Forum for TEI in Arabic Scripts
Call for Online Meeting
June 25th, 5–6 PM (Central European Summer Time, CEST, UTC+2)
Professor Adam Mestyan (Harvard, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Associate Professor Adrien de Jarmy (University of Strasbourg, Department of Arabic
Studies) invite colleagues to participate in an initial online meeting dedicated to the use of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in Arabic-script textual traditions.
The Forum for TEI in Arabic Scripts seeks to establish a collaborative space for:
• Centralizing researchers working on TEI in Arabic-script materials (Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Urdu, and related corpora)
• Sharing existing resources for encoding and editing practices
• Discussing various workflows and pipelines, as well as possibilities for automation of annotation, data extraction, and visualizations, including the use of large language models (LLMs) and other computational methods
• Identifying opportunities for shared infrastructures and future collaborations.
The meeting is open to all researchers and students interested in TEI and digital approaches to Arabic-script textual traditions.
Zoom Connection Details
Link: harvard.zoom.us/j/93498677303
Meeting ID: 934 9867 7303
Passcode: 391302
For more information, please contact Adam Mestyan (mestyan@fas.harvard.edu) and Adrien
de Jarmy (dejarmy@unistra.fr)
Harvard University / Université de Strasbourg