Fwd: Re: 15.494 TEI call for participation

[John Unsworth]

>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:58:02 -0800 (PST)
>From: Sally Thomas <sthomas at library.berkeley.edu>
>To: tei at tei-c.org
>cc: Nancy Kushigian <njkushigian at ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: 15.494 TEI call for participation
>
>Hello John Unsworth,
>
>I am interested in participating in the proposed workgroup of the TEI in
>regards to migrating TEI resources from SGML to XML. I am the associate
>director of the University of California History Digital Archives, a
>project co-sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education and The
>Bancroft Library, at UC Berkeley. (We anticipate that the site will
>eventually be served from the California Digital Library.)
>
>A brief summary of our project can be found at:
>
>http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/projects/history/website.html
>
>Our project's prototype Web site can be found at:
>
>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/
>
>Our public TEI-Lite documents can be accessed at:
>
>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/uchist/
>
>The great majority of our TEI-Lite documents are currently located in a
>password-protected working directory at:
>
>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2022/dynaweb/working/uchist/assembly/
>
>login: teitest
>pw: sgml
>
>Our project is in the first stage of creating a large body of
>TEI-compliant documents related to the history of the systemwide
>University of California. Our largest collections will include the
>Minutes of the Board of Regents of the University of California, and the
>minutes of the Academic Senate of the University of California,
>post-World War II to present.
>
>I supervise the TEI SGML mark-up of our electronic documents and the
>development of our HTML interface Web site. We plan to migrate our TEI
>SGML documents to XML, but have so far focused our attention on the
>development of our digital content in SGML. I am very interested in
>participating in your workgroup as a representative of a project with a
>significant TEI SGML holding, and would value an opportunity to gain practical
>"hands-on" experience in migrating our collection to XML.
>
>In the process of developing our site, I have established ties to other
>TEI SGML collections, including a significant project based at UC Davis:
>British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (An Electronic Collection of Texts
>from the Shields Library), edited by Nancy Kushigian, available online
>at:
>
>http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/index.htm
>
>Dr. Kushigian started the BWRP project in 1997, and has since been
>involved in the development of best-practice standards related to TEI SGML
>markup, including "TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Guidelines for Best
>Encoding Practices" (1999), available at:
>http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/tei/.
>
>Dr. Kushigian is unable to participate in the proposed TEI SGML-XML
>conversion workgroup, but has asked me -- if selected to participate
>-- to represent her project. You can contact Dr. Kushigian via email at
>njkushigian at ucdavis.edu or by phone at 530-754-4337.
>
>In reference to my academic background, I hold a BA in history from
>Stanford University (1982) and a master's degree in Information Management
>& Systems from UC Berkeley (1999).
>
>Please do not hesitate to contact me if you should need more information.
>I would appreciate you responding to this email to acknowledge its
>receipt.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>Sally Thomas
>Associate Director/Digital Librarian
>University of California History Digital Archives
>Center for Studies in Higher Education
>South Hall Annex #4650
>University of California
>Berkeley, CA  94720-4650
>sthomas at library.berkeley.edu         510-643-0116
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>Office Located in Room 44A, The Bancroft Library
>
>On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty 
><w.mccarty at btinternet.com>) wrote:
>
> >                Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 494.
> >        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: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 07:28:30 +0000
> >          From: John Unsworth <jmu2m at virginia.edu>
> >          Subject: TEI call for participation
> >
> >
> > 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 Friday, 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
> >