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Draft Call for Participation for DHQ-tech:

Call for Participation: Digital Humanities Quarterly Technical Group

The new ADHO digital journal is in active development. We invite volunteers to join a group of technical advisors and contributors, offering time and expertise to the creation of innovative features for the journal interface and publication design, functionalities and maintenance. We envision activities including but not limited to the following:

--refining schemas and developing stylesheets and utilities for a "best of breed" XML content management and publication server --developing innovative authoring, conversion and editing systems for XML and pre-XML formats --designing and implementing knowledge representation systems such as topic maps, reference ontologies, etc. --developing tools for specialized visualization, innovative search features, etc. --sharing information about tools and tools configuration --participating in broad development efforts such as internationalization --providing general advice and assistance on technical strategy

Development of the DHQ technical group will be coordinated by the Technical Editor, John Walsh (University of Indiana). In addition to features essential to the core journal functionality, we also expect to discuss projects more loosely connected with the DHQ publication system, and technologies and applications related to DHQ's formats (XML, TEI, HTML/CSS, RSS/Atom, SVG etc. etc.) that are useful in other frameworks or contexts.

Participation in any of these activities will be on an entirely volunteer basis. Contributions will be credited and discussions archived.

If you have skills and interest in contributing, please consider joining the dhq technical mailing list at

http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/dhq-tech

Or read more documentation on the DHQ development wiki, at

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/SkunkWorks

Please feel free to propagate this call (with apologies for duplication).

Thank you!

--Julia Flanders (Brown University) --Wendell Piez (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.) --Melissa Terras (University College London) --John Walsh (University of Indiana)

-- WendellPiez - 07 Dec 2005