Brian L. Pytlik Zillig

Brian Pytlik Zillig is Assistant Professor and Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.

Brian is the creator of TokenX. TokenX is designed to provide an easy-to-use interface for text analysis and visualization. TokenX includes:

• text highlighting based on patterns in words
• showing keywords in context
• replacing words with blocks
• word concordances sorted alphabetically or by frequency
• word usage statistics
• word substitution
• user-selected replacement of words with images
• creative exploration of texts

TokenX was licensed by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and made public in the fall of 2005.

Brian manages the daily operations of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. In addition, he advises and assists on many aspects of Center projects. He serves as co-manager of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online and developed the Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) stylesheet for that project. He created the XSLT stylesheets for various Walt Whitman Archive projects, including the American editions of Leaves of Grass, Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden, and the Whitman periodicals project. Moreover, he developed the XSLT stylesheet that dynamically generates, from several hundred component files, the Integrated Guide to Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts.

Recently, he co-authored "Ordering Chaos: An Integrated Finding Aid and Online Archive of Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts," Literary and Linguistic Computing, volume 20, number 2, 2005.

Other publications include:

• Tyler, D., Pytlik Zillig, B. "Caveat Relocator: A Practical Relocation Proposal to Save Space and Promote Electronic Resources." Technical Services Quarterly, volume 21, number 1, 2003. pp. 17-29.
• Leon, L., DeWeese, J., Kochan, C., Peterson-Lugo, B., Pytlik Zillig, B. "Enhanced Resource Sharing Through Group Interlibrary Loan Best Practices: A Conceptual, Structural, and Procedural Approach." portal: Libraries and the Academy, volume 3, number 3, 2003. pp. 419-430.
• Western States Digital Imaging Working Group, "Digital Imaging Best Practices," January, 2003. (http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/documents/WSDIBP_v1.pdf)

Brian's current research is centered on text analysis, visualization of XML data, and scalable vector graphics.

Brian lives in Lincoln with his wife, two children, a dog, and a collection of IBM Thinkpads.