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Sat Apr 5 1997

FYI: The Text Encoding Summer School

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    Message 1: The Text Encoding Summer School

     Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:06:46 +0100
    From: Lou Burnard <louvax.ox.ac.uk>
    Subject: The Text Encoding Summer School


    TESS: The Text Encoding Summer School

    Organised by Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit

    8th-11th July, 1997 Oxford University

    hcuoucs.ox.ac.uk http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/tess/

    The Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford is pleased to announce that applications are now invited for our first TEXT ENCODING SUMMER SCHOOL, to be held in Oxford 8 - 11 July.

    Course Aims

    By the end of the summer school delegates will:

    * have hands-on experience of digitising texts using OCR * understand the principles of document analysis * understand the basics of the Standard Generalised Mark-Up Language (SGML) * have hands-on experience of marking up an electronic text using the Text Encoding Initiative's TEILite Document Type Definition * have hands-on experience of SGML authoring and browsing software * understand the issues involved in distributing SGML documents * gain basic knowledge of the range of SGML-aware software products available * have practical experience of marking up a complete document in SGML and delivering it via the Internet

    Course Structure

    The course will combine presentations, discussions, and practical work in small groups. All teaching will be carried out by members of the Humanities Computing Unit, based at Oxford University Computing Services.

    Teaching and Hands-on Sessions will run from 0900 to 1700 daily, (with breaks for coffee and lunch), Wednesday to Friday, at Oxford University Computing Service's newly-opened training suite, which is a few minutes walk from Somerville College.

    During the evenings, delegates will be able to use the facilities of the Centre for Humanities Computing (also based at OUCS), where they will have access to a wide range of networked software and the Internet. The summer school will begin on the evening of the 8th July with a drinks reception and finish on the evening of Friday 11th when there will be a banquet at Somerville College.

    Course Pre-Requisites

    Those attending the Summer School will be expected to put in a considerable amount of work, using as material a piece of text relating to a specified project which they are undertaking or planning to undertake at their home institution. Applications for places (see below) will be appraised with this in mind.

    No knowledge of SGML or detailed computing expertise is required. However, since the course is intended to cover a lot of practical ground fairly rapidly, attendees will be expected to have some previous experience of at least one of the following:

    * one or more word-processing packages running under Microsoft Windows (3.1 or W95) * one or more UNIX text-preparation programs * HTML mark-up and web browsing on any platform

    Cost

    The cost of the Summer School is set at 250.00 (sterling). A limited amount of places will be made available to members of Oxford University at the cost of 150.00. This price includes:

    * Registration for the course * Non-ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation at Somerville College for the nights of the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th of July * Lunch and coffee 9-11 July * Complete and extensive course documentation * End of course banquet

    Note that Dinner is not provided on the 8th, 9th, or 10th.

    Extra nights accommodation either before or after the course are available on request at the cost of 28.00 (sterling) per night (includes breakfast).

    The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/

    The Humanities Computing Unit has three main objectives: * to provide expertise, training, and consultancy in the uses of information technology within the Humanities disciplines; * to facilitate and promote access to a variety of high quality scholarly electronic resources for use in research and teaching within the Humanities disciplines;

    * to carry out research and development in the applications of information technology to the Humanities disciplines.

    The HCU brings together many well established projects at Oxford University: The Centre for Humanities Computing; The Oxford Text Archive; The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies; The British National Corpus; the Text Encoding Initiative; and the JISC Technology Applications Programme project 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature'.

    How To Apply

    Only 20 places are available at the Summer School, and we expect it to be heavily oversubscribed. You are therefore advised to apply as soon as possible.

    Your application must be accompanied by a 250-word description of the project for which you think the experience gained on the Summer School will be useful. You are strongly recommended to provide a sample of the kind of material relevant to your project (e.g. a photocopy of a few pages of the documents you intend to digitize) with your application.

    Please complete the application form at http://info.ox.ac.uk/humanities/tess/

    and return it to us no later than Friday 2nd May. Successful applicants will be notified by the 19th May.