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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: TEI@galway symposium 2 Apr 2008 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:51:03 -0500 From: Malte Rehbein malte.rehbein@NUIGALWAY.IE Reply-To: Malte Rehbein malte.rehbein@NUIGALWAY.IE To: TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu

Dear all,

The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUIG is hosting a TEI-symposium in Galway on 2nd of April. For that, we would particularly welcome contributions (ideas, projects, initiatives) relating to Ireland. Thanks in advance for considering the CFP (see below)!

Best, Malte

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Call for Papers: TEI@galway, Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 2 April 2008

The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway will host this year's annual meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Council. This meeting will be accompanied by a oneday symposium allowing researchers to present and discuss TEI-related topics and projects particularly in (but not restricted to) Ireland. It is designed to create a communication forum among scholars and the TEI Council and to strengthen the TEI community by bringing together experts from the various initiatives and projects.

Contributions from all disciplines using the TEI are encouraged, for example

● Scholarly editing ● Historical editing ● Dictionaries ● Linguistics ● Authoring ● Digital Archives ● Digital Libraries ● Manuscripts.

Papers and presentations should not exceed 20 minutes, to be followed by a discussion. They may describe initiatives, planned projects, work in progress and best practices as well as highlight particular areas of interest or features of the TEI or encoding in general. Contributions to a poster session are also welcome. Publication of the proceedings of the symposium is planned.

Submissions:

Please email an abstract of about 250-500 words to malte.rehbein@nuigalway.ie.

Deadlines:

Submission of abstracts: 25 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 3 March 2008 Submission of full paper for consideration for publication: 31 July 2008

Contact:

Malte Rehbein c/o Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway University Road Galway, Ireland Phone: +353 91 49 3903 Fax: +353 91 49 5507 Email: malte.rehbein@nuigalway.ie