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Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars

15 December 2010

Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague in conjunction with the conference “Text & Literacy” (16-17 December)

Proposals due 30 September 2010

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts—electronic books being just one type of many—that must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

The gathering is offered in conjunction with the Text & Literacy conference (16-17 December) and is sponsored by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments research group.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal.  Please send proposals before 30 September 2010 to siemens@uvic.ca.

On behalf of the TEI Education SIG, I am pleased to announce preliminary dissemination of “An Interview with Julia Flanders.”

To ensure that anyone who may wish to access the piece for teaching (or other) purposes can do so even before the work finds a more permanent home, the interviewee has graciously granted me permission to share it informally via blog post. The related links (including a brief, informal introduction; the questions; the transcript and podcast; and the TEI-XML version) can be found on the TEI Education SIG wiki page.

As indicated in the interview introduction, Julia’s comments are thought-provoking and profoundly significant, the kind that urgently warrant dissemination, but I hope nonetheless that they will come to represent only one part of a larger, ongoing conversation about TEI and DH.

Questions, comments, suggestions, etc. are warmly welcomed —

With best wishes,
Stephanie Schlitz

1. Participation is invited in the conference “Information Technologies and Textual Heritage: El’Manuscript-10”,  which will be held October 25-28, 2010 at the Bashkir State Pedagogical University (Ufa). Conference information is available at http://textualheritage.org/content/view/328/156/lang,english/

Note: the following announcements all link to Russian-language sites.

2.The  e-journal Information Technologies and Textual Heritage (http://journal.textualheritage.org/) is acceptng articles and materials for their first issues. I invite you and your colleagues to become authors of the magazine.

3. The journal Intelligent Systems in Industry, included in the 2010 list of journals of the Higher Attestation Commission and the database of the Russian citation index (http://elibrary.ru/titles.asp), is accepting articles for publication on the subject of “Computational linguistics”. For submission information you can contact me.

Viktor Baranov, Izhevsk State Technical University
victor.a.baranov@gmail.com

Bursary Announcement
Interedition Workshop  at the National Library of Israel, 6-7 October

The ESF COST Action Interedition is delighted to offer several bursaries for a workshop to be held at the National Library of Israel, 6-7 October 2010.

The goal of Interedition is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. Equally, Interedition seeks to raise the awareness of the importance of sustainability of the digital artefacts and instruments we create. To this end, Intereditions is hosting this workshop at the National Library of Israel to explore the tools, methodologies, and approaches to better support a shared model for the creation of sustainable infrastructure for digital text.

Applications are being accepted for bursaries for early stage researchers to attend this two-day event which will include lectures by leading textual scholars (including Dirk Van Hulle, Fotis Jannidis, Susan Schreibman, and Joris van Zundert) The first day will focus on lectures on topics ranging from the creation and futures of digital scholarly editions, to the tools being used to create and edit them. The second day will be hands-on centering on practical experience in using tools and methodologies central to the discipline, including TEI, eLaborate, and CollateX. On day II attendees will participate in a project slam and there will be ample opportunity to discuss their editing projects with workshop facilitators.

To apply for busaries, candidates must be:

• an emerging scholar, which is defined by the ESF as someone who has not been in an established position for more than five years, with exceptions for parental, medical, and national service leaves. The ESF notes that ‘students, post-doctorate researchers and lecturers within 5 years of appointment would be amongst those included in this definition’.
• you are affiliated to a an institution in a country in which ESF has a 
member organisation (see http://www.esf.org/about-us/80-member-organisations.html;)

Bursaries will be awarded in two categories: up to €300 for Israeli delegates and up to €1200 for European delegates to cover housing and travel costs. Expenses will be reimbursed after the event in line with COST procedures.

If you fit the above criteria and would like to apply for consideration, please send no more than two pages that include the following: a) a brief 
CV showing your career history and current academic affiliation; and b) how 
this workshop will intersect with your research. Please send your application to susan.schreibman[AT]gmail.com no later than 24 August.

Susan Schreibman, PhD
Director
Digital Humanities Observatory
Pembroke House
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2, Ireland

The TEI Newsfeed is now also available as a twitter stream at http://twitter.com/TEIconsortium if you have a twitter account you can ‘follow’ the TEI should you desire.  (You can of course look at the page even if you don’t have an account, and the links just lead back to our sourceforge blog.)  A reminder that the news is also available at: http://www.tei-c.org/News/ or as RSS at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/feed/ or indeed as Atom at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/feed/atom/ as well, of course, as direct from the sourceforge blog at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/ should you wish. 

The Music Encoding Initiative Council announces the release of
MEI 2010-05, a groundbreaking digital musical notation model

The MEI Council is pleased to announce the first
collaboratively-designed method for encoding the intellectual and
physical characteristics of music notation documents and
their scholarly editorial apparatus. MEI has the ability
to manage complex source situations and will dramatically improve
the search, retrieval and display of notated music online,
benefiting music scholars and performers.
Because of MEI's software independence, the data format defined
by the schema also serves an archival function. 

The MEI model is free and available for download at
http://music-encoding.org. The site also offers tutorials, examples,
and experimental software for MEI conversion--more will be available
in the near future. Information about the future of the project
and how to get involved are also on the site.

The MEI Council is an international group of scholars,
technologists, and educators representing a broad range of
musicological, theoretical, and pedagogical interests. The Council
was created through funding to the University of Virginia Library
and the University of Paderborn from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) and the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

We’re very pleased to announce the completion and launch of TEI by
Example: http://www.teibyexample.org.

TEI By Example (TBE) offers a series of freely available online tutorials
walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document
in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text
encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based
introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the
humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples
section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life
examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive
tests and exercises. The tutorial materials are contextualised with a TBE
validator application, allowing you to test your TEI encoding as you type!

We hope you will consider using TEI by Example in your (online)teaching
and refer students of markup to these tutorials.
We also hope you will submit more examples of encoding for inclusion in TBE.

We’re eager to receive your comments and learn about your use of TEI by
example in (self-)teaching environments.

Please contact the editorial team with any feedback at teibyexample@kantl.be.

Funding for the project has been made available by the Association of
Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Centre for Computers and the
Humanities – King’s College London, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and
the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy
of Dutch Language and Literature.

• Melissa Terras
• Ron Van den Branden
• Edward Vanhoutte

Workshop announcement:
“TEI Encoding for Classical Asian Text” at Hamburg University
12th–14th July, 2010
Location: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies (Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg), Alsterterrasse 1, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany
Convener: Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk (Hamburg University)
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer (Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan), Dr. Kenichi Kuranishi

The goal of the workshop is to train a community of contributors to mark-up aligned (or parallel) corpora in a way that could be plugged into the planned Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource project and serve as source materials for the lexicographical study of classical Asian texts.

The first two days will introduce Humanities scholars to TEI, on the third day participants will start their own encoding project with assistance from the instructors.

For registration please contact Prof. Wangchuk (dorji.wangchuk@uni-hamburg.de), for questions regarding the workshop please write to Bingenheimer (m.bingenheimer@gmail.com).

TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/

The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It
includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication.

Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing
documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects, including C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor of the XML Spec and one of the founding editors of the TEI).

If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you.

The course runs from Monday 12 July – Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 – 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee.

Questions about booking on the workshop: courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Dr James Cummings
Research Technologies Service
University of Oxford

Balisage 2010 Program Announced!!!

It’s time to make plans to go to Montreal for Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010.

If your toolkit includes markup, and you care about keeping your tools sharp; if you are a markup geek and happy to be one; if you are NOT a markup geek but find it informative to hang around with them now and then, you should enjoy Balisage.

See the Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html
or study the Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html

Think about attending the preconference symposium on XML for the Long Haul:
Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML

Read about the symposium: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/
and study the symposium program at: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/LHProgram.html

For a little help justifying your trip to Balisage see: http://www.balisage.net/WhyBalisage/why.html

The TEI is a partner of Balisage.