[open-humanities] Fwd: TEI Hackathon DH2014 workshop (July 7)

Tue Mar 25 13:05:53 UTC 2014

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Subject: 	TEI Hackathon DH2014 workshop (July 7)
Date: 	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:32:31 -0400
From: 	Mylonas, Elli <elli_mylonas at BROWN.EDU>
Reply-To: 	Mylonas, Elli <elli_mylonas at BROWN.EDU>
To: 	<TEI-L at LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU>

With apologies for the cross posting and with a request to please
forward along to other lists and groups.

Call for Participation

We are inviting applications to participate in the TEI Hackathon
full day 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 organisers will provide refreshments during the day, will
make sample texts available if needed, and will help with
software setup where possible. Participants will need to bring
their own laptop computers

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 <mailto: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 if you have any
questions.

Programme committee:

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

Arianna Ciula (ariananciula at roehampton.ac.uk
<mailto: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
<mailto: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
<mailto:elli.mylonas at brown.edu>), TEI Technical Council - Senior
Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University

Sebastian Rahtz (sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk
<mailto: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.

Thank you,    --elli

[Elli Mylonas
   Senior Digital Humanities Librarian
   and
   Center for Digital Scholarship
   University Library
   Brown University
library.brown.edu/cds <http://library.brown.edu/cds>]