Request for approval: TEI Training Course at Rhodes University

[Tomaz Erjavec]

Christian Wittern writes:
 > 
 > Dear Council members,
 > 
 > Geoffrey Rockwell, on behalf of the TEI Training Committee has
 > forwarded me the following note, requesting me to put the matter to a
 > vote with the Council in a timely fashion.
 > 
 > I would like therefore to ask Council members to consider the
 > following training proposal, which comes in two notes, look at the
 > websites, and tell this list wether it should be approved as a TEI
 > endorsed training course.  Since the timeline is rather short, I would
 > like to close the voting Sunday evening at midnight UTC.
 > 
 > Christian Wittern

I vote of "definitely yes"! Impressive.
Best,
Tomaz

 > 
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 >    Attached note follows
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 > 
 > >Dear Geoffrey,
 > >
 > >On behalf of the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing I'll
 > >run a 5 day workshop entitled 'Book & Text Studies: Humanities
 > >Computing' at Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa, 8-12
 > >September 2003) together with Melissa Terras (SLAIS-UCL) and Ron Van den
 > >Branden (CTB-KANTL). Apart from sessions on digitization, project
 > >managament etc., more than half of the workshop will be devoted to
 > >XML/TEI, TEILite, and XSL(T) for TEI users. The programme is on-line at
 > ><http://www.kantl.be/ctb/event/2003/rhodes.htm>. There you will find
 > >answers to all the items which should be covered in a proposal for a
 > >Text Encoding Initiative Training seal of approval. Due to the short
 > >time notice of this workshop (I was invited to fill this in only two
 > >weeks ago) we're still working on the workshop material. The experience
 > >of the instructors however and the trust the ALLC puts in them,
 > >guarantees the quality of the workshop contents. The workshop will be
 > >evaluated by the ALLC executive committee on the basis of a report by
 > >the workshop leader. This is the first ALLC workshop under the new
 > >workshop programme. I think a tight link with the TEI would be of
 > >benefit to both organisations and to (prospective) local organisers.
 > >Especially for the audience in South Africa, where HC is virtually
 > >non-existant, this could be a good signal.
 > >
 > >Could you consider this workshop for approval by the TEI, so we could
 > >advertise it as "Certified by the Text Encoding Initiative". Is there
 > >anything else you expect of me? Is it still possible time-wise?
 > >
 > >Best,
 > >
 > >Edward Vanhoutte
 > >--
 > >
 > >=============
 > >Edward Vanhoutte
 > >Co-ordinator
 > >Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL)
 > >Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
 > >Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
 > >Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
 > >Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature
 > >Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium
 > >tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49
 > >evanhoutte at kantl.be
 > >http://www.kantl.be/ctb/
 > >http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/
 > 
 > 
 > I requested more information from Edward on the content of the TEI 
 > section. He sent me this note:
 > 
 > >Dear Geoffrey,
 > >
 > >the TEI section of the workshop will parallel the course I lecture at the
 > >University of Antwerp. The programme of last year's course can be found at:
 > ><http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/teach/hc2003.htm>
 > >
 > >I hope this can give a better insight into what we will be doing, although
 > >the slides are not online.
 > >
 > >Best,
 > >
 > >Edward
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 >  Christian Wittern 
 >  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 >  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN