[tei-council] Digital Diplomatics conference

[Dan O'Donnell]

I'd made a couple of steps towards moving this forward. I was asked to
contact Fotis Jannis about this but heard nothing back from him. I'll
bug him again.

-dan

On Tue, 2007-06-03 at 03:06 -0800, Dot Porter wrote:
> 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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