Teaching TEI and Open Source, Easy-to-Use XML Editor

• MD needs to add email discussion info for context. For now, my messy notes. Will clean up soon!

• Elena Gonzalez-Blanco had a poster for a great editor, very simple — developed for Spanish-speaking humanists … Kathryn will look at using at … optimized for using TEI Simple … made for the TEI … Elena is willing to adapt for English language —
  • TEIScribe is the name of the tool ….
  • Alpha release …
  • Web-based …
• Push the call to the french community to DIXIT network … not much success … Has not been updated since Piotr …
• Study of the ideal XML editor for scholars and librarians … performed by French … lots of graphs … not focused on teaching the TEI … Important to see what Students think are important, not just teachers …
• Proposal to Board … could commission and pay for a preliminary study …
• Hugh looked at Jedit plugins … (maybe get 80%)
• TEIScribe
• Morph into a SIG …. proposal to form a SIG … target platforms … Jumpstarting a SIG …. figuring out what it would take to get
• Over email — strategy for a SIG … Not sure to make it too big … We have a simple problem … and a few possible solutions …
• Commission a study to evaluate the existing resources … Not find good-will for the community or find funding ….
• Next step for implementing …. grant-funding …