Category: News

As in the previous years, the Programme Committee for the TEI Conference and Members Meeting in Zadar(Croatia) has reserved some slots on the program for late breaking submissions.  These are submissions that do not undergo the peer review process and thus not (automatically) qualify for inclusion in the conference proceedings, but otherwise the requirements and proposal formats are very similar; details can be found at the conference web page.

The start of submissions will probably be at the beginning of August and will be announced here as well, today’s message is just to inform you of this possibility, which will come as a relief to those who missed the deadline of the first round of submissions, but still would like to have a chance to contribute to the program of the meeting.

There will also be an exciting slate of pre-conference workshops to be announced really soon now, so please watch this space, or the conference website for further information.

For the programme commmittee,

Christian Wittern, Kyoto

The 2010 Conference and Members’ Meeting will be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia. Proposals for papers are due by 1 May; proposals for pre-conference workshops are due 31 March. Please see the conference website for details.

Show your support for the TEI! Add a button to your website indicating your use of the TEI in your work.

Publicising your use of the TEI is an important part of ensuring the continuing viability of the TEI community and the TEI’s profile within your discipline. The code snippets associated with each button direct users to the TEI website, encouraging your visitors and colleagues to investigate the use of the TEI for their own digital work.

In contrast to buttons published by organisations like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), these TEI buttons do not make any specific claims about how the TEI is being used by a project. The TEI is used in so many different ways by so many different organisations that it would be next-to-impossible to establish a series of buttons associated with a specific validation programme or to describe specific types of usage. For us, it is enough that you use the TEI in your project.

With great pleasure, the TEI announces the launch of its new Webstore and Members Centre (http://www.tei-shop.org/). For the
first time this will allow members to subscribe to the TEI as individuals and
register for the annual conference online, using a credit card.

The 2009 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium will be held November 11-15, 2009 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The program, organized around the theme “Text encoding in the era of mass digitization,” will feature keynote lectures, parallel sessions, the annual TEI business meeting, a poster session/tools demonstration and slam, and Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings.

For more information, visit the conference website.

Please direct all inquiries to tei-meeting-2009@umich.edu.

The Vesta desktop TEI processor is now available. Vesta is a simple Java desktop application which lets you run conversions on TEI files.
It understands what to do with ODD files, and can generate schemas and documentation. It can process simple
TEI XML files and make HTML, LaTeX, FO and Word 2007 .docx output.

A MacOS version can be downloaded from

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106328&package_id=298013

and Debian/Ubuntu users can pick up a “tei-vesta” package by adding the right APT source to their local setup (see
http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/).
The source is available on
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/
Sourceforge.

Print copies of the P5 Guidelines are now available. The two volume set, which is particularly suitable for reference and use within the lab, has a retail
price of $150.00 USD + Shipping and handling. Current Members and Subscribers may purchase the Guidelines at cost ($120.00 + shipping
and handling)) using a special discount code. In addition, Members receive one free copy of the Guidelines as a
Membership Benefit.

• Read more about the P5 Guidelines…
• Read more about becoming a member or subscriber of the TEI…
• Go to the TEI Guidelines Webstore…

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI http://www.tei-c.org/) has released
answers to
vendor questions submitted as part of Requests for Proposals (RFP) competition for the provision of digitization services as a
benefit to its institutional members.

The answers, with a link to survey data on our membership, can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Admin/RFP_Answers.xml.

For further information please contact digitization@tei-c.org

Changes made are listed briefly in date order at

http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-1.3.html
. Where
further discussion of the change is available in the SF bug tracker,
the ticket number is indicated in parentheses in the list.

New versions of Roma (3.7) and the XSL stylesheets (5.15) accompany this release, and can be found in the same locations listed above.
and are in the same places as given for P5.

Text Encoding in the Era of Mass
Digitization: 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium
November 11-15, 2009. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/)

Traditionally, the
TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting has been preceded by educational workshops.
The goal of these workshops is to give members of the TEI community an
opportunity to learn more about the use of the TEI markup under the guidance of
experienced instructors and practitioners. In the past such workshops have
ranged from a basic introduction to the use of TEI markup to more specialized
sessions on specific aspects of the TEI or its use in specific domains. They
have ranged in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two
days. Workshops are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of
participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the workshop.

We are now soliciting proposals for workshops for the 2009 Conference
and Members’ Meeting, to be held November 11-15 in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA).
Workshops are distinct from other conference activities, such as papers,
sessions, and Special Interest Group meetings. They should be educational in
focus and propose topics that are likely to be of interest to recognizable
segments of the TEI community […]