[Asis-l] Introduction to TEI Workshop @ GSLIS, University of Illinois

[Senseney, Megan Finn]

Interested in the digital humanities? Take the "Introduction to TEI" workshop at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and learn about one of the most important elements of digital humanities research, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) markup language. Spend a weekend learning the fundamentals of using XML for research, teaching, electronic publishing, and management of digital text collections. This hands-on workshop will be taught by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman, experts from Brown University. Over the course of two and a half days, participants will learn how to work with XML technologies to develop digital representations of texts using the TEI standard. The workshop will take place in the LIS building on the UIUC campus, beginning Friday, February 22 and ending Sunday, February 24, 2013.

About the Text Encoding Initiative
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A seminal effort in the digital humanities community, the TEI is "an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent." Allen Renear, GSLIS professor and interim dean, and John Unsworth, former GSLIS dean, have long been involved with the TEI community, and use of TEI markup is growing steadily. More information on the TEI can be found at the TEI Consortium website: http://www.tei-c.org/<https://webmail.illinois.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=12d9b68de99c4e02911d153fb9f21558&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tei-c.org%2F>.

About the Instructors
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Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman are active participants within the TEI and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. They have led numerous workshops, teaching the TEI standard to diverse groups at all levels of technical accomplishment. Julia and Syd work at the Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship (http://library.brown.edu/cds/<https://webmail.illinois.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=12d9b68de99c4e02911d153fb9f21558&URL=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.brown.edu%2Fcds%2F>) on its major text encoding effort, the Women Writers Project (http://www.wwp.brown.edu/<https://webmail.illinois.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=12d9b68de99c4e02911d153fb9f21558&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wwp.brown.edu%2F>). Julia is Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development. Syd is Senior Analyst for the Women Writers Project and former North American Editor of the TEI Guidelines.

Schedule, Cost, and Registration
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Participants will meet in room 52 of the LIS building for an introductory session on Friday evening and two full-day sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Participation is currently limited to 30 people seated at desktop workstations, plus 7 individuals willing to bring their own laptops. Those bringing laptops will need to install a free trial version of the Oxygen text editor - available from http://www.oxygenxml.com<http://www.oxygenxml.com/> - on their computer prior to attending the workshop. Participants without prior markup experience will be asked to introduce themselves to TEI and XML by reading through a short suggested reading list, provided after registration.

Per person, the cost of the workshop is

  *   $30 for current UIUC students;
  *   $125 for UIUC faculty, staff, and alumni;
  *   $300 for non-UIUC affiliates.

You must sign up and pay in advance to attend.

Please email tei-workshop at illinois.edu to reserve your spot. Your email should include your address, a contact phone number, and your University ID number (alternatively: if you are an alumni, your year of graduation; for non-affiliates, the name of the institution with which you are affiliated). Additionally please indicate whether you will be bringing your own laptop and, if so, which operating system you will be running. More information will follow to those who reserve spots.

Those interested in attending the workshop are encouraged to register early as space is limited and the course fills up quickly. A registration waitlist will be kept after capacity is exceeded. Participants canceling their reservation on or before February 15, 2013 will receive a 50% refund of their registration fee. Following this date, no refunds will be given.

Ashley Clark and Megan Senseney are co-organizers for this year's workshop. If you have any questions, please contact us at: tei-workshop at illinois.edu<https://webmail.illinois.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=12d9b68de99c4e02911d153fb9f21558&URL=mailto%3Atei-workshop@illinois.edu> or 217.244.5574.

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Megan Finn Senseney
Project Coordinator, Research Services
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 244-5574
Email: mfsense2 at illinois.edu
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/<http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/research/services/>
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