#DiXiTforever
Almost two years after my fellowship has officially ended and half a year from DiXiT farewell event in Crete is maybe good time to judge it’s effect on me. Only trouble is: it doesn’t...
Author: turska
oXygen frameworks part 2: add-ons
In previous installment we have created an extension of TEI framework to pack TEI CE Toolbox into it. The next step is to pack it nicely and disseminate. The most convenient way, both for framework...
oXygen frameworks part 1: extend or modify?
A chance meeting at the Conventus Vindobonensis* last week reminded me of the TEI CE Toolbox framework I prepared last autumn during my visit at SyncRo headquarters in Romania. As I headed for Craiova...
Unter den Linden
It has been a while since my autumn visit in Craiova. June is a very different experience – with the sun, the heat and the heady smell of TEI* trees and honeysuckle permeating the...
TEI Simple Processing Model: Oxford workshop
I’ve had the pleasure to sit confined in IT Services basement for the whole glorious, sunny day in May, introducing the concept of TEI Simple Processing Model to the mixed crowd of editors, researchers...
Academia, cultural heritage, society: Camp 3 Borås
In Oxford snowdrops and early daffodils are blooming already but in Borås, Sweden the lakes are still frozen and ground is sprinkled with snow. What brought me there was the third – and last...
TCP
The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) creates standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books. This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries...
Seeking the SIMPLicity…
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has developed over 20 years into a key technology in text-centric humanities disciplines. It has been able to achieve its range of use by adopting a descriptive rather than...
Breath (or cup) of pure oXygen
One of my DiXiT objectives are the improvements to the oXygen-TEI framework. Oxygen is a very popular XML editor that offers built-in support for TEI and the plan is to make this support even better....
#teiWarsaw
Life of a DiXiT fellow can be measured in various ways. The typical approach of the world is to count the days, months and years. What I count are the camps, workshops and conferences...
TEI Workshop: Coming soon to the University near you…
I’m now in Romania, at SyncRO, the company behind oXygen editor, headquarters doing reconnaissance for my upcoming secondment here. My thoughts today are nevertheless concentrated on following weeks as soon I’m going back to my...
Publication infrastructure survey
The requirements study for a publication architecture targeting multiple media is one of my research priorities for the DiXiT Network. My task in this regard is to create an index of tools for all stages of...
Firing the Kiln
Last week I’ve started my secondment at King’s College London under the supervision of dr Elena Pierazzo. My work there is to learn as much as I can from the fabulous team of researchers...
Magdalena Turska – Requirements for a publication infrastructure
Hello, my name is Magdalena Turska, I’m in Oxford for two weeks now, trying to settle in a bit and set up foundations for next 19 months of my fellowship. What will I do...
