Re: advantages of TEI

Eduard,

Regarding the question of how flexibility and freedom complicate
development, many projects develop internal encoding guidelines to provide
consistency among their texts. Thus if you're developing a display system
for the output of one particular project, you have a much more limited set
of possibilities to aim for.

These documents can also be useful to provide to encoders who are relative
TEI novices, as they can help explain how TEI encoding works in a more
beginner-friendly way than the official documentation.

Here are a handful of examples I have handy and have found useful (the last
is from a project I'm working on, though I had no hand in the guidelines):
http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/resources/pdfs/techspec.pdf
http://www.cdlib.org/groups/stwg/docs/MS_BPG.pdf
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Whitman_Encoding_Guidelines
http://piers.iath.virginia.edu/resources/transcriptionalProtocols.html

There are many more examples out there, though unfortunately they can be
hard to search for as they go under varied names, from "Transcriptional
Protocols" to "Encoding Guidelines" to "Technical Introduction."

Paul

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:56 AM 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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