No worries--I have added it belatedly.
Regarding TEI workshop proposal:
We haven’t received a call of session yet, so it is just something I would like to suggest to the organizers of this International conference. I think it can be a good opportunity to introduce TEI to neophytes.
A suggestion of TEI workshop for Assyriologists which needs to be improved of course:
- Morning session, TEI intensive overview based from Assyriological data:
- What is TEI?
- How TEI can help Assyriologists to improve their research wether it’s for philology, paleography, anthropology or other archaeological purposes (including a practical example with a list of goals for a specific project in order to be used (later during
the morning session) to look for the good <elements> and @attributes).
- What must a TEI practitioner need to know (TEI, ODD, XPath, XSLT, CSS) and why?
- Short pratical examples: TEI (teiCorpus), XPath, XSLT (via Oxygen + preview in a browser).
- How to read/use the guidelines (1) (used simultaneously with the practical examples).
- Afternoon session:
- How to read/use the guidelines (2).
- What software to use and where to find assistance regarding this software?
- Overview of TEI community and how to use Github in order to ask assistance to TEI community.
- First step (suggestion to TEI tech council) to neophyte: TEI online mentoring, who, why and how?
As for the morning session, I suggest working on a few practical examples (very short) that participants will send prior to the workshop in order to allow them to have a better idea of how TEI can help them.
In addition, on a handout: a list of univ. who propose TEI/Xpath/XSLT training and online course (i.e.: Marjorie and Elena online training).
After the sessions, I suggest giving a short questionnaire in order to list the needs of Assyriologists and how we can improve our guidelines/assistance to them.
What do you think?
Of course it means I’ll need support for this intensive day—from my university (i.e. Peter Stokes if he’s available during summer time) or a TEI tech council colleague (in Europe?).
In advance, thanks for your kind advices.
Best,
Vanessa