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Dear TEI Community,

I am delighted to announce that the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) has been awarded a multi-million Euro European grant for investigating the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. The TEI Consortium was involved in and supported this application and I am proud for the TEI to have been included in such an outstanding group of partners. Continue reading “Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT)” →

EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 22-25, 2013

We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation.

EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a set of guidelines for using TEI XML for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient documentary texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online and Curse Tablets from Roman Britain, Pandektis (inscriptions of Macedonia and Thrace), and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML and markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object description in EpiDoc as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor (papyri.info/editor).

No technical skills are required to apply, but a working knowledge of Greek or Latin, epigraphy or papyrology and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors or professionals.

To apply for a place on this workshop please email gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday March 1st, 2013.

CFP: Issue 6 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

Selected Papers from the 2012 TEI Conference and Members Meeting Papers due 30 January 2013
http://journal.tei-c.org/journal

Issue 6 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative will be selected papers from the 2012 TEI Conference held at Texas A&M. Any paper, poster, demonstration that was presented at the 2012 conference can be submitted to this issue.

Submissions will be accepted in two categories: research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting poster sessions, lightning presentations, or 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 30 January 2012. This issue will be guest edited by Laura Mandell and Elena Pierazzo. The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is a peer-reviewed open source publication hosted by Revues.org.

Any questions about this issue should be directed to journal-guest-editors-6@tei-c.org

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

Call for TAPAS test data

Do you have TEI data and an adventurous spirit? The TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS http://www.tapasproject.org) is seeking participants to help us test early versions of the TAPAS service, now under development with generous funding from the IMLS and NEH. Over time, TAPAS will provide a full set of repository and publishing services for TEI projects. In the first year, our goal is to permit contributors to upload TEI files and associated data to a Fedora repository, create metadata, and perform basic file management.

Here’s how beta-testers and test contributors can help during the course of the coming year:

1. Immediately, we are gathering sample TEI data for use as we develop the TAPAS internal schemas and stylesheets. If you’re interested in using the TAPAS service to store or publish TEI data (or even if you’d just like to help out), we’d like to know more about your data. Sign up below and send us some samples!

2. In fall 2012, we will be testing the submission and ingestion interface. We will need test contributors with TEI data willing to upload it to TAPAS and tell us how we can improve the process.

3. In fall 2012, we will be working on documentation and will need readers who can help us identify areas that need explanation, and help us clarify difficult points.

4. Throughout the development process, we’ll be glad of thoughtful test users of all kinds interested in being part of a “virtual focus group.”

We welcome participants willing to help with any or all of these activities. Even if you don’t have any TEI data right now, but will have some soon, we would be glad to hear from you. And if you’d just like to be kept on our mailing list for when we start recruiting TAPAS members, you can sign up for that as well.

A few caveats are important here. Our long-term goal is to provide a fully functional repository and publishing service for TEI data. However, in this phase of the project we are building and testing the service in a very preliminary way. Data contributed by beta-testers will be used for testing purposes to help us develop schemas, stylesheets, and interface features, but we cannot make any guarantees about functionality, long-term storage, or anything else at this early stage. Test data and projects will be visible (and visibly thanked!) on the TAPAS site.

To express your interest, please register here: http://bit.ly/ufjOFO. For more information, please contact us at info@tapasproject.org.

Thanks and best wishes on behalf of the TAPAS team,

Julia Flanders, Brown University
Scott Hamlin, Wheaton College