TAPoR Portal Credits
The
TAPoR project thanks all the people who have worked on the portal. Some of the contributors are:
Support
TAPoR acknowledges with gratitude the support we have recieved from the following organizations:
Development Team
The portal was developed by OpenSky Solutions led by James Chartrand. Nick Goupinets was the principal programmer. Others at OpenSky include Andrew MacDonald, Anton Andreev, Oleg Yampolsky, Paul Mooney, Alex Korobkine, and Alex Cachia.
Rob Good of isagn inc. developed the XTeXT repository component of the portal.
McMaster Portal Team
The portal design and development at McMaster was led by Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, the TAPoR Project Leader and Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, the Research Director. Michael Mallon of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre manages the TAPoR servers, Michael Pikolon supports the lab and Mikael Andersson provides ordering support. Rocco Piro and now John Bell manage the Humanities Media and Computing Centre. Lian Yan provided programming support and administrative account support. Shawn Day developed the recipes. Alex Stevens developed interface designs and the look of the project site. Joanna Dacko developed interface skins and the tutorial. Audrey Carr developed the Tour and, working with Joanna, ran an extensive usability study with help by Dr. Brian Detlor.
Dr Wendy Duff at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies is leading usability studies on the portal. Thanks also to Dr. Michael Kliffer and Dr. Alexandre Sevigny for their input.
TAPoR Tools
The tools available through the TAPoR portal include the TAPoRware tools developed by Lian Yan under the direction of Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell. Andrew MacDonald and Matt Patey also helped develop TAPoRware tools. The HyperPo tools are led by Dr. Stéfan Sinclair.
Language Support
The French language materials were first translated by Dr. Stephanie Posthumus. The Swedish by Matt Zimmerman and colleagues.
Testing
Special thanks to the following people who have tested the portal and tools in their different guises. Willard McCarty, John Bradley, Vika Zafrin, and David Hoover.
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GeoffreyRockwell - 31 Oct 2006
