Date: Tue, 02 Apr 91 16:19:40 CST From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Organization: ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative Subject: one-screener on what consultants do, pls ack/comment To: Lou Burnard , Lou Burnard , Nancy Ide 1 Ideally (not required) each consultant handles 2 or more projects. 2 Consultants attend and help run a week-long TEI workshop; a two-day boot camp for consultants is followed by a five-day workshop with the APs, during which consultants will work with their APs. 3 During workshop, consultants help APs produce a 5-30 Kb sample of TEI-conformant text 4 After the workshop, the consultants provide email and phone consulting for the projects on interpretation of the TEI guidelines and on problems of implementation; what problems will arise is anyone's guess--*our* guess is: use of transduction tools, development of data entry methods, use of SGML software, interpretation of obscure TEI tags, help defining extensions to the TEI DTDs. Editors and committee and WG heads will help with interpretation, but consultants should do rest alone. 5 By 1 November 1991, consultants help APs produce a 100-500 Kb sample of TEI-conformant text and a report (5-20 pp.?) describing how it was done. 6 Upon receipt of satisfactory large sample and report, editors will authorize payment of a $750 honorarium (per project) to the consultant. --- that's all, folks ---