Via:      UK.AC.OX.VAX; 15 OCT 89 18:36:24 BST
Date:     Sun, 15 Oct 89  18:36 BST
From:     Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
To:       U35395@UICVM
Subject:  Its That
 
How's this for combination of your talk with mine? You wont like the
tags in this one either. There's only three: <H> for major title
<LI> for second level and <SLI> for third level. There may also be
a page throw (aargh) in between overheads.
---------------------------------------------------:
Aunt Sally says, ok now what about all the other grouses? (grice?)
[cant say I like the implicatures of *that* plural]
 
time for tea
 
Lou
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<H>Which `Text Processing Community'?
 
<LI>researchers
 
<LI>publishers and industry
 
<LI>software developers
 
<LI>data archivists
 
<LI>funding agencies
<H>What is the TEI?
 
<LI>Sponsoring bodies
<SLI>Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
<SLI>Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
<SLI>Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
 
<H>Funding & institutional support
<SLI>Commission of the European Communities
<SLI>Mellon Foundation
<SLI>(US) National Endowment for Humanities
 
<SLI>BELLCORE
<SLI>University of Illinois at Chicago
<SLI>University of Oxford
<SLI>Universita da Pisa
<SLI>Vassar College
 
<H> History
<SLI>Nov 1987: Vassar Conference
<SLI>Feb 1989: Advisory Board met
<SLI>March 1989: Committees constituted
<SLI>June 1989: First public meeting
 
<SLI>June 1990: Draft Guidelines
<SLI>June 1991: Interim Draft
<SLI>June 1992: Published Guidelines
 
 
<H> Structure
    Steering Committee
    Four working committees
    Two Editors
    Advisory Board
    Affiliated Projects
 
<H> Advisory Board
<SLI>American Anthropological Association
<SLI>American Historical Association
<SLI>American Philological Association
<SLI>American Philosophical Association
<SLI>American Society for Information Science
<SLI>ACM SIG for Information Retrieval
<SLI>Association for Documentary Editing
<SLI>Association for History and Computing
<SLI>Association Internationale Bible et Informatique
<SLI>Canadian Linguistic Association
<SLI>Dictionary Society of North America
<SLI>Electronic Publishing SIG
<SLI>International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
<SLI>Linguistic Society of North America
<SLI>Modern Language Association
 
<H>Working Committees
<SLI>Text Documentation
<SLI>Text Representation
<SLI>Text Analysis and Interpretation
<SLI>Syntax and Metalanguage
 
<H>Affiliated Projects
<LI>Will be of major importance during second cycle
<LI>Currently affiliated
<SLI>Tudor Text Base (Otago, Toronto)
<SLI>Project Perseus (Harvard)
<SLI>Women Writers Project (Brown)
<SLI>ACL Data Collection Initiative
<SLI>ARTFL (Chicago, Nancy)
<SLI>Milton Database (Oxford, Ohio, Bangor)
<SLI>Bilingual Dictionary project (Vassar, Marseilles)
<H>Text Documentation Committee
<LI>(chair M. Sperberg-McQueen, Univ Illinois at Chicago)
<SLI>Library and archive management expertise
<SLI>Cataloguing and documentation of encoded texts
<SLI>Build on existing schemes e.g. ISBD, SSD...
 
<H>Text Representation
<LI>(chair S. Johansson, Univ Oslo)
<SLI>Expertise in analysis of continuous texts
<SLI>Tagsets for structural features of running texts for which typographic or
written conventions already exist.
<SLI>Electronic representations of existing printed & ms conventions
<SLI>Working Groups: language and character sets, genre specific tags, core
structural tags
 
<H>Text Analysis and Interpretation
<LI>(chair T. Langendoen, Univ Arizona)
<SLI>Discipline-specific analytic tag-sets
<SLI>Initial focus on linguistic issues
<SLI>Working Groups: dictionaries; phonology; morphology; syntax
 
<H>Syntax and Metalanguage
<LI>(chair D. Barnard, Queens Univ, Ontario)
<SLI>Expertise in formal language theory and SGML
<SLI>SGML conformance issues including subset recommendations
<SLI>DTD creation
<SLI>Description and transduction of other encoding schemes
<SLI>Extensive bibliography
 
 
<H>The `Poughkeepsie Principles'
 
<LI>The TEI Guidelines should...
 
<SLI>specify a common interchange format for machine readable texts
 
<SLI>provide a set of recommendations for encoding new textual materials
 
<SLI>document the major existing encoding schemes, and investigate the
feasibility of developing a metalanguage in which to describe them
 
<SLI>be a set of guidelines, not a set of rigid requirements.
 
<SLI>be extensible
 
<SLI>be device- and software-independent
 
<SLI>be language-independent
 
<SLI>be application-independent
 
 
<H>Compromises needed...
 
<LI>between needs of lone researcher and well-resourced complex projects
 
<LI>between formal rigour and ease of use
 
<LI>between standardising how and standardising what
 
<H>General Markup Problems
 
<LI>Agreeing a common vocabulary
 
<LI>Giving parity to overlapping views
 
<LI>Are textual views application-independent?
 
<H>Specific SGML Problems
 
<LI>need to describe both rendering and possible many structural
interpretations of it
 
<LI>multiple hierarchies are the rule not the exception
 
<LI>descriptive markup assumes you know what you are describing
 
<LI>need to validate DTD against document at least as often as vice versa
 
<H>Sources of theoretical discontent
 
<LI>attributes vs. embedded elements
 
<LI>when is subordination semantically significant?
 
 
<H>Sources of practical concern
 
<LI>Lack of software
 
<LI>Most existing applications are in one area only
 
<LI>Previous efforts (e.g. AAP) signally unsuccessful
 
<LI>Lack of public awareness
 
<H>Why should industry bother?
 
<LI>Taking SGML into previously unswept corners
 
<LI>Foregrounds separation of text from paper
 
<LI>Problems are independent of application
 
<SLI>version control MLE variorum
<SLI>subject indexing MLE allusion
<SLI>different PDL models MLE polytheoretic models
<H>Why should the language industries bother?
 
<LI>centrality of lexical resources
 
<LI>need to engage with realistically scaled projects
 
<LI>centrality of linguistic issues to markup
 
<H>Why should researchers bother?
 
<LI>what is scholarly about DTP?
 
<LI>economics of co-operation
 
<LI>markup as a branch of hermeneutics
 
<H>For more information...
 
<LI>TEI-L@UICVM.EARN