[tei-council] anyone for izhevsk?

[Lou]

Back in March, Victor Baranov contacted me and (I believe) Dan O'D about 
presenting a TEI workshop in Russia, similar to the one which I gave in 
Kazan last year. That was a great experience -- the infrastructure 
worked and the students were keen and friendly, and the opportunity to 
meet people from places you've never heard of and can't pronounce anyway 
was  exceptional. So I said I would like to go.

However, after some indecision, the dates are now fixed for this year's 
repeat such that it's really impossible for me to go. So I have written 
apologetically to Victor, withdrawing but also saying I would try to 
find a substitute. Hence this request for help!

The dates for the workshop are 12-15 Oct, and the proposed syllabus is 
attached. If it's like the one I gave in Kazan, it would be possible to 
simply recycle the material from that: all the material is on our 
website at http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2008-08-kazan/, in both 
English and Russian.
The Russian versions were made by Tania Timcenko and by Alexei 
Lavrentiev, whom Council members will remember from our meeting in Lyon. 
He hasn't confirmed it, but it appears that Alexei will be helping with 
this one too, which also makes life much easier for whoever picks up 
this baton.

If you, or anyone you know, is interested, they would need to get back 
to Victor as soon as possible, in order to get visa (etc) arrangements 
under way. Mine took a week and involved queuing for four hours in the 
rain outside the Russian Embassy -- but that's because I am 
disorganised. It would be much appreciated, and would help further 
foster the positive feelings about the TEI currently evident in the 
Russian "cultural heritage" research sector -- a significant market for us.

Lou


> B3-L7BLODD-2:
> Eng. Lecture 7. Introduction to general encoding methods.
> Speakers Lou Burnard, Daniel O'Donnell. Assiatant A.M.Lavrent'ev.
> Duration: 2 h.
> Abstract. 8 hours lectures and 4 hours practice course is targeted to intruduce general TEI references for digital text encoding. Course is destined for those observers, who are concerned in any of liberal arts, have some technical skills (for exaple, know how to use e-mail or Internet) and are interested in electonic texts. This course befits also for technicians, who work with those users. Course has 2 parts:
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> B3-L8BLODD-2:
> Eng. Lecture 8. TEI XML Scheme development using Roma. XML Editor usage for documents comparative check. Speakers Lou Burnard, Daniel O'Donnell. Assiatant A.M.Lavrent'ev. Duration: 2 h. 
> 
> B3-L9BL-2:
> Eng. Lecture 9. TEI Scheme usage. Speaker Lou Burnard. Assiatant A.M.Lavrent'ev. Duration: 2 h.
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> B3-L10BL-2:
> Eng. Eng. Lecture 10. Learning of XML Tools and their usage opportunities. Speaker Lou Burnard. Assiatant A.M.Lavrent'ev.
> Duration: 2 h. 
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> B3-P10_1BL-2; B3-P10_2BL-2:
> Eng. Practice. Special types of materials encoding: manuscripts, historical notes; written texts, spoken texts, linguistical корпусы. Speaker Lou Burnard. Assiatant A.M.Lavrent'ev.
> Duration: 4 h.
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