[tei-council] ESF Proposal

[James Cummings]

Arianna Ciula wrote:
> Indeed, I did suggest the same to Lou (internationalisation could be
> more prominently highlighted than it currently is).

I'd agree with both Arianna and David on that front.

> One additional remark: the ESF guidelines state that as far as
> participants from the non-ESF country regard 'their expenses should,
> in principle, be covered from sources other than the ESF award'.

Perhaps it should be stated that the TEI-C will cover the expenses of 
the one invited North American.

What struck me was the concentration on invited participants who happend 
to be textual editors and people who I already happen to know.  While 
all good people (and I can't think of any of them I'd not want to 
invite), I had the same problem when I was thinking of people to suggest 
to Lou.  All that occurred to me, obviously, were people I already knew 
and most are in those kinds of subject areas.

What I'd like to see, if someone thinks of suitable people, are:

a) someone who does a lot with and understands where multimedia 
applications are going on the web. (i.e. what is the next SVG/PNG/MPEG, 
and what will people be doing with video/graphics in relation to texts 
in 5-10 years that we can't guess.)

b) someone similar but related to the development of web publishing and 
services in the next 5-10 years...not just a semantic web devotee, but a 
realist with lots of experience of paying attention to how and why 
things develop.  (Someone not particularly involved or interested in TEI 
per se, say like Stefano Mazzocchi (Various Apache, Inventor of Cocoon, 
SIMILE, etc.) would be good if he wasn't in the U.S. (although he is 
Italian he lives in the US I believe).

One could make a similar argument for someone involved in hard-science 
publishing. In any case, it is probably too late to think of and add 
someone to the list before submission, but having some strong, 
well-known, people in these fields who preferably have little 
involvement with the TEI itself would be good. Equally I know that we 
can't really add more people because of the budget (and again, I 
couldn't suggest anyone to get rid of), but just wanted to make the 
suggestion in case the perfect person occurs to someone on council.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk