Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 746.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:52:54 +0000
From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: TEI News
As most of this list's readers will know, the Text Encoding Initiative is an
international and interdisciplinary standards project, established in 1987
to develop, maintain, and promulgate hardware- and software-independent
methods for encoding humanities data in electronic form. In 2001, the TEI
DTD is widely used in library electronic text collections, electronic
scholarly editions, and linguistic text-encoding projects.
The TEI Consortium, a new non-profit membership organization formed in
December of 2000 to represent, coordinate, and support the user community of
the Text Encoding Initiative, is pleased to announce the appointment of an
executive director, Tone Merete Bruvik, Senior Executive Officer and
Terminologist at the Humanities Information Technologies Center at the
University of Bergen. Ms. Bruvik has been an active member of the Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) community in the Malvine (Manuscripts and Letters
via Integrated Networks in Europe) project (see http://www.malvine.org) and
she will also be involved in the upcoming LEAF (Linking and Exploring
Authority Files) project at the HIT Centre, to develop a model architecture
for a distributed search system harvesting existing name authority
information (persons and corporate bodies). She will also be involved in
producing a new historical-critical edition, with commentary, of all of
Henrik Ibsen's writings, printed and unprinted: plays, poems, articles,
lectures, letters, drafts and notes. TEI is being used for encoding this
edition (see http://www.hit.uib.no/english/hi-skrifter-pro-e.htm).
Ms. Bruvik will report to the new TEI Board of Directors:
Chair and Host Representative for the University of Virginia: John Unsworth
Vice-Chair and Representative for the ALLC: Antonio Zampolli
Secretary and Representative for the ACH: David Chesnutt
Treasurer and Host Representative for the University of Bergen: Claus
Huitfeldt
Representative for the ACL: Jan Hajic
Host Representative for Brown University: Julia Flanders
Host Representative for Oxford University: Sebastian Rahtz
The editorial work of the TEI will be guided by two individuals well known
to the TEI, SGML and XML community, Lou Burnard (European Editor) and Steven
DeRose (North American Editor), and by a twelve-member TEI Council, to be
elected by members. Service on the Council is not limited to members, and
if you would like to nominate yourself or someone else to stand for election
to the Council, please send nominations to John Unsworth
<jmu2m@virginia.edu>. Elections will be held later this year.
The central task of the Board and the Executive Director, at this point in
the development of the TEI Consortium, is to recruit members. We are
pleased to announce that the University of Georgia, Northwestern University,
the University of Michigan, and the University of Pisa have already joined
the new Consortium, and we actively solicit the assistance of Humanist's
readers in recruiting additional membership from educational and cultural
institutions, or units within them. Individual subscribers and corporate
sponsors are also welcome. Full information on the terms and benefits of
participation can be found at:
http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/memship.html
and a printed (or printable) membership prospectus (including financial
projections) is available on request from John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
or Tone Merete Bruvik <tone.bruvik@hit.uib.no>. We will also be happy to
present this prospectus and discuss the reasons for belonging to the TEI
Consortium with librarians, provosts, and other institutional
decision-makers to whom you direct us.
Please join us in building a membership base to sustain the important work
of the TEI, and please nominate those you think would be effective as
members of the TEI Council.
For general enquiries: info@tei-c.org
Membership enquiries: membership@tei-c.org
Queries or suggestions about the website: web@tei-c.org
Membership queries may also be addressed by telephone to the TEI Executive
Offices at +47 55 58 29 54 or +47 55 58 42 22.
John Unsworth
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