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Based on the host activity report prepared for the TEI-C Members' Meeting 2006
The following reports summarize activities during the period from January to October 2007 at each of the four host institutions: Brown, Nancy, Oxford, and Virginia.
The TEI effort at Brown University, based in the Scholarly Technology Group, the Women
Writers Project, and the Center for Digital Initiatives, comprises:
Major activities in this period have been:
These activities are described in more detail below.
During this period SB's effort was chiefly directed towards the revision of the TEI Guidelines in preparation for the release of P5. He reworked chapters, solicited chapter reviews and implemented chapter revisions, designed and implemented new elements, and did global checks for consistency and clarity. He also presented a TEI-related poster session at the DH2007 conference in Illinois.
JF served as Vice-Chair of the TEI Board from January through October 2007. During this period JF worked on membership recruiting and continued to lead the TEI's grant assistance program, providing advice on three funding applications.
SB and JF have continued to represent and promote the TEI in various public forums. In
2007-2008 the Women Writers Project has funding for a series of 12 TEI seminars for
humanities scholars, and the first four of these took place during the period covered by
this report. They also presented a number of TEI training workshops supported in part by
the WWP but not part of this series.
Workshops in the WWP's NEH-funded series
Other workshops
In each case the workshop included lecture, hands-on training, consultation,
and TEI recruiting activities.
Brown's 2007 host contribution was as follows:
Brown was reimbursed $15,000.00 for Syd Bauman's time.
The TEI-C effort at Nancy mainly comprised:
Many other persons who take part in various TEI activities in Nancy are mentioned below.
Regarding dissemination and training, our priority for 2007 was to answer requests of different projects on TEI and to provide these projects with consultancy. We have also organized a workshop on TEI during a francophone conference on Electronic Documents (CIDE 207).
Another priority was to start working on tools for TEI, especially on tools to develop customized TEI schema. Logically, our choice is to try and contribute to improve Roma.
As for administration, Nancy is responsible for various activities among which the membership management.
Major activities in this period have been :
These activities are described in more detail below.
The TEI Consortium at Oxford is located within the
In addition, there are several projects
actively using the TEI at Oxford, including the Bodleian Library,
the Oxford Text Archive, the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names,
and the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian
Literature.
Oxford staff were involved in 2007 in:
Oxford assigns approximately 30% of LB's time, and 10% of SR's
time, to TEI activities. Most of LB's work is funded by the
Consortium as TEI Editor, while SR's time is Oxford's main extra
contribution as a host. In addition, SR's main role at Oxford
University Computing Services (OUCS) as Information Manager
involves maintaining their web site (
Administrative support is provided by Judy McAuliffe (approx 5% FTE over the year).
During the year we had two very welcome visitors working at Oxford
2007 has largely been spent on working towards the release of TEI P5 in November 2007.
LB re-edited great swathes of the Guidelines during the year.
SR worked with Daniel O'Donnell and
Christian Wittern to project manage the endeavour, recording work
with the
All three Oxford staff continued to work on the handling of names and dates; LB and SR took part in a meeting about places in a bitterly cold Vilnius, and LB, SR and JC took part in the final meeting in London to complete the chapter.
JC (with Dot Porter) took on the task of designing the final format for the web version of the Guidelines, and assisted SR in implementing it.
SR acted as release manager for TEI P5, and oversaw 4 releases during 2007.
SR has continue to act as leader on internationalization of the Guidelines; translations of the element descriptions in Italian and Spanish were completed, to add to the Japanese completed in 2006. French, German and Chinese are nearing completion.
Carmen Arronis Llopis magnificently worked on the Spanish translations during her stay at Oxford, and we are most grateful to her.
SR's work on the W3C's Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) as invited expert resulted in the Recommendation being released by the W3C in May 2007.
The Roma program, and the underlying XSLT stylesheets to process ODD files, have undergone many revisions, largely fixing bugs found by the increasing number of users of Roma.
During May we welcomed Ioan Bernevig from the Universiy of Nancy to Oxford, working on an extension to Roma which checked the semantic sanity of schemas. This project was jointly supervised by LB, SR and Veronika Lux, and proved enormously beneficial in understanding the TEI class system. The resulting module was added to Roma.
SR made further progress with OpenOffice to/from TEI conversion, started a new P4toP5 converter in XSL, and worked with Syncrosoft to provide a TEI CSS stylesheet for the new release of their editor.
SR, JC and LB taught a 2 day course about Text Encoding and XML as part of Oxford University Computing Services regular learning programme in February 2007. They also spoke at at a workshop organized by Laurent Romary in Berlin before the TEI Council Meeting.
SR worked with
JC taught basic and advanced workshops
at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (sponsored by
Medieval Academy of America), and at the TEI members meeting. He
consulted on many TEI projects, including:
Concept and Form: The 'Cahiers pour l'analyse' and Contemporary French Thought
The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220
project
LB taught:
and talked at the following conferences:
LB also served on the Jury examining Sylvain Loiseau's doctoral thesis at University of Paris XIII (part of the thesis involved development of a TEI-based architecture for handling concurrent markup structures); advised the Cantigas project at Oxford; and continued to advise Clay Sanskrit Library project on development of their online database.
Hosting duties at the University of Virginia are shared by the Library and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH).
The following individuals have contributed effort to the Consortium in 2006:
CR served as Virginia's respresentative to the Board, and as TEI Secretary. DP served as Honorary Treasurer.
The University of Virginia Consortium budget is $17,500. Of this amount, $12,500 is reimbursed for performing the duties of the Treasurer and $5000 is in-kind contribution.
Major activities in this period have been:
These activities are described in more detail below.
In his role as Treasurer, DP continues to manage the TEI budget. This involves processing memberships and subscription payments, processing travel reimbursements, payment of invoices for work or services performed for the Consortium, preparing accounting statements and various related for filing of U.S. federal income taxes, monitoring and balancing the Consortium bank account, reconciling account with projected in current year, preparing projected budget for coming year, and various other related activities. All such activities and current and up to date.