I'm looking for feedback from other PG volunteers. There will be a four-day "humanities computing Summer Institute" taking place in my city in June, as described here: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ It looks as if its main focus will be on digitizing texts using the tei dtd. Any ideas on how worthwhile it would be participating in this? Andrew
The relevance of the workshops and conference depend mostly on what James has planned for the UniBook back-end. James, are you planning to implement TEI / XSL / FO? (Actually, any info about UniBook would be really useful to me, as I've started to think about the site front-end, but can't go very far unless I know what the back-end looks like.) At work, I'm doing a DocBook XSL implementation right now. The issues are similar enough that I might be able to swing a seminar and conference attendance on the company's tab. (DocBook is like TEI, only it's optimized for generating printed reference books.) Too bad we don't have a little pot of money we could use to send people to events like these. Can I hope (request) that getting our non-profit status established is on the agenda for the upcoming meeting in Toronto? jen. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:00:37 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
I'm looking for feedback from other PG volunteers.
There will be a four-day "humanities computing Summer Institute" taking place in my city in June, as described here:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/
It looks as if its main focus will be on digitizing texts using the tei dtd.
Any ideas on how worthwhile it would be participating in this?
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Just to avoid confusing other PG volunteers too much, I'll state that most of Jen's message was regarding issues for the slowly emerging PG Canada. Any general feedback on the value of a conference such as I mentioned would still be welcome... Andrew On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jen Zed wrote:
The relevance of the workshops and conference depend mostly on what
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My apologies, I didn't notice that Andrew's original post was on the PG (as opposed to the PG Canada) list. jen. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:17:18 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
Just to avoid confusing other PG volunteers too much, I'll state that most of Jen's message was regarding issues for the slowly emerging PG Canada.
Any general feedback on the value of a conference such as I mentioned would still be welcome...
Andrew
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jen Zed wrote:
The relevance of the workshops and conference depend mostly on what
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Jen Zed wrote:
The relevance of the workshops and conference depend mostly on what James has planned for the UniBook back-end. James, are you planning to implement TEI / XSL / FO?
TEI will be implemented as an input/output format, yes. It will have nothing to do with the internal workings of the system. XSL isn't needed - the application doesn't rely on transformations of any kind.
(Actually, any info about UniBook would be really useful to me, as I've started to think about the site front-end, but can't go very far unless I know what the back-end looks like.)
I'm still working on the tech docs -- the 6 pages of docs that we put on the wiki took me almost two weeks -- tech docs are going to be about 6 pages - per section!
At work, I'm doing a DocBook XSL implementation right now. The issues are similar enough that I might be able to swing a seminar and conference attendance on the company's tab. (DocBook is like TEI, only it's optimized for generating printed reference books.)
My demo app (on ibiblio) has an experimental docbook output... when it comes time, I know who I'm going to ask for help to implement that module. :-)
Too bad we don't have a little pot of money we could use to send people to events like these. Can I hope (request) that getting our non-profit status established is on the agenda for the upcoming meeting in Toronto?
Meeting in Toronto? What meeting? -- James
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