call for participation (draft for comment)

[John Unsworth]

Pursuant to Lou's suggestion, here's a draft of a call for participation in 
the XMLification workgroup.  Please comment in the next few days, as this 
should probably go out by the end of the week.

Thanks,

John
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Call for Participation: Migrating TEI Resources to XML

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium has been funded by the National 
Endowment for the Humanities' Division of Preservation and Access to 
conduct a two-year project to provide XML support in TEI.  The first phase 
of this project has been the production of P4, the XML-compliant revision 
of the TEI Guidelines that will be published this spring.  The second phase 
will explore the issues involved in migrating large bodies of existing TEI 
resources from SGML to XML.   To do this, the TEI will convene a workgroup 
in which selected experts and editors (8 people, total) will work closely 
with representatives from projects with significant TEI SGML holdings 
(another 10 people) to diagnose and document the problems, methods, and 
tools necessary to design and effect a migration from SGML to XML, in 
TEI.  The workgroup will be funded for one start-up meeting with editors 
and experts only; one mid-term meeting with project representatives; one 
final meeting with editors and experts; participation by a technical writer 
for four months; participation by TEI editors and the TEI executive 
director for two months; travel to two one-day meetings for 8 people; and 
travel to one two-day meeting for 18 people.

The TEI Council will appoint the workgroup, and its chair, not later than 
March 1st, 2002, but it would like to invite members of the SGML, XML, and 
TEI communities to volunteer as participants in this project.  If you wish 
to volunteer, please contact

tei at tei-c.org

by Friday, February 15th, and identify yourself as a TEI expert, a data 
migration expert, or a representative of a project with significant TEI 
SGML holdings, and provide the Council with a brief account of your 
qualifications.

John Unsworth
Chair, TEI Council & TEI Consortium