Extreme Markup Languages 2007: call for late-breaking news

This came in from the folks at Mulberry. This is an absolutely
excellent conference, which I highly recommend. It is, however,
expensive. This year, though, TEI is a co-sponsor of the event, and
thus all members & subscribers get an ~20% discount.

               CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING NEWS
              EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2007(r)
         (a registered trademark of IDEAlliance)

         THE MARKUP THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE

The regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Extreme 2007 program has been
scheduled. As usual, we have reserved a few slots on the Extreme program
for presentation of "late-breaking" material. 
Proposals for late-breaking presentations are due 
on June 15th. For details see:

Call for Late-breaking News:
      http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/latebreaking.html

Conference Schedule at a Glance:
     http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/at-a-glance.html

International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures:
    (the day before Extreme starts)
     http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap

Registration:
    http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/registration.html

Two digital humanities job openings at Brown University

Two Digital Humanities Job Openings at Brown University

The following two jobs have just been posted. Prospective applicants who 
will be attending the Digital Humanities conference at the University of 
Illinois next week are encouraged to contact Julia Flanders 
(Julia_Flanders <at> brown.edu) to set up an informational meeting.

1. Scholarly Technology Group—Senior Research Programmer

STG staff have expertise in text encoding standards, accessibility, 
database design, web programming, digital project design, information 
design, and grant-writing. We combine a strong background in the 
humanities and social sciences with a deep interest in the meaning of 
digital technologies for scholarly communication. Our research explores 
these issues as they affect faculty, institutions, and the ongoing 
evolution of the academic enterprise.

The Senior Research Programmer Analyst works closely with faculty and 
STG staff to carry out digital humanities projects by performing project 
analysis, providing technical leadership, programming and software 
development in support of STG’s projects. This person will recruit, plan 
and manage projects, write grant proposals, stay abreast of new 
methodologies and practices relevant to Digital Humanities and 
disseminate STG’s work at conferences.

Qualifications:
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree, advanced degree in the humanities 
preferred. Some formal CS coursework or equivalent preferred.
• At least 2 years experience in Digital Humanities or comparable area.
• Strong technical background in relevant areas: XML, web technologies, 

TEI Lite in P5

Re: TEI Lite in P5

McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:
>
> I saw in the list’s archives some debate (and directions to some 
> files, too) about TEI Lite in P5. Where do things stand now and are 
> there dtd/xsd/rng available?
>
sure, Lite is a standard part of the TEI P5 distributions.

eg http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/teilite.rng
and http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/dtd/teilite.dtd

to the best of my knowledge, Lite is stable and not scheduled
for any change before P5 1.0 release.

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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3D

This article in Wired magazine may be of interest to the list:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan

I *believe* that they are using TEI for the XML encoding but I'm not
involved in that part of the project.

Tooting the University of Kentucky horn,

Dot

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on TEI P5 documentation

Hi Sebastian and others,

are the TEI P5 Guidelines on PDF format (or at least as LaTeX source)?

I would be very interested in editing a classic work (Aristotle,
Categories [or any other short work]) in ancient Greek using TEI P5. Is
there any example where I could learn how to encode the text by copy &
paste?

By the way, I have read in a previous message that the TEI P5 Lite (or
TEI Lite P5) are already stable. Where is the documentation for it? Or
which part of the P5 Guidelines belongs also to the Lite version?

Thanks for your help,

Pablo

Re: on TEI P5 documentation

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:10:43PM +0200, Pablo Rodr?guez wrote:
> 
> are the TEI P5 Guidelines on PDF format (or at least as LaTeX source)?

not at the moment. they will be, but currently
that part of the process has various errors. it
is scheduled for work in a few months. 

> I would be very interested in editing a classic work (Aristotle,
> Categories [or any other short work]) in ancient Greek using TEI P5. Is
> there any example where I could learn how to encode the text by copy &
> paste?
I think others can answer this better than me; but just to say
taht being in Greek is no special issue. The bigger
issue is what sort of digital edition you are doing,
and what features you intend to encode

> By the way, I have read in a previous message that the TEI P5 Lite (or
> TEI Lite P5) are already stable. Where is the documentation for it? Or
> which part of the P5 Guidelines belongs also to the Lite version?

its at
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-exemplars/html/teilite.doc.html

its relatively self-contained

Sebastian

[Fwd: Press release: JISC reviews its services in support of the Arts and Humanities]

Dear TEI-L,

This may be of interest to some of you, especially in the UK.

-James

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Press release: JISC reviews its services in support of the
Arts and Humanities
Date: 	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:59:25 +0100
From: 	Philip Pothen <p.pothen <at> JISC.AC.UK>
Reply-To: 	Philip Pothen <p.pothen <at> JISC.AC.UK>
To: 	JISC-ANNOUNCE <at> JISCMAIL.AC.UK

*Press release*

* *

*Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities: JISC to review its
services*

13 June 2007. Following the decision by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities
Research Council) to cease funding the AHDS <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/>
(Arts and Humanities Data Service) from March 31^st 2008, JISC has
decided that it is unable to fund the service alone and that therefore
its own funding of the service will, in its current form, cease on the
same date.

In its 11 years of existence the AHDS has established itself as a centre
of expertise and excellence in the creation, curation and preservation
of digital resources and has been responsible for a considerable
engagement of the Arts and Humanities community with ICT and  a
significant increase in that community’s knowledge and use of digital
resources. Its contribution to the development of technical standards,
its outreach to sectors beyond higher education, such as cultural
heritage, arts, museum and archive organisations and its support for the
development of a national e-infrastructure and repository system have
been among its many significant achievements.

In the light of these achievements and the consequent risks to the
continued development of the Arts ands Humanities community’s engagement
with ICT, JISC is exploring with the AHDS, partner organisations and the
wider community alternative approaches to maintaining its strong support
for that community beyond March 2008.

JISC has a long history of support for Arts and Humanities research,
beginning with the founding of the AHDS in 1996 and continuing with its
collaboration with the AHRC over the ICT Methods Network
<http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/>, the Arts and Humanities e-Science
initiative
<http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp>
(with the AHRC and EPSRC), its contribution to the wider e-Science
Initiative <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/default.htm>, and in
particular the Research Grants and Studentships Scheme
<http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humanities_e-science_initiative.asp>
and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
<http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/> (AHESSC). JISC’s Support of Research
committee has also funded the Aria project
<http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/whatIs.html> and a related Projects and Methods
database <http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/pmdb-extension/#details>
which have now been merged into an integrated resource, the ICT Guides
<http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>.

At its meeting yesterday, the JISC Board reaffirmed its strong
commitment to continuing this engagement but in the light of wider
developments reluctantly acknowledged that the AHDS as currently
constituted would not be part of its service provision beyond next year.

Chair of JISC, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, paid tribute to the AHDS,
saying: “The AHDS has achieved a great deal in the last 11 years and we
would like to thank its staff for their skill, dedication and hard work
over these years. One of the AHDS’s many achievements has been
establishing capacity and expertise within the Arts and Humanities
community. JISC will continue to support that community in its
engagement with ICT in order to meet the many challenges of the future.”

For further information, please contact Philip Pothen on 020 3006 6049,
(m) 07887 564 006 or p.pothen <at> jisc.ac.uk <mailto:p.pothen <at> jisc.ac.uk>

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<interp>, a running head acting as in-line text

Hello again,

A couple of small questions have come up here at the Spenser Archive that we
have not been able to answer satisfactorily on our own.  In no particular  
order, these are:

1)  How and when should we use <interp>?  Specifically:
1a)  Is <interp>'s usage fixed (i.e., stable) for P5?
1b)  Our project is producing long and short forms of many of the editorial
annotations.  In P5, it seems as if <span> is intended for full annotations
and <interp> for the short forms; is this correct?
1c)  If <interp> now summarizes an annotation, should it be linked to a
<span> or similar structure providing the long form of said annotation,
should the <span> be linked to it, or should both link directly to the
section of text being annotated?

2)  In some editions of the Shepheardes Calender, when certain months
[chapters] begin at the top of the page they use the running head for that
page (e.g., "Januarie.") as the chapter title; when the month begins partway
down a page, the title is printed separately.  Does anyone have a suggestion
as to how we should tag a running head that is doing double duty as an
in-line text element?

I apologize if there is something obvious I'm overlooking; if the answers to
any of the above questions is already online somewhere, simply point me in
the correct direction and I shan't bother you further.

Yours,
M. Alan Thomas II

Using <g> to represent a glyph

Hello List,

Apologies in advance for what is probably a dumb question.

Can <g> ever be empty? That is, can it be used to represent a glyph,
or must it have  content? The examples in the Guidelines all have
content and g.content = text but I thought I'd check.

Thanks,
Dot

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