3 Sep 2003
CS 6210: Module 4
20/24
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”
ˇ
ˇbetter interchange and integration of scholarly data
ˇsupport for all texts, in all languages, from all
periods
ˇguidance for the perplexed: what to encode ---
hence, a user-driven
codification of existing best practice
ˇassistance for the specialist: how 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