Re: advantages of TEI

A quick question to all: where in the TEI wiki structure would you 
imagine this set of links?

@Paul: thanks for sharing! :-)

Best,

   Piotr

On 02/11/16 14:33, Magdalena Turska wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/resources/pdfs/techspec.pdf>
>     http://www.cdlib.org/groups/stwg/docs/MS_BPG.pdf
>     <http://www.cdlib.org/groups/stwg/docs/MS_BPG.pdf>
>     http://www.whitmanarchive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Whitman_Encoding_Guidelines
>     <http://www.whitmanarchive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Whitman_Encoding_Guidelines>
>     http://piers.iath.virginia.edu/resources/transcriptionalProtocols.html
>     <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] <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
>         <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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>
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>
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>
>     --
>     Paul A. Broyles, Ph.D.
>     CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies
>     North Carolina State University
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