6.0492 NEACH: Sperberg-McQueen on TEI (1/56)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 10 Feb 1993 05:51:25 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0492. Wednesday, 10 Feb 1993.
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 20:24:18 EST
From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NEACH Tues 23 Feb: TEI (Sperberg-McQueen)
NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities
(please forgive any multiple postings) invites you to hear:
MICHAEL SPERBERG-MCQUEEN speak on
TEI: the Text Encoding Initiative
Tuesday, February 23, 1993, at 1:30 p.m.
Room 25A of the IBM Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York City.
His talk, entitled "The TEI: What It Is, Where It Is Going,
And Why You Should Care," will explore the TEI project, problems of
electronic representation of texts, the nature of text markup
languages, SGML, and some concrete examples of encoding both simple and
difficult texts. Don't miss it!
Dr. Sperberg-McQueen is co-editor of the TEI project with Lou
Burnard. He is a senior research programmer of the computer center of
the University of Illinois in Chicago. He earned a PhD in medieval
German literature in the comparative literature program at Stanford,
and was formerly at Princeton University, where he headed humanities
computing services, and at which time he was a member of the NEACH
advisory board.
Please put these special NEACH dates in your calendar:
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Tuesday, Feb. 23: Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Text Encoding Initiative
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Thursday, Mar. 11: John E. Thiesmeyer, "Editor" & Style Checkers
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