Conference call, Meeting

[Edward Vanhoutte]

Following up on the discussion about time and place of the TEI Council
meeting I'd like to add that any date in April/May/June/July would be
appropriate for a meeting at the Royal Academy in Gent.

I also want to emphasize that the Royal Academy and the Centre for
Scholarly Editing and Document Studies consider it an honour to receive
such an international body of highly esteemed HC people and that the
planning of the meeting in Gent would/could mean a lot for the furhter
establishment and recognition of Humanities Computing and the use of TEI
in Flanders and the Low Countries. The Royal Academy has, since 1997 been
at the forefront of electronic scholarly editing and the use of TEI in the
Low Countries (and Europe) and is funding the only university credit
course in humanities computing (electronic texts) in Belgium. With the
reorganization of the university curriculum in Europe (a.k.a. the Bologna
treaty or the BaMa structure) non-traditional courses and practices such
as HC are the first ones to disappear. A recent list of 500+ scholarly
journals by which the publication practice and research quality of
humanities departments at Flemish universities will be assessed as from
next year onwards did not mention a single HC joural such as LLC, CHUM,
Human IT etc.

The meeting at Gent could thus, apart from being a good meeting for the
Council, be of great importance both for the recognition and support of
the initiatives of the Royal Academy, and for the attention to and support
of Humanities Computing in scholarly research and teaching at Flemish
universities.

Best,

Edward


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Edward Vanhoutte
Co-ordinator
Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (CTB)
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
Reviews Editor, Literary & Linguistic Computing
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium
http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/