Lou Burnard guest of the University of Warsaw: What is the Text Encoding Initiative? (and how did it get to be that way?)

-”The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) was born in a period before the existence of the World Wide Web, or even the Channel Tunnel, but in a historical context which has determined much of what we now take for granted. In this talk I will try to trace how its evolution has both determined and been determined by the ongoing confrontation between technological development and humanities scholarship. I will argue that the TEI represents one of the first and perhaps amongst the most significant scholarly multination collaborations to have been facilitated by the internet, and that its current organization reflects the best hope we have for community-based development.” "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) was born before the World Wide Web and even the Channel Tunnel, in a historical context that determined much of what we now take for granted. In my talk I will try to trace how its evolution determined the ongoing confrontation between technological development and the humanities, to which it itself was subject. I believe that TEI is one of the first and probably the most significant examples of international scientific cooperation, and that its current organization reflects our greatest hopes for community-based development." Location: "old" UW campus, room 106, (former Computer Science Center), 17:18.30 p.m. As a supplement to the lecture at 2014:25.01 p.m., Dr. Joanna Bilińska (UW) will present a book by Lou Burnard, translated by herself, entitled "What is the Text Encoding Initiative? How to add intelligent markup to digital resources" (Open Edition Press, Marseille, 2011). He will also present several examples of TEI from the aforementioned book, along with their Polish equivalents. Note: You will need a laptop with Internet access. Limited number of places for the tutorial! Participants are asked to register before Sunday (70) by sending their applications to: delab@uw.edu.pl Lou Burnard is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he obtained an MA in English. He was deputy director of the Oxford University Computing Services, and in 2005 he took early retirement and currently works as a consultant, mainly in France. Since the XNUMXs he has worked at the intersection of computer science and philology. He was responsible for many different projects, including the creation of the Oxford Text Archive, the British National Corpus and the short-lived British Arts and Humanities Data Service. He is known mainly as one of the creators of TEI and continues to work on the development and maintenance of this system as a member of the TEI Technical Council. Dr Joanna Bilińska is a graduate of Polish studies and Slavic cultural studies; since XNUMX she has been associated with the Department of Formal Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. She is interested in lexicography, the use of computer tools in linguistics and digitalization.