[tei-council] ESF Proposal

[Laurent Romary]

I definitely like James' views here. Could we keep this in mind when  
we prepare a Dagstuhl like prospective workshop, i.e. think of  
bringing in external experts?
Laurent

Le 29 avr. 09 à 11:31, James Cummings a écrit :

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