Exploring Applications of the Text Encoding Initiative for Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Summer Workshop
2,3, and 4 June
A collaboration of Wheaton and Mount Holyoke Colleges
supported by a grant from the CET.
Locations
BH: Balfour-Hood
Mars: Mars Arts and Humanities
SC: Science Center
WL: Wallace Library
Watson: Watson Fine Arts Center
(See location map for building locations)
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Summer Workshop Quicklinks
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Day One: Wednesday 2 June
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| 8:30-9:00 | Gathering -- sign-in, coffee -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Welcome -- Susanne Woods (Provost, Wheaton College),
Terry Metz (College Librarian and Associate Vice President for
Technology and Information Services, Wheaton College), Owen
Ellard (Director of Research and Instructional Support, Library,
Information and Technology Services, Mt Holyoke College), &
Kathy Ebert-Zawasky (Director, Academic Computing, Wheaton College)
-- Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 9:20-10:00 |
Presentation -- Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project
Director, Associate Director for Textbase Development, Scholarly Technology
Group,Brown University) offers conceptual introduction, focusing on
the history of TEI (including archival projects such as the WWP) --
Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 10:00-10:40 |
Presentation -- David Gants (Canada Research
Chair in Humanities Computing, University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, NB) offers conceptual introduction, focusing on
scholarly / pedagogical uses of the TEI -- Watson,
Ellison Lecture |
| 10:40-11:00 | Refreshment Break -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 11-11:30 | Two Local Models -- Mark LeBlanc, Susanne Woods, Judy Aaron & Scott Hamlin discuss the use of the TEI in their connected classes. Sue Cornacchia, Zephorene Stickney, and Deryl Kenney discuss their encoding of the Lucy Larcom special collection. -- Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Open lab -- Sites
using the TEI (such as the Versioning Machine at MITH, as well
as sites mentioned in morning presentations) available for individual
exploration in open lab room -- Mars,
Graphic Design Lab and Language Lab |
| 12:15-1:15 |
Lunch -- Mars, Art
Gallery, 2nd Floor |
| 1:30-4:30 | Hands-on workshop -- Scott Hamlin leads introductory workshop -- SC 102, with 3:00 refreshment break in SC computer museum
- approaches to document analysis
- intro to basic XML tagging
- intro to a restricted TEI tagset and a hands-on tagging module
- fuller hands-on tagging module in which participants encode a to-be-determined short document in the session
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| 4:45-5:45 | Reception -- free-form discussions around thoughts generated by today's sessions -- BH, Admission Deck |
| 6:00 | Dinner -- conference-sponsored dinner on campus -- BH, Café |
| 7:00-9:00 | Open Lab -- (optional) -- SC 102 |
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Day Two: Thursday 3 June
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| 8:30-9:00 | Gathering -- continental breakfast -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 9:00-11:00 |
Project Consulting Roundtable -- Participants
introduce their project concepts to the group; David Gants,
Julia Flanders, and Syd Bauman (Programmer/Analyst, Scholarly
Technology Group, Brown University) respond and field questions
-- Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break -- refreshments -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 11:15-12:15 | Small-group consulting or lab time -- Time with our experts and/or in our open labs to further develop workable project ideas -- Mars, Graphic Design Lab |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch -- WL, Reference Reading Room |
| 1:45-3:45 | Hands-on workshop #2 -- Scott Hamlin leads a session focusing on richer encoding: fuller discussion of TEI tagsets and more hands-on TEI coding time (with one's own materials or with sample texts) -- SC 102, with 2:30 refreshment break in SC Computer Museum |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Ask the Experts -- Syd Bauman, David Gants,
and Julia Flanders address participant questions -- WL,
Reference Reading Room |
| 5:00-6:00 | Wine and Cheese -- free-form discussions around thoughts generated by today's sessions -- WL, Archives |
| evening | Dinner on your own -- various: see suggestions |
| 7:00-9:00 | Open Lab -- (optional) -- SC 102 |
| 8:00 | Trinity Repertory Theater -- optional -- Providence |
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Day Three: Friday 4 June
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| 8:30-9:00 | Gathering -- coffee -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 9:00-9:40 | Presentation -- Syd Bauman presents a general/conceptual introduction to XML-related technologies -- Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 9:40-10:20 |
Technical Models -- Brian Gibson and Scott Hamlin
share Wheaton's approach to XML/XSL support; Kelcy Shepherd
(Project Director, Five College Finding Aid Project) discusses
linkages between EAD-encoded finding aids and TEI-encoded texts.
-- Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 10:20-10:30 | Break -- refreshments -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 10:30-12:00 | Break-out sessions --
Three breakout sessions to meet particular interests of workshop participants:
- Further exploration of scholarly and pedagogical approaches to tagging -- Julia Flanders -- Watson, tba
- Introduction to XSLT -- Shaoping Moss -- Watson, tba
- Library technologies, especially interfaces among TEI, EAD, and MARC -- Kelcy Shepherd
-- Watson, tba
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| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch -- Watson, Haas Concourse |
| 1:30-2:30 | Projects firmed up -- Participants articulate their project ideas in light of workshop developments -- Watson, Ellison Lecture |
| 2:45-3:30 |
Where do we go from here? -- ending session
wrapping things up. Owen Ellard and Kathy Ebert-Zawasky discuss the shaping of both product and process: exploring
the roles of faculty, librarians, and information technology
staff in the formation of a well-rounded TEI support structure,
as well as looking forward to January's workshops. -- Watson,
Ellison Lecture |
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