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Project name: Community of Practice to Support TEI-Based Projects at Small Colleges
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July 16, 2008 -- Rhodes College and Wheaton College invite faculty, librarians, and technologists from NITLE participating colleges to a 2 1/2-day workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) at Wheaton College, October 10 - 12, 2008. The workshop will begin with lunch on Friday, October 10, and end at 4:30 PM on Sunday, October 12.
About the workshop
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has evolved to become the resource on which scholars depend when transcribing and encoding primary source and archival texts.Text encoders create true digital scholarship through their work – employing a set of eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based standards to create richly annotated digital files in an open non-proprietary scheme. This standard is an ideal preservation format. It also allows scholars to annotate texts by embedding interpretive, descriptive, and analytical metadata directly into a document. TEI documents are electronic critical editions of a text that also include standard cataloguing metadata required for basic and advanced searching.
The goals of this event are to:
Training and instruction will be provided by personnel from Brown University's Women's Writers Project (WWP), and will be geared specifically to participants from small liberal arts colleges. Trainers from Brown's WWP will provide an overview of the TEI, strategies for planning a successful project, and hands-on training sessions to introduce users to new developments in the TEI guidelines. In addition to the content provided by WWP, the conference will highlight projects within the NITLE community through a series of presentations.
The program will enhance current understandings of TEI, provide training in new developments within the field, and allow participating institutions to share experiences and build relationships for future collaborations. Those attendees who are new to TEI will get a sense of the benefits and challenges that working with this technology entails. Most importantly, we will continue to build and support a community of practice among faculty and staff who are using TEI to further their own scholarship and pedagogy and who are building and maintaining TEI-based digital archives at NITLE participating institutions.
Selection Criteria
Preference will be given to participants willing to present their project at the conference and who are already engaging in TEI projects. We will also strive to accommodate participants new to TEI, space permitting. Participants will ideally apply in teams that include both faculty and support staff, but individual applications will be considered as well. To apply, fill out and submit the online application by September 2, 2008.
Travel and Accommodations
Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements and costs. The NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund will cover food and lodging for all selected participants, and there is no workshop fee.
Questions?
If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to contact Scott Hamlin (508-286-376 or shamlin@wheatoncollege.edu) or Suzanne Bonefas (901-843-3739 or bonefas@rhodes.edu).
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Project summary: A two-day series of workshops will be held at Wheaton College in October 2008. The goals of this event are to
Key audience: Scholars, technologists, and librarians from the NITLE community interested in new developments in the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines and tools for creating and supporting TEI-based archives.
Intended outcomes: The program will enhance current understandings of TEI, provide training in new developments within the field, and allow participating institutions to share experiences and build relationships for future collaborations. Those attendees who are new to TEI will get a sense of the benefits and challenges that working with this technology entails. Most importantly, we will continue to build and support a community of practice among faculty and staff who are using TEI to further their own scholarship and pedagogy and who are building and maintaining TEI-based digital archives at NITLE institutions.
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