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The Text and Graphics special interest group of the Text Encoding Initiative will be convening during the TEI Member's Meeting in November. The TEI Guidelines are used to encode many diverse, graphically rich documents, including illuminated manuscripts, laboratory notebooks, art books, children's illustrated books, comics and graphic novels, and so on. These types of graphically rich documents present special concerns, considerations, and challenges, both conceptually at the encoding level and technically at the transformation, presentation, and publishing layers of digital document development.
The purpose of this SIG will be to discuss, develop, and document various strategies and best practices for implementing the digital facsimile structures available in TEI P5, especially as relates tovgraphically rich texts, and for developing methods to extend the TEI when existing structures are not suitable.
We are organizing a session of graphics-focused papers for the member's meeting as well. If you would like to participate, please contact Dot Porter dporter@uky.edu by April 25. Details about the member's meeting at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/cocoon/tei2008/index.html.
Discussions leading up to the meeting in November will be held on the SIG listserv. To join the listserv, visit http://listserv.brown.edu/?A0=TEI-GRAPHICS-SIG.
The Text & Graphics SIG wiki page can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/wiki/index.php/SIG:Text%26Graphic.
Thank you, John Walsh and Dot Porter T&G SIG Conveners
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