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Available position: Assistant webmaster for the TEI Consortium

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The TEI Consortium seeks nominations for an assistant webmaster to be appointed by the Board of Directors through December 2016. This person will work with the webmaster (currently Kevin Hawkins) to manage the TEI’s website and email lists hosted on that site, and to assist with archiving conference websites, email lists, and other noteworthy content developed outside of the TEI’s web infrastructure. We are also seeking someone who can help with a task force investigating upgrading or replacing the CMS used for the TEI website.

The time commitment is intermittent, but it’s essential that the incumbent:
* have some experience or aptitude with command-line tools, mailing list administration, and similar light technical skills
* be detail-oriented
* be easy to reach by email

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CFP: Issue 9 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative: 2014 Conference Issue (Second Call)

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CFP: Issue 9 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative: 2014 Conference Issue

Submission deadline: May 31, 2015.

The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (JTEI, <http://jtei.revues.org/>) is now soliciting contributions for its 2014 Conference Issue. We invite all presenters from the 2014 Conference in Evanston to submit articles based on their presentations through the submission process on journal.tei-c.org:

<http://journal.tei-c.org/journal/author/submit/1>

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TEI Simple Workshop, Oxford, May 27 2015

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Working with TEI Simple and its Processing Model

Wednesday, May 27th 2015 9:30-17:30

IT Services, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, OX2 6NN Oxford

 

Do you work with collections of early-modern and modern printed material encoded in TEI or support people who do? Do you struggle with transformations from TEI to publication formats?

Are you interested in how TEI Simple can help you process your documents and document your publishing choices?

Come and learn how to apply the TEI Simple processing model to your data under the guidance of TEI SIMPLE experts. Check if you can achieve your publishing goals within a TEI Simple infrastructure.

We will give a basic introduction to the rationale behind TEI Simple and the tools that have been developed, and then spend the rest of the day working through participant’s material and texts from TEI Simple reference corpora.

The goal of the workshop is to test the TEI Simple framework on real life projects and with real editors, assessing not only whether it is complete and powerful enough, but also how easy it is to use for editors and developers working with TEI documents.

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TEI Hackathon at DH2015 (reminder)

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TEI Hackathon at DH2015: Building Tools for TEI Collections

The TEI Consortium is sponsoring a Hackathon at DH2015 on 29 June 2015. To register for the Hackathon you must first submit a brief application at http://tinyurl.com/tei-hackathon-dh2015 prior to registering for the ‘workshop’ on thehttp://dh2015.org/ website. You’ll be notified by 15 May (if not before) of your acceptance on the hackathon.

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JTEI issue 8: new batch of articles now published

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Issue 8 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (Selected Papers from the 2013 TEI Conference) is being published on a “rolling” basis as articles are completed. A second batch of articles just appeared within this issue:

Susanne Haaf, Alexander Geyken, and Frank Wiegand:
The DTA “Base Format”: A TEI Subset for the Compilation of a Large Reference Corpus of Printed Text from Multiple Sources
António Rito Silva and Manuel Portela:
TEI4LdoD: Textual Encoding and Social Editing in Web 2.0 Environments

Øyvind Eide:

Ontologies, Data Modeling, and TEI

<http://jtei.revues.org/1191>

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TEI Hackathon at DH2015

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TEI Hackathon at DH2015: Building Tools for TEI Collections

The TEI Consortium is sponsoring a Hackathon at DH2015 on 29 June 2015. To register for the Hackathon you must first submit a brief application at http://tinyurl.com/tei-hackathon-dh2015 prior to registering for the ‘workshop’ on the http://dh2015.org/ website. You’ll be notified by 15 May (if not before) of your acceptance on the hackathon.

The Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) are widely used for creating resources, but there is little standardisation across multiple projects for querying, searching, and analysing TEI-encoded texts. Developers unfamiliar with the TEI often approach the development of TEI processing systems either with trepidation or ignorance of  potential complications. This unconference-style Hackathon is open either to developers with very little TEI experience (but significant programming skills) or experts in the TEI (with a little programming experience), or people who have both. It is not a training workshop!

There is no charge for those attending this day-long workshop, but you will be expected to work in groups to program something useful. Applications to join the Hackathon should be completed online http://tinyurl.com/tei-hackathon-dh2015 at before 1 May. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 15 May. Late applications will be considered if there is space.

TEI P5 Guidelines version 2.8.0 released

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The TEI Consortium has released the TEI P5 Guidelines version 2.8.0 (Codename: Winking Petrarca). This release includes new elements and recommendations for the description of correspondence and resolves many community-submitted bugs and feature requests.

Our release technician was Raffaele Viglianti (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, UMD). Raff’s work has produced possibly the quickest release in TEI history, with able assistance from members of the TEI Council, especially James Cummings and Martin Holmes, and with help from former Council member Sebastian Rahtz.

All are encouraged to report bugs and make feature requests for changes to the Guidelines via theSourceForge site http://tei.sf.net/. This is how the Council knows what aspects of the Guidelines need working on, and we cannot do without your input! The software of the TEI Consortium such as the Stylesheets and Roma are managed on GitHub at https://github.com/TEIC/. Any software issues should be reported there. The updated version of the TEI Guidelines is available from all the usual places (such as the TEI website http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html and the SourceForge site <http://tei.sf.net/>). Sebastian Rahtz has released version 7.34.0 of the TEI Stylesheets (available at https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets). The oxygen-tei package and TEI debian packages have been updated separately and may be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/files/. The TEI P5 version 2.8.0 release notes are below, and are also available at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.8.0.html.
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Call for Workshops: TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference 2015

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Text Encoding Initiative: connect, animate, innovate

2015 Annual Members’ Meeting and Conference of the TEI Consortium

 

Call for Workshops and Seminars

26–27 October 2015

Lyon, France

Deadline: Monday 4 May 2015

Submissions: meeting@tei-c.org

 

We invite proposals for workshops and seminars for the 15th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI—http://www.tei-c.org). This annual event is an excellent opportunity to share expertise in the TEI, and to convene working group discussions.

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity for participants to work together on TEI-related topics. They are open to all delegates of the TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference.

Seminars

Seminars offer training to participants in the TEI, or aspects of it. They are led by experts.

Proposals

Please get in touch with the Programme Committee (meeting@tei-c.org) to discuss your proposal as early as possible. We are happy to work with you to develop the idea.

 

Proposals for workshops and seminars must include:

  • Brief outline of the proposed topic
  • Duration of the proposed workshop or seminar
  • Requirements, e.g. computers for participants, projector, flipchart
  • Brief description of the proposed workshop’s or seminar’s appeal to the TEI community, including potential participant target groups
  • List of proposed workshop or seminar leader(s), with brief a biography each

 

Acceptances will be notified by Friday 29 May 2015.

Papers, Panels, Posters, and Demonstrations

A call for papers, panels, posters, and demonstrations has also been published.

Contact

meeting@tei-c.org

 

On behalf of the Programme Committee

Pip Willcox

 

2015 TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference Programme Committee

Anne Baillot

Peter Boot

Marjorie Burghart

James Cummings

Orietta Da Rold

Martin de la Iglesia

Franz Fischer

Stéfanie Gehrke

Mathias Goebel

Susanne Haaf

Serge Heiden

Emmanuelle Morlock

Martin Mueller

Kiyonori Nagasaki

Suzanne Paul

Dot Porter

Judith Siefring

Pip Willcox (chair)

Adam Wyner

 

Call for Papers: TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference 2015

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Text Encoding Initiative: connect, animate, innovate

2015 Annual Members’ Meeting and Conference of the TEI Consortium


Call for Papers, Panels, Posters, and Demonstrations

28–31 October 2015

Lyon, France

Deadline: Monday 4 May 2015

Submissions: https://www.conftool.net/tei2015/


We invite proposals for individual papers, panel sessions, posters, and demonstrations for the 15th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI—http://www.tei-c.org).


The power of the TEI is realized in interactions, between texts, between programs, between practices, and between members of its community. This theme invites considerations of technical and social applications and approaches, both to the practice of encoding and to the development of local and international communities of use. It includes training in the TEI and related areas, for example incorporating the digital into traditional forms of editing. It addresses integration of TEI-encoded texts at scale, for example in libraries and large corpora, and acknowledges that new research questions and external developments require continuous innovation.


Possible Topics

This list is not exclusive.

  • Connecting the TEI
    • TEI across corpora, languages, and cultures
    • TEI, formal ontologies and the Semantic Web
    • TEI and beyond: interactions, interchange, integrations and interoperability
    • TEI in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
  • Animating the TEI
    • TEI outreach, within and between communities of practice
    • TEI, editors, readers, collaborators
    • TEI and sustainability
    • TEI and visualization
  • Innovating with the TEI
  • TEI tools for analysis, publication, and infrastructures
  • TEI environments
  • TEI at scale
  • TEI, refinement, simplification, and extension

Submissions

All submissions should include a title, the abstract(s), a brief biography of all the author(s)/speaker(s), and up to five keywords.


Word counts apply to the text of the abstract, excluding titles, biographies and keywords.

Individual papers

Speakers will be given 30 minutes each: 20 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should not exceed 300 words.

Panel sessions

Panels will be given 1.5 hours, which can be used flexibly to include, for example, 3 individual papers followed by questions, or a roundtable discussion. Panel proposals must include a list of speakers. Proposals for 3 papers should not exceed 3 x 300 words, plus a 200-word introduction. Proposals for discussion panels should not exceed 600 words.

Posters and demonstrations

A dedicated poster session will provide poster or tool presenters with tables, poster boards, and wireless Internet access. Proposals for posters or tool demonstrations should not exceed 300 words.

Workshops

Workshops will be held before the conference, 26-27 October 2015. If you are interested in running a workshop at the Conference, please see the Call for Workshops.

Working groups

If you are interested in holding a working group meeting during the Conference, please contact the local hosts to book a room, meeting@tei-c.org.

Language

Proposals may be submitted in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Accepted proposals will be asked to provide an abstract in English. If you need help with this, please contact the programme committee for advice. Presentations may be given in English or French.

Submission Procedure

Proposals must be submitted online, uploading them to https://www.conftool.net/tei2015/. You will need a (free) account to submit a proposal. All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the Programme Committee.


The deadline for submissions is Monday 4 May 2015.

Acceptances will be notified by Friday 29 May 2015.

Conference Proceedings

Conference papers and posters will be considered for inclusion in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Contact

meeting@tei-c.org


On behalf of the Programme Committee

Pip Willcox


2015 TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference Programme Committee

Anne Baillot

Peter Boot

Marjorie Burghart

James Cummings

Orietta Da Rold

Martin de la Iglesia

Franz Fischer

Stéfanie Gehrke

Mathias Goebel

Susanne Haaf

Serge Heiden

Emmanuelle Morlock

Martin Mueller

Kiyonori Nagasaki

Suzanne Paul

Dot Porter

Judith Siefring

Pip Willcox (chair)

Adam Wyner


Call for hosts: TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference for 2016

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[Posted on behalf of Dr Elena Pierazzo by Paul O’Shea, TEI social media coordinator.]
Dear TEI Community,

This is a public call for bids to host the annual TEI Members Meeting and conference for 2016. Meetings have traditionally been held in the fall. The last two meetings were held in Rome (2013: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/)  and Chicago (2014 http://tei.northwestern.edu/); this year it will be held in Lyon. The site of the meeting has typically alternated between Europe and North America, but that is not a fixed rule.

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