THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE:
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
edited by
Nancy Ide & Jean Veronis
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text
Encoding and Interchange are the result of over six years' work by
dozens of scholars from all over the world. As such, they represent a
pioneer effort in an area where only occasional and isolated attempts
were made before. They will certainly serve as the primary basis for
encoding texts in electronic form for the foreseeable future.
The work of participants in the TEI not only involved consideration of
problems of text encoding that are likely to be with us for decades to
come, but also required the development of a methodology - from
scratch - for approaching these problems. These pioneering efforts,
while likely to be refined and extended, must not be lost: they
provide the intellectual basis upon which text encoding practices will
build in the future. This collection documents the course of these
efforts.
"The TEI Guidelines are extraordinary. Even if they were never adopted
they would stand as a significant contribution to scholarship for
their detailed analysis of the information sets of a huge range of
complex text types." From the Preface by Charles E. Goldfarb, inventor
of the Standard Generalized Markup Language.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Charles Goldfarb
Preface
Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis
Introduction
PART I: GENERAL TOPICS
Nancy Ide and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen
The Text Encoding Initiative: Its History, Goals, and Future
Development
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard
The Design of the TEI Encoding Scheme
Lou Burnard
What is SGML and How Does it Help?
PART II: DOCUMENT-WIDE ENCODING ISSUES
Harry Gaylord
Character Representation
Richard Giordano
The TEI Header and the Documentation of Electronic Texts
Dominic Dunlop
Practical Considerations in the Use of TEI Headers in Large Corpora
PART III: ENCODING SPECIFIC TEXT TYPES
David Chisholm and David Robey
Encoding Verse Texts
John Lavagnino and Elli Mylonas
The Show Must Go On: Problems of Tagging Performance Texts
Robin Cover and Peter Robinson
Textual Criticism
Daniel Greenstein and Lou Burnard
Speaking with One Voice: Encoding Standards and the Prospects for an
Integrated Approach to Computing in History
Stig Johansson
The Encoding of Spoken Texts
Alan Melby
E-TIF: An Electronic Terminology Interchange Format
Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis
Encoding Dictionaries
PART IV: SPECIAL ENCODING MECHANISMS
Steven J. DeRose and David Durand
The TEI Hypertext Guidelines
D. Terence Langendoen and Gary F. Simons
Rationale for the TEI Recommendations for Feature-Structure Markup
David Barnard, Lou Burnard, Jean-Pierre Gaspart, Lynne A. Price, C.M.
Sperberg-McQueen, Giovanni Battista Varile
Hierarchical Encoding of Text: Technical Problems and SGML Solutions
PART V: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Robin C. Cover
SGML/TEI Bibliography.
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