Re: advantages of TEI

Thanks, I'll absolutely have a look into existdb....


Eduard Drenth, Software Architekt


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From: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list <[email protected]> on behalf of Magdalena Turska <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 1:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: 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]<mailto:[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?



Eduard Drenth, Software Architekt


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Doelestrjitte 8

8911 DX  Ljouwert

+31 58 213 14 14

chat: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>