Wouldn't a series of instructive videos be in order, on demand from a website e.g.?
I guess it's to be expected that academic prestige and air-miles go hand in hand, esp. here in (academically) class conscious America, but information and skills training need not.
Thanks so much to Scott, Notis, James, Tom, and Gabriel for their messages.
Gregg Schwendner
On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> There is a further question that arises from Gregg's original message,
> which is the availability of EpiDoc training in the US (or better
> decentralized training materials in some form). This is probably
> something that needs discussing on the Markup list, but folks here on
> Digiclass may have thoughts about how to keep up momentum in a
> distributed project at times when there is no specific resource
> dedicated to public engagement(*)...?
>
> (*) For context: for several years, EpiDoc training sessions were
> provided both in the UK and worldwide by virtue of dissemination funds
> as part of the AHRC-funded Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project. In the
> aftermath of this project, we're no longer in the position to donate
> several person-days worth of paid time, travel and accommodation
> costs, etc., and travel around the world several times a year. I would
> urge anyone who is in the process of applying for funds to run an
> EpiDoc-related project to think very carefully (and consult the Markup
> list) about including the true cost of bringing qualified trainers in
> to run such a workshop as part of your project.
>
> Best,
>
> Gabriel
>
> On 17 July 2011 10:54, Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 7/17/11 4:09 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>>> I would, of course, second this recommendation. This uses the standard
>>> TEI-C stylesheets to move between formats (e.g.docx to tei). I thought
>>> that EpiDoc was moving to being a pure TEI P5 subset rather than an
>>> extension. If that isn't the case, if the EpiDoc community produces both
>>> a pure TEI P5 to EpiDoc and an EpiDoc to pure TEI P5 XSLT
>>> transformation, we could include it in the OxGarage set of
>>> transformations so you could go direct from docx (or format of choice)
>>> to EpiDoc.
>>
>> James, just to clarify: EpiDoc is now a fully conformant P5 customization.
>> We're not doing anything above-and-beyond.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
>> Associate Director for Digital Programs
>> Senior Research Scholar
>> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
>> New York University
>> http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott/
>>
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>>
>
>
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