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CFP: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age

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Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars

15 December 2010

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague in conjunction with the conference “Text & Literacy” (16-17 December)

Proposals due 30 September 2010

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts—electronic books being just one type of many—that must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

The gathering is offered in conjunction with the Text & Literacy conference (16-17 December) and is sponsored by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments research group.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal.  Please send proposals before 30 September 2010 to siemens@uvic.ca.

TEI MM 2010: Conftool now open for latebreaking proposals

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Dear TEI users,

Here is good news for everyone who is considering to submit a late-breaking proposal for the TEI members meeting 2010 in Zadar, Croatia (Nov. 8 to 14):

We now started to accept proposals at the TEI conference management tool. The official closing date for this is September 30th, 2010.

Late-breaking proposals are screened by the Programme Committee and do not undergo the peer-review process of the regular submissions, thus also do not qualify for automatic consideration for the conference volume. More information about the conference is here, the call for late-breaking proposals is here.

There is an excellent slate of workshops on offer for this year’s conference, for which the early bird rate offering discounts of up to 20% is still available. Yet another good reason to consider coming to Zadar this year and catch up with what is going on in the text encoding community!

All the best,

Christian Wittern
Chair, TEI MM2010 International Programme Committee

Announcing preliminary dissemination of “An Interview with Julia Flanders.”

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On behalf of the TEI Education SIG, I am pleased to announce preliminary dissemination of “An Interview with Julia Flanders.”

To ensure that anyone who may wish to access the piece for teaching (or other) purposes can do so even before the work finds a more permanent home, the interviewee has graciously granted me permission to share it informally via blog post. The related links (including a brief, informal introduction; the questions; the transcript and podcast; and the TEI-XML version) can be found on the TEI Education SIG wiki page.

As indicated in the interview introduction, Julia’s comments are thought-provoking and profoundly significant, the kind that urgently warrant dissemination, but I hope nonetheless that they will come to represent only one part of a larger, ongoing conversation about TEI and DH.

Questions, comments, suggestions, etc. are warmly welcomed —

With best wishes,
Stephanie Schlitz

New release of TEI XSLT 2.0 Stylesheets

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A new release of the XSLT 2.0 stylesheets for doing things with TEI files was released today, and is live on the TEI web site, Sourceforge and as Debian packages.

Many small changes, relating mosttly to conversion to/from Word OOXML, OpenOffice ODF, and ePub. The OpenOffice conversions are being rewritten for free-standing use, and will probably need more work to get them right.

Sebastian Rahtz  <sebastian.rahtz@OUCS.OX.AC.UK>

Early Bird TEI Conference and Workshop Registration

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A reminder about the early bird registration for the TEI conference and workshops (closes September 7th). See the news announcement for links to the registration and conference sites (http://www.tei-c.org/News/#tei-2010-07-21-tei_2010_conference_meeting_and_workshops_registration_opens).

As was the case last year, you can register for the conference and workshops using your credit card. Significant discounts are available for those who register before September 7th; Members and subscribers of the TEI also receive additional steep discounts on the price of
registration.

We will be posting the conference schedule soon. The workshop schedule is already available at http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/workshops/index.en.html As you will see, we have an extremely exciting range of workshops directed by leaders in the TEI and wider XML communities. There are workshops that are suitable for newcomers to the TEI and world of XML more generally as well as workshops on advanced topics in both the TEI and XML processing. Several workshops are likely to be of interest to members of the wider community. Workshops range from a single 1/2 day to 1.5 days in length. The price for members and subscribers is $60/half-day with an additional 20% discount for registrations before September 7th. You do not need to register for a workshop in order to attend the conference; and you may register for a workshop without attending the conference.

You can register for the conference and workshops and become an individual subscriber to the TEI through our on-line store: http://tei-shop.org. For information on becoming an institutional member of the TEI and gaining access to additional benefits like our new AccessTEI programme (http://accessTEI.apexcovantage.com/), contact the membership secretary (membership@tei-c.org).

-dan

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Daniel Paul O’Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)

Russian Textual Heritage conference, journals

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1. Participation is invited in the conference “Information Technologies and Textual Heritage: El’Manuscript-10”,  which will be held October 25-28, 2010 at the Bashkir State Pedagogical University (Ufa). Conference information is available at http://textualheritage.org/content/view/328/156/lang,english/

Note: the following announcements all link to Russian-language sites.

2.The  e-journal Information Technologies and Textual Heritage (http://journal.textualheritage.org/) is acceptng articles and materials for their first issues. I invite you and your colleagues to become authors of the magazine.

3. The journal Intelligent Systems in Industry, included in the 2010 list of journals of the Higher Attestation Commission and the database of the Russian citation index (http://elibrary.ru/titles.asp), is accepting articles for publication on the subject of “Computational linguistics”. For submission information you can contact me.

Viktor Baranov, Izhevsk State Technical University
victor.a.baranov@gmail.com

Bursary Announcement: Interedition Workshop, Israel

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Bursary Announcement
Interedition Workshop  at the National Library of Israel, 6-7 October

The ESF COST Action Interedition is delighted to offer several bursaries for a workshop to be held at the National Library of Israel, 6-7 October 2010.

The goal of Interedition is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. Equally, Interedition seeks to raise the awareness of the importance of sustainability of the digital artefacts and instruments we create. To this end, Intereditions is hosting this workshop at the National Library of Israel to explore the tools, methodologies, and approaches to better support a shared model for the creation of sustainable infrastructure for digital text.

Applications are being accepted for bursaries for early stage researchers to attend this two-day event which will include lectures by leading textual scholars (including Dirk Van Hulle, Fotis Jannidis, Susan Schreibman, and Joris van Zundert) The first day will focus on lectures on topics ranging from the creation and futures of digital scholarly editions, to the tools being used to create and edit them. The second day will be hands-on centering on practical experience in using tools and methodologies central to the discipline, including TEI, eLaborate, and CollateX. On day II attendees will participate in a project slam and there will be ample opportunity to discuss their editing projects with workshop facilitators.

To apply for busaries, candidates must be:

  • an emerging scholar, which is defined by the ESF as someone who has not been in an established position for more than five years, with exceptions for parental, medical, and national service leaves. The ESF notes that ‘students, post-doctorate researchers and lecturers within 5 years of appointment would be amongst those included in this definition’.
  • you are affiliated to a an institution in a country in which ESF has a 
member organisation (see http://www.esf.org/about-us/80-member-organisations.html;)

Bursaries will be awarded in two categories: up to €300 for Israeli delegates and up to €1200 for European delegates to cover housing and travel costs. Expenses will be reimbursed after the event in line with COST procedures.

If you fit the above criteria and would like to apply for consideration, please send no more than two pages that include the following: a) a brief 
CV showing your career history and current academic affiliation; and b) how 
this workshop will intersect with your research. Please send your application to susan.schreibman[AT]gmail.com no later than 24 August.

Susan Schreibman, PhD
Director
Digital Humanities Observatory
Pembroke House
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2, Ireland

Looking for TEI News editors

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With the launch of its news service and Twitter feed, the TEI is looking for several volunteers to act as news editors.

As news editor, you would

  • Assist in posting TEI Consortium announcements to the news server
  • Act as a contact person and moderator for outside organisations that wish to post to our “Other News” section, ensuring that such announcements are relevant and useful to our community
  • Monitor the TEI’s mailing list (TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu) for announcements, calls for papers, and the like that might make suitable postings to the server.

We are looking for two or three volunteers for this position, ideally in different time zones in order to ensure timely response to new postings.

We expect the positions to involve no more than an hour or two a week of work, which could easily be combined with one’s daily email routine.

The positions might be especially suitable for graduate students, post-docs, or relative newcomers to the field who would like an opportunity to get to know better the breadth of activity in the TEI community. It is also an opportunity for more experienced members of the community to help out the TEI in a way that involves less of a time commitment than serving on the Council or Board.

If you are interested in these positions, or would like to nominate somebody else, please contact the webmaster at news@tei-c.org.

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TEI 2010 Conference, Meeting, and Workshops: Registration opens

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Registration for the 2010 TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Workshops is now open. The meeting will take place November 11-14 at the University of Zadar, Zadar Croatia. Pre-conference Workshops will be held November 8-10.

The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included.

The conference programme includes two keynote lectures, twenty-one regular papers in parallel sessions (with additional space being held back for our September call for “late breaking” papers), numerous posters and demos, and a number of five minute micro-paper+poster demonstrations of the use of TEI XML. And of course there will be the TEI’s famous “poster-slam” where presenters have one minute to discuss their paper in a plenary session, will also be held. The annual TEI members meeting will be held at this conference and the results of the annual election for board and council will be announced.

Our keynote speakers for 2010 are

  • Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)

The conference will be preceded by seven intensive workshops, led by many of the most significant members of the TEI and wider markup communities including

In keeping with the relevance of this line up to the wider community, the TEI is for the first time also offering a special commercial rate on its workshops and conference registration in addition to its usual Academic and heavily discounted member/subscriber and student/retired rates. In addition to individual registration prices, a 3-day pass is also available allowing attendance at any workshops over the pre-conference period for a 15% discount.

A 20% early registration discount for workshops (15% for conference registration) is available for registrations before September 8, 2010. Members and subscribers are eligible for up to an additional 50% discount on conference registration and workshops.

An overview of conference and workshop registration options can be found at the TEI Membership Centre. You can also learn how to join the TEI as an individual subscriber or institutional member here.

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