[tei-council] Possible TEI Council Meeting in Finland

[James Cummings]

Hi Laurent (and Council),

The DECL project got in touch with me again to see if there was any more 
news, because I think they'd like to start planning a TEI day.

-James

Laurent Romary wrote:
> That's a nice one. And I like our peripatetic nature...
> We just have to wait and see whether the board agrees on us having two 
> meetings next year.
> I will come back to this later,
> Laurent
> 
> Le 9 déc. 08 à 17:22, James Cummings a écrit :
> 
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> While in Finland for Digital Humanities 2008 I talked with some of the
>> members of the DECL project  see
>> http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/domains/DECL.html for more information.
>> When one of their number visited Oxford in the summer I met with him a
>> couple of times to discuss their plans, processing models, TEI, etc.
>> During which time I happened to mention the peripatetic nature of the
>> TEI Council meetings and how we've been trying to encourage 'TEI Day'
>> symposiums around them to increase TEI awareness.  Ville has come back
>> to me with the following expression of interest.
>>
>> Does anyone want me to follow it up, potentially for an Autumn 2009 
>> meeting?
>>
>> -James
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Greetings from the DECL team
>> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:50:49 +0200
>> From: Ville Marttila <ville.marttila at helsinki.fi>
>> To: James Cummings <James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
>>
>> Hi and Greetings from frosty Finland.
>>
>> We (the DECL team, i.e. myself, Samuli and Alpo) were having lunch the
>> other week with Sakari Katajamäki and Ossi Kokko from the Finnish EDITH
>> project (http://www.edith.fi/english/), which aims at producing detailed
>> criticalonline editions of Finnish literature classics and has chosen
>> TEI as their encoding scheme. As we were discussing the emerging
>> interest in TEI in Finland, I recalled you telling me in Oxford
>> about the itinerant nature of TEI Council meetings. As I brought up the
>> idea of offering to host one here in Helsinki, there was definite
>> interest and strong belief that this could be done. And were there to be
>> a presentation or two on some suitable topic by TEI experts from the
>> council, this would offer an excellent chance to build a general
>> get-together/seminar for TEI-interested parties in Finland around it. Is
>> the TEI Council still open to having their meetings in far-away places
>> such as Helsinki and giving a presentation or two while they are there?
>> And how does the meeting schedule look; have venues for future meetings
>> already been decided on? Next spring would probably be too soon
>> for us to get things properly organised, but for autumn 2009 or spring
>> 2010 we could very well be able to host a TEI Council meeting here in
>> Helsinki.
>>
>> On behalf of the DECL and EDITH teams,
>> Ville Marttila
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ville Marttila, MA
>>
>> Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English
>> Department of English
>> University of Helsinki
>>
>> email: ville.marttila at helsinki.fi
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
>> James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
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