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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Good news out of <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/itsee/news/2018/griffitts-phd.aspx" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">Birmingham</a> today. (2018-04-17)<br /></span>
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class="tr_bq" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-width: 4px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ITSEE extends its warmest congratulations to Troy Griffitts, one of its most longstanding doctoral students, on qualifying for the award of PhD.<br /><br />Troy began his studies in Birmingham in September 2010, researching the development of collaborative online frameworks for volunteer contributions to scholarly datasets, with a particular focus on the New Testament. A year later, however, the opportunity arose for him to move to ITSEE’s collaborator, the <a href="http://egora.uni-muenster.de/intf/index_en.shtml" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung</a> in Münster, to become lead developer of the <a href="http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room</a> (NT.VMR). Troy continued to work on his doctorate as a part-time, split-site and latterly distance-learning student. His thesis describes the development of NTVMR 2.0, and the independent scholarly editing environment to which it has led, the freely-available <a href="http://vmrcre.org/" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">Virtual Manuscript Room Collaborative Research Environment</a> (VMR CRE).<br /><br />Troy’s thesis, entitled <i>Software for the Collaborative Editing of the Greek New Testament</i>, was examined by Dr Dirk Jongkind of the University of Cambridge and Dr Andrew Davies, Director of the Edward Cadbury Centre at Birmingham. His supervisors were <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/tr/houghton-hugh.aspx" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">Dr Hugh Houghton</a> and <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/tr/parker-david.aspx" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">Professor David Parker</a>. Following the successful completion of his doctorate, Troy continues to be active in supporting the <a href="http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room</a>, as well as the Museum of the Bible Greek Paul Project in the USA, the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament Project in Göttingen and other teams using his software. He also remains a director of the <a href="http://crosswire.org/" style="font-weight: bold; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); -webkit-transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; transition: border 0.5s, color, opacity, background; text-decoration: none !important;">CrossWire Bible Society</a>.</span>
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<div>I thought this post by Peter Curry from 17 April was worth sharing to the mailing list, seeing as not everyone reads Facebook. </div>
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<div>Congratulations - Troy !!!</div>
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