Re: advantages of TEI

Dear Eduard,

I will skip the 'advantages of TEI' part or we will be discussing well into
New Year :-)

I will address the part on publication, urging you to investigate a bit
into TEI Processing Model and in particular the TEI Publisher app on top of
eXistdb. TEI Publisher can be found at
http://showcases.exist-db.org/exist/apps/Showcases/index.html Other apps
there[1]
were generated with TEI Publisher, some with only minimal (like setting up
the website logo) intervention afterwards (eg EEBO app). If you want my
personal opinion[2] it's probably the easiest option to set up an online
publication of TEI documents at the moment. You will find the documentation
for TEI Publisher which covers also the basics of TEI Processing Model here
http://showcases.exist-db.org/exist/apps/tei-publisher/doc/documentation.xml?odd=documentation.odd

Best,

Magdalena

[1] with notable exception of Shakespeare's Plays - Plain XQuery Edition
[2] which may be biased since I had my part in this project

On 2 November 2016 at 11:46, Eduard Drenth <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> At the moment we are converting some 8000 corpora (runes, old, mid and new
> frisian, dialects) at the fryske akademy to TEI.
>
>
> By adopting an international standard we hope to boost doing research on
> top of these data. *Related to this I am interested in experiences with:*
>
> 1) doing research on TEI material
>
> 2) disclosure and publication (i.g. web) of TEI material
>
>
> Experiments with oxGarage http://www.tei-c.org/oxgarage/ shows minimal,
> disappointing results.
>
>
> I did not yet try https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets, perhaps this
> offers better results.
>
>
> *I wonder how much effort / development (i.a. xslt, xquery) the two
> aspects (publicaton and doing research) will take.*
>
>
> TEI offers flexibility and freedom (i.g. <span type="lemma" target="w1
> w2"> instead of <lemma target="w1 w2">) that complicates tool development.
> How big of a problem is this?
>
>
>
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