Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context
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Can I get a copy? Individual elements may be renamed, ommitted, or modified, subject to some constraints, in the same way as a pizza can be ordered with a specific combination of toppings, subject only to some simple architectural constraints.
In a pizza, there must be a single base, and there must be cheese and tomato sauce, but there need not be mushrooms and you can add your own alfalfa if you insist. Similarly, in a TEI application, you must choose a single basic framework for your documents, you must include the TEI header, but you don't have to use the tags for marking editorial uncertainty, and you can add special tags for marking irony, if you insist.
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This metaphor has been instantiated in a much used set of TEI web pages, known inevitably as the Pizza Chef TEI Chef which goes some way towards simplifying and automating the design process. A free-standing version of the underlying application is also in preparation. It is a testimony to the power and flexibility of the TEI design that exactly the same mechanism is used to modify the underlying SGML definitions to produce XML conformant document type definitions.
It makes clear that the lasting achievement of the TEI lies, not in its DTD, but in the creation of the intellectual model underlying it, which can continue to inform scholarship as technology changes.
Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Contexts
When the TEI was first thought of, it was by no means clear that SGML would be its sole form of expression; it was agreed early on to adopt that metalanguage so long as it remained the tool best suited to the purpose. Over the past year, these four hosts have established a new domain-name for the TEI at tei-c.
The new site is currently being developed at Oxford University a beta version is visible at http: However, their major achievement over the last year has been to define a new constitutional framework for the TEI, as a membership consortium. The goal of the new TEI Consortium is to establish a permanent home for the TEI as a democratically constituted, academically and economically independent, self-sustaining, non-profit organization. This will involve putting the Consortium on solid legal and organizational footing, developing training and consulting services that will attract paying members, and providing the administrative support that will allow it to continue to exist while income from membership grows.
In the immediate future, the Consortium will launch a membership and publicity campaign the goal of which is to bring the new Consortium and the opportunity to participate in it to the attention of libraries, publishers, and text-encoding projects worldwide. Its key message is that the TEI Guidelines have a major role to play in the application of new XML-based standards that are now driving the development of text-processing software, search engines, Web-browsers, and indeed the Web in general.
The future usefulness of vast collections of electronic textual information now being created and to be created over the coming decades will continue to depend on the thoughtful and well-advised application of non-proprietary markup schemes, of which the TEI is a leading example.
We may expect that in the future some of the more trivial forms of markup will be done by increasingly sophisticated software, or even implied from non-marked-up documents during processing. As XML and related technologies become ever more pervasive in the wired world, we may also expect to see a growing demand for interchangeable markup standards. What is needed to facilitate all of these processes is a sound, viable, and up-to-date conceptual model like that of the TEI.
In this way, the TEI can help the digital library, scholar's bookshelf, and humanities textbooks survive into a future in which they can respond intelligently to our queries, can combine effectively with conceptually related materials, and can adequately represent what we know about their structure, content, and provenance.
Buy Print version i6doc. See same workshop offered for the first time in , above. Winfried Bader and C. See also our explanations of how to cite Ariadne articles for examples of bibliographic format. Individual elements may be renamed, ommitted, or modified, subject to some constraints, in the same way as a pizza can be ordered with a specific combination of toppings, subject only to some simple architectural constraints. When the TEI was first thought of, it was by no means clear that SGML would be its sole form of expression; it was agreed early on to adopt that metalanguage so long as it remained the tool best suited to the purpose.
Lou Burnard Publication Date: This article has been published under copyright; please see our access terms and copyright guidance regarding use of content from this article. See also our explanations of how to cite Ariadne articles for examples of bibliographic format. Skip to main content. Text Encoding for Interchange: Submitted by editor on 23 June - Bespoke Guidance As first published in , the TEI Guidelines took the form of a substantial page reference manual, documenting and defining some SGML elements which can be combined and modified in a variety of ways to create specific SGML document type definitions DTDs for particular purposes.
The Future of TEI The future usefulness of vast collections of electronic textual information now being created and to be created over the coming decades will continue to depend on the thoughtful and well-advised application of non-proprietary markup schemes, of which the TEI is a leading example.