A TEI Customization for Writing TEI Customizations

A schema, in general, is intended to be used to check a document for errors before those errors cause problems in processing. However, schemas can also help us write our documents. The TEI ODD language (and the more modern version thereof, Pure ODD), in particular, can be used for two related but distinctly different purposes: 1) to create a markup language, including documentation and schemas; and 2) to customize a markup language that was already written in ODD. There are several examples of (1), including the TEI Guidelines, the Music Encoding Initiative, the ISO Feature Structure encoding system, and the W3C Internationalization Tag Set. And there are several well known examples of (2), including TEI Lite, TEI Tite, TEI Simple Print, Comic Book Markup Language, Digital Humanities Quarterly, TEI-in-Libraries, and the markup language for this journal. Of all these various uses of the TEI ODD language, the most common (by far) is to create a customized TEI for use in a particular project. This is because the TEI Guidelines are not meant to be used out of the box—every TEI project is expected to customize the TEI. For example, in raw (i.e., uncustomized) TEI, the @type attribute of has a robust set of nine suggested values: "business", "delivery", "entrance", "exit", "location", "mixed", "mixed", "novelistic", and "setting". But a project may very well wish to expand this list (e.g., by adding "onStage", "prop", "remains") and require that encoders use a value from this expanded list. This sort of molding of the TEI to local purposes is done by creating a TEI customization using the TEI ODD language. In this paper I will present a TEI ODD customization of the TEI language that is intended to help a user write a TEI ODD customization of the TEI language. It is not intended to check a TEI ODD customization document for errors, and in fact will likely flag things as “errors” that an ODD processor would find perfectly acceptable. But it does allow a user to more quickly, easily, and accurately write a TEI customization ODD using an XML editor

TEI Pedagogy and TAPAS Classroom

This paper focuses on recent work by the TEI Archiving, Preservation, and Access Service (TAPAS) on pedagogy with TEI, and specifically on a recent initiative called “TAPAS Classroom” focused on exploring pedagogical uses of TEI. We provide some background on TAPAS, describe several case studies involving pedagogical partners who used TAPAS in teaching, and finally describe the TAPAS Classroom initiative and its outcomes

Future Developments for TEI ODD

International audienceThe purpose of this panel is to look at the application and future development of the literate programming system known as ODD which was developed for the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and underlies every single use of the TEI

Towards an international standard on feature structures representation

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale.International audienceThis paper describes the preliminary results of a joint initiative of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Consortium and the ISO Committee TC 37SC 4 (language Resource management) to provide a standard for the representation and interchange of feature structures

Abstract TEI HORSEing Around

The Text Encoding Initiative’s typed segment-boundary delimiter method is only one of several proposed mechanisms for handling overlap in TEI documents. HORSE (aka CLIX) defines a method by which an XML element is used normally when possible and as an improved version of the typed segment-boundary delimiter method when an overlap problem is encountered. A significant portion of the rules necessary for validation of HORSE markup can be expressed using Schematron. This, combined with an utter hack that can “HORSEify ” the declaration of elements in a TEI Relax NG grammar, can provide a potential significant step forward in handling overlap in TEI documents

TEI 2007 Annual Members Meeting: presentations

The 2007 TEI Annual Members Meeting was held from October 31st through November 3rd at the University of Maryland. The program included invited speakers, panels, presentations, poster sessions, tools demonstrations, special interest group meetings, and pre-meeting workshops, plus the TEI business meeting and elections. The meeting was open to the public, and free for TEI members and subscribers

Towards an international standard on feature structure representation

This paper describes the preliminary results of a joint initiative of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Consortium and the ISO Committee TC 37SC 4 (Language Resource management) to provide a standard for the representation and interchange of feature structures. 1