture and narrative. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the English Association in the UK.

Marianna Napolitano Marianna Napolitano is a Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Education and Humanities (DESU), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore), and an affiliated researcher at the National Infrastructure on Religious Studies, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose (FSCIRE). Her research focuses on State–Church relations in Russia and Ukraine, the history of Orthodox churches, and the transmission and reception of the Nicene–Constantinopolitan Creed in Slavic traditions, including the liturgical reforms introduced under Patriarch Nikon. She also works on the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

She coordinates the research team DaMSym – Data Mining of the Nicene–Constantinopolitan Symbolum within the European research infrastructure project ITSERR (Next Generation EU). She is a Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at Sapienza University of Rome. She obtained her PhD in Humanities in 2022 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies).

She contributed to the paper DIACU: A dataset for the diachronic analysis of Church Slavonic, presented at the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025), held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Her research on the reforms of Patriarch Nikon, the reformulation of the Creed in Russian, and the history of the Russian Orthodox Church has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

Wendell Piez Wendell Piez was born in Frankfurt, Germany to American parents, and raised in Somerville (Massachussets), Kabul (Afghanistan), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Manila (the Philippines), Reston (Virginia), and Tokyo (Japan), before attending university in New Haven (Connecticut). A graduate of the American School in Japan and of Yale College (MC 1984), where he received a BA in Classics (Ancient Greek), he has been using and programming computers since 1977 (BASIC, 6502 Assembler). From 1985 to 1998 he attended and taught at Rutgers University, where he specialized in English literature, critical theory, poetics and rhetoric. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1991 (writing on the aesthetic theory and prose practice of the Victorian literary critic and belletrist Walter Pater), he worked in Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives (1991-1995) and on the faculty at CETH (the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 1995-1998). Since 1998, he has been employed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy in private practice, where he is responsible for the development and application of electronic text technologies both for clients and in house. Author and presenter of journal articles, papers and courses presented at academic and industry conferences and teaching events, he is a regular contributor to HUMANIST, TEI-L, and XSL-LIST, a recognized expert in XML, XSLT and related technologies such as SVG, and co-originator of LMNL, the Layered Markup and Annotation Language. He resides in scenic Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Giovanni Puccetti Giovanni Puccetti is a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technologies of Information "A. Faedo" within the AI4Text unit of the AI for Media and Humanities (AIMH) laboratory. His research revolves around Natural Language Processing (NLP) and his current focus is on methods to detect machine generated content, mostly text. In the past he has also worked on Mechanistic Interpretability of Language Models and NLP for Patents.

Melissa Terras Melissa Terras hails from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, and ignored computers until her final year of her undergraduate MA, in History of Art and English Literature at the University of Glasgow (1998). Discovering the Internet (and something that she was good at) led to an MSc in IT (Software and Systems), also at Glasgow in 1999. In 2002 she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, which was a joint project between the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, on using image processing and artificial intelligence to try and read the Roman documents from Vindolanda.

Melissa then spent a year at the Royal Academy of Engineering, as assistant manager of the Policy unit, providing impartial advice to the UK government on matters scientific. Now at University College London, she is a lecturer in the School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies on Internet Technologies, Web Publishing, and Digital Resources in the Humanities. She is acting Secretary of ALLC (2005/6) and an Officer of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (2005-8), as well as being involved in other consultancy activities within the Digital Humanities field. She is interested in computational techniques which would allow research in the Humanities that would otherwise be impossible.

John A. Walsh John A. Walsh is an Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University and Director of the HathiTrust Research Center. His research involves the application of computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor on a number of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive, the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. He has developed the Comic Book Markup Language, or CBML, for scholarly encoding of comics and graphic novels. Walsh is the creator of TEI Boilerplate, a system for publishing documents encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. He is the Technical Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access online journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Walsh’s research interests include: computational literary studies; textual studies and bibliography; text technologies; book history; 19th-century British literature, poetry and poetics; and comic books. Homepage: http://johnwalsh.name.