Dear friend,
We are pleased to announce that the 2014 "Introduction to Text Encoding
with TEI" workshop will take place from Friday, February 21 to Sunday,
February 23 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
UIUC. Details are below. Would you share this announcement with the
listserv?
Thank you for your time!
Sincerely,
Ashley M. Clark and Megan Senseney
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Spend a weekend learning about the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) markup
language, an important tool for digital humanities research! Take the
"Introduction to Text Encoding with TEI" workshop at the Graduate School
of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and learn the fundamentals of
using XML for research, teaching, electronic publishing, and management
of digital text collections. This hands-on workshop will be taught by
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman, experts known for their work on the Women
Writers Project. During the two-and-a-half day course, participants will
learn how to work with XML technologies to develop digital
representations of texts using the TEI standard. The workshop will take
place in the GSLIS building, beginning Friday, February 21 and ending
Sunday, February 23, 2014.
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Schedule, Cost, and Registration
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Participants will meet in the GSLIS Learning Resource Lab for an
introductory session on Friday evening and two full-day sessions on
Saturday and Sunday. Participation is currently limited to 30 people
seated at desktop workstations. Those bringing laptops will need to
install a free trial version of the Oxygen XML editor - available from
http://www.oxygenxml.com <http://www.oxygenxml.com/>- on their computer
prior to attending the workshop. Participants without prior markup
experience will be asked to introduce themselves to TEI and XML by
reading through a short suggested reading list, provided after registration.
Per person, the cost of the workshop is
* $30 for current UIUC students;
* $125 for UIUC faculty, staff, and alumni;
* $300 for non-UIUC affiliates.
You must sign up and pay in advance to attend. To reserve your spot and
begin the registration process, please email [log in to unmask]
with the following information:
* your address,
* phone number,
* University of Illinois ID number
o (if you are an alumni, your year of graduation)
o (if you aren't affiliated with the U of I, the name of the
institution with which you are affiliated); and
* whether you will bring your own laptop, and, if so,
o which operating system you will use.
Those interested in attending the workshop are encouraged to register
early as space is limited and the course fills up quickly. A
registration waitlist will be kept after capacity is exceeded.
Participants cancelling their reservation on or before February 14, 2014
will receive a 50% refund of their registration fee. Following this
date, no refunds will be given.
This year's workshop is co-organized by Ashley M. Clark and Megan
Senseney. If you have any questions, please contact us at:
[log in to unmask] or (217) 244-5574.
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About the Text Encoding Initiative
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A seminal effort in the digital humanities community, the TEI is "an
international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries,
museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of
literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an
encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent."
Allen Renear, GSLIS professor and interim dean, and John Unsworth,
former GSLIS dean, have long been involved with the TEI community, and
use of TEI markup is growing steadily. More information on the TEI can
be found at the TEI Consortium website:http://www.tei-c.org/.
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About the Instructors
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Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman are active participants within the TEI and
the Association for Computers and the Humanities. They have led numerous
workshops, teaching the TEI standard to diverse groups at all levels of
technical accomplishment. Julia and Syd work on the Women Writers
Project (http://www.wwp.brown.edu/), a major text encoding effort of
Northeastern University's Digital Scholarship Group. Julia is Director
of the Women Writers Project, as well as Professor of the Practice of
English at Northeastern University. Syd is Senior Analyst for the Women
Writers Project and former North American Editor of the TEI Guidelines.
