SeminarPlanning

WWP Local Seminars

The WWP runs seminars at Brown on a variety of topics, both grant-funded and fee-based. We also do workshops at other institutions.

Scheduled and to be scheduled

Firm commitments:

• Brown, October 15-17, 2012
• Brown, December 12-14, 2012
• Yale, March 28-30, 2013
• DHSI, June 10-14, 2013

To be scheduled:

• UIUC (presumably February 2013)
• University of Delaware (probably April 2013)
• University of Mexico (probably fall 2013)
• Brown Teaching with TEI (2013)
• Brown Publishing TEI (2013)
• Brown Customization (2013)
• Brown Intro to TEI (2013, just on general principles\!)

Outstanding grant proposals:

• Ryerson College, Toronto (2013-2015, up to three workshops)

Inquiries (no concrete followup):

• Indiana University Perdue University of Indiana (Ali Zimmerman wrote in January 2012)
• Princeton University (Maryam Patton wrote in August 2012)
• Northeastern University (perhaps spring 2013? Elizabeth Dillon wrote in June 2012)
• Columbia University (Barbara Rockenbach wrote in April 2012)

Seminar Topics

We currently have the following as standard topics with an established curriculum:

• Introduction to TEI
• Introduction to TEI encoding of MSS
• Introduction to encoding contextual information
• Introduction to TEI for documentary editing
• Introduction to TEI customization
• Introduction to XSLT for digital humanists
• Advanced Manuscript Encoding (case study model)
• Advanced Contextual Encoding (case study model)
• Teaching with TEI

Future topics to develop:

• Basic tools for digital humanists (timeline, mapping, & something else)
• TEI and the Semantic Web
• Schema-writing for digital humanists
• Special topics in TEI (e.g. oral history, public humanities, TEI for archivists)
• Publication tools (e.g. Cocoon, XTF, eXist)

h2. Cost model

For local workshops (at Brown), the current cost model is $150/day regular price, $100/day discounted (students, TEI members). All those we consulted felt that this was reasonable. We've thus been charging $450/$300 for a three-day workshop.

For workshops we do at other institutions, if the workshop is "out of the box" (i.e. uses an existing curriculum) the current cost model is $2000 for WWP, plus $1000 per instructor where overnight travel is required. For workshops requiring development of substantial new material, the instructor honorarium stays the same but the WWP fee increases (depending on the scale of work required). If the institution hosting the workshop is not a TEI member, we charge an additional $500 which goes to purchase a 1-year div3 TEI membership.