<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear DiXiT community,<br><br></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">we are happy to announce another camp on X-technologies (this time advanced) at the Centre for Information Modeling at the University of Graz. The camp is organized and run by the Institute for Documentology and Digital Editing and our Centre here in Graz, and endorsed by DiXiT. <br><br>There are places reserved for all DiXiT fellows who want to attend and the participation will be free of charge. For more information take a look in the following announcement.<br><br></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best and happy Christmas,<br><br></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Georg and Frederike<br><br></span></font><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">We are very pleased to announce the <b>Spring
School</b> on <b><i>Advanced XML/TEI technologies for Digital Scholarly
Editions</i></b> organized and endorsed by the the Institute<i> </i>for
Documentology<i> </i>and Digital Editing<i> </i>(IDE) and the Digital Scholarly
Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT). The spring school will be run and
held at the at the <b>Centre for Information Modelling – Austrian Centre for
Digital Humanities at the University of Graz </b>from <b>13th to 17th April
2015</b>.</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">The spring school is directed to
participants with previous experience in XML/TEI editing who would like to involve
themselves more intensively with the creation of digital scholarly editions
based on the international encoding standard XML TEI P5. Besides addressing
specific issues and use cases of text encoding, the participants will be
trained what to do with the data once the encoding is done and how to process
it further until the publication on the WWW. To this end the teaching will
strongly focus on XPath, XSLT, HTML and CSS as technologies for the web
publication of digital scholarly editions. </span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Since the level of this spring school is
advanced, previous knowledge of TEI practices is not only recommended but
necessary for participation<b>.</b></span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">The lectures will be held by experts
from the field of Digital Scholarly Editing, related to the DiXiT network or
the IDE (James Cummings, Franz Fischer, Ulrike Henny, Frederike Neuber, Torsten
Schaßan, Martina Semlak, Magdalena Turska, Gunter Vasold, Georg Vogeler). Tara
Andrews (Univ. of Bern) has agreed to give a keynote.</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">The School will cover the following
areas:</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

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<ul><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">issues when
working with XML TEI P5 (to be proposed by the participants)</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">customization
of the TEI schema</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">creating web
pages with HTML/CSS and JavaScript and JQuery</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">transforming the TEI XML with XSLT/XPath</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">publishing
frameworks for digital scholarly editions</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">use cases for
research on and with digital scholarly editions</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></li></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">The <b>IDE-<i>meets-</i>DiXiT<i> </i>Spring
School</b> on <b><i>Advanced XML/TEI technologies for Digital Scholarly
Editions</i></b> is open to interested scholars<b> </b>anywhere in the world
with previous experience in digital scholarly editing with the TEI. As the
course will strongly focus on practical exercise, we can accept only
applications which can bring own material for the exercises. All teaching will
be in English.</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">The course offers 20 positions.
Participants will be required to arrange their own accommodation and travel to
Graz. The participation fee will be 100 EUR. A limited number of bursaries will
be available for the participation fee, travel and accommodation in particular
for participants from less developed countries and from Eastern Europe.</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%">Application closes
on 10</span></b><b>^{<span style="line-height:115%">st</span>}</b><b><span style="line-height:115%"> February 2015</span></b><span style="line-height:115%"> and early registration is highly recommended.</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">For the application we need from you</span></span></font></p>

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<ul><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">your name, address, e-mail,
institutional affiliation (if applicable)</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">a short description of your project</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-ndve0PQrcFwjaU21lhhX-1oybtx4mYD5pz-WsEPYZ0/viewform"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none">this online
questionnaire</span></a></span></span></font></li></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">If you want to be considered for the
bursary please give indicate</span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p>

<ul><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">approximate amount for travel and
accommodation expenses</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">do you need a reduction on the
participation fee?</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">academic status (graduate student, PhD
student, PostDoc, fully trained scholar, other)</span></span></font></li></ul>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Please send your application and any
question you have to </span><span style="line-height:115%"><a href="mailto:dixit@uni-graz.at"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none">dixit@uni-graz.at</span></a></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">We will publish further information on
the school at <a href="http://www.i-d-e.de/aktivitaeten/schools/spring-school-2015"><span>http://www.i-d-e.de/aktivitaeten/schools/spring-school-2015</span></a></span></span></font></p>

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