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The September 1 application deadline is coming soon for:

Taking TEI Further: Transforming and Publishing TEI Data
Brown University, December 10-12, 2012
Application deadline: September 1, 2012

Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.

XSLT is a crucial tool for those working with the TEI, both as a key part of any XML publication system and also as a technology for manipulating and managing XML data. As a programming language that can be used to transform XML data into other formats, it is immensely powerful and also comparatively approachable for those already familiar with XML. For individual scholars and librarians (who may not have access to technical support or programmer time), XSLT can be a remarkably enabling skill, making it possible for them to create usable output in a variety of formats, including HTML, formats used by visualization software, and even PDF. The challenge for digital humanists is not in finding XSLT resources; because it is such an important technology, there are numerous tutorials online and workshops available. However, these materials and events are almost universally aimed at an industry audience, rather than at humanities scholars. What we seek to do in these seminars is provide an introduction to XSLT that is aimed at a scholarly audience, using examples from real humanities data and approaching the topic from the perspective of those who may be familiar with the TEI and XML, but not with other programming languages. This seminar will provide participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. We will also help participants learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.

These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants’ projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants may present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, and get advice on thorny problems. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed.

To apply, please visit
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/neh_advanced_application.html

Best wishes, Julia

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Brown University

NISO/DCMI August webinar announcement

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NISO/DCMI Webinar: “International Bibliographic Standards, Linked Data, and the Impact on Library Cataloging”
DATE: 24 August 2011
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT (17:00-19:30 UTC)
REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/dcmi/linked
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is responsible for the development and maintenance of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), UNIMARC, and the “Functional Requirements” family for bibliographic records (FRBR), authority data (FRAD), and subject authority data (FRSAD). ISBD underpins the MARC family of formats used by libraries world-wide for many millions of catalog records, while FRBR is a relatively new model optimized for users and the digital environment. These metadata models, schemas, and content rules are now being expressed in the Resource Description Framework language for use in the Semantic Web.

This webinar provides a general update on the work being undertaken. It describes the development of an Application Profile for ISBD to specify the sequence, repeatability, and mandatory status of its elements. It discusses issues involved in deriving linked data from legacy catalogue records based on monolithic and multi-part schemas following ISBD and FRBR, such as the duplication which arises from copy cataloging and FRBRization. The webinar provides practical examples of deriving high-quality linked data from the vast numbers of records created by libraries, and demonstrates how a shift of focus from records to linked-data triples can provide more efficient and effective user-centered resource discovery services.

SPEAKERS:

Gordon Dunsire is a freelance consultant with 25 years of experience working in academic libraries and ten years in digital library research. He is a member of IFLA’s ISBD/XML Study Group and FRBR Review Group, and he chairs the IFLA Namespaces Task Group. He is currently a member of a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer (Communications, Research and Development) of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, was recently co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and currently co-chairs a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

REGISTRATION:

For registration and webinar technical information, see http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/dcmi/linked.  Registration closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on 24 August 2011.  Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the site following the live webinar.  Registrants will
receive access information to the archived webinar following the event. An e-mail message containing archive access instructions will be sent within 48 hours of the event.

Are you able to code TEI files into an EPUB file using only XML standards like XProc and XSLT 2.0?

What is the challenge?

Develop an XProc pipeline in which a TEI encoded Multatuli book is converted to a valid EPUB file that can be sent to a book publisher/distributor like Centraal Boekhuis.

The intention is to prepare the book Millioenen-studiën by Multatuli for electronic publication by Centraal Boekhuis. The Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL) has made a source file available that must be converted into an ePUB file that meets the requirements of Centraal Boekhuis. The book contains running text, but also pictures, footnotes, and some tables.

What can I win?

There are two prizes:

The first prize consists of:

• A visit to a leading International XML Conference
• A beautiful certificate
• The title of “Open Standards Developer 2011”

The winner will also present his or her application during the XMLHolland Annual Conference (XMLAmsterdam 2011).

The second prize winner will receive a free pass to the XML Holland conference.

What do the judges expect?

We expect you to use (at least) XProc and XSLT 2.0. These standards claim to offer extensive opportunities to develop applications for processing XML files. With this competition, we challenge you to show whether these standards are actually suitable for developing a complete XML application. Or is a real programming language still required?

Using a programming language besides XSLT 2.0 is allowed, but the less programming done in other languages, the more the solution will be appreciated. The goal is a solution based entirely on open standards.

We will judge the entries on the application of the standards, the code and performance. Obviously the output files should be valid EPUB files. They must in any case easily open in Adobe Digital Editions. We will validate the files with EpubCheck 1.2, the same validation that is required by Centraal Boekhuis. Furthermore, the panel will also evaluate the quality of the e-books. Do they look good, do internal links work, is the front cover shown, how are foot- and endnotes dealt with, are the pictures in the right place, is the table of contents correct and is the metadata present?

What should I deliver?

Turn in your solution with the output, the source code and instructions that will enable the judges to create the EPUB themselves using your program.

When should I deliver?

Send in submissions by Oct. 19, 2011 to voorzitter@xmlholland.nl

Who are the judges? The panel consists of experts with a proven track record in the open standards community. For
XMLHolland Code Challenge 2011, the following people will be judges:

• Patrick Steenvoorden, manager Digitale Diensten at Centraal Boekhuis
• Irsan Widarto, co-founder and CTO of X-Hive, now Director of XML Engineering at EMC
• René van Stipriaan, co-founder of Digitale database voor de Nederlandse Letteren (www.dbnl.org)
• Bas Peters, solutions architect at VLC and experienced developer and architect in the world of XML, Open Standards and Open Source
• Sebastian Rahtz, Information Manager of Oxford University Computing Services and XML expert, especially TEI

Registration is now open for the Brown University Women Writers Project’s summer and fall workshops on topics in TEI and digital humanities:

http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands-on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer an opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory
setting.

More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration.

All workshops are held at Brown University. Space is limited so please register early.

July 20-22, 2011
Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities
Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

August 29-31, 2011
Introduction to TEI Customization
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

September 26-28, 2011
Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

December 5-7, 2011
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

We hope to see you in Providence!

best wishes, Julia

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library
http://www.wwp.brown.edu
http://library.brown.edu/cds/

Proposals for Late-breaking News presentations at Balisage are due June 10th.

http://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html

The peer-reviewed part of the Balisage 2011 program has been scheduled (http://www.balisage.net/2011/Program.html). A few slots have been reserved for presentation of “Late-breaking” material.  In order to be in serious contention for addition to the final program, your proposal should be either:

a) really late-breaking (it reports on something that happened in the last month or two) or
b) a well-developed paper, an extended paper proposal, or a very long abstract with references on a topic related to Markup and not already on the 2011 conference program.

The competition for late-breaking slots is fiercer than for regular peer-reviewed papers. Now is the time to start writing or to encourage someone you want to hear from at Balisage to get to work.

For more information see: http://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html

or send email to: info@balisage.net

This is a reminder that we are running a comprehensive 5 day Summer School in Digital Humanities this summer.
It takes place from July 25th-29th, at Oxford University Computing Services and Wolfson College.

The summer school introduces a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities.

Please visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/ for details.

The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS),Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of Sebastian Rahtz and Dr James Cummings at OUCS.

The programme will consist of:

• Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS
• Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice
• Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects

Our guest plenary speakers for this year include:

David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC
Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru
John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC
Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria

Topics include:
• Best practice for digital linguistic corpora
• Building queryable document-based websites
• Creating community collections and digital outreach
• Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI
• Working with maps
• Critical apparatus and digital genetic editions in TEI
• Database design for humanities projects
• Digital Images for the Humanities
• Digital library technologies and best practice
• Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability.
• Introduction to copyright and open licensing
• Introduction to document/project modelling
• Introduction to XML databases
• Managing Digital Humanities Projects
• Practical RDF modelling and conversion
• Publishing XML files using XSLT
• RDF querying and visualization
• TEI for linking text and facsimiles
• Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora
• Visualization using jQuery
• Working with audio files
NOTE: Early Bird registration discounts end on 16 May!

‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ One-Day Symposium
5th September 2011, King’s College London

The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography.

In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could include:

•       Project reports and/or demonstrations
•       Palaeographical method; ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography
•       Quantitative and qualitative approaches
•       ‘Scientific’ methods, ‘objectivity’ and the role of evidence in manuscript studies
•       Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data
•       Interface design and querying of palaeographical material

To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 8th May 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 20th May 2011.
—
Dr Stewart J Brookes
Research Associate
Digital Resource for Palaeography
King’s College London

Rare Book School is currently accepting applications for XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts, taught by David Seaman. The course is a practical exploration of the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with a special focus on Special Collections materials. This course is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, scholarly communication, or teaching purposes.

The week will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images (texts such as 18th and 19th century letters, which are short enough to allow each participant to take an entire document through all its creation stages during the course). Topics include: XML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines; Unicode; metadata issues (including a discussion of METS and Open Archives Initiative harvesting), project planning and funding; and the manipulation of XML texts using stylesheets for re-publishing HTML, in ebook formats, and in PDF.

Applicants need to have some experience with the tagging of HTML documents. In their personal statement, they should assess the extent of their present knowledge of the electronic environment, and outline a project to which they hope to apply the skills learned in this course.

The course takes place 4-8 July in Charlottesville, VA. Applications are available online at http://www.rarebookschool.org/applications/

[This course is a revised version of “Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images”, which ran from 1995-2009.]

Digital humanists are invited to participate in the third annual Day of Digital Humanities, a project tracking 24 hours in the field of digital humanities. On March 18th, 2011 individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day with photos and discussion.

This project is an online collaborative publication, with each participant co-authoring and decisions made communally. However, participating in the Day of DH shouldn’t require a large time commitment. Most of the work will be in uploading short entries and photographs during the documentation day. The degree of involvement beyond that will be up to you. To find out about this interaction and the previous two iterations of the Day of Digital Humanities see:

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011

This project is intended to bring members of all types and from around the field together to post about what they do and reflect on what others are doing. We particularly encourage graduate students, developers and international colleagues to participate. You don’t have to be “important”; you don’t have to write in English; and you don’t have to have a lot of experience in the field. Your opinions count!

To participate please fill out the application form by March 15th, 2011.

Apply now at http://bit.ly/DoDH11-apply

And mark the 18th of March down for the next Day of Digital Humanities.

Yours,

Geoffrey Rockwell