[tei-council] TEI Hackathon at DH2014

[Mylonas, Elli]

Hi all, this is the call for participation that we will be sending out to
as many venues as we can muster for the hackathon. Is it possible to put
the text up on a part of the TEI site, so the URL is tweet-able?

the date is July 7, which leaves a whole day to attend one of the many
other workshops that are being offered. The conference opens on the evening
of the 8th.

Please comment today, as we'll begin to send it out this weekend.

So far we plan on sending via:
tei-l
humanist
markup-l
centernet
the tei mailing list (conference attendees, etc)
hastac
twitter
I think if anyone has connections to relevant lists that will reach people
in France, Switzerland, Germany or other countries whence would be easier
to attend - we should target those as well. please send suggestions,  And
when we start disseminating, don't hesitate to send to loc

thanks, --elli

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Call for Participation

We are inviting applications to participate in the TEI Hackathon Workshop
that will be held on July 7, 2014, as a pre-conference session at DH2014 (
http://dh2014.org/).

Digital humanists, librarians, publishers, and many others use the Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines to mark up electronic texts, and over
time have created a critical mass of XML — some conforming to known subsets
of the TEI Guidelines, some to individual customizations; in some cases
intricate and dense, in others lean and expedient; some enriched with
extensive external  metadata, others with details marked explicitly in the
text. The fruits of this labor are most often destined for display online
or on paper (!), indexing, and more rarely, visualisation. Techniques of
processing this markup beyond display and indexing are less well-understood
and not accessible to the broad community of users, however, and
programmers sometimes regard TEI XML as over-complex and hard to process.
What We’ll Do

The goal of the hackathon is to make significant progress on a few projects
during one day of work (from 9am to roughly 5.30pm).

Possible projects might include but are not limited to:

   -

   applying visualisation to TEI documents or schemas/ODDs (e.g.
   visualizing the TEI conceptual model)
   -

   mining a large corpus of texts for some data facet and visualising the
   results
   -

   rendering complex markup in an innovative and playful way
   -

   writing input or output filters for existing bits of software
   -

   extending existing TEI software to take advantage of external resources
   such as Zotero
   -

   adding a TEI mode to a web editor
   -

   Programming for multilingual resources


All participants will begin discussing the projects that have been proposed
before the hackathon, and select a small number to be worked on. More
concrete discussion about tools and specs will take place before the date
of the hackathon so participants can hit the ground running during the
hackathon. On the day of the hackathon, participants will form groups, and
work on their projects. Workshop organizers and invited experts will be on
hand to consult on TEI details and strategies of dealing with them.

The organizers will provide sample materials if needed.
Participants

This workshop is intended for reasonably experienced DH practitioners, who
may not hitherto have experimented with TEI XML, as well as those who have
already been using TEI and developing TEI tools. If you don’t fall into
either of these categories, but you have a project that is appropriate for
the hackathon, please apply or contact us directly.
Application process

Applicants will email their application with the following information to
hackathon at tei-c.org.

   -

   Name
   -

   Affiliation
   -

   Contact information (email)
   -

   Skills and experience (to help select projects)
   -

   One or two suggested projects. These don’t have to be described in great
   detail, as they will be discussed and shaped further in June.


   -

   Deadline: Midnight (EST) April 17 (applications received after this date
   will be considered on a rolling basis only if space remains available)
   -

   Notification: by April 30


The selection will be carried out by the programme committee based on
variety of expertise, interest in challenges with broad application,
geographical and gender balance.

Organizers and Experts

Please don’t hesitate to contact the organizers (or
hackathon at tei-c.org)if you have any questions.

Programme committee:

   -

   Hugh Cayless (hugh.cayless at duke.edu), TEI Technical Council - Research
   programmer for the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing
   -

   Arianna Ciula (ariananciula at roehampton.ac.uk), TEI Board of Directors -
   Research Facilitator (Humanities) at the University of Roehampton
   -

   James Cummings (james.cummings at it.ox.ac.uk), TEI Technical Council
   (chair) -  Senior Digital Research Specialist in Academic IT at University
   of Oxford’s IT Services
   -

   Elli Mylonas  (elli.mylonas at brown.edu), TEI Technical Council - Senior
   Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University
   -

   Sebastian Rahtz (sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk), TEI Technical Council -
   Director of Academic IT at University of  Oxford’s IT Services



Other TEI and DH experts

   -

   Syd Bauman, Senior XML programmer analyst at Northeastern University
   Digital Scholarship Group
   -

   Alexander Czmiel, researcher in Digital Humanities at the
   Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities


Follow up

Participants will have the option of applying for a grant of up to $1000
from the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium to allow them to finish their
work and make it available to others. Details for this competition will be
provided after the workshop has taken place.

This workshop is being sponsored by the TEI Consortium (
http://www.tei-c.org/) which will provide lunch, coffee and snacks.