A Day at Oxford

I spent yesterday at Oxford University learning XML-TEI. Oxford Computing Services has a number of fantastic courses and rather than simply being service-orientated-computing as in most institutions, the Oxford Computing Service has a research agenda as well (with a much deeper focus upon computing in the humanities). The course was taught by Lou Burnard; one of the founders of the TEI schema 20 years ago and founder of the Oxford Text Archive. Check out their ROMA system for generating TEI templates for use in XML editing applications such as OXygen.
I have never been to a university with it roots dating back to 1096 before and Oxford is unusual not only for it age (oldest university in the English speaking world) but also because it is a federation of self-governing colleges (sort of like the University of London but on a much smaller scale). There are some good pubs in Oxford, but the students wear slacks!