XML, W3C and the Digital humanities

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

We at the World Wide Web Consortium (publisher of XML, XSLT, XQuery, oh and HTML and CSS) have for some time been hosting public community groups.

I wondered at Balisage last year whether anyone would like to be involved in such a group for he needs of people working in digital humanities and related fields. In particular, is there anyone who might be interested in facilitating such a group (or at least being the initial chair)?

I had in mind things like
* gathering resources, including examples and tutorials, perhaps using the group's Wiki pages; I was thinking primarily of XQuery at the time because of the context in which the idea arose, but there's no need to be so restrictive;
* input to the work on digital publishing going on at W3C;  direct involvement in general requires W3C Membership to join the publishing interest group, but indirect involvement, such as a focus for commenting on drafts and on requirements, would be really useful both to participants and to the authors of the drafts;

Contact me directly if you are interested, or respond to this message on the list here to discuss the idea or say how bad or good it is :-)

Anyone is free to start such a CG, but it might succeed the best if there's some momentum at the start.

Liam

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