jbarnes@bgsuvax.UUCP (Julie Barnes) (09/13/90)
In article <BLARSEN.90Sep12090821@spider.uio.no>, blarsen@spider.uio.no (Bjorn Larsen) writes: > > In article <BZS.90Sep11225016@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: > > Anyways, what is the 'Text Encoding Initiative', and what are their > 'conventions'? > > -- > Bjorn Larsen University of Oslo, Norway > Bjorn.Larsen@usit.uio.no The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a project that is surveying current encoding schemes for electronic documents and proposing guidelines for encoding and exchanging texts. It is/was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and was proposed by the Association for Computers and Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for literary and Linguistic Computing It seems that documents encoded for linguistic and humanities research come in a plethora of electronic-encoding schemes and it would be nice if things could be simplified. One objective of the TEI people was to develop a meta-language to describe current encoding schemes. They investigated the use of SGML for this purpose. I recall an announcement of publications by the TEI people a couple of months ago. It may have been on comp.text. Julie