Re: Conversion of tei.2 files to TEI P5 (LOC American Memory DTD)

Thanks, James, Stuart, and those who replied off list.  These look like
great resources.

Having only started working with TEI just after the release of P5 in late
2007, I blindly assumed that these LOC documents, whose root element was
<TEI2>, were necessarily circa P2.  But I gather from the comments that
these appear P4-esque.

I now see from the Vault that P4 used <TEI.2>, P3 used <tei.2>, P2 used
<TEI.2>, and P1 used <teidoc> (!).  Some guideposts for the TEI
forensicists...

The DTD comments note that the DTD was updated to P3, but P3 didn't use
<TEI.2>.  The American Memory DTD notes: "LC staff renamed TEI element
<TEI.2> as <TEI2>."  And, to boot, the samples I've looked at use <tei2>,
not <TEI2>; the entity files referenced in each TEI file are all missing;
and the DOCTYPE declarations are encased in comments.

So it seems these LOC files represent a rather significant customization -
some kind of hybrid.

On the plus side, the DTD is well documented and the TEI files themselves
appear to be all well-formed XML - so assuming they're internally
consistent, it shouldn't be too hard to pull the data out into a basic
P5-compliant form.

Thanks again!
Joe

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is an entire category of xsl scripts in the wiki for handling
> different aspects of this transition. http://wiki.tei-c.
> org/index.php/Category:P4toP5
>
> The one I personally used is at http://wiki.tei-c.org/
> index.php/P4toP5NZETC and is a mix of strict migration issues, fixing
> local issues and fixing things in the text that weren't checked for by the
> previous schema.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>
> On 8 February 2017 at 04:20, James Cummings <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Walking back to my hotel at the TEI Council meeting in Prague.  There is
>> a p4top5 stylesheet at
>> https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets/blob/dev/profiles/default/p4/from.xsl
>>
>> It isn't perfect especially where ppl have customised and the p5 it
>> produces might be slightly out of date, but that is where is start if
>> someone hasn't converted it already.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr James Cummings, Academic IT Services, University of Oxford
>>
>>
>> On 7 Feb 2017 4:10 p.m., Joe Wicentowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Has anyone converted tei.2 files (ideally, those from the Library of
>> Congress's American Memory project, DTD developed circa 1997[1]) to TEI
>> P5?  I'm looking at a batch of ~1,700 files with transcripts of oral
>> history interviews [2], and while I could rig up a script to perform a
>> basic conversion, I thought I'd ask if there was any previous work in this
>> area.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>> [1] ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/american.memory/sgml/ammem2/INDEX
>> [2] Collection homepage: https://www.loc.gov/collection
>> s/foreign-affairs-oral-history/about-this-collection/. Sample specimen:
>> https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mfdip/2004/2004fre01/2004fre01.xml.
>>
>>
>>
>