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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:

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

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)

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

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

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

InterFace 2011 — 27-29 July 2011, University College London

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:

• social network analysis
• bibliographic software
• data visualisation
• linked data

There will be talks on:

• user studies and social research
• discourse analysis in science and technology
• how to get your work published
• how to apply for research funding

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:

• Steven Scrivener (University of Arts London) Design research and creative production
• Melissa Terras (UCL) Digitisation of cultural heritage and image processing

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 are now seeking applications for participation in InterFace. 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 deadline for applications is Friday 25 February 2011.

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 25 February Deadline for applications
• Friday 1 April Notification of successful applications
• Monday 18 April Deadline for registration for successful applicants
• Monday 27 July InterFace 2011 begins

The first version, a beta version, of the digital archive of Edvard Munch’s texts is now online at http://www.emunch.no/

The archive is primarily in Norwegian, but we have start pages in English, French and German (links on flags in the top of the page, in the front page’s main part and in the red menu, so hopefully you’ll manage to find your way). The general information in French and German is limited, I’m afraid, but we will provide more in due time. The texts, mostly letters, written by Munch himself in French and German are directly accessible from the French and German pages. We provide translations in English and French of some of Munch’s texts.

The encoding guidelines we have used are available in English, cf. the English page. There are also a few articles in English on Munch related themes. Guidelines for transcribing Munch’s texts in French and German are available in French and German alongside articles discussing Munch’s use of French and German.

The general guidelines for transcribing Munch’s texts will be translated to English in due time. Eventually we will also provide a list of terms used to categorize Munch’s texts in Norwegian – English – French – German, to facilitate browsing even though the archive is in Norwegian. We hope to be able in the years to come to supply the archive with even more resources in English, French and German.

We also plan to provide some information on the technical aspects of the website. In short, the website is built using Apache Cocoon and the eXist XML database. It is currently hosted by the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo.

We are happy to answer questions and hope to receive feedback from you.

Thank you!

Kind regards, Hilde Bøe

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Hilde Bøe
Scholarly and Technical Editor

hilde.boe@munch.museum.no | hildeboee@gmail.com
http://emunch.no/
http://www.munch.museum.no/

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that Martin Mueller has been elected to be the next Chair and CEO of the TEI.

Martin will be taking over during a time of great transition as the TEI changes to a fully democratic board and administrative structure.

Martin will be assuming the chair’s role effective immediately in programme activity (e.g. on Council and on the Conference programme commitee). I will continue to lead on business and administrative matters until March 1, at which point Martin will take over all duties as Chair and CEO of the Consortium.

Daniel O’Donnell