This year the TEI will offer two workshops to interested participants. Both workshops take place on October 31 in McKeldin Library.
To register for either workshop, please visit the registration page.
Instructors: Dot Porter and James Cummings
This full-day workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m with a mid-day break for lunch. Fee: $120.00
Are you new to the TEI or a TEI P4 user who has heard about TEI P5, but dosen't know where to start? have you been following discussions on TEI-L, but get lost in the technical details? have you started using TEI P5, but feel you aren't exploiting new features as much as you could?
This day long hands-on workshop will begin with a basic overview of the TEI Guidelines: the structure of the TEI as a text encoding system and the major changes from P4 to P5 in the way the TEI is generated and organised. Presentations will focus on an overview of TEI P5 modules interspersed with demonstrations on how to edit, customise (using Roma), publish and troubleshoot TEI XML. Additionally, there will be two hands-on practical exercises. The first of these will give users a chance to practice their TEI markup, while the second will give them experience in customising the TEI for the more specific needs many projects have. The day will conclude with a question and answer session and a group discussion on attendees' own projects.
Convenor: Werner Wegstein
This half-day workshop will run from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The workshop is free, but registration is required
Two reasons have led to the "Education Roundtable": 1. At the members meeting last year in Victoria (Canada) the participants in the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Education, chaired by Susan Schreibman, unanimously asked for more time to be devoted to questions of how to teach TEI. 2. The next edition of the TEI guidelines, version P5, currently being developed, uses Schema concepts thus offering a multitude of new design features that can be used to customize the TEI guidelines according to the encoders' needs. So it seems timely for instructors teaching TEI to reflect on teaching methods and strategies. The "Education Roundtable" is a half-day pre-conference event that offers a platform for instructors to exchange ideas and concepts about teaching TEI to different groups of users (from undergraduates to researchers), at different levels of detail, using different media and environment (distance teaching vs. a classroom approach), for different modes of scholarly discource (dictionaries or scholarly editions), and using different methods (e.g. Teaching TEI by translation). We invite instructors to present one aspect of their teaching using a pechakucha-like style and technique (e.g. 20 slides in about 7 minutes). There will be ample time for discussion. Since the convenor of the SIG, Susan Schreibman, is organizer of the 2007 members meeting, Werner Wegstein will assist in running the "Education Roundtable". Questions and/or samples to be sent to wegstein@germanistik.uni-wuerzburg.de.
James Cummings is the Research Officer of the Oxford Text Archive at the University of Oxford, which also hosts the U.K.'s Arts and Humanities Data Service: Literature, Languages, Linguistics. James has served as an elected member of the TEI Technical Council since 2004, he is on the Executive Board of the Digital Medievalist project, and has worked on various TEI-related projects. He has taught both introductory and advanced workshops on the TEI and related technologies (such as XSLT and XQuery) for a wide variety of audiences.
Dot Porter is the Program Coordinator at the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Her responsibilities are various, and include both the administrative (researching for, coordinating, and writing grant proposals) and the technical. Dot currently serves on the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative, the Executive Board of the Digital Medievalist, the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and is the chair of the Committee on Electronic Resources at the Medieval Academy of America.
Werner Wegstein is professor of German Linguistics and Computational Philology at the University of Würzburg, teaching Postgraduate Courses (Linguistic Information and Text Processing, since 1985, Computational philology, since 2002, and Applied Translation / Applied Linguistics, since 2005). He is co-founder of the Würzburg <philtag>-Initiative to develop new tools for collaborative computing in the Humanities, hosts the <philtag> TEI workshops in Würzburg and is a member of TextGrid, an e-humanities initiative, started in 2005, trying to establish a grid infrastructure for research in an Open Source and Open Access environment using TEI Markup.