[tei-council] NASA looking to digitize Wernher von Braun's Notes

Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 15:39:32 EDT 2009


Well, as I look at the RFI, I can see that we could distribute it. There 
is a general section to be written on XML and TEI, something to be 
written on facsimiles and on textual transcription within the TEI, 
something on use cases, and then something on digitization.

Laurent Romary wrote:
> That's a very good summary of a feasible strategy. Who would volunteer 
> to take the lead on this (from council or board)?
> Laurent
>
> Le 30 juin 09 à 23:07, Daniel Paul O'Donnell a écrit :
>
>> So, shall we propose a TEI answer to the RFI, which helps us position
>> ourselves as an organisation, perhaps in cooperation with some members
>> who would be interested in proposing a bid in response to and RFP should
>> things get that far?
>>
>> We'd need to run this by the Board if it is to be a TEI answer to the
>> RFI, and I'd say we might want to put out a call for interested parties
>> to work with us and, if it gets that far, submit any actual bids. But I
>> think that might be a very good approach: the TEI as a semi-standards
>> organisation is in a good position to give relatively distinterested
>> answers to the RFI; and by associating with the TEI on the RFI, members
>> who might be interested in submitting a bid help profile themselves
>> early in the process.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>> -dan
>>
>>
>>
>> David Sewell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> certainly I think Oxford would be interested in joining a tender
>>>> if we get that far. I wonder if NASA would allow non-US offers?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Considering the background of Wernher von Braun, it would be intensely
>>> ironic if they did not...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Daniel Paul O'Donnell
>> Associate Professor of English
>> University of Lethbridge
>>
>> Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
>> Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of 
>> America
>> President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société 
>> pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
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-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)

Vox: +1 403 329-2377
Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental)
Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/




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