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

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

If this works for everybody. There could be some external people as 
well. Because of time-lines, we should play as much as possible to 
everybody's strengths and current work.

I am willing to pull it together, though I'd appreciate some assistance.

Perhaps the thing for me (or perhaps better a couple of us) to do is 
read through the RFI in detail tonight and propose an approach and break 
down of the sections (Sebastian, would you be interested given Oxford's 
interest in participating in any eventual bid as an institution?). Then 
we solicit these from one or more council members each and perhaps also 
external experts and/or members, where they have particular 
expertise--e.g. in mass digitization work-flows, markup of modern 
manuscript texts, facsimile and text linking, etc.

I think it sounds like a cool idea. We certainly have access to all the 
expertise from intellectual content to workflow.


Laurent Romary wrote:
> I anticipate you compile the thing. We need volunter on:
> - XML/TEI (Oxford?, by cpying and pasting from the ISO stuff)
> - Some generic words on textual transcription (David, Peter, ?)
> - A little thingy on fac similes (Gaby)
> Since ot initiated the hint, she could volunteer for some proofreading.
> Action?
> Laurent
>
>
> Le 1 juil. 09 à 21:39, Daniel Paul O'Donnell a écrit :
>
>> 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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>>>>
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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/
>>
>>
>

-- 
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/