Re: advantages of TEI

Following on Paul's list, such project specific policies could be even
called 'cheatsheets' as in Marjorie Burkhart's
http://marjorie.burghart.online.fr/?q=en/content/tei-critical-apparatus-cheatsheet

Magdalena

On 2 November 2016 at 13:18, Paul Broyles <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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