Request for approval: TEI Training Course at Rhodes University

[Susan Schreibman]

Dear All -- I agree with the others, especially Alex -- this looks like a
great course and we should be doing what we can to encourage more TEI
training

usan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Wittern" <wittern at kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: <tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:15 PM
Subject: Request for approval: TEI Training Course at Rhodes University

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> 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
>
> =================================================================
>    Attached note follows
> =================================================================
>
> >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
>