[tei-council] ESF Proposal

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at loria.fr
Wed Apr 29 06:02:11 EDT 2009


What about the following ones:
- http://www.ibi.hu-berlin.de/institut/mitarbA-Z/professoren/gradmann
- http://cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp/~tutiya/
WIth John, that would make a good group.


Le 29 avr. 09 à 11:47, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> I tend to agree with James's view here, and have tried in selecting  
> names to minimize the number of "usual suspects", while at the same  
> time ensuring that we can have an informed discussion about the  
> content of P5.  But it's not easy!
>
> HELP HELP
> In order to submit the bid, I also need to propose some referees
>
> "Details of *3 international experts* who could referee this  
> proposal, providing the following information for each person:
> a) specific area(s) of expertise and related keywords
> b) full contact details (email is required), including personal web- 
> page if available.
> The ESF may approach 1 of these suggested experts.
> Proposed participants in a workshop as well as Standing Committee  
> members should not be listed as potential referees."
>
> Suggestions please!
>
> I'm now wondering whether John U. would not be better as a reviewer  
> than a participant, especially since Arianna reminds me that paying  
> his expenses from the ESF budget may be problematic.
>
> I'll big up the I18n a bit in the abstract./
>
>
>
>
> /
>
> Laurent Romary wrote:
>> 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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