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diff --git a/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_5/tei.tex b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_5/tei.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ab36306cb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_5/tei.tex @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +\section*{Text Encoding Initiative publishes guidelines} +\begin{multicols}{2} + +\noindent +The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has published its +`Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.' +This report is the product of several years' work by over a hundred +experts in fields ranging from computational linguistics to Ancient +Greek literature. The Guidelines define a format in which electronic +text materials can be stored on, or transmitted between, any kind of +computer from a personal microcomputer to a university mainframe. The +format is independent of the proprietary formats used by commercial +software packages. + +The TEI came into being as the result of the proliferation of mostly +incompatible encoding formats, which was hampering cooperation and reuse +of data amongst researchers and teachers. Creating good electronic texts +is an expensive and time-consuming business. The object of the TEI was +to ensure that such texts, once created, could continue to be useful +even after the systems on which they were created had become obsolete. +This requirement is a particularly important one in today's rapidly +evolving computer industry. + +To make them `future-proof', the TEI Guidelines use an international +standard for text encoding known as SGML, the Standard Generalized +Markup Language. SGML was originally developed by the publishing +industry as a way of reducing the costs of typesetting and reuse of +electronic manuscripts but has since become widely used by software +developers, publishers, and government agencies. It is one of the +enabling technologies which will help the new Digital Libraries take +shape. + +The TEI Guidelines go beyond many other SGML applications currently in +use. Because they aim to serve the needs of researchers as well as +teachers and students, they have a particularly ambitious set of goals. +They must be both easily extensible and easily simplified. And their +aim is to specify methods capable of dealing with all kinds of texts, in +all languages and writing systems, from any period in history. + +Consequently, the TEI Guidelines provide recommendations not only for +the encoding of prose texts, but also for verse, drama and other +performance texts, transcripts of spoken material for linguistic +research, dictionaries, and terminological data banks. + +The Guidelines provide detailed specifications for the documentation of +electronic materials, their sources, and their encoding. These +specifications will enable future librarians to catalogue electronic +texts as efficiently and reliably as they currently catalogue printed +texts. + +The TEI Guidelines also provide optional facilities which can be added +to the set of basic recommendations. These include methods for encoding +hypertext links, transcribing primary sources (especially manuscripts), +representing text-critical apparatus, analyzing names and dates, +representing figures, formulae, tables, and graphics, and categorizing +of texts for corpus-linguistic study. The Guidelines also define +methods of providing linguistic, literary, or historical analysis and +commentary on a text and documenting areas of uncertainty or ambiguity. + + +The TEI Guidelines have been prepared over a six-year period with grant +support from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, +Directorate General XIII of the Commission of the European Union, the +Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities +Research Council of Canada. The effort is largely the product of the +volunteer work of over a hundred researchers who donated time to share +their experience in using computers and to work out the specific +recommendations in the Guidelines. + +The project is sponsored by three professional societies active in the +area of computer applications to text-based research: the Association +for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and +Linguistic Computing, and the Association for Computational Linguistics. + +%Many projects in North America and Europe have already declared their +%intention of applying the TEI Guidelines in the creation of the large +%scale electronic textual resources which are increasingly dominating the +%world of humanities scholarship. +% +%The Guidelines are available in paper form or electronic form over the +%Internet. +For more information contact the TEI editors by e-mail at +\texttt{tei@uic.edu} or \texttt{lou@vax.ox.ac.uk}. Orders may be +placed at the TEI office in Oxford: + +\begin{quote} +TEI Orders, Oxford University Computing Services,\\ + 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK\\ +\end{quote} +\end{multicols} |