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TEI MM 2010 Conference program published

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The program committee for TEI MM 2010 in Zadar, Croatia proudly presents the program for this years conference to you. Currently available at [1], you will soon also be able to peruse it from the conference web page.

There might be still some minor adjustments necessary, but we think it will basically stand as it is now.

I would also like to inform you that the program committee together with the local organizers decided to impose a 20% surcharge on all registrations received after Oct. 25, due to the organizational overhead this will cause. So, to ensure a smooth preparation and to avoid unnecessary surcharges, please go to the TEI webshop [2] at your earliest convenience to register for the conference, if you have not done so yet. There are also a few seats left in the pre-conference workshops, which can be booked from the same page.

Looking forward to see all of you soon,
for the program committee,

Christian Wittern (Chair)

[1] http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/sessions.php
[2] http://tei-shop.org

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Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

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eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Website Launched

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Robust open-source application makes managing access to digital content simple

The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the launch of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) website (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), supporting a robust open-source application for providing access to digital content.  Developed and maintained by the CDL, XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital collections and similar projects worldwide.

XTF excels in supporting rapid, customized application development and deployment. Its high degree of extensibility and performance (even for large documents and large collections) frees implementers to focus on building sophisticated presentations for their digital object collections.

“It’s all about balancing flexibility and ease of use: putting infinite customization ability in the hands of curators and scholars with a driving need to provide deep access to their special collections,” says XTF lead developer Martin Haye.

XTF-based applications range from primary source image collections to publishing platforms and archival finding aid repositories at the University of California and many other institutions, including Northwestern University, the University of Sydney (Australia), Indiana University, Visual Arkiv (Sweden), Morehouse College, Durham University (UK), and the University of Virginia.

Highly customized implementations include:

  • CDL’s eScholarship (http://www.escholarship.org/ ), UC’s open access scholarly publishing platform, which publishes recent research from across the 10 campuses as well as nearly 40 UC-based scholarly journals. XTF customizations include a streamlined facet-selection interface, dynamic PDF snippets called “KWIC Pics,” PDF document previews in the browser, and support for a deep hierarchy of contributing academic units.
  • CDL’s Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), a collection of more than 20,000 archival finding aids and 200,000 digital primary sources (images and texts) from more than 150 archives, libraries, and other institutions in the state of California. XTF implementation features full-text search and display, detailed descriptive metadata, and a robust finding aid interface.
  • Indiana University’s The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/), a digital repository of transcriptions of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts. Site features a seamless blend of various web tools, including XTF as the search technology.
  • The Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/), a collaboration between the Chicago  Historical Society, Northwestern University, and the Newberry Library. Site integrates XTF with an image zoomer to display a large collection of historic photographs and maps, as well as using XTF for search and display of descriptive metadata.

Lightly customized implementations include:

  • OhioLink Finding Aids Repository (http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/), this consortium of archives, libraries, and other institutions in the state of Ohio uses the default XTF implementation with dedicated branding and other slight modifications.
  • University of Buffalo Finding Aids (http://libweb1.lib.buffalo.edu:8080/findingaids/search) uses a basic XTF application to enable browse and search of collection guides from the university’s archival and manuscript collections.

The new site serves as an expanded resource for programmers, librarians, and the general public to explore and implement the Java and XSLT 2.0-based framework.  Features include:

For a full list of XTF’s features and benefits, as well as a technical overview, please visit http://xtf.cdlib.org/about or address queries to Martin Haye at Martin.Haye@ucop.edu.

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Lisa Schiff, Ph.D.
Technical Lead
Publishing Group

California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org/
University of California
Office of the President
415 20th Street, 4th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612-2901

510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f)

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Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars

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15 December 2010
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague in conjunction with the conference Text & Literacy (16-17 December)

Proposals due 30 September 2010

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts–electronic books being just one type of many–that must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

The gathering is offered in conjunction with the /Text & Literacy/ conference (16-17 December) and is sponsored by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments research group.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal. Please send proposals before 30 September 2010 to siemens@uvic.ca.

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R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498
siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/

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TEI 2010 Conference, Meeting, and Workshops: Registration opens

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Registration for the 2010 TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Workshops is now open at http://www.tei-shop.org/. The meeting will take place November 11-14 at the University of Zadar, Zadar Croatia. Pre-conference Workshops will be held November 8-10. See the conference website: http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/.

The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included.

The conference programme includes two keynote lectures, twenty-one regular papers in parallel sessions (with additional space being held back for our September call for “late breaking” papers), numerous posters and demos, and a number of five minute micro-paper+poster demonstrations of the use of TEI XML. And of course there will be the TEI’s famous “poster-slam” where presenters have one minute to discuss their paper in a plenary session, will also be held. The annual TEI members meeting will be held at this conference and the results of the annual election for board and council will be announced.

Our keynote speakers for 2010 are

  • Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)

The conference will be preceded by seven intensive workshops, led by many of the most significant members of the TEI and wider markup communities including

  • C. M. Sperberg-McQueen on XQuery and XForms
  • Norm Walsh on XProc
  • The TEI@Oxford team (Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings) on the TEI ODD Metalanguage (Introduction and Advanced Topics)
  • Elena Pierazzo and Malte Rehbein on the TEI’s new proposal for Module for the Transcription of Genetic Documents
  • Andreas Witt, Thomas Schmidt, Hanna Hedeland, Timm Lehmberg on the use of TEI for Speech Transcription

In keeping with the relevance of this line up to the wider community, the TEI is for the first time also offering a special commercial rate on its workshops and conference registration in addition to its usual Academic and heavily discounted member/subscriber and student/retired rates. In addition to individual registration prices, a 3-day pass is also available allowing attendance at any workshops over the pre-conference period for a 15% discount.

/A 20% early registration discount for workshops (15% for conference registration) is available for registrations before September 8, 2010. Members and subscribers are eligible for up to an additional 50% discount on conference registration and workshops/.

An overview of conference and workshop registration options can be found at the TEI Membership Centre (http://www.tei-shop.org/). You can also learn how to join the TEI as an individual subscriber or institutional member there.

Relevant sites:

Conference Registration/TEI Subscription and Membership
(http://www.tei-shop.org/)
Conference programme, housing, and local information
(http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/)
Call for late breaking proposals (due Sept. 30th):
http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/call4latebreakingproposals/index.en.html
Main TEI Consortium site (http://www.tei-c.org/)

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Call for papers: International seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts

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This seminar, arranged by the Arnamagnæan Institute of The Department of Scandinavian Research and the Royal Library, will take place from the 13th to the 15th of April 2011 at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities and the Royal Library.

The practical arrangements are in the hands of M. J. Driscoll and Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir of the Arnamagnæan Institute and Ivan Boserup and Marie Vest of the Royal Library.

Papers are invited on various subjects related to the care and conservation of manuscripts in the widest sense.

Please send us a preliminary title and short abstract as soon as possible and at the latest by the 1st of September 2010.

The principal language of the conference is English but papers in German will also be welcome. We hope that you will support our efforts by spreading information about the seminar to your colleagues and students.

At this moment we cannot promise any financial support to our speakers, but we will apply for funds as usual and hope to be able to pay travel and hotel costs for those who do not have any other support. The final decision about the programme will be made by the 1st of October 2010.

For further information please visit our website at http://nfi.ku.dk/cc/.

Proposals for papers should be sent to: The Arnamagnæan Institute, Njalsgade 136, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, fax (+45) 35 32 84 68, or by email to ami@hum.ku.dk, by the 1st of September 2010.

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