Re: [tei-council] Workshop@TEI conference

Hi Syd— I agree—one can cover a lot of ground quickly and help people rusty with processing XML with a workshop on XPath, even one of just two hours. It might be possible to orient people to TEI of various interesting kinds if we teach XPath as a means of reading and navigating it, on some interesting sample TEI documents. My experience is a lot of XPath instruction at the heart of the coding classes I have been teaching to university students. Should we try it for the Tokyo conference? Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD Director, Center for the Digital Text Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601 USA E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu | Development site: http://newtfire.org Typeset by hand on my iPad

On Apr 17, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Syd Bauman wrote:

Only 1 day for an intro TEI workshop is certainly doable, but short changes things a bit, IMHO. I haven't a clue what kind of audience we expect for workshops in Japan. But my instinct is that getting someone who is not already TEI-literate up to speed enough that the rest of the conference makes sense in 1 day is a tall order.[1]

Perhaps an XPath workshop, as Elisa suggests, is a better idea. (Of course there is nothing stopping us from proposing both.)

Notes ----- [1] Especially if there are language barriers, which there were somewhat last time we were in Japan. Communication went well in English -- I can only count and say a 1/2-dozen nouns in Japanese, none of which are "element" or "attribute" :-) -- but was often slower than with a group of native English speakers.

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Syd, you are correct that I am teaching an intro workshop based on the WWP curriculum soon, so I'd be happy to reprise it in Japan. Is there some boilerplate language that we could used to get the proposal started? -- tei-council mailing list tei-council@lists.tei-c.org http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/tei-council

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