Re: Digital Mitford Coding School, June 27 - July 1, 2017

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Dear friends and colleagues the TEI community,
We haven't yet filled our roster for the Digital Mitford Coding School, so
we're extending the registration deadline!
*Please register by 25 May* (or at least write to me by that point so that
I can see whether we have space: see http://bit.ly/digMit2017 ). Registrati=
on
is quite affordable: $180 for graduate students and adjunct instructors,
and $300 for full-time faculty, librarians, and editors, and there is no
additional cost for housing on Pitt-Greensburg's campus. Participants are
encouraged to seek support from their host institutions for travel
expenses. For
those staying on campus, arrivals are on Tues. 27 June, and departures on
Saturday 1 July, and the school is in session for full days (9 - 5:30ish)
from Wed. through Fri. 28 -30 June.

Our Coding School is a few years old now, and each year we offer
opportunities for interested new, beginning, or ongoing textual scholars to
learn digital scholarly editing with us by working with Digital Mitford
materials. Those especially interested in Mary Russell Mitford (or our
cluster of related topics on women writers, theaters, annuals,
life-writing, and publishing contexts from the 18th and 19th centuries)
have an opportunity to join our editing team after our Coding School
experience. We've been doing this for a few years now, and this has been
increasing our community of involved coders.

You'll emerge with perspective, tools, and resource knowledge to begin
building your own project, or, if you like, to help us build ours. In the
space of 3-4 days, participants gain experience with:

   - textual scholarship and paleography (working primarily with
   19th-century manuscript letters and publications)
   - best practices and sustainable formats for preparing digital scholarly
   editions
   - ideas for involving students at all levels in the digital scholarly
   editing experience
   - how to work with TEI XML to make an information architecture and
   database. This includes:
      - Autotagging and regular expression matching to =E2=80=9Cup-convert=
=E2=80=9D plain
      text, and old word-processed documents and dated formats into XML mar=
kup
      - Hands-on experience with XPath and code schema design for project
      management and data analysis
      - For those ready (returning and advanced coders), experience writing
      XSLT to publish editions and process informative charts and data
      visualizations

As in past Coding Schools, our experienced student coders from
Pitt-Greensburg's Center for the Digital Text will be on hand throughout
the experience to help when anyone gets stuck. Members of the Digital
Mitford editing team will also be there to take in a review of coding, work
on their editing assignments, and help with the orientation. One of the
unusual features of our Coding School is that we combine it with our
editors' face-to-face coding and planning workshop, which gives Coding
School participants a unique opportunity to gain an insider perspective on
an ongoing digital project with lots of collaboration!

For more information and link to the registration form, please see
http://bit.ly/digMit2017 . Please share with any colleagues or students you
know who would benefit from participating. We accept all levels of learner
here, and the only qualification is really your interest in the topics
described here. NO background is necessary: our Coding School is meant to
be an immersive experience that establishes a solid foundation for
continued learning.

We look forward to another lively Coding School and discussion this year.
Thanks for reading, sharing, and responding!

Cheers,
Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Lead Editor and Organizer, Digital Mitford: http://digitalmitford.org
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Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD
Director, Center for the Digital Text | Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Humanities Division
150 Finoli Drive
Greensburg, PA  15601  USA
E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Development site: http://newtfire.org

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Elisa Beshero-Bondar <[email protected]> wrote=
:

> Dear members of the TEI community,
> Please consider joining us at Pitt-Greensburg for our coding school, to b=
e
> held June 27 - July 1, 2017, and please share our announcement with those
> in your communities who may be interested.
>
> The Digital Mitford team offers an unusual opportunity to gain hands-on
> experience with coding and textual scholarship by working with materials
> from an active digital project. We welcome past coding school participant=
s
> and new coders alike, and participants in the Coding School with interest=
s
> in women writers sometimes join the editing team.
>
> Registration is $180 for graduate students and adjunct instructors, and
> $300 for full-time faculty, librarians, and editors, and there is no
> additional cost for housing on Pitt-Greensburg's campus. Participants are
> encouraged to seek support from their host institutions for travel
> expenses.
>
> All participants can expect to gain experience with decision-making with
> TEI, regular expression matching to construct XML from text and other
> document formats, and with XPath and its applications. In discussing the
> TEI, I'll also be sharing my experience in the past year as a member of t=
he
> TEI Technical Council, working on maintaining and updating the Guidelines=
.
>
> Those participants wishing to begin with XPath may elect to gain
> experience in transforming and publishing XML to build digital editions a=
nd
> process markup as data for analysis and visualization. We ask that people
> indicate their background and what they hope to learn with us in an e-mai=
l
> of interest directed to me at ebb8 at pitt.edu.
>
> E-mails of interest should be sent me between now and April 3 so we can
> work out how best to plan the Coding School. Registration fees will be du=
e
> May 15. For more information and how to apply, please see
> http://bit.ly/digMit2017
>
> Thanks for reading and sharing!
> Elisa
>
> --
> Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD
> Director, Center for the Digital Text | Associate Professor of English
> University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Humanities Division
> 150 Finoli Drive
> Greensburg, PA  15601  USA
> E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Development site: http://newtfire.org
>



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Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD
Director, Center for the Digital Text | Associate Professor of English
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Humanities Division
150 Finoli Drive
Greensburg, PA  15601  USA
E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Development site: http://newtfire.org

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9;re extending the registration deadline!</div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8=
px"><b>Please register by 25 May</b>=C2=A0(or at least write to me by that =
point so that I can see whether we have space: see=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://b=
it.ly/digMit2017" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"font-size:12.8px">http://bit.l=
y/digMit2017</a>=C2=A0)<wbr>.=C2=A0<span style=3D"font-size:12.8px">Registr=
ation is quite affordable: $180 for graduate students and adjunct instructo=
rs, and $300 for full-time faculty, librarians, and editors, and there is n=
o additional cost for housing on Pitt-Greensburg&#39;s campus. Participants=
 are encouraged to seek support from their host institutions for travel exp=
enses.</span><span style=3D"font-size:12.8px">=C2=A0For those staying on ca=
mpus, arrivals are on Tues. 27 June, and departures on Saturday 1 July, and=
 the school is in session for full days (9 - 5:30ish) from Wed. through Fri=
. 28 -30 June.=C2=A0</span></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br></div>=
<div style=3D"font-size:12.8px">Our Coding School is a few years old now, a=
nd each year we offer opportunities for interested new, beginning, or ongoi=
ng textual scholars to learn digital scholarly editing with us by working w=
ith Digital Mitford materials. Those especially interested in Mary Russell =
Mitford (or our cluster of related topics on women writers, theaters, annua=
ls, life-writing, and publishing contexts from the 18th and 19th centuries)=
 have an opportunity to join our editing team after our Coding School exper=
ience. We&#39;ve been doing this for a few years now, and this has been inc=
reasing our community of involved coders.=C2=A0</div><div style=3D"font-siz=
e:12.8px"><br></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px">You&#39;ll emerge with =
perspective, tools, and resource knowledge to begin building your own proje=
ct, or, if you like, to help us build ours. In the space of 3-4 days, parti=
cipants gain experience with:</div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><ul><li =
style=3D"margin-left:15px">textual scholarship and paleography (working pri=
marily with 19th-century manuscript letters and publications)</li><li style=
=3D"margin-left:15px">best practices and sustainable formats for preparing =
digital scholarly editions=C2=A0</li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px">ideas f=
or involving students at all levels in the digital scholarly editing experi=
ence</li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px">how to work with TEI XML to make an=
 information architecture and database. This includes:=C2=A0</li><ul><li st=
yle=3D"margin-left:15px">Autotagging and regular expression matching to =E2=
=80=9Cup-convert=E2=80=9D plain text, and old word-processed documents and =
dated formats into XML markup<br></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px">Hands-=
on experience with XPath and code schema design for project management and =
data analysis</li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px">For those ready (returning=
 and advanced coders), experience writing XSLT to publish editions and proc=
ess informative charts and data visualizations=C2=A0</li></ul></ul>As in pa=
st Coding Schools, our experienced student coders from Pitt-Greensburg&#39;=
s Center for the Digital Text will be on hand throughout the experience to =
help when anyone gets stuck. Members of the Digital Mitford editing team wi=
ll also be there to take in a review of coding, work on their editing assig=
nments, and help with the orientation. One of the unusual features of our C=
oding School is that we combine it with our editors&#39; face-to-face codin=
g and planning workshop, which gives Coding School participants a unique op=
portunity to gain an insider perspective on an ongoing digital project with=
 lots of collaboration!</div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div=
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on form, please see=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://bit.ly/digMit2017" target=3D"_bl=
ank" style=3D"font-size:12.8px">http://bit.ly/digMit2017</a>=C2=A0. Please =
share with any colleagues or students you know who would benefit from parti=
cipating. We accept all levels of learner here, and the only qualification =
is really your interest in the topics described here. NO background is nece=
ssary: our Coding School is meant to be an immersive experience that establ=
ishes a solid foundation for continued learning.=C2=A0</div><div style=3D"f=
ont-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px">We look forward =
to another lively Coding School and discussion this year. Thanks for readin=
g, sharing, and responding!</div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br></div>=
<div style=3D"font-size:12.8px">Cheers,</div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px=
">Elisa Beshero-Bondar</div><div style=3D"font-size:12.8px">Lead Editor and=
 Organizer, Digital Mitford:=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://digitalmitford.org/" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://digitalmitford<wbr>.org</a></div><div style=3D"font-=
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m"><div class=3D"gmail-m_7577570527012062515gmail-m_1582387746724387184m_72=
2503214210421758gmail_signature" style=3D"font-size:small"><div dir=3D"ltr"=
><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-siz=
e:12.8px">Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);fon=
t-size:12.8px"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Director, =
Center for the Digital Text |=C2=A0Associate Professor of English</span><sp=
an style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br>University of Pittsburgh at=C2=A0Greensbu=
rg |=C2=A0Humanities Division<br>150 Finoli Drive<br>Greensburg, PA =C2=A01=
5601 =C2=A0USA<br>E-mail:<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank"=
>[email protected]</a><br></span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-siz=
e:12.8px">Development site:=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"http://newtfire.org/" ta=
rget=3D"_blank" style=3D"font-size:12.8px">http://newtfire.org</a></div></d=
iv></div></div></span></div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Elisa Beshero-Bondar <spa=
n dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">ebb8@p=
itt.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D=
"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D=
"ltr">Dear members of the TEI community,<div>Please consider joining us at =
Pitt-Greensburg for our coding school, to be held June 27 - July 1, 2017, a=
nd please share our announcement with those in your communities who may be =
interested.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>The Digital Mitford team offers =
an unusual opportunity to gain hands-on experience with coding and textual =
scholarship by working with materials from an active digital project. We we=
lcome past coding school participants and new coders alike, and participant=
s in the Coding School with interests in women writers sometimes join the e=
diting team.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Registration is $180 for gradua=
te students and adjunct instructors, and $300 for full-time faculty, librar=
ians, and editors, and there is no additional cost for housing on Pitt-Gree=
nsburg&#39;s campus. Participants are encouraged to seek support from their=
 host institutions for travel expenses.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>All =
participants can expect to gain experience with decision-making with TEI, r=
egular expression matching to construct XML from text and other document fo=
rmats, and with XPath and its applications. In discussing the TEI, I&#39;ll=
 also be sharing my experience in the past year as a member of the TEI Tech=
nical Council, working on maintaining and updating the Guidelines.</div><di=
v><br></div><div>Those participants wishing to begin with XPath may elect t=
o gain experience in transforming and publishing XML to build digital editi=
ons and process markup as data for analysis and visualization. We ask that =
people indicate their background and what they hope to learn with us in an =
e-mail of interest directed to me at ebb8 at <a href=3D"http://pitt.edu" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">pitt.edu</a>.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>E-mails of int=
erest should be sent me between now and April 3 so we can work out how best=
 to plan the Coding School. Registration fees will be due May 15. For more =
information and how to apply, please see=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://bit.ly/digM=
it2017" target=3D"_blank">http://bit.ly/digMit2017</a></div><div><br></div>=
<div>Thanks for reading and sharing!=C2=A0</div><span class=3D"HOEnZb"><fon=
t color=3D"#888888"><div>Elisa</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class=
=3D"m_-3702817953480211458gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-si=
ze:12.8px">Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD</span><br style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);fo=
nt-size:12.8px"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Director,=
 Center for the Digital Text |=C2=A0Associate Professor of English</span><s=
pan style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br>University of Pittsburgh at=C2=A0Greensb=
urg |=C2=A0Humanities Division<br>150 Finoli Drive<br>Greensburg, PA =C2=A0=
15601 =C2=A0USA<br>E-mail:<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" style=3D"color:r=
gb(17,85,204)" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a><br></span><span st=
yle=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Development site:=C2=A0</span><a =
href=3D"http://newtfire.org/" style=3D"color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8p=
x" target=3D"_blank">http://newtfire.org</a><br></div></div></div></div></d=
iv></div></div>
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iv><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0=
,0);font-size:12.8px">Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD</span><br style=3D"color:rg=
b(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px=
">Director, Center for the Digital Text |=C2=A0Associate Professor of Engli=
sh</span><span style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><br>University of Pittsburgh at=
=C2=A0Greensburg |=C2=A0Humanities Division<br>150 Finoli Drive<br>Greensbu=
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le=3D"color:rgb(17,85,204)" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a><br></=
span><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Development site:=C2=
=A0</span><a href=3D"http://newtfire.org/" style=3D"color:rgb(17,85,204);fo=
nt-size:12.8px" target=3D"_blank">http://newtfire.org</a><br></div></div></=
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