Fwd: TEI call for participation

[John Unsworth]

 From one of our own, and nominating another.

John

>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:35:55 +0100 (MET)
>From: Tomaz Erjavec <Tomaz.Erjavec at ijs.si>
>To: John Unsworth <jmu2m at virginia.edu>
>Cc: tomaz.erjavec at ijs.si
>Subject: TEI call for participation
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>Dear John,
>it seems to me that the quota isn't filled yet, also, that there has
>been little response from the NLP community, so I'd like to volunteer
>as somebody with "significant TEI holdings".
>
>The TEI encoded resources I have worked on, have access to and would
>like to see migrated are:
>- the MULTEXT-East corpus; morphosyntactically tagged, 7-way parallel
>- the IJS-ELAN corpus; morphosyntactically tagged, 2-way parallel
>- the FIDA corpus; morphosyntactically tagged, monolingual reference
>- the Concede lexicon; Bilingual MRD sample
>
>However, if it turns out that I could be more useful as a TEI expert,
>that is fine too.
>
>And while I'm at it: how about Sebastian chairing the WG?
>
>Best,
>Tomaz
>
>
>  > 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 (travel and expenses) for a 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;  two one-day meetings for 8 people;
>  > and one two-day meeting for 18 people.
>  >
>  > The TEI Council will appoint the workgroup, and its chair, not later than
>  > March 15th, 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 February 28th, 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