The Program Committee of the 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites proposals for papers, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on the theme “Text encoding in the era of mass digitization.”

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:

• In-depth encoding vs. mass digitization
• Is text encoding sustainable?
• Is text encoding scalable?
• Using TEI to create:
  • scholarly editions
  • hybrid publications (digital and print)
  • databases and other resources
• Tools that create and process TEI data
• TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards
• TEI as:
  • metadata standard
  • interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data
• TEI and its contribution to digital scholarship
• TEI and markup theory
• Learning the TEI
• The future of the TEI
• When not to use the TEI

In addition, we are seeking P5 micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on the topic “How I’ve customized TEI encoding to meet my needs.”

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.

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: 3–6 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 will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

P5 micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by 18 May 2009.

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 session proposals (including tool demonstrations):
  • Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the “Abstract” field.
  • Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted.
• P5 micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper except that the abstract should be no more than 300 words.
• Panel sessions:
  • The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 800 words in the “Abstract” field.
  • The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above.
  The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Conference submissions will be considered for a conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process for the conference proceedings will be forthcoming.