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TEI presentation for IS 590 by Robert Waltz. Website http://www.tei-c.org A consortium of institutions and individuals to establish a set of guidelines for the encoding of machine-readable texts in the humanities and social sciences.
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TEI presentation for IS 590 by Robert Waltz
Website http://www.tei-c.org A consortium of institutions and individuals to establish a set of guidelines for the encoding of machine-readable texts in the humanities and social sciences. Established in 1987 at inaugural meeting at Vassar College First official guidelines version published in 1993
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium formed in 1999 • "a democratically constituted, academically and economically independent, self-sustaining, non-profit organization " • Released XML version guidelines in 2002
P5 is the most recent public release of the guidelines • Tags in TEI are used to mark features or structures within the text and about the text • TEI includes a large number of tags, only handful are mandatory • TEI is modular in design
TEI includes 21 Modules TEI Infrastructure Common Core Common Metadata Analysis and Interpretation Performance Texts Graphs, Networks, and Trees Print Dictionaries Metadata for Language Corpora ... Text Criticism Character and Glyph Documentation Certainty and Uncertainty Transcribed Speech Documentation Elements Tables, Formulae, Figures Manuscript Description Verse ...
Sample TEI <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>TEI presentation for IS 590</title> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <p>NonPublished Powerpoint Presentation</p> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>Born Digital</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <p> < TEI> <Text Encoding Initiative.> </p> <p>Website tei-c.org </p> <p>A consortium of institutions and individuals to establish a set of guidelines for the encoding of machine-readable texts in the humanities and social sciences.</p> </body> </text> </TEI>
TEI Tools http://www.tei-c.org/oxgarage/ OxGarage Conversion - convert documents from one format to another using TEI as an interchange format http://www.tei-c.org/Roma/ TEI Roma - create customized constraint schema
Digital Projects using TEI • 150 projects listed on website, but many not listed • American Memory from the Library of Congress • ATLAS : ATLA Series • Oxford Text Archive • Perseus Project • University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Bibliography TEI: Text Encoding Initiative. (n.d.).TEI <Text Incoding Initiative>. Retrieved July 12, 2012, from http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml TEI: About. (n.d.).TEI <Text Incoding Initiative>. Retrieved July 9, 2012, from http://www.tei-c.org/About/ TEI: History. (n.d.). Retrieved July 9, 2012, from http://www.tei-c.org/About/history.xml TEI P5: — Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. (2012, June 17).TEI <Text Incoding Initiative>. Retrieved July 12, 2012, from http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html Roma: generating validators for the TEI. (n.d.).TEI <Text Incoding Initiative>. Retrieved July 12, 2012, from http://www.tei-c.org/Roma/ ATLA Homepage. (n.d.).ALTA: American Theological Library Association. Retrieved July 12, 2012, from https://www.atla.com/Pages/default.aspx The University of Oxford Text Archive. (n.d.).Oxford University Computing Services. Retrieved July 12, 2012, from http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Looking for the EText Center? (n.d.).University of Virginia Library. Retrieved July 12, 2012, from http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/etext/index.html