WWP Seminars on Scholarly Text Encoding

The Women Writers Project has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a series of twelve seminars and workshops on scholarly text encoding, aimed at humanities faculty and graduate students. These events will be held between January 2007 and December 2008 at humanities centers, digital research centers, and conferences.

The goal of this initiative is two-fold: first, to provide humanities faculty and students with an opportunity to examine the significance of text encoding as a scholarly practice, through a combination of discussion and practical experimentation. And second, to provide supporting resources for humanities researchers who want to experiment with text encoding on their own, or would like to start or become involved with a digital research project. The resources and events listed below are all aimed at faculty and students in the humanities who have little or no technical experience but are interested in digital textuality. In addition to providing support in grappling with the technical topics, these resources also engage with the scholarly issues that surround these technologies.

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Seminars: locations and dates

Locations and dates for the events in this series are as follows (with more information as it becomes available):

March 15, 2007: Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
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May 14-15, 2007: University of California, Los Angeles
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September 19-21, 2007: Transliteracies Project, University of California, Santa Barbara
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October 4-5, 2007: Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (held in conjunction with the Nebraska Digital Workshop)
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January 8-10, 2008: University of Buffalo
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April 30-May 2, 2008: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland
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June 16-17, 2008: Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
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July 22-24, 2008: Miami University of Ohio
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September 12-14, 2008: College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
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October, 2008: Wheaton College, Massachusetts
January 13-15, 2009: Northwestern University

Support and consultation

No matter how engaging these seminars prove to be, they cannot answer all the questions that will arise and they cannot in themselves make it possible for participants to become confident, engaged critics, creators, and leaders of digital text projects. To ensure that the interests and ideas arising from the seminars receive ongoing support, this grant also funds a number of activities and resources intended to provide longer-term advice and consultation, as well as a place where participants and others interested in the field can go to find out more. These include:

project consultation for participants who are thinking about starting or getting involved with a digital project
advice on writing grant proposals for digital text projects
support in creating TEI schemas and customizations
advice on digital editing, authoring, and publication
information on staffing, funding, project management
the opportunity to ask questions of any kind: we welcome them all

If your institution is participating in this grant and you'd like to get advice or information, please contact us at WWP@brown.edu. Even if you're not at a participating institution, please feel free to write—we may be able to help and we'll be happy to try.

Resources

What is the TEI? Basic information for those starting from scratch
Sample curricula
Readings