From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Wed Sep 1 17:41:16 1999 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:21:13 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at University of Illinois at Chicago (1.8c)" To: Lou Burnard Subject: File: "TEIJ6 DOC" Dear Colleague, I would like to welcome you as a subscriber to the electronic discussion group, TEI-L, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an international project to establish guidelines for the encoding of machine-readable textual material for research; this discussion group has been set up in order to disseminate information about the TEI and to enable discussion of the TEI guidelines while they are under development. We hope that the TEI-L list will prove useful in providing information and encouraging discussion as the TEI progresses toward completion and formal publication of the TEI Guidelines For Text Encoding and Interchange. The steering committee of the TEI consists of representatives of the sponsoring organizations: the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ALLC), and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACL). The members are: Susan Armstrong-Warwick (ACL) Susan Hockey (ALLC, Current Chair) Nancy Ide (ACH) C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (ACH) Donald Walker (ACL) Antonio Zampolli (ALLC) The editors of the TEI guidelines are C.M. Sperberg-McQueen at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lou Burnard at Oxford University. The Steering Committee and editors are very interested in receiving your comments on the TEI, in particular, TEI P2, the second version of the TEI Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange. This is the final draft of the Guidelines that will be available for public comment. Obtaining the opinions of scholars in all areas of the humanities is crucial to the future use and understanding of the TEI Guidelines. We hope you will obtain a copy of the Guidelines (or of those chapters of particular interest to you), and offer us your observations. We anticipate that TEI P2 will be completed by July, 1993. Your comments will be most useful if they are received as soon as possible. Many of the most important chapters have been published in fascicles, and are available from the TEI-L fileserver. As additional chapters are published, they will be announced on TEI-L. Although many of you already may be familiar with TEI, the Steering Committee and editors have prepared several overviews of the entire project and of TEI P2. Information of a general nature on the TEI is included in documents TEI J16, "The ACH-ACL-ALLC Text Encoding Initiative: An Overview" or TEI J17, "The ACH-ACL-ALLC Text Encoding Initiative: A Brief Overview". Information on the content and availability of the second version of the TEI Guidelines is available in TEI J6, "A Note on the Structure and Contents of TEI P2" TEI EDJ8 "Obtaining the Electronic Version of TEI P2" TEI EDJ9 "Obtaining Paper Copies of TEI P2" These and other documents are now available as a package. To obtain the electronic versions of these documents with one command, send a note to LISTSERV@UICVM (or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU) with the message, "Get TEIIntro Package". These documents will be sent to you electronically. Additional TEI documents (working papers, TEI P1 DTDs, articles about TEI) are available from the TEI fileserver. The TEI filelist describes the current contents of the fileserver, and may be obtained by sending a note to LISTSERV@UICVM (or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU), "Index TEI-L." Arrangements have been made to distribute TEI files from England, Japan, and Germany as well. The means of obtaining these documents is included in TEI ED J8, "Obtaining the Electronic Version of the Guidelines." At the same time, we are interested in your planned or existing encoding projects. What types of texts are you encoding, and to what extent are you incorporating analytical tags? Does TEI P2 provide a useful framework for your projects? If so, how? If not, why not? Active discussion of these issues, on TEI-L and in individual comments to the Steering Committee and editors, will be of great value to the TEI. Thank you for your interest in the TEI. I hope you will contact me. Sincerely, Susan Hockey (ALLC), Chair, TEI Steering Committee Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 Hockey@Zodiac.rutgers.edu (+1 908) 932-1384 / fax (+1 908) 932-1386