On Monday January 26, 2015 Lou BURNARD (Oxford/Paris) gave a lecture:
What is the Text Encoding Initiative? (And how did it get to be that way?)
Lou Burnard: "TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) It was born before the World Wide Web and even the Channel Tunnel, in a historical context that has determined much of what we now take for granted. In my talk I will try to trace how its evolution has determined, and has been subject to, the ongoing confrontation between technological developments and the humanities. I believe that TEI represents 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.”
Lou Burnard He graduated from the University of Oxford, where he earned an MA in English. He was Deputy Director of Oxford University Computing Services before taking early retirement in 2011 and now works as a consultant, mainly in France. He has worked at the interface between computer science and philology since the 70s. He has been responsible for a wide range of projects, including the creation of the Oxford Text Archive, the British National Corpus and the short-lived UK Arts and Humanities Data Service. He is best known as one of the founders of TEI and continues to work on its development and maintenance as a member of the TEI Technical Board.
As a supplement to the lecture at 18.30:XNUMX p.m. Dr. Joanna Bilinska (UW) presented a book by Lou Burnard that she translated, entitled What is the Text Encoding Initiative? How to add intelligent markup to digital resources (Open Edition Press, Marseille, 2014). She presented several examples of TEI from the aforementioned book along with their Polish equivalents.
Location: room 106, UW campus (former Computer Science Centre), 17:00 p.m.