News about the TEI-C
The deadline for nominations is September 1! Please send nominations and self-nominations to nominations@tei-c.org.
Details for submitting nominations can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/News/#tei-2010-07-13-nominations_for_tei_board_and_council_open_close_sept_1_2010
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/)
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
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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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
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.
Relevant sites:
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations
for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. Nominations should be
sent to the nomination committee at nominations@tei-c.org by September 1, 2010. Members of the nomination committee this year are Julia Flanders (chair), Markus Flatscher and Laurent Romary.
The elections will take place via electronic voting prior to the annual Members’ Meeting in November 2010.
Self-nominations are welcome and common. All nominees should provide a
brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph, and notice
that, if elected, they will be willing to serve. Example candidates’
biographies from a previous election can be found at
http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2008/mm45.xml
All nominations should include an email address for the nominee and
should indicate whether the nomination is for Board or Council.
The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is
responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The TEI-C
Council oversees the technical development of the TEI
Guidelines. Service in either group is an opportunity to help the TEI
grow and serve its members better.
For more information on the Board please see:
http://www.tei-c.org/About/board.xml
For more information on the Council please see:
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/index.xml
TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or
Council. Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be
willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI
activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or
can help it do a better job, please nominate yourself! Or, if you know
someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her.
CFP: Inaugural Issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative,
the official journal of the TEI Consortium
The TEI Board is delighted to announce a call for papers for the inaugural issue of The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. The journal will be published at least once a year with papers from the previous year’s TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting. The editors also welcome proposals from members of the community to guest-edit a special issue on a particular topic or theme of interest
for TEI scholarship, methods, or practice. This is a freely-available, open-access, peer-reviewed journal hosted by Revues.org.
For more information on the journal, see http://journal.tei-c.org/ . Detailed submission instructions will be made available at this site in the near future.For this inaugural issue, the guest editors (Syd Bauman, Kevin Hawkins, and Malte Rehbein) welcome any article that
takes as its premise the scholarly, pedagogic, or administrative concerns of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines or the Text
Encoding Initiative Consortium. Articles arising from the 2009 Conference and Members Meeting held in Ann Arbor are especially welcome.
Closing date for submissions for the inaugural issue is 30 October 2010 with publication expected late Winter 2011.
On behalf of the TEI Board,
Susan Schreibman, Editor-in-Chief
Markus Flatscher, Technical Editor
Kevin S. Hawkins, Managing Editor
TEI P5 release 1.7.0 is now available from Sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/files/ and also online at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
This release introduces significant additional features to the way in which the ODD system for TEI customization may be expressed. The new features introduced allow a customization to be expressed by inclusion (specifying only the elements it requires) rather than by exclusion (specifying the elements which it does not require). They also permit specification of a particular version of the Guidelines as source for a schema.
The MuTEC project organised a well-attended event involving many key players in the rapidly expanding community of TEI users in France. For a brief (English language) report see http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/louburnard/2010/06/tei-prospects-and-practice-in-france/. See further http://www.mutec-shs.fr/la-tei-en-france-pratiques-et-perspectives
I’m pleased to announce that the TEI-C website now has a new Newsfeed system. This should allow quicker and easier posting of news items to the TEI-C website sidebar and TEI News Page [1]. Although it appears entirely integral to the TEI-C website, it is in fact drawn from our Sourceforge project and based on a wordpress blog there to enable easier posting. As the TEI Sourceforge admins can delegate posting to the newsfeed there, it means that more volunteers will eventually be able to post news without needing access to the CMS system that the TEI website uses.
You can subscribe to an atom [2] or RSS [3] feed on the sourceforge site if you wish to consume TEI News directly.
For those interested in the technical details, what happens is that at a regular interval the Atom feed is grabbed from the Sourceforge site and then transformed (with XSLT) to some XHTML fragments of either a list of headlines or the News page content itself. These are then dynamically included in the appropriate pages inside the OpenCMS system that the TEI-C website currently uses.
I’m sure a number of bugs will rear their heads as soon as this is announced, do feel free to report them on the TEI-L list, on Sourceforge or to me directly. (Note: It is known that some of the dates are wrong on early posts, they were imported to wordpress without dates.)
Many thanks to David Sewell for his assistance with integrating this with OpenCMS.
-James Cummings
[1] http://www.tei-c.org/News/
[2] https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/feed/atom/
[3] https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/feed/
With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation‘s Scholarly Communications and Information Technology programme, and in cooperation with Apex CoVantage, LLC, a leader in content management outsourcing, the Text Encoding Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of its new AccessTEI digitization program.
AccessTEI is a digitization program that allows member institutions of the TEI to realize saving and workflow efficiencies in the outsourcing of digitization work normally available only to the largest and most active of institutions. By taking advantage of economies of scale among the TEI membership, AccessTEI is able to offer preferred pricing even on very small jobs—while still providing users with access to individual project management and Quality Assurance programs. Pricing is set by the output kilobyte, providing cost certainty.
Using the AccessTEI web portal member institutions submit work for digitization. In recognition of the fact that TEI members work with a wide variety of content, AccessTEI accepts a very wide variety of original documents from modern print to manuscript and in western and non-western character sets. An innovative pricing matrix allows users to determine the cost effectiveness of any particular job, ensuring that limited resources (including the time of skilled researchers) are applied with maximum efficiency.
Submissions to this program are encoded in TEI Tite, a special TEI-developed customization developed to ensure maximum keyboarding efficiency. Users can easily transform documents encoded in Tite into TEI P5 XML or other standard markup languages.
Contact the TEI to learn about how your project can become a member in order to take advantage of this program. Already a member? Contact us to set up your AccessTEI account.