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The Music Encoding Initiative Council announces the release of
MEI 2010-05, a groundbreaking digital musical notation model

The MEI Council is pleased to announce the first
collaboratively-designed method for encoding the intellectual and
physical characteristics of music notation documents and
their scholarly editorial apparatus. MEI has the ability
to manage complex source situations and will dramatically improve
the search, retrieval and display of notated music online,
benefiting music scholars and performers.
Because of MEI's software independence, the data format defined
by the schema also serves an archival function. 

The MEI model is free and available for download at
http://music-encoding.org. The site also offers tutorials, examples,
and experimental software for MEI conversion--more will be available
in the near future. Information about the future of the project
and how to get involved are also on the site.

The MEI Council is an international group of scholars,
technologists, and educators representing a broad range of
musicological, theoretical, and pedagogical interests. The Council
was created through funding to the University of Virginia Library
and the University of Paderborn from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) and the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

We’re very pleased to announce the completion and launch of TEI by
Example: http://www.teibyexample.org.

TEI By Example (TBE) offers a series of freely available online tutorials
walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document
in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text
encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based
introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the
humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples
section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life
examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive
tests and exercises. The tutorial materials are contextualised with a TBE
validator application, allowing you to test your TEI encoding as you type!

We hope you will consider using TEI by Example in your (online)teaching
and refer students of markup to these tutorials.
We also hope you will submit more examples of encoding for inclusion in TBE.

We’re eager to receive your comments and learn about your use of TEI by
example in (self-)teaching environments.

Please contact the editorial team with any feedback at teibyexample@kantl.be.

Funding for the project has been made available by the Association of
Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Centre for Computers and the
Humanities – King’s College London, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and
the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy
of Dutch Language and Literature.

• Melissa Terras
• Ron Van den Branden
• Edward Vanhoutte

Workshop announcement:
“TEI Encoding for Classical Asian Text” at Hamburg University
12th–14th July, 2010
Location: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies (Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg), Alsterterrasse 1, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany
Convener: Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk (Hamburg University)
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer (Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan), Dr. Kenichi Kuranishi

The goal of the workshop is to train a community of contributors to mark-up aligned (or parallel) corpora in a way that could be plugged into the planned Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource project and serve as source materials for the lexicographical study of classical Asian texts.

The first two days will introduce Humanities scholars to TEI, on the third day participants will start their own encoding project with assistance from the instructors.

For registration please contact Prof. Wangchuk (dorji.wangchuk@uni-hamburg.de), for questions regarding the workshop please write to Bingenheimer (m.bingenheimer@gmail.com).

TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/

The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It
includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication.

Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing
documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects, including C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor of the XML Spec and one of the founding editors of the TEI).

If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you.

The course runs from Monday 12 July – Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 – 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee.

Questions about booking on the workshop: courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Dr James Cummings
Research Technologies Service
University of Oxford