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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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CETH Workshop Series:
Electronic Text Technology in the Humanities
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The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is organizing a
series of three one-day workshops designed to introduce the basics of
working with electronic texts in research and teaching in the humanities.
Each workshop will be self-contained, but the series as a whole will provide
a good overview of the essential tools, techniques and resources for
faculty, graduate students and librarians. The CETH Workshop Series is
designed to assist in the use and management of the rapidly expanding body
of electronic resources available for humanities scholarship. Basic
knowledge of word processing and familiarity with the Internet are assumed.
Tuesday, October 29, 1996
Electronic Resources for the Humanities
Introduction to creating and capturing electronic text; issues of standards
and quality; electronic textbases and World-Wide Web resources.
Friday, December 6, 1996
Introduction to text encoding
Survey of text encoding practices. Synopsis of the Text Encoding
Initiative's (TEI) implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML).
Friday, January 31, 1997
Introduction to textual analysis
Overview of text analysis tools and their applications for: stylistics,
corpus linguistics, literary criticism, and historical research.
Where: Pane Room, Alexander Library, 169 College Avenue, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ.
When: 9.30am - 4.00pm.
Cost:
Faculty/staff : $75/workshop; $200 series
Students: $50/workshop; $125 series
Registration fee includes lunch and coffee breaks.
Reservations can be made by calling (908) 932-1384 or sending a message to
[log in to unmask] Deadline for reserving space is two weeks prior
to each workshop. Payment should be made to Rutgers, the State University
of New Jersey, and sent to CETH, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ
08903. Questions should be directed to Pamela Cohen [log in to unmask]
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