Sebastian Rahtz
| Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 February 1955 Bristol, England |
| Died |
15 March 2016 (aged 61) Oxford, England |
| Residence | Oxford |
| Institutions | University of Exeter, University of Southampton, University of Oxford |
| Alma mater |
Institute of Archaeology, University of London University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Funerary epitaphs and iconography : an analysis of the Protestant Cemetery, Rome (1974) |
| Known for | TeX, Text Encoding Initiative |
| Spouse | Leonor Barroca |
| Children | 2 |
Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz (13 February 1955 – 15 March 2016) was a British digital humanities researcher. Born in 1955 to Somerset-focused archaeologist Philip Rahtz, Sebastian trained in archaeology, before delving into the computing realm via Lexicon of Greek Personal Names in 1982.[1] He remained a long-term contributor to multiple communities in the broader digital humanities, including LGPN, TeX,[2][3] computer methods in archaeology,[4] and the Text Encoding Initiative.[5] Sebastian's legacy also includes the vital contributions which he made to building and maintaining OxGarage [6] CLAROS,[7] the Oxford Text Archive,[8] Text Creation Partnership [9] and OSS Watch.[10]
From 1999-2015 he worked at Oxford University Computing Services which on 1 August 2012 merged with two other departments to become IT Services.[11] He joined the department in 1999 from Elsevier, having previously been a lecturer at the University of Southampton. He became Head of the Information and Support Group in OUCS, and then joint Director (for Research) of the Academic IT Group in 2010 and a member of the senior management team. In 2014 he was appointed Chief Data Architect.
He died in 2016, from brain cancer.[12]
Selected Works
- The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML. M Goossens, SPQ Rahtz, S Rahtz Addison-Wesley
- Guide to LATEX. H Kopka, PW Daly, SPQ Rahtz. Addison-Wesley
- The LATEX companion F Mittelbach, M Goossens, J Braams, D Carlisle, C Rowley. Addison-Wesley
- LaTeX: Einführung. H Kopka, S Rahtz. Addison-Wesley
- The LATEX Graphics Companion : Illustrating Documents with TEX and Postscript (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting) M Goossens, F Mittelbach, S Rahtz. D. Roegel, H. Voss Addison-Wesley
- Rahtz, Sebastian, and Leonor Barroca. "A style option for rotated objects in LATEX." (1992): 156-180.
References
- ↑ "Homepage, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, University of Oxford". Lgpn.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "Sebastian Rahtz - Interview - TeX Users Group". Tug.org. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ Contact Author. "Contributor Sebastian Rahtz". CTAN. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "Sebastian Rahtz". CAA International. 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "iii. Preface and Acknowledgments - The TEI Guidelines". Tei-c.org. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "OxGarage document conversion service". Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ↑ "CLAROS: the World of Ancient Art on the Semantic Web". Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ↑ "Oxford Text Archive". Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ↑ https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/martinw/2016/03/23/the-oxford-text-archive-2015/
- ↑ "OSS Watch: independent advice on free and open source software". Retrieved 2016-03-24.
- ↑ "Sebastian's Rahtz minimal home page". Users.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.text.tei.general/19908
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