NINES Workship -- TEI
Notes from NINES Workshop, Miami University of Ohio, July 22-24, 2008:
Motives for TEI
-- to store info for long term
-- to analyse info
-- to share info
Granularity
Longevity
What is TEI
--technically: a standards organization for humanities text encoding
--organizationally: an inter'l membership consortium
--socially: a community of people and projects
TEI founded in 2000. Members pay annual fee, pays for editorial work, outreach, workshops
Formal declarations for encoding language. Constraints for how you can encode.
Guidelines are thick; not everything is needed.
P5 released Nov. 2007. Current version. Substantial shift.
NEH cares about practical interchange than technical aspects.
P4 and P5 have many of the same elements, but P5 is differrent from P4 in that:
--P5 introduces some new elements
--P5 fixes some errors from P4 (e.g. postscript element)
--P5 doesn't change much for the encoder, but it does for how the texts are displayed, and the way its language is expressed. How you do customizations is
very different in P5 from P4.
TEI Guidelines
--can be applied strictly or loosely
--Can adapt to local conditions
--Designed as a sett of modules that can be selected as needed
--Not unlike a human language in some respect
Vocabulary to use experimentally and exploratory.
TEI is modular. Drama, verse, etc.
TEI provides the tools. You have to ask: what is my project? What are my needs? What level of granularity do I want?
Areas of Usage
--digital libraries and digital archives
--literary and cultural materials
--scholarly editions
--manuscript collections and descriptions
--dictionaries
--language corpora
--historical documents
--anthropplogy and social sciences
--authoring
--linguistics
--many other areas...
See, for example, projects on William Blake, Herman Melville, Poetress Archive (Miami Univ. of Ohio), Women's Writer's Project (Brown Univ.)
Customization
The proces of altering the TEI schema and documentation to match your needs.
changes include:
--choosing which parts to use or omit
--changing the name of elements or attributes
--restricting the values of attributes
--adding new elements
--adding new attributes
"interchange" crucial element of TEI. Goal is meaningful exchange.
Sources of Info
--WWP seminars site
--TEI web site
--TEI listserv (TEI-L)
--Colleagues at other projects
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