LingSIG: Call for micropresentations

A copy of the email sent to the LingSIG list on 6/09/2011:

The LingSIG meeting (call for micropresentations)

Dear All,

This list has been silent for too long while most of us have been pursuing our own projects, many of which at least brush against the TEI or markup in general, as applied to linguistic description. As we said in our meeting last year, having one's own TEI-related project is a precondition for a sustainable SIG, but what has been drastically missing is exchange with others, and it's high time we did something about that, the more so that the TEI of today needs this just as badly as some of us need the TEI.

The October TEI-MM [1] will include a meeting of the SIG, on Friday the 14th, between 11-12:30h, in room ZHSG 1.004. I suggest that we devote a part of it to brief presentations of SIG-related projects that we are involved in. This is meant primarily to integrate us as a subgroup of TEI enthusiasts/practitioners, and the micropresentations (ca. 5-7 minutes, to be decided based on the number of 'registrants') should ideally focus either on the applicability of the current TEI recommendations to our research goals or on why and where the TEI failed to satisfy them. The proposed presentation format forces brevity and is meant to provide fodder for a general group discussion that will follow. Further elaboration on these topics will be made possible in the context of the special issue of the TEI Journal, a seriously revised call for which will be announced shortly.

[1]: http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/

Please register your interest in participating in this microsession directly with me, either at bansp@o2.pl or at banski@ids-mannheim.de, preferably by sketching the theme/title of your intended presentation.

Because of the ongoing vacation season, let the deadline be September 26, after which I will e-mail everyone involved with information on the projected presentation length and post the list of presenters in our corner of the TEIWiki.

With best regards and hope for a lively SIG meeting,

Piotr