FW: [Corpora-List] Is the TEI a waste of time?

From: Christopher Brewster (C.Brewster@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 13:51:20 MET DST

  • Next message: Simpson, Rita: "RE: [Corpora-List] Is the TEI a waste of time?"

    There are two issues here:
    1. Ignorance and confusion. Most people have only a vague idea what TEI
    is or does or what it is good for. There would need to be a effort to
    (re-) educate the potential users of TEI. Does TEI do something
    different from XML? Absurd question I know but that is the kind of
    confusion which I suspect exists.

    2. Complexity. When it was introduced many people reacted against it as
    too complex. Now they have all adopted xml, rdf etc. which are much more
    complicated to use. So potential users' perception would now be ripe for
    a re-presentation of TEI.

    Also TEI is over 10 years old. People are so used to the next new thing
    on the horizon that a case has to be made to use 'old' technology.

    Christopher Brewster

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