WWP Advanced Seminars on Scholarly Text Encoding

In 2008, we received a grant from the NEH Institutes in Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities to support a series of advanced seminars on special topics in scholarly text encoding, building on our two-year introductory seminar series. This program will support six seminars between July 2009 and June 2011.

The advanced seminar series focuses on two topics:

• Manuscript encoding: These workshops will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup.
• Contextual information: These workshops will focus on TEI methods for formalizing and representing information about context: named entities such as people and places, thematic analysis and keywords, text classification, glossaries and annotations.

The seminar schedule is as follows:

University of California, Santa Barbara
September 14-16, 2009
Hosted by the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Transliteracies Project
This workshop focused on the encoding of contextual information.

University of Maryland, College Park
January 20-22, 2010
Hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.
The application deadline is past.

Brown University
April 8-10, 2010
Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship
This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information.
Application deadline: December 15, 2009
Applicants will be notified by January 8.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
July 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA)
Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.

University at Buffalo
October 2010 (precise date and deadlines TBA)
Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.

University of Maryland
January 2011 (precise date and deadlines TBA)
Hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information.

Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.

For more information, please contact us at WWP@brown.edu.