The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources is
pleased to announce two TEI workshops to be held at the International
Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2007. Both workshops will be
on Thursday, May 10 (sessions 32 and 138; see
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete
conference schedule).
1) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop I: Introduction to TEI Encoding
This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital
scholarship, taught by a
medievalist, James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists.
Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding,
as well as new TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for
medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors.
Assignments will be completed during the following clinic.
2) XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop II: Advanced TEI Encoding and
Customization
This workshop offers advanced instruction in advanced topics in TEI encoding and
the customization of the TEI for an individual project's needs, taught
by a medievalist,
James C. Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes metadata
for medieval manuscript description, advanced-level concepts of TEI P5
modularization, schema generation and customization for individual
projects, and a
brief survey of related technologies. Assignments will be completed during the
following clinic.
Dr. Cummings works for the Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford.
He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, and he has extensive
experience leading TEI workshops.
Both workshops are limited to 14 participants, and registration is required.
The fee *per workshop* is $45/$60 (Medieval Academy
members/nonmembers) for pre-registration, $55/$70 for walk-ins
(pending available space).
Please send contact information and a check payable to Medieval
Academy of America c/o
Dorothy Carr Porter
RCH
351/352 William T. Young Library
Univ. of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0456.
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Dot Porter, University of Kentucky
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Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549
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Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
porter(a)vis.uky.edu
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