See also: About the Virtual Library, Michael Chapman was re-elected
secretary of the association on February 23rd 2006. A qualified systems administrator, Michael has been involved with the
Virtual Library since the mid 1990s. Elected to its first Council when
it became an association, and serving as its first treasurer. He has been privileged to work closely with the late Bertrand Ibrahim
(the "architect of the Virtual Library") and to see its re-birth under
the direction of Raul Sanchez and Arthur Secret. Dr Chapman's professional interests cover publishing (web and paper),
particularly the generation of human readable material from
databases (computer typesetting, topic maps, …) —on
which he has taught and given papers. His work has involved Cyrillic and
Asian language (CJK) material and the structuring of parallel texts
(parallel translations) —interests seen in some of the VL catalogue
pages. In his spare time Michael enjoys surround sound and is particularly involved
with moves to develop ambisonics as
a practicable and widely accepted method for everyday rendering of audio.
This
includes work to develop software
for manipulating ambisonic files. The photograph above shows Council at its meeting of October 2006.
From left to right: Lisa Micah, Marion Julia, Raul Sanchez, Michael Chapman,
Christian Savale and Arthur Secret. Copyright © 1991-2009 The WWW Virtual
Library. Last update: March 4th, 2011.
He, also, serves as an administrateur (governor) of the
Maison Familiale Rurale du Pays
de Seyssel, which provides secondary and tertiary level
education in alternance (apprenticeship and sandwich courses):
Brevet, BacPro, BTS, ….
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