Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing

The growing trend toward open-access publishing and toward funder mandates for deposit of preprints in archives such as PubMed Central (PMC) has led to interest in the interchange of scholarly literature in XML created by different parties.

This symposium, to be held in conjunction with a meeting of the TEI Council, will explore such questions through a series of presentations outlining the current state of the art in institutional publishing operations such as those of universities in the UK, France, US, and Australia, from the point of view of private sector publishers (among which the NLM DTDs are increasingly adopted), and from international initiatives where interoperability has been identified as a major factor (e.g., PEER, which includes European research institutions, repositories, and STM publishers). The objective is to identify current difficulties in making publication systems interoperable and identify priority actions for the TEI to intervene in this arena.

Questions to be addressed include:

• What role could or should the TEI have in asserting itself as a standard format for author manuscripts, published manuscripts, or both?
• Should it be involved in building systems for sharing and commenting on such manuscripts?
• Should it create a TEI customization for scholarly publishing or broker a relationship with a vendor for discounted conversion of content to XML?

A tentative programme for the day follows:

During the presentations, there will be simultaneous discussion in the backchannel #teipublishing and in a publicly readable and editable Google Docs file, where participants will formulate a way forward for the TEI in scholarly publishing. To avoid infestation by spambots, we will not include the actual URL. Please type "docs.google.com" into your browser and then paste the following after it:

/Doc?id=dv3dx7h_12gtqzjxg5

We encourage participation on the backchannel and in this collaborative writing exerise by all, even those unable to attend in person.

Registration to attend in person is free but required. Registration is open online until the end of the day on 20 April 2010 or until the venue capacity is reached (whichever occurs first).

Accommodation is available at the Temple Bar Hotel and Buswell's Hotel, both of which can be reached from Dublin Airport by taking Aircoach to Trinity College (see directions for Temple Bar Hotel) or Kildare Street (Buswell's Hotel).