TEI News

Issue 2 of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative , with selected papers from the 2010 TEI conference, has been published.

jTEI, the official journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, is an open-access peer-reviewed journal, with issues appearing at least annually.

The 2.0.2 release of TEI P5 is a minor release fixing a number of small issues, mostly typographical errors and formatting problems, discovered in the 2.0.1 release. 2.0.1 itself consisted of only minor tweaks to the 2.0.0 release. See further the release notes http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.0.2.html.

We have added a contact form for feedback, questions, bug reports, etc., to the site page footer on www.tei-c.org. Please use the link at the bottom right of most pages to contact us.

The 2.0.1 release of TEI P5 is a minor release fixing a number of bugs pointed out with the 2.0.0 release. The 2.0.0 release of TEI P5 was a major new release of the TEI P5 Guidelines, which introduces some significant new material as well as implementing an unusually large set of other changes and error corrections. Since the last release in March 2011, members of the TEI community have proposed over 60 feature requests and reported about the same number of errors; dealing with these has kept the TEI Council busy, and most of these tickets have now been closed. See further the release notes http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.0.1.html.

This is a major new release of the P5 Guidelines, which introduces some significant new material as well as implementing an unusually large set of other changes and error corrections. Since the last release in March 2011, members of the TEI community have proposed over 60 feature requests and reported about the same number of errors; dealing with these has kept the TEI Council busy, and most of these tickets have now been closed. See further the release notes at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/readme-2.0.html

All,

The TEI Projects page at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/index.xml has
been gathering entries for quite a few years, and not surprisingly some of the
information in the entries is obsolete or out of date. TEI Council has discussed
migrating the information here to a more user-friendly database-like interface,
but that may not happen for a while.

In the meantime, I have just gone through the existing entries and fixed broken
links. I am sure that other information (contact email, etc.) needs updating as
well. If you are responsible for a project listed on that page and want to make
any changes, could you please email the details to me?

Also, you can submit new projects here: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/newform.html

Four projects on the list seem to be entirely missing from the Web. If anyone
can provide me with working links to them, I will update; otherwise I will
remove them from this list in a week or so:

The Anglo-Saxon Poetry Project
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/an01.xml

The Cursus Project
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/cu01.xml

Project Lorelei
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/lo01.xml

The Sternberg Project
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/st01.xml

Thanks for assistance,

David Sewell, dsewell@virginia.edu
TEI webmaster

                           TEI Community Initiative Grants
Proposals Due 15 December 2011
Total Call: $4,000

The TEI Board is delighted to announce a call for Community Initiative
Grants. Proposed projects proposed should support and promote the goals
of the TEI and should be carried out within one year of the date of the
award.

Applications will be adjudicated according to the following criteria:

* excellence of the proposal;

* contribution of the activity to the promotion and development of the TEI;

* track record of individuals or group proposing the activity;

* deliverables which are realistic and can be accomplished within the
budget and time period proposed.

Although there is no upper amount for any individual proposal,
applicants should bear in mind that the total amount for this grant call
is $4,000.

Proposals should be no longer than three pages (ca. 750 words) and
should contain the following information:

1. Name and contact details of proposer
2. Name of organization (if the proposal is being submitted on behalf of
a TEI SIG or other organistion)
3. Narrative addressing the criteria above.
4. Amount requested. Please indicate if it would be possible to carry
out the activity with less funding, and if so, how that would change the
nature of the proposal.
5. Date for final report

Please send submissions to Susan Schreibman by 15 December 2011

--
Susan Schreibman, PhD
Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland

email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie
phone: +353 1 896 3694
fax:  +353 1 671 7114

check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD
http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/
                     

Results of the survey on TEI P4 usage and support are now available on James Cummings’s blog at http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2011/10/27/tei_p4_support/.

[original source, TEI-L:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1110&L=TEI-L&T=0&F=&S=&P=12010]

Dear TEI-L,

I am writing, as Chair of the 2011 Nominations Committee, to announce
the results of the recent TEI elections for Board and Technical
Council.

New Board members (serving two-year terms, January 2012 through December 2013):

- Marjorie Burghart
- Laura Mandell
- Martin Mueller
- Elena Pierazzo

New Technical Council members (serving two-year terms, January 2012
through December 2013):

- Brett Barney
- Gabriel Bodard
- Kevin Hawkins
- Martin Holmes
- Paul Schaffner
- Rebecca Welzenbach

Please join me in welcoming our new Board and Technical Council
members and in thanking all those who participated in the elections.

I'd also like to thank my fellow committee members: Marin Dacos, Kevin
Hawkins, and Dan O'Donnell.

Sincerely,

John Walsh
Chair, 2011 Nominations Committee
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| John A. Walsh
| Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science
| Indiana University, 1320 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405
| www: <http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/jawalsh/>

| Voice:812-856-0707 Fax:812-856-2062 <mailto:jawalsh@indiana.edu>

Subject: TEI elections open
From: Unsworth, John M
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 16:50:29 +0000

Folks,

Email has been sent to designated electors from TEI member institutions, inviting them to vote in the elections for Board and Council. Candidates’ statements on a variety of questions having to do with the future of the TEI can be found at: http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2011/mm54.xml

TEI member institutions eligible to vote are listed at http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/current.xml. If you are at one of those institutions and want to know who your institutional elector is, or if your institution is not listed and you believe it should be, contact membership@tei-c.org.

Many thanks to all the candidates and electors for participating in the election, and to all of you for helping me put together the questions candidates have addressed in their statements.

John Unsworth
[Interim chair, TEI Board]

Dear TEI-L

When the TEI Consortium released TEI P5 in November 2007 it
promised 5 years of ongoing support for TEI P4. Support for TEI
P4 will continue until November 2012. As this is just over a
year away the TEI Technical Council thought it should gradually
phase out support for TEI P4 over this period.

As a first step in this direction it has been suggested that we
de-emphasize TEI P4 on the website (e.g. by stopping search
engines indexing it). Before proceeding with this we want to
gauge how many ongoing/active projects there might be out there
still using TEI P4 and so have set up the following survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2N95CY5

This collects some information we will use to assess how much TEI
P4 is still being used and what steps we should take in phasing
out its support. It also collects some additional information
potentially of use to the TEI Technical Council. TEI P4 has,
since the publication of TEI P5, been considered deprecated and
since then we have encouraged use of TEI P5 by new projects. Even
if you have never used TEI P4, only TEI P5, we would appreciate
you filling in the survey so we can capture that (negative
results are indeed results in this case).

Many thanks,

-James

From: Malte Rehbein, malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de

This is a reminder that the registration for the TEI conference is now  open and that the early registration discount is available only until 31  August. Please check out the conference website (http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/ ) for the programme (now final!) including keynotes, papers, micropapers and posters as well as pre-conference workshops and tutorials and excursions. Information about travelling and lodging is also available.

From: John Unsworth
To: The TEI Community
Date: August 18, 2011

On August 11, Martin Mueller resigned as Chair of the Board of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, following a vote of no confidence from the TEI’s Board of Directors.  Since then, there has been a great deal of speculation on the TEI-L email list, on Twitter, and elsewhere, about how this came to pass and what it means.  The purpose of this statement is to replace speculation with an account of events that has the endorsement of both Martin Mueller and the Board of Directors.

On August 17th, the Board appointed and unanimously elected me to serve as interim Chair for the remainder of Martin’s original term.  At the end of that term, I will not stand for election or seek a new appointment as Chair.  As many of you know, I helped to establish the TEI as a non-profit membership organization in 2000, and served as the first Chair of its Board and later of its Council. My goal in serving as interim Chair for the next year and a half will be to address operational needs, to restore equanimity, and to ensure that there is a full and open discussion of strategic priorities.

Contrary to speculation, the change in leadership at the TEI was not a result of Martin’s thoughtful August 4th, 2011 letter to the Board (see http://bit.ly/nG0Ga2). The issues that he raises in that letter are important and should be taken up by the community.  As Chair, Martin focused his attention on finding a new Treasurer, finding ways to bring down costs, bringing in new members, and finding ways to stabilize and improve TEI’s place in the landscape of digital humanities.  All of these were and are critical problems and useful strategic activities for the Chair.

The core issues leading up to Martin’s resignation were differences of opinion about the nature and purpose of the Board itself, and about day-to-day priorities in the business of the TEI (partly having to do with the sequencing of elections and appointments), the relationship between Board and Council, spending priorities (with respect to SIGs, professional services, and meetings), and the role of the Chair, a position described in the TEI Bylaws as one that “shall, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, generally supervise and manage the affairs of the TEI-C.”  Disagreements over these issues developed within the Board, and between some Board members and their Chair.  Some Board members felt important tasks were going unattended to, and differed with the Chair on strategic priorities. Others, including the Chair, felt that the Board was not efficient in its deliberations, and was excessively concerned with procedure.

In the end, these disagreements about priorities and leadership style hardened into irreconcilable differences.  On August 11,  the Chair called a meeting to discuss budget matters, and four of six voting members, a quorum of the Board, attended.  A vote of confidence was called but failed to pass, and Martin resigned.  A brief account of that meeting was published on August 15 on TEI-L, and it is available at http://bit.ly/pqyGsJ.

The purpose of the foregoing is to explain how we arrived where we are; it is not meant to decide who got us here.  I am certain that everyone involved felt they were doing the best thing for the TEI, but the situation needs to be de-polarized.  We’re a community of people with significant shared interests and values, but we are also a minority in some important larger communities, so it’s in our interest to focus on what we share, and to design and pursue a collective strategy with respect to those larger communities.  In order to plan that strategy, and attend to its implementation, the community needs to speak on issues both conceptual and operational, and the Board and Council need to listen.  In fact, I am sure they would welcome mandates from the community.

Some procedural issues have been raised, on Twitter and on TEI-L, that also need to be addressed.  There has been much speculation regarding the Board’s structure and its decision-making process in the case at hand. The Board consists (as it has always consisted) of voting and non-voting members.  All of its voting members are elected by TEI member institutions.  Officers of the Board are elected (and if necessary, appointed) by the rest of the Board.  The question has also been raised whether the Board exceeded its authority by calling a vote of no confidence.  The bylaws do not provide explicit advice on the proper procedure for removing a Chair, but logically there must be one, and if the Chair is elected by the Board, the Board must be able to vote to replace him or her.  There has also been speculation about whether recently approved changes to the TEI Bylaws were in some way a backdrop for these events.  Both the old and the new bylaws stipulate the same procedures for appointing a Chair and for repopulating the Board.  Both old and new bylaws say that a Chair may be either an elected Board member or an appointed one: Martin was appointed by the Board, so his departure as Chair entails his departure from the Board, but it does not create the sort of vacancy that necessitates a special election by member institutions.

Finally, on behalf of the Board, I invite discussion of the TEI’s future strategy and operations, with the hashtag #teifuture on Twitter, and the subject line “Future of the TEI” on TEI-L.

TEI Council has recently been discussing the correct content model of tei:subst. It is our considered opinion (see http://purl.org/TEI/FR/3393244 ) that the only appropriate children of tei:subst are tei:add and tei:del.

The schema and the guidelines currently allow the elements (corr orig reg sic unclear app damage restore supplied surplus) in subst, but in our opinion this is an error, and we propose to fix it in the future. (These may all of course be children of add or del, which would be the appropriate way to nest them inside one part or the other of a substitution.)

Because we are concerned with backward compatibility and finding a sensible path toward deprecation of old content models, we would like to hear on-list from anybody who uses or has used any element other than add and del as a direct child of subst. Will your XML be broken by future versions of the TEI schema that restrict this usage? What were these elements attempting to represent? Can we find a more canonical way to express what you were trying to say with this combination of elements?

Please pass this question on to any TEI users you know who may not be on this mailing list.

Best,

Gabby

–
Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)

Department of Digital Humanities
King’s College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Dear TEI community and board,

Following the recent events, the TEI council discussed the issue on a telephone conference yesterday and wished unanimously to express the following statement.

Laurent Romary
INRIA & HUB-IDSL
laurent.romary@inria.fr

A statement from the TEI Technical Council on the recent actions of the TEI Board of Directors

The TEI Technical Council is shocked and saddened by the sudden actions at the TEI Board of Directors which led to the resignation of its chair and the implications this may have for the ability of the TEI Board of Directors to work effectively as representatives of the TEI community.

The TEI Technical Council appreciated the willingness of the outgoing chair to provide a vision for the TEI that could have contributed to reforming the TEI Consortium as an organization. We believe that the events announced by the TEI Board of Directors on 15 August 2011, pending greater explanation, have caused real harm to the TEI Consortium, and we wish to know the Board’s plans for restoring the Consortium’s reputation and good standing in the community.

The TEI Technical Council continues to function and wants to get on with its job of improving and openly maintaining the Guidelines and associated systems and resources on behalf of the TEI community. We hope that the TEI Board of Directors will consider the issues that the outgoing chair raised as it moves forward, and we desire a greater transparency and accountability in TEI Board of Directors activities, notwithstanding the minutes of meetings it already publishes. We call for reforms that introduce mechanisms to make TEI Board of Directors activities more transparent and built on greater consultation with the TEI community.

NISO/DCMI August webinar announcement

***Please excuse cross-posting***

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NISO/DCMI Webinar: “International Bibliographic Standards, Linked Data, and the Impact on Library Cataloging”
DATE: 24 August 2011
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT (17:00-19:30 UTC)
REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/dcmi/linked
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is responsible for the development and maintenance of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), UNIMARC, and the “Functional Requirements” family for bibliographic records (FRBR), authority data (FRAD), and subject authority data (FRSAD). ISBD underpins the MARC family of formats used by libraries world-wide for many millions of catalog records, while FRBR is a relatively new model optimized for users and the digital environment. These metadata models, schemas, and content rules are now being expressed in the Resource Description Framework language for use in the Semantic Web.

This webinar provides a general update on the work being undertaken. It describes the development of an Application Profile for ISBD to specify the sequence, repeatability, and mandatory status of its elements. It discusses issues involved in deriving linked data from legacy catalogue records based on monolithic and multi-part schemas following ISBD and FRBR, such as the duplication which arises from copy cataloging and FRBRization. The webinar provides practical examples of deriving high-quality linked data from the vast numbers of records created by libraries, and demonstrates how a shift of focus from records to linked-data triples can provide more efficient and effective user-centered resource discovery services.

SPEAKERS:

Gordon Dunsire is a freelance consultant with 25 years of experience working in academic libraries and ten years in digital library research. He is a member of IFLA’s ISBD/XML Study Group and FRBR Review Group, and he chairs the IFLA Namespaces Task Group. He is currently a member of a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer (Communications, Research and Development) of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, was recently co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and currently co-chairs a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

REGISTRATION:

For registration and webinar technical information, see http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/dcmi/linked.  Registration closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on 24 August 2011.  Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the site following the live webinar.  Registrants will
receive access information to the archived webinar following the event. An e-mail message containing archive access instructions will be sent within 48 hours of the event.

Call for Nominations (DUE: 2011-09-09)

Dear members of the TEI community,

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. There will be two terms expiring on the Board and six on the Council. Nominations should be sent to the nomination committee at [nominations at tei-c.org] by September 9, 2011.  Members of the nomination committee this year are John Walsh (chair), Marin Dacos, Kevin Hawkins, and Daniel O’Donnell. The elections will take place via electronic voting prior to the annual Members’ Meeting in October 2011.

Self-nominations are welcome and common. All nominees should provide a brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph, and notice that, if elected, they will be willing to serve.  Example candidates’ biographies from a previous election can be found at  http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2010/mm52.xml.

All nominations should include an email address for the nominee and should indicate whether the nomination is for Board or Council.

The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The TEI-C Council oversees the technical development of the TEI Guidelines. Service in either group is an opportunity to help the TEI grow and serve its members better.

For more information on the Board please see: http://www.tei-c.org/About/board.xml.

For more information on the Council please see: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/index.xml.

TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or Council.  Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or can help it do a better job, please nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her.

Thank you,

John Walsh (for the TEI nominating committee)

I have just made a release of my stylesheet family to the usual places (Sourceforge, Debian, TEI web site), and it will also appear in the next release of oXygen. I would urge any regular readers to update, and report errors to me ASAP.

Covered by this release are:

- many improvements to conversion to/from Word and OpenOffice
- many changes to ePub generation (can now generate fixed-format file-per-page format and media overlays)
- rewriting to/from Word/OpenOffice, and to ePub, as Ant tasks, allowing them to be called from within oXygen
- starting support for HTML5 output, with microdata
- no doubt adding new bugs. sigh.

–
Sebastian Rahtz
Head of Information and Support Group, Oxford University Computing Services

[Please note that there is a workshop on TILE being offered at the TEI
Member's Meeting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, 10-16 October]

http://mith.info/tile/

The TILE team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0. The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. This version of TILE includes:

- Import/export of TEI P5, and the ability to easily create custom data
importers
- Improved workflow and accuracy using the Auto Line Recognizer (ALR)
- An improved API for plugin developers
- Enhancements and bug fixes to TILE’s interface
- Detailed release notes for more information

A MITH-hosted sandbox version of TILE allows you to test the tool online without installing it on your machine. We encourage users to download a copy to install on their own servers to customize the tool. Users can import their own data into the software, or get started by playing with pre-loaded data of Algernon Swinburne’s poem Anactoria, provided by John Walsh at Indiana University.

The development of TILE has been supported by an NEH Preservation and Access Grant, and it is a collaboration between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Dave Lester, Grant Dickie, Jim Smith, Doug Reside) and Indiana University (Dot Porter, John Walsh, Jeffrey Mudge, Tim Bowman). We’d love to hear how you are using TILE, and what questions or suggestions you have, either in blog comments or on the TILE forums.

Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian

Dear all,

Registration for the TEI Members’ Meeting and Conference in Würzburg is now possible via the TEI online store. Please follow the link from the conference’s website:
http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/registration/

Make sure to secure your early registration discount and don’t forget to book accommodation as soon as possible as the contingents we have reserved are limited.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you in Würzburg!
On behalf of the local organizers and the program committee

Malte

–
Dr. Malte Rehbein

Are you able to code TEI files into an EPUB file using only XML standards like XProc and XSLT 2.0?

What is the challenge?

Develop an XProc pipeline in which a TEI encoded Multatuli book is converted to a valid EPUB file that can be sent to a book publisher/distributor like Centraal Boekhuis.

The intention is to prepare the book Millioenen-studiën by Multatuli for electronic publication by Centraal Boekhuis. The Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL) has made a source file available that must be converted into an ePUB file that meets the requirements of Centraal Boekhuis. The book contains running text, but also pictures, footnotes, and some tables.

What can I win?

There are two prizes:

The first prize consists of:

• A visit to a leading International XML Conference
• A beautiful certificate
• The title of “Open Standards Developer 2011”

The winner will also present his or her application during the XMLHolland Annual Conference (XMLAmsterdam 2011).

The second prize winner will receive a free pass to the XML Holland conference.

What do the judges expect?

We expect you to use (at least) XProc and XSLT 2.0. These standards claim to offer extensive opportunities to develop applications for processing XML files. With this competition, we challenge you to show whether these standards are actually suitable for developing a complete XML application. Or is a real programming language still required?

Using a programming language besides XSLT 2.0 is allowed, but the less programming done in other languages, the more the solution will be appreciated. The goal is a solution based entirely on open standards.

We will judge the entries on the application of the standards, the code and performance. Obviously the output files should be valid EPUB files. They must in any case easily open in Adobe Digital Editions. We will validate the files with EpubCheck 1.2, the same validation that is required by Centraal Boekhuis. Furthermore, the panel will also evaluate the quality of the e-books. Do they look good, do internal links work, is the front cover shown, how are foot- and endnotes dealt with, are the pictures in the right place, is the table of contents correct and is the metadata present?

What should I deliver?

Turn in your solution with the output, the source code and instructions that will enable the judges to create the EPUB themselves using your program.

When should I deliver?

Send in submissions by Oct. 19, 2011 to voorzitter@xmlholland.nl

Who are the judges? The panel consists of experts with a proven track record in the open standards community. For
XMLHolland Code Challenge 2011, the following people will be judges:

• Patrick Steenvoorden, manager Digitale Diensten at Centraal Boekhuis
• Irsan Widarto, co-founder and CTO of X-Hive, now Director of XML Engineering at EMC
• René van Stipriaan, co-founder of Digitale database voor de Nederlandse Letteren ( www.dbnl.org )
• Bas Peters, solutions architect at VLC and experienced developer and architect in the world of XML, Open Standards and Open Source
• Sebastian Rahtz, Information Manager of Oxford University Computing Services and XML expert, especially TEI

The TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting takes place every year, usually in late October or early November. As far as possible, the venue alternates between Europe and North America. Previous hosts have included the University of Würzburg Centre for Digital Editing (2011), the University of Zadar (2010), the University of Michigan Libraries (2009), King’s College London (2008), and the University of Victoria (2006). The format of the event is not fixed, but generally keeps the following pattern:

• 2 or 3 days of pre-conference workshops
• 3 days of conference sessions, keynote lectures, poster sessions, and meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups

The Annual General Meeting for members of the TEI Consortium is also held during the event. Accounts are presented and election results declared at this AGM, which is open to the public.

The three days of the main conference normally take place between the Thursday and Saturday of the week of the conference. The pre-conference workshops may vary in length from a single morning or afternoon to a full two days.
Attendance at the conference has varied between about 70 and 200, to some extent depending on location, but 100 is the usual average attendance. The TEI Consortium will subsidize a share of the direct costs incurred in running the event, up to a maximum of US$5200. Bids should include a budget indicating the level of additional funding anticipated and its likely source (local institutions, commercial sponsorship etc.) The TEI normally charges and retains a small attendance fee, in the region of $100 to covers its own overheads to ensure that it is able to underwrite the cost of future conferences.

Bids for the 2012 conference must be received no later than 1 September 2011. Institutions considering making a proposal are requested to contact the chair of the TEI Board (martinmueller@northwestern.edu) as soon as possible to discuss their proposal. Completed bids should include the following information:

• The name of the institution(s) making the bid and a list of proposed members of the local organising team
• The name, address, email, and telephone number of a contact person
• A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food)
• A preliminary budget

In submitting bids, local organisers are strongly encouraged to be creative: the TEI meeting is an expression of the TEI community in all its diversity and should be seen as an opportunity to showcase local interests and strengths.

Bids will be reviewed by the TEI board deuring September, and a decision taken in time to announce the venue at the 2011 Meeting in Wurzburg.

On behalf of the editors, I am delighted to announce the publication of the first issue of this new peer-reviewed publication:

Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI)

This issue, guest edited by Syd Bauman, Kevin Hawkins, and Malte Rehbein, contains selected papers presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences and members’ meetings:

• John Unsworth – “Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections: Interoperability, Sustainability, and the TEI”
• Tanya Clement – “Knowledge Representation and Digital Scholarly Editions in Theory and Practice”
• Thomas Schmidt – “A TEI-based Approach to Standardising Spoken Language Transcription”
• Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, and Melanie Chernyk – “‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’: TEI-encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Community of Practice”

The journal is published by the TEI Consortium on Revues.org,  the web platform for journals and book collections of Cléo, the French Centre for Open Electronic Publishing.

jTEI’s home is at jtei.revues.org where you can find information about the journal as well as links to the journal’s administrative website, which is used for managing the submission, review, and editing process.

I hope you enjoy reading this issue. Please consider contributing to the journal by submitting articles for future issues. We also welcome ideas for special issues.

Susan Schreibman
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

–
Susan Schreibman, PhD
Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland

email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie
phone: +353 1 896 3694
fax: +353 1 671 7114

Registration is now open for the Brown University Women Writers Project’s summer and fall workshops on topics in TEI and digital humanities:

http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands-on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer an opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory
setting.

More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration.

All workshops are held at Brown University. Space is limited so please register early.

July 20-22, 2011
Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities
Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

August 29-31, 2011
Introduction to TEI Customization
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

September 26-28, 2011
Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

December 5-7, 2011
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

We hope to see you in Providence!

best wishes, Julia

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library
http://www.wwp.brown.edu
http://library.brown.edu/cds/