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Introduction to the TEI
- where the TEI came from
- architecture of the TEI scheme
- main and auxiliary DTDs
- within the main DTD: core, base, and additional tag
sets
Where does the TEI come from?
From the research community:
Sponsors
- ACH Association for Computers and the
Humanities
- ACL Association for Computational
inguistics
- ALLC Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing
Funders
- U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities
- Mellon Foundation
- Commission of European Communities DG XIII
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of
Canada
TEI today
To ensure continued maintenance, a membership onsortium has
been formed in 2001 and the further maintenance and development
of the TEI has been transferred to it. Currently, the hosting
members are:
- Brown University
- University of Virginia, USA
- University of Bergen, Norway
- Oxford University, United Kingdom
Goals of the TEI
- better interchange and integration of data
- support for all texts, in all
languages, from all periods
- guidance for the perplexed: what to
encode
- assistance for the specialist: how to encode
any information of interest
TEI Deliverables
- A coherent set of recommendations for text encoding
- comprising several distinct SGML tag sets
- based on existing practice
- documented in a reference manual
- Tutorials for general and specialized audiences (in
progress)
- Sample texts (not yet)
... but no
TEI software
TEI DTD Structure
- how to make one markup scheme handle
infinite variety of requirements and
interests
- all texts are alike
- every text is different
- similar to the database design problem: one construct,
many views
- each view a selection from the whole
How Many DTDs?
How many DTDs are necessary for a project like the
TEI?
- one (a `Prussian'
DTD)
- none (a `Waterloo'
DTD)
- one per document (a
`Californian' DTD)
The TEI DTDs
- a single main DTD with many faces (a
`British' DTD)
- many tags (over 400)
- organized into tag sets
- grouped into classes
- several auxiliary DTDs for specialized
information:
- writing system / character set
- feature system (for feature-structure notation)
- tag set documentation
- independent, free-standing TEI
header
The Pizza Model (XML version)
<!ELEMENT pizza (base, (tomatoSauce & cheese), topping*) >
<!ELEMENT base (thinCrust | pan | stuffed) >
<!ELEMENT topping (mushrooms | pepperoni | sausage | pepper | anchovies | ...) >
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