Fwd: RE: TEI call for participation

[John Unsworth]

Another excellent response.

J.

>From: Michael Popham <michael.popham at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
>To: "'tei at tei-c.org'" <tei at tei-c.org>
>Subject: RE: TEI call for participation
>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:30:48 -0000
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>
>Dear TEI Council
>
>I am writing in response to the recent call for participants to join a
>workgroup to explore the issues involved in migrating large bodies of
>existing TEI resources from SGML to XML, and would like to be considered as
>a representative of a project with significant TEI SGML holdings.
>
>The OTA has one of the largest and most diverse collections of SGML
>TEI-conformant data in Europe (certainly within the UK), and our holdings
>continue to grow as we accession and preserve high quality scholarly
>materials on behalf of the UK's national Arts and Humanities Data Service.
>We have a particularly strong interest in the activities of this TEI
>workgroup, and would like to do all we can to ensure that any
>recommendations address the needs and concerns of both ourselves and our
>extensive community of users.
>
>Regarding my personal qualifications: Academically, I hold a BA(Hons) in
>English and American Literature, and Masters degrees in Computer Science and
>also Linguistics. Professionally, I have worked as both an
>analyst/programmer, and also a technical author for international companies.
>Prior to coming to Oxford, I spent three years leading an academic project
>to promote and support the use of SGML throughout the UK's Higher Education
>sector, and since 1996 I have been manager of the Oxford Text Archive. I
>also serve on the Committee of the British Computer Society's Electronic
>Publishing Specialist Group, and that of XML UK (the successor to SGML UK,
>the UK Chapter of the International SGML Users' Group).
>
>Should you require any further information in support of my application,
>please do not hesitate to get in touch.
>
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Michael
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>Michael Popham -- Head of the Oxford Text Archive
>Oxford University Computing Services,
>13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, United Kingdom
>Tel: +44-(0)1865-283296; Fax: +44-(0)1865-273275
>URL: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
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