Seminar on Scholarly Text Encoding

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Application deadline: May 30, 2008.

This three-day seminar is being held at Texas A&M University from Friday, September 12 through Sunday, September 14, 2008. It is part of a two-year program of seminars on scholarly text encoding sponsored by an NEH grant awarded to the Brown University Women Writers Project. More information about the seminar series is available at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ encoding/seminars/index.html. The seminar leaders are Julia Flanders, Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development for the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University, and Syd Bauman, Senior Programmer/Analyst for the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University and North American Editor of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Participants need not be currently working on a digital humanities project involving encoded transcription of textual material, but should be seriously considering such work in the future or be actively engaged in a research program in digital humanities for which text encoding would be relevant. Part of the funding for this seminar series goes to provide consultation and advice following the seminar, including assistance with writing grant proposals, advice and assistance on developing TEI schemas and documentation, and guidance on text encoding issues.