[tei-council] Digital Diplomatics conference

[Dot Porter]

Hi Arianna,

Yes, that's what I meant (I was confusing my "Manuscripts SIG" with my
"TEI Chapter on Transcription of Primary Sources"). Any objections if
Arianna and I take our discussion off-list? Any other takers?

Dot

On 3/6/07, Arianna Ciula <arianna.ciula at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Dot,
>
> I remember talking about the Manuscript SIG. Is this what you mean by
> Transcription SIG? Dan and Roberto Rosselli del Turco contacted me about
> the former and I gave a sort of availability in case nobody was prepared
> to chair it.
>
> Should we discuss this out of list with Roberto as well and see what we
> could do and report back?
>
> Arianna
>
> Dot Porter wrote:
> > Hi Arianna,
> >
> > At the TEI member's meeting, you and I and a few other people were
> > talking about reviving the Transcription SIG, which seems to have
> > faded a way for a while. Are you interested? The CEI might be a good
> > point to start off on - will you be at the DH conference this summer?
> >
> > Dot
> >
> > On 3/5/07, Arianna Ciula <arianna.ciula at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Dear council,
> >>
> >> For whom is interested, I just wanted to report briefly on the
> >> conference I came back from on Saturday: Digital Diplomatics
> >> http://www.cei.uni-muenchen.de/DigDipl07/index_en.html
> >>
> >> The international attendance was quite good with a majority of Germans
> >> of course.
> >>
> >> The majority of presented projects deal with a combination of relational
> >> database and use of XML (lots of TEI!).
> >>
> >> Few things to mention as far as TEI regards:
> >>
> >> Interesting presentations
> >> - good work done by two Italian students using TEI P5 (poster: Viviana
> >> Salardi, Luigi Siciliano: L`edizione digitale dello Statuto di Vicenza
> >> del 1264)
> >> - presentation of ODD by Gautier Poupeau
> >> - integration TEI-CIDOC presented by Christian-Emil Ore
> >>
> >> TEI/CEI
> >> As you may know already, the objective of the conference was to give a
> >> glimpse on digital projects related to medieval documents (it succeeded
> >> on this) and to work on the improvements of the CEI (Charter Encoding
> >> Initiative: funded three years ago - http://www.cei.lmu.de/index.htm)
> >> standard to encode these documents in XML. Unfortunately, despite the
> >> good work of synthesis and conceptual modelling done by Patrick Sahle
> >> and Gautier Poupeau, we didn't go very far on the latter, but it seems
> >> to me that
> >> - despite some more or less funded complains on the inability of TEI to
> >> represented the archival community and its objectives, all the CEI
> >> recommendations as they stand could easily been translated and/or
> >> represented in TEI P5
> >> - I will keep an eye on how the community is going to develop the
> >> standard and see what comes up
> >>
> >> Happy to give more details to whom is interested.
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Arianna
> >> --
> >> Dr Arianna Ciula
> >> Research Associate
> >> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
> >> King's College London
> >> Strand
> >> London WC2R 2LS (UK)
> >> Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945
> >> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch
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> >
> >
>
> --
> Dr Arianna Ciula
> Research Associate
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
> King's College London
> Strand
> London WC2R 2LS (UK)
> Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch
>


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