I am a medieval historian and a manuscripts specialist on the Virtual Libraries of St. Gall and Reichenau (phase two of the digital St. Gall plan project), a digital initiative now based at UCLA, but which has roots at UVA. Similarly, though I currently work at UCLA, my family ties are to Silver Spring, MD, which is where I normally work, and which explains my interest in attending a THATCamp on this side of the continent. I have over 15 years of experience working on various digital initiatives. I was a web designer while in grad school at Western Michigan University in the 1990s, where I also did some of the original SGML tagging for The Medieval Review. Later I was Teaching Technology Coordinator at the UNC-CH History Department, where I also did free-lance database design and worked for Content Management Services as they converted the University's departmental webpages to a Plone-based CMS. My current position is mainly focussed on the creation of metadata for manuscript images using XML and TEI.