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TEI course at Rare Book School, July 4-8, 2011

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Rare Book School is currently accepting applications for XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts, taught by David Seaman. The course is a practical exploration of the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with a special focus on Special Collections materials. This course is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, scholarly communication, or teaching purposes.

The week will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images (texts such as 18th and 19th century letters, which are short enough to allow each participant to take an entire document through all its creation stages during the course). Topics include: XML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines; Unicode; metadata issues (including a discussion of METS and Open Archives Initiative harvesting), project planning and funding; and the manipulation of XML texts using stylesheets for re-publishing HTML, in ebook formats, and in PDF.

Applicants need to have some experience with the tagging of HTML documents. In their personal statement, they should assess the extent of their present knowledge of the electronic environment, and outline a project to which they hope to apply the skills learned in this course.

The course takes place 4-8 July in Charlottesville, VA. Applications are available online at http://www.rarebookschool.org/applications/

[This course is a revised version of “Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images”, which ran from 1995-2009.]

TEI council face to face meeting 11-13 April 2011

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Dear all,

The TEI council will meet face to face in Chicago on 11-13 April next month. Why would you care? Because we will try to work out the various bugs and features documented and discussed in the TEI source forge server: http://tei.sourceforge.net/

It’s a good opportunity for you all to have a look at the ones for which you may have specific interests and provide feedback if necessary. You may also file in bugs or features that you have identified since ages and never took the time to document…The work of the council only makes sense if it reflects the expectations and competences of the community!

Laurent

PS:

  • Bugs:
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=106328&atid=644062
  • Feature requests:
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=106328&atid=644065

    • Laurent Romary
    INRIA & HUB-IDSL
    laurent.romary@inria.fr

    Call for Papers: 2011 TEI Members’ Meeting

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    Dear TEIers,
As you know already, the TEI conference will take place this year in
Würzburg (Germany) from 13 to 15 October (preceded by workshops and
tutorials). It is a major event for our community as it is the
possibility for all of you to exchange your ideas and experience in
using the TEI guidelines, as well as providing feedback and proposals
on making the TEI technical environment evolve to serve digital
scholarship even better.  Indeed, the TEI has become an essential
aspect for any text-based research in the humanities and our user
community grows everyday quicker. The conference should be able to
reflect this variety by bringing together both experienced eHumanists
and more traditional scholars looking for  digital answers to their
research questions.
You will find below the call for paper, which will soon be followed by
a call for workshops and tutorials. Pleas do not hesitate to spread
the word further on your favorite social networks.
I am looking forward to see you all in Würzburg,
Laurent Romary

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Call for papers and proposals

Philology in the Digital Age
2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium
University of Würzburg, Germany

http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/

* Deadline for submissions: May 1st, 2011
* Meeting dates: Wed 12 October to Sat 15 October, 2011
* Workshop dates: Mon 10 October to Wed 12 October, 2011 (see separate
call)

The Program Committee of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI - www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper
proposals, panel
sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but
not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic
that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:
	• TEI and scholarly editing
	• TEI and textual criticism
	• TEI and the evolution of digital philology
	• TEI and text corpora
	• The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation
(visualisation, user-interface)
	• TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis
	• Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards
	• TEI as metadata standard
	• TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in
particular in relation to other formats or software environments)

In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper
presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained
from running projects and discussing one specific feature.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20
minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.
Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500
words (plus bibliography).

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied
formats, including:

    * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

    * round table discussion: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample
      time should be left for questions & answers after brief
      presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the
poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and
tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with
wireless internet access. Each poster presenter is expected to
participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by
May 1st, 2011 (please check on the conference website for the
availability of conftool).

You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in
order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files
to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data
and the abstract.

    * Individual paper or poster proposals (including tool
demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia,
etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the
initial abstract is submitted.

    * Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual
paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please
be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented!

    * Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits
a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction
explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of
the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel
member.

   * Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer
submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the
discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be
contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness
in participation before submission.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected
external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting
session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org
  to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference
proceedings, edited as a special issue of the  Journal of the Text
Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be
forthcoming.

For the international programm comittee,

Laurent Romary (programm committee chair)

    Day of Digital Humanities 2011

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    Digital humanists are invited to participate in the third annual Day of Digital Humanities, a project tracking 24 hours in the field of digital humanities. On March 18th, 2011 individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day with photos and discussion.

    This project is an online collaborative publication, with each participant co-authoring and decisions made communally. However, participating in the Day of DH shouldn’t require a large time commitment. Most of the work will be in uploading short entries and photographs during the documentation day. The degree of involvement beyond that will be up to you. To find out about this interaction and the previous two iterations of the Day of Digital Humanities see:

    http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011

    This project is intended to bring members of all types and from around the field together to post about what they do and reflect on what others are doing. We particularly encourage graduate students, developers and international colleagues to participate. You don’t have to be “important”; you don’t have to write in English; and you don’t have to have a lot of experience in the field. Your opinions count!

    To participate please fill out the application form by March 15th, 2011.

    Apply now at http://bit.ly/DoDH11-apply

    And mark the 18th of March down for the next Day of Digital Humanities.

    Yours,

    Geoffrey Rockwell

    Ligatus Summer School 2011

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    The History of European Bookbinding 1450-1830 and Identifying and recording bookbinding structures for conservation and cataloguing.

    Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia, Venice (Italy)

    19-23 and 26-30 September 2011

    The 6th Ligatus Summer School, following the success of the courses in Volos, Patmos, Thessaloniki and Wolfenbüttel, is to be held this year in collaboration with the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia. We are delighted to announce the summer school in the historic city of Venice and particularly in the Istituto Ellenico, which has a distinguished reputation in the field of book studies. This year students will have the opportunity to see bindings from historic collections in the city, including the Biblioteca Marciana. With access to a range of important libraries and the unique environment that the city offers, this year’s summer school will be a unique experience.
    http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool

    Summer school context:
    The contribution that bindings can make to our understanding of the history and culture of the book is often neglected, but they can offer insights into the study of readership, the booktrade, and the provenance of books which are often not available elsewhere. In order to realise this potential, it is important to understand not only the history of the craft but also to learn how to record what is seen in a consistent and organised way. Librarians, cataloguers, conservators, book historians and all scholars who work with early books, need therefore to understand the structure and materials of the bindings they encounter in order to be able to record and describe them. Such descriptions of bindings are not only valuable for the management of library collections, pursuing academic research and making informed decisions about conservation, but are also important for digitisation projects as they can radically enrich the potential of image and text metadata. It is our belief that bindings should be seen as an integral part of the book, without which, our understanding of the history and use of books is often greatly circumscribed.

    The purpose of the summer school is to uncover the possibilities latent in the detailed study of bookbinding and it mainly focuses on books which have been bound between the fifteenth and the early nineteenth century. While both courses concentrate in particular on the structure and materials of bookbindings, each of the two courses offered in this summer school looks at bindings from different geographical areas and with a different approach. The first course looks at the history of bookbinding as it was carried out in Europe in the period of the hand press (1450-1830), with the opportunity to look at examples from different collections during the afternoons, while the second course looks at the development of bookbinding in the eastern Mediterranean and gives hands-on training in how to observe and record bindings, again working with examples from the collections. Part of this course includes technical hands-on session for the development of a digital documentation system for recording bookbindings.

    The courses are taught in English and each is open to 12 participants. Although the courses can be attended individually, participants are encouraged to attend both courses in order to get a more complete understanding of the issues discussed, through the comparison of the wide range of bookbindings considered in each week. Since these are not beginner-level courses, the participants are expected to be familiar with bookbinding terminology and have a basic knowledge of the history of book production in the periods under discussion. A basic understanding of the use of databases is also desirable for those who will attend the course in the second week.

    Description of courses:

    • Week 1, European Bookbinding 1450-1830
      Tutor: Professor N. Pickwoad
      This course will follow European bookbinding from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, using the bindings themselves to illustrate the aims and intentions of the binding trade. A large part of the course will be devoted to the identification of both broad and detailed distinctions within the larger groups of plain commercial bindings and the possibilities of identifying the work of different countries, cities, even workshops without reference to finishing tools. The identification and significance of the different materials used in bookbinding will be examined, as well as the classification of bookbindings by structural type, and how these types developed through the three centuries covered by the course. The development of binding decoration will be touched on, but will not form a major part of the discussion. The course consists of ten 90-minute sessions with Powerpoint
      presentations (over 800 images will be shown). Actual examples of bindings will be shown in the first four afternoon sessions while the final afternoon will look at bookbinding terminology and offer the opportunity for the discussion of questions and issues raised during the week.
    • Week 2, Identifying and recording bookbinding structures
      Tutors: Dr. G. Boudalis and Dr. A. Velios
      This five-day course will be divided in two interconnected sessions. The first session, run by Dr. Georgios Boudalis, will focus upon the major structural and decorative features of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine bookbindings and their evolution in time and space. The relationship of these bindings with the early bindings of the Coptic and other Eastern Mediterranean cultures will be discussed, during lectures, slide-shows and demonstrations of real bookbindings from Venetian collections. This session will centre on the influences and comparisons of these different bookbindings. It will consist of eight 90-minute computer presentations supplemented by hands-on sessions. The second session will be run by Dr. Athanasios Velios and will deal with the data management and storage of bookbinding descriptions. Alongside a brief reference to the relational databases this session will mainly involve discussions on a) the semantic web and XML, b) schemas and terminologies for bookbinding descriptions, c) commercial and open source software options and d) methodologies and workflows for surveying collection. A large part of this session will be devoted to the actual development and use of a documentation system for recording binding structures and the actual recording of specific bindings. This session will consist of two 90-minutes presentations and eight 90-minutes hands-on workshops. Basic knowledge of database use is desirable for this course.

    The courses are supported by Ligatus and the University of the Arts, London, with generous help from the Istituto Ellenico. We have therefore been able to reduce the cost of the course for this year to £350.00 per week, excluding travel, meals and accommodation. A number of accommodation options will be provided to the participants. A detailed schedule of the courses can be sent upon request.

    Applications, including a short CV can be submitted online (http://www.ligatus.org.uk/summerschool/). For information about registration please email Ewelina Warner (e.warner@camberwell.arts.ac.uk) and mark  the message subject with: ‘Ligatus Summer School’. A reading list will be sent to those who will attend the courses in advance. Deadline for applications is the 1st of July. The participants will be contacted by the end of July.

    About the Istituto Ellenico:
    The Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice was founded in 1955 and is housed in the building of the former Flanghinis College. The Institute’s main objective is to study Byzantine and Post-Byzantine history – focussing primarily on the history of Greek territories under Latin domination, on the basis of Italian and in particular Venetian archives – and to publish the relevant historical sources. Its old library (belonging to the former Flanghinis College) includes 2,000 volumes produced by the Greek printing houses of Venice from the 16th to the 18th century. Most of these old books come from the printing houses of Glykis and Theodosiou, and are mainly ecclesiastical works and school texts; the new library includes 30,000 volumes. The
    library also holds 41 Byzantine and Post-byzantine manuscripts from as early as the 12th century. The Institute’s archive holds an important collection of documents from as early as 1498 which capture the history of Greeks in Venice. For more information about the Institute see:
    http://www.istitutoellenico.org/

    About Venice in September 2011:
    Venice always offers a number of great cultural activities including museums and churches. The summer school coincides with the Venice Biennale exhibition which is another good reason to join us this year. For a calendar of events in Venice see: http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/FixedPages/IT/Eventi.php/L/EN/YY/2011/MM/9/DD/1

    About Ligatus:
    Ligatus is a research unit of the University of the Arts London with particular interest in the history of bookbinding, book conservation, archiving and the application of digital technology to these fields. Ligatus’s main research projects currently include the conservation of the books in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai and the development of a multi-lingual glossary of bookbinding terms. Find out more about Ligatus here: http://www.ligatus.org.uk

    InterFace 2011 Call for Talks Deadline extended

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    With apologies for cross-posting.

    The committee for the 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology, InterFace 2011, has agreed to extend the deadline for applications for participation in the symposium to

      *Friday 11 March 2011*

    Applications are encouraged from Ph.D students and early career researchers in all humanities and computing disciplines. The key component of your application will be a 150-word abstract for your proposed lightning talk.

    You can submit your application here:

    http://www.interface2011.org.uk/submit

    The committee will select participants from among the applications received and successful applicants will be informed on Monday 4 April 2011. If your application is accepted, you will then be invited to register. A participation fee will be charged to cover costs of lunches, refreshments, venue, and speakers. This fee will be £35.

    Key Dates:

    * Friday    11 March   Extended Deadline for applications
    * Monday     4 April   Notification of successful applications
    * Monday    18 April   Deadline for registration for successful applicants
    * Wednesday 27 July    InterFace 2011 begins

    What is InterFace?
    ==================

    InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2011 it is being jointly hosted by colleges across London and will be an invaluable opportunity for participants to visit this active hub of digital scholarship and practice.

    The symposium aims to foster collaboration and shared understanding between scholars in the humanities and in computer science, especially where their efforts converge on exchange of subject matter and method. With a focus on the interests and concerns of Ph.D students and early career researchers, the programme will include networking activities, opportunities for research exposition, and various training and workshop activities.

    A core component of the programme will be a lightning talks session in which each participant will make a two-minute presentation on their research. The session will be lively and dynamic. Each presentation must be exactly two minutes long, making use of necessary,interesting, appropriate, or entertaining visual or sound aids, and condensing a whole Ph.D’s worth of ideas and work into this short slot.

    Participants will be able to join workshops in:

  • Data Visualisation

    •  lead by *Andy Hudson Smith* (UCL, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/people/person.asp?id=7

  • Network Analysis

    •  lead by *Tom Brughmans* (Southampton) and *Marco Buechler*

  • Semantic Web

    • lead by *Joe Padfield* (National Gallery)

  • Bibliographic Software

    • lead by *Ian Mulvany* (VP New Product Development, Mendeley)

    There will be talks on:

  • User Studies

    • given by *Claire Warwick* (UCL, Information Studies)

  • How to Get Published

    • given by *Sarah-Louise Quinnell* (http://www.phd2published.com/) and representatives from Ashgate Publishing.

  • How to Get Funding in the EU and UK

    • given by *Henreitte Brun* (UCL, Laws Faculty)

    There will also be two keynote talks given by speakers whose work marks the leading edge of technology in scholarship and practice. The speakers will be:

    *Melissa Terras* (UCL)

    Digitisation of Cultural Heritage and Image Processing

    *Stephen Scrivener* (University of the Arts, London)

    Design Research and Creative Production

    Finally, the symposium will conclude with an unconference; a participatory, collaborative, and informal event in which the form and content is decided on by participants as it unfolds and in which discussion and production is emphasised over presentation and analysis. Participants may wish to share their own skills, learn a new skill, establish and develop a collaborative project, or hold a focused discussion.

    We look forward to receiving your application.

    The InterFace 2011 Committee
    —
    http://www.interface2011.org.uk/
    enquiries@interface2011.org.uk

    —
    Raffaele Viglianti
    PhD Candidate and PGRA
    Centre for Computing in the Humanities
    King’s College London

    Release of TEI 1.9.0

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    The new release of the TEI Guidelines in all its forms is now complete. You can find it by:

  • visiting the TEI Web site and reading the Guidelines athttp://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
  • using the schemas etc direct from the web site eg http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng
  • using Roma at http://www.tei-c.org/Roma/
  • downloading a zip archive from Sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/files/TEI-P5-all/)
  • subscribing to Ubuntu/Debian packages via http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/
  • checking out the source files using Subversion from Sourceforge (see https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=106328)

    • The nice folks at oXygen will include it all in their next release, I am sure.

    The release notes can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-1.9.html

    Please note that this is an interim, largely procedural, release, and has no major additions or changes in functionality.  The TEI Council has been working to simplify the maintenance and releasing of the Guidelines, and it seemed sensible to clear the decks now and resolve any problems in implementation. This could mean another procedural release if something goes hideously wrong :-{

    The TEI Council meets in April and expects to make a release after that which addresses some of the backlog of feature requests.

    There are two important points to bear in mind:

    a) as discussed a few weeks ago, the implementation of global attributes has changed. Each element is now explicitly a member of the att.global class. If you have an ODD which adds new elements in the TEI namespace, it will no longer have global attributes (xml:id, rend etc) added by default.

    b) the web Roma tool has now switched to pass all processing to the OxGarage server, which runs a later (improved) set of ODD-processing stylesheets. You may notice changes (I hope not!). The XSLT 1.0 ODD-processing stylesheets are now removed from the Stylesheets package as they will no longer give the right results.

    The 1.9.0 release of the TEI is accompanied by release 5.50 of the TEI Stylesheets package and release 4.3 of Roma. These are intimately connected, because of the global attributes, so don’t attempt to mix and match unless you know what you are doing.

    —
    Sebastian Rahtz     
    Head of Information and Support Group, Oxford University Computing Services
    13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431

    Deadline Extended: CFP: Proceedings of 2010 TEI Conference and Members Meeting

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    The Editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative are extending the deadline for Issue 2 (papers presented at the 2010 Members Meeting in Zadar) to Monday 11 April.

    Submissions will be accepted in two categories: research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting poster session or lightning presentations, or new tools or services of 2000-4000 words. Both may include images and multimedia content.

    Full information for authors can be found here
    http://journal.tei-c.org/journal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

    If you would like to discuss your a proposed submission with the Journal editors, please email journal [AT ] tei-c.org

    with all best wishes

    Susan Schreibman
    Editor-in-Chief

    MLA CFP: Session Sponsored by the Committee on Scholarly Editions

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    MLA 2012: Seattle, January 5-8, 2012

    Reimagining the Scholarly Edition

    Over the past 15 years new theories of editing have broadened the approaches available to editors of scholarly editions. Noteworthy amongst these are the changes brought about by editing for digital publication. New methods for digital scholarship (including but not limited to text encoding, mashups, datamining), forms of editions (such as Thematic Research Collections, Digital Archives, Digital Libraries), theories informing digital publication (including Versioning, Genetic Editing, Unediting), and tools (such as TILE, the Versioning Machine, Omeka) offer exciting supplements or alternatives to traditional notions of the scholarly edition.

    Proposals are being accepted for this Roundtable (up to 8 presenters) that address the theme of digital scholary editons. Please email 300 word abstracts by March 10, 2011 to Susan Schreibman susan.schreibman [AT] gmail.com. All panel participants must be members of MLA before April 1, 2011.

    Women Writers Project’s Introduction to XSLT Workshop

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    Space is still available in the Women Writers Project’s upcoming workshop on XSLT:

    Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities
    March 30-April 1, 2011
    Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
    Instructors:
    Syd Bauman, Brown University
    David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
    Cost: $300 ($200 for TEI members and students)
    Registration deadline: March 15, 2011

    This three-day intensive workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental concepts of XSLT, the power tool of the XML world, focusing on the needs and data of digital humanists. Participants will develop stylesheets that explore the basic capacities of XSLT, and will learn how to read and reverse engineer other people’s stylesheets to develop their skills. Familiarity with the TEI and XML is assumed.

    For more information, or to register for the workshop: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

    Julia Flanders
    Director, Women Writers Project