Dear TEI Community,

Owing to some minor processing errors that were found after release 2.4.0 we have made a maintenance release today. After a long string of releases made by others outside of Oxford (to help ensure the knowledge of how to make the releases becomes inculcated in the community), for this minor maintenance release it was decided that University of Oxford’s Sebastian Rahtz would be the release technician for TEI P5 version 2.5.0 (Codename: Opération ‘de Gaulle’). Continue reading “TEI P5 2.5.0 Released” →

Dear TEI-L members,

we are pleased to announce that online registration for the TEI
Conference and Members meeting 2013 has now opened. This year’s TEI
Conference is hosted at the University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy,
with the support of AIUCD (Italian Association for Humanities
Computing and Digital Cultures) and will take place from from 2 to 5
October. As usual the Conference is preceded by three days of
workshops and tutorials from September 29 to October 2.

This year’s theme is: The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web. The
programme includes keynote lectures by Allen Renear (professor and
interim Dean at GSLIS) and Marie-Luce Demonet (professor of French
Renaissance literature and director of the Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme Val de Loire), parallel sessions of papers, the annual TEI
business meeting, a poster session/tools demonstration and slam, and
special interest group (SIG) meetings. Details about the programme, as
well as infos about accommodation and local attractions are available
in the Conference website at
http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/.

The rates and the online registration facilities are available at

http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/registration/

We hope to meet you all in Rome!

Cordially,

Fabio Ciotti & Gianfranco Crupi

Local organizers TEI Conference 2013

I am delighted to announce the publication of Issue 5 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Initiative. This special issues on TEI Infrastructures was guest edited by Tobias Blanke and Laurent Romary.

The issue contains six articles that deals with the TEI as infrastructure from several different perspectives:

* PhiloLogic4: An Abstract TEI Query System by Timothy Allen, Clovis Gladstone, and Richard Whaling;
* TAPAS: Building a TEI Publishing and Repository Service by Julia Flanders and Scott Hamlin;
* Islandora and TEI: Current and Emerging Applications/Approaches by Kirsta Stapelfeldt and Donald Moses;
* TEI and Project Bamboo by Quinn Dombrowski and Seth Denbo;
* TextGrid, TEXTvre, and DARIAH: Sustainability of Infrastructures for Textual Scholarship by Mark Hedges, Heike Neuroth, Kathleen M. Smith, Tobias Blanke, Laurent Romary, Marc Küster, and Malcolm Illingworth;
* The Evolution of the Text Encoding Initiative: From Research Project to Research Infrastructure by Lou Burnard

I would also like to publicly thank Kevin Hawkins, who has fulfilled his term of office and has stepped down as the Journal’s founding Managing Editor. Kevin’s editorial acumen, skill in establishing workflows and processes, attention to detail, and knowledge of the TEI was instrumental in establishing the journal.

I would also like to welcome Martin Holmes as the new Managing Editor. Martin began taking over Kevin’s responsibilities with this issue and I have no doubt that he will build on Kevin’s excellent work.

This is also a reminder that Issue 7 is the Journal’s first open call for articles. Articles are due 28 October, so if you were wondering what you might do over your summer holidays, this may just be the project! Details here: http://journal.tei-c.org/journal/index

Susan Schreibman
Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the TEI
http://jtei.revues.org/

CFP: Issue 7 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

Papers accepted on any theme relating to the TEI

Papers due 28 October  2013

http://journal.tei-c.org/journal

The Editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative are delighted to announce a CFP for Issue 7 of the Journal. This is an non-themed issue. We welcome a broad range of articles on any aspect of the TEI.

Submissions will be accepted in two categories: research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting new tools or services of 2000-4000 words. Both may include images and multimedia content. For further information and submission guidelines please see http://journal.tei-c.org/journal/about/submissions

Closing date for submissions is 28 October 2013. . The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is a peer-reviewed open source publication hosted by Revues.org.

We would be delighted to answer any questions about this issue. Please direct them to journal@tei-c.org

Susan Schreibman

Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

-- 
Susan Schreibman, PhD
Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland

email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie
phone: +353 1 896 3694
fax:  +353 1 671 7114

check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD
http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/

On behalf of the regular editors of the Journal of the TEI, as well as the guest editors for Issue 4, it is my great pleasure to announce the publication of selected papers from the 2011 TEI Conference held in Würzburg, Germany: http://jtei.revues.org/

The issue not only reflects the range of topics addressed at the conference, but highlights the conference theme, Philology in the Digital Age.

My thanks to all editors who made this issue possible, as well as to the authors whose work has make this issue such a success.

with all best wishes

Susan Schreibman
Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the TEI
http://jtei.revues.org/

Call for Papers, Posters and Panels

The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web

2013 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium
2-5 October 2013
Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

* Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2013
* Workshop dates (tentative): 30 September – 2 October 2012 (see separate call)

The Programme Committee of the 2013 Annual Conference and Members
Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI – http://www.tei-c.org)
Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster
sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively,
on the theme, broadly conceived, The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the
Web.

Conference website: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:

• TEI Conceptual Model
• TEI and semantic features
• TEI and formal ontologies
• TEI and semantic annotation
• TEI and the Semantic Web
• TEI schemas

Culture and scholarship

• TEI in different linguistic and cultural traditions
• TEI in libraries, archives and museums
• TEI and critical editing/text analysis/text corpora
• TEI and digital collections
• TEI and mass digitisation
• TEI and user studies

TEI Processing Model

• TEI tools (for analysis and publication) and infrastructures
• TEI and interchange
• Interoperability and integration with other technologies and standards
• TEI and visualisation

The future of the TEI

• Community and outreach
• Intellectual and technical challenges
• Social structure, sustainability and financial model

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: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample time
should be left for questions & answers after brief optional
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.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted via an online platform, the
availability of which will be announced shortly. Please submit your
proposals by March 30, 2013.

If you don’t have already one, 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. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of
750-1500 words (plus bibliography).

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 Programme Committee
Arianna Ciula

2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting Programme Committee:
Marjorie Burghart
Lou Burnard
Fabio Ciotti
Arianna Ciula (chair)
Gianfranco Crupi
Sebastian Rahtz

Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:52:08 +0000
From: “Pierazzo, Elena” <elena.pierazzo@KCL.AC.UK>
To: TEI-L@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: [TEI-L] Issue 6 of TEI Journal: deadline extended

Dear TEI Community,

It is my pleasure to communicate that the deadline for the submission of papers for Issue 6 of the TEI Journal has been extended up to the 20th of February. Issue 6 will collect selected contributions of the 2012 TEI Conference.
Please keep in mind that no further extensions will be made.

All the best
Elena and Laura

Dear TEI Community,

TEI P5 version 2.3.0 (Codename: Betty White) is now available from all the usual sources, such as the TEI-C website and SourceForge. The debian packages, TEI-C XSL, and oxygen-tei framework will be updated fairly soon. This release introduces both textual and schema-related changes, new features and a significant number of bug fixes. Mostly these are based on bug and feature request tickets submitted to SourceForge by the TEI community. If you notice anything that has changed in error, or want to submit additional changes, please do so on the http://tei.sf.net/ website.

We have continued in our aim of opening up the release process to as many different people on Council and in this case the newly elected Hugh Cayless (NYU Digital Library Technology Services) was the release technician. Able assistance was also given by several other council members on the TEI IRC channel (see http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/IRC for more information). As always this has produced a set of notes for how to improve the release process that will be fed back into http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw22.xml for future releases. The greatest thanks are due not only to the TEI Technical Council for undertaking the work, but the TEI community for submitting tickets!

A text version of the release notes is below, but a version (with links) is available at: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.3.0.html

Many thanks to all,

James Cummings
(TEI Technical Council Chair)
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This version of the TEI introduces new features and resolves a number of issues raised by the TEI community. As always, the majority of these changes and corrections are a consequence of feature requests or bugs reported by the TEI community, using the SourceForge tracking system. If you find something you think needs to change in the TEI Guidelines, schemas, tools, or website, please submit a feature request or bug ticket at http://tei.sf.net/ for consideration.

Since the last release (25 October 2012), the TEI Technical Council has closed 93 tickets entered in the SourceForge tracking system. During the same period 77 new tickets have been opened by the community according to https://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/stats/tracker?tracker=&dates=2012-10-25+to+2013-01-17.

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TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 will take place in at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. The local committee is chaired by Fabio Ciotti, on behalf of the AIUCD – the Italian Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, in collaboration with the research Centre DIGILAB Sapienza. The Programme Committee is chaired by Arianna Ciula. News about the Call for Papers will follow shortly.

The Conference and Members’ Meeting will take place from 2 to 5 October, will start with the usual wealth of workshop (CFP to follow) and will include SIG meetings. Please save the date!

It is indeed our great pleasure to be able to hold our annual conference in Italy and in particular in Rome, where the use of TEI has been strong since the TEI’s early days and I really hope many of you will be able to come and enjoy the delights of a rich and vibrant the intellectual environment, the extraordinary artistic treasures of of the Eternal City and the legendary food (I can personally vouch for all of the above!).

—
Dr Elena Pierazzo
Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Department in Digital Humanities
King’s College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Phone: 0207-848-1949
Fax: 0207-848-2980
elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh