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5 Trove category request: TEI - ID: 2897522
Last Update: Comment added ( bansp )

A user has requested a new category be added to the Trove Software Map.

Name: TEI
Parent: Topic :: Formats and Protocols :: Data Formats
Notes:
TEI stands for Text Encoding Initiative
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/ , http://www.tei-c.org/), which is
by now a standard for Digital Humanities and a de facto standard for many
applications bordering on DH and Computer Science/NLP, such as e.g. text
corpus encoding. This is the same TEI that informed the development of
XLink and XPointer, as well as the current ISO XML format for feature
structure encoding (ISO 24610-1). You may think of it as an equivalent of
Docbook for the Humanities, although it's actually much more ("Docbook" is
one of the SF Data Format categories).

From project description: "The TEI is an international and
interdisciplinary standard used by libraries, museums, publishers, and
academics to represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts, using an
encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent."

There are now 16 SF projects returned by the search for "TEI". All/most of
them would probably want to use this category.

Thanks for considering this request.


Piotr Banski ( bansp ) - 2009-11-14 00:05

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Comments ( 2 )

Date: 2009-12-02 21:09
Sender: bansp

While there are good reasons to disregard arguments saying "because
Wikipedia says so", there may be reasons to give consideration to arguments
saying "Wikipedia has listed it since 2004". So, in case it may matter,
here's the entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative

Seeing no activity by Chris for quite a while, I'm tempted to reassign
this to Daniel-who-gets-stuff-done-Hinojosa. But I'm not sure if that
wouldn't mean breaching the local code of politeness, by adding to Daniel's
load without asking. Sigh.


Date: 2009-11-16 04:13
Sender: jcummings

I'd second this. TEI is one of the oldest continually used document formats
out there (over 20 years), has had 5 major versions (with currently
6-monthly maintenance releases), survived underlying changes from SGML to
XML, is used by thousands of resource-related projects worldwide, and has
always been open source (GPL and LGPL). In archiving communities it is
often used as an accepted format for long-term preservation, and several
funding bodies (such as the N.E.H. in the USA) specifically recommend it.

Having recently put a project on sourceforge 'tei-comparator' it is
obviously a category I'd support!

-James Cummings


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