BLIPS15@BROWNVM.BITNET (Howard Pasternack) (08/10/90)
Original-posting-by: BLIPS15@BROWNVM.BITNET (Howard Pasternack) Original-subject: Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) [Reposted to comp.text from the newsgroup(s) bit.listserv.pacs-l.] ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This information was originally posted to HUMANIST@BROWNVM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0371. Tuesday, 7 Aug 1990. Date: 7 August 1990 17:18:07 CDT From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" <U35395@UICVM> Subject: Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines available **** TEI DRAFT 1.0 PUBLISHED **** The Steering Committee of the ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative is happy to announce that its first draft Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine Readable Texts are now available. The Text Encoding Initiative, which is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, has prepared these Guidelines over the past two years and will test and revise them during the next two years. The Guidelines take the form of a 300-page report containing: * a description of the TEI project * a gentle introduction to SGML * recommendations concerning the representation of divers character sets for interchange purposes * proposals for a standard `electronic titlepage' * tagsets for features common to most text types * tagsets for features of some specific text types * tagsets for representing detailed linguistic analyses * recommendations for ways of extending the guidelines * examples and SGML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) Parts of the Guidelines were presented in preliminary form earlier this year at the annual conferences of the ALLC/ACH and the ACL in Siegen (Germany) and Pittsburgh (USA) respectively. This is however the first full publication of the Guidelines, and marks the end of the first phase of the TEI's work. The second phase, which will continue until June 1992, will be marked (it is hoped) by extensive public discussion of the initial proposals set out in this first public draft, which we expect to distribute as widely as possible. At least one, and probably two, interim drafts are likely before the final version of the Guidelines is published in 1992: we expect to change a lot of what is in the current version, and to add even more. What goes in, and what gets changed, will be determined to a very large extent by the feedback that this draft provokes. The four working committees of the TEI have taken a year to formulate the proposals it contains: no one associated with the project is however so immodest as to believe that our current draft provides an answer for every text encoding problem. However, we believe that it does provide a set of basic notions and a viable framework, within which, with your help, the real work is now about to begin. The present draft is available on request from the following addresses: (in Europe) Lou Burnard, OUCS, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6NN fax +44 (865) 273275 email LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK (in North America) C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Computer Center (M/C 135), University of Illinois at Chicago, Box 6998, Chicago IL 60680 fax +1 (312) 996-6834 email U35395@UICVM (Bitnet) or U35395@uicvm.cc.uic.edu (Internet) There is no charge for the first copy sent to any one address. Further copies will be charged at 15 pounds or $30, payable in advance, by cheque / check to the appropriate institution (OUCS or UIC). Redistribution of the draft is encouraged, provided that it is reproduced in full with due acknowledgment and not sold for profit. For more information and news of all TEI activities, subscribe to TEI-L@UICVM, by sending a note containing only the single line SUB TEI-L Your Name to LISTSERV@UICVM on BITNET or listserv@uicvm.cc.uic.edu on internet. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago