17 Aug 2004
CS 5244: Multimedia
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Text
Encoding
Initiative
Initiative
To encode knowledge “of
literary
and linguistic texts for online
research and teaching”
and linguistic texts for online
research and teaching”
ˇbetter interchange and integration of scholarly data
ˇsupport for all texts, in all languages, from all
periods
ˇguidance for the perplexed: ___ to encode ---
hence, a user-driven codification
of existing best practice
ˇassistance for the specialist: ___ to encode --- hence, a loose framework into which unpredictable extensions can be fitted
The “beef” in XML. All the
semantics and none of the filling. It’s quite filling, weighing in at 600 K words! (Think 8
kg of books)
- From the TEI Pizza talk
