Member, Search Committee for the Senior Vice President of the Rabb School at Brandeis University, 2014
Consultant, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, meeting on revising governance, London, February 20-21, 2014.
Incoming President, Boston Library Consortium, 2013-2014
Organizer, Workshop on Digital Humanities for Boston-area faculty, August 19-20, 2013, MIT.
Member, Boston Library Consortium, 2012-2013
Participant, Scholarly Communications Institute, for meetings of the leadership of Centernet (a network of digital humanities centers) and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2011-2013
Chair, IT Governance Committee for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Appointed by the Interim Provost, November 2011.
Chair, Committee to Re-design IT Governance for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Appointed by the interim Provost, June 2011.
Chair, NCSA Director Evaluation Committee. Appointed by the Vice-Chancellor for Research, October, 2010.
Member, Council of Deans Ad Hoc Committee on "Academic Structures that Facilitate Innovation.", University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Fall, 2010.
Chair, Stewarding Excellence Extension Review Committee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Spring, 2010
Local organizer, iConference 2010, Champaign, IL, February, 2010
Participant, NSF Workshop on the responsible conduct of research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October 23, 2009.
Unit leader for GSLIS, Campus Charitable Fund Drive, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2009.
Panelist, NEH/NSF/JISC "Digging Into Data" grant competition. London, England, September, 2009.
Member, Planning Committee, HathiTrust Research Center, 2009-2011.
Chair, International Scientific Committee, Synergies: Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructure, 2008-present.
Chair, campus-wide E-Learning Committee, UIUC. 2007-present.
Coordinator, iSchools Caucus, 2008-2010
Chair, Conference Coordinating Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2008-present.
Member, Centernet Steering Committee, 2007-present.
Member and budget officer, University of Illinois three-campus collaboration with The HistoryMakers, 2007-present.
Chair, search committee for Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, UIUC. 2007.
Member, CIO's Information Technology Advisory Council, UIUC. 2007.
Chair, Provost's ad hoc review committee reporting on Campus Information Technologies and Educations Services (CITES), UIUC. 2005.
Chair, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004-2005.
Chair, Steering Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2004-2007.
Member, Board of Directors, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2004-2005.
Chair, Provost's five-year review committee reporting on the University Librarian, UIUC. 2004.
Member, external board, Text Analysis Portal for Research. 2003-present.
External evaluator, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Search Engine project, 2003-2006.
Member, advisory board, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University. 2003-2005
President, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2002-2004
Co-chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2001-2003
Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 1996-2004
Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia. 2002-2004.
Member, 2004 Busa Award Selection Committee, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
Chair of the Board, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2001-2003.
Chair, TEI Council, 2002-2003.
Organizer and Acting Director, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities 2000-2001.
Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1999-2002
Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Art of the Book Center, 2001-2003.
Member, University Libraries Committee, University of Virginia, 2000-2002
Member, University of Virginia Research Computing Task Force (Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Business and Law sub-group), 2000-2001.
Member, Executive Board, University of Virginia Center for Digital Initiatives, 2001.
Chair, Transition Group, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 1999-2000
Member, Council on Library and Information Resources international task force to consider the role of the artifact in library collections, 1999-2000
Member, Board of Directors, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 1999-2000
Member, Computer Science & Humanities Steering Committee, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 2001
Chair, World-Wide Web Editorial Committee, Dept. of English, Univeristy of Virginia, 1997-2000
Chair, Technologies Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1997-2000
Member, Publishing and Communications Advisory Board, Division of Continuing Education, University of Virginia, 1996-2003.
Member, Network-Based Information Services Committee, University of Virginia, 1995-2001.
Local Organizer and Co-Host, 1999 joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Member, Search Committee for Director of Media Studies, University of Virginia, 1998-99
Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1998
Member, Subcommittee on Electronic Publication, Committee on the New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, 1997
Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1996-1997
Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1996
Member, Planning Committee, 1996 Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group for Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery.
Supervised and participated in the first major overhaul of the University of Virginia's World-Wide Web Home Page.
Member, Graduate Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia
Member, Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Founder, IATH-MOO: A Virtual Conference Site
Founder, PMC-MOO: A Postmodern Community
Founder, NCSU Virtual Campus
Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Working Group on Technical Requirements, National Initiative for the Humanities and Arts Computing, Coalition for Networked Information/Getty Art History Information Program, co-sponsors
Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Task Force, Advertising on the internet
Chair, Computer Affairs Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU
Computing Coordinator, Dept. of English, NCSU
Member, CHASS Computing Committee, subcommittee on multi-media, NCSU
Member, University Library Committee, subcommittee on scholarly communication, NCSU
Member, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU (revised the major)
Organizer, Conference on the applications of the Standard Generalized Markup Language in publishing electronic journals, NCSU