Text Encoding Initiative

From: Ron Van den Branden To: [email protected] Subject: [TEI-L] TEI-L mirrors: polished and shining Hi all, Thanks to the patient help of Jason Hunter (MarkMail) and Hugo Teixeira (Nabble), the TEI-L archive is now mirrored properly on: ... [More] -MarkMail: -Nabble: Both contain the full TEI-L archive and are actively accumulating all new messages that are being posted. It has taken some [...] [Less]

At the 2010 Members Meeting in Croatia, the membership voted in favour of the Board’s proposal for changes to the Bylaws. Amongst some housecleaning, the proposals included major changes in the structure and voting membership of the Board and the ... [More] relationship of “Host” Institutions to the Consortium. The vote was unanimous amongst the ballots cast. However, [...] [Less]

Call for Participation International Symposium on XML Document Interchange: Fact or Fiction or, “That XML file you sent me: what do you expect me to do with it?” Since the dawn of markup languages, XML and its precursors have been sold as enabling document interchange. Does it work? Do we have document interchange? We send each [...]

Balisage 2011 Pre-conference workshop: 1 August 2011 Conference: 2-5 August 2011 Hotel Europa, Montreal, Canada Papers proposals due 8 April 2011 Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related ... [More] technologies for structuring and managing information. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Paper proposals and nominations for peer reviewers are solicited for Balisage 2011, to be held 2-5 [...] [Less]

Dec. 8, 2010 – Joining the ranks of academics working to implement a sustainable model of scholarly communications in the Internet Age, the American Literatures Initiative announced today that it has adopted Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) as the XML ... [More] standard for its future publications. “TEI is perfectly suited to handle the types of books our member [...] [Less]

The European Science Foundation (ESF) is committed to creating Fora for early career scholars to develop their visions for the European Research Area. We have developed in particular the format of the “Humanities Spring” workshops, aimed at producing ... [More] short policy documents authored by the best early career scholars after 2-day debates on identified issues.  This year the [...] [Less]

Dear all, The minutes from the meeting in the Ontologies SIG during the TEI  annual meeting is now out: http://www.tei-c.org/SIG/Ontologies/meetings/m20101112.html Corrections may be made until December 10, then the minutes will be  stable. The new ... [More] web space of the SIG is in use now, with most of the material  updated: http://www.tei-c.org/SIG/Ontologies/ Kind regards, Øyvind Eide [Less]

Dear all, It is already more than two weeks ago that the MS SIG had their annual meeting during the TEI conference in Zadar. We had a lively discussion with about 25 participants expressing their interest in manuscript related encoding. The results ... [More] in brief: 1. Review of the SIG’s work of the past year, in particular the new module on genetic [...] [Less]

The annual TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting takes place every fall, usually late October or early November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2011 and, in a separate call, 2012. In keeping with advice from the membership at the 2010 meeting, preference in 2011 will be given [...]

The TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting takes place every year, usually in late October or early November. As far as possible, the venue alternates between Europe and North America. Previous hosts have included the University of Würzburg  Centre for ... [More] Digital Editing (2011),  the University of Zadar (2010), the University of Michigan Libraries (2009), King’s College London (2008), and the [...] [Less]