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Copyleft 2005 by Syd Bauman and the Brown University Women Writers Project.

 Given at the winter 2005 TEI Workshop 2005-02-26/27 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This talk is based heavily on the P5 talk Julia & I gave at Exploring Applications of the Text Encoding Initiative for Small Liberal Arts Colleges Workshop follow-up session 2005-01-21 at Wheaton College in Norton, MA (USA).

 Mon, 28 Feb 05 Syd Bauman workshop co-presenter Updates for use on TEI website Sat, 26 Feb 05 Syd Bauman author created, based on the Berkeley talk's TEI source file. TEI Guidelines P5 Syd Bauman 2005-02-27
Why P5?

The next release of the TEI Guidelines (P5) has three aims: taking advantage of the work done by others addressing areas as yet untamed cleaning up the accretions of a decade

Interoperability

A lot of other people have been working in this area since 1987

TEI P5 must fit into a joined-up digital world, along with W3C standards (XPointer, XInclude, xml:id, xml:lang) Unicode (ISO 10646) character encoding Specialized markup vocabularies (MathML, SVG, DocBook, etc.) Other metadata schemas (METS, EAD, etc.) Other conceptual models (CIDOC CRM)

Expansion

New areas that particular communities have requested, including manuscript description prosopographic information physical bibliography expanded discussion of solutions to overlapping hierarchies

Cleanup Some parts of TEI were successfully experimental (e.g., the extended pointer syntax, corpus metadata) … … but others were just experimental, and have been overtaken by events (e.g. writing system declaration, feature structures, terminology) Lots of other minor improvements to be made.
P5: what's new and different (1) Schemas Internal Structure and Documentation — ODD and customizations New Chapter on Manuscript Description Major Updates Character Sets & Language Identification Feature Structures & Feature Structure Declarations Terminological Databases Pointing
P5: what's new and different (2) Less Major Updates Dictionaries (?) Multiple Hierarchies Support for Graphics and Multimedia Support for Stand-off Markup Letters (ala DALF) (?) Prosopography (?) Physical Bibliography (collation, page description) War on Attributes
Backward Compatible — not! No P4 document will be valid against a P5 schema. Straightfoward conversion of document instances from P4 to P5 should be almost completely automatable. Converting tool chain will be much harder, although still pretty easy in many cases. Converting customizations will likely not be automatable at all. Taking advantage of new features involves thought.
P4 or P5?

Should you use P4 or P5? last year, P4 next year, P5 this year, it depends how adventurous you are

Cost of keeping up with P5 progress vs. cost of upgrading from P4 to P5.

P4 should be supported (bug fixes, pizza chef) for at least 5 years after P5 is out. Expertise may exist for even longer.

Where is P5?

On your CD!

P5 in the Public Eye P5 information page P5 (currently alpha pre-release) on Sourceforge Roma, the P5 version of the Pizza Chef Other TEI Links of Interest TEI Sourceforge page Sourceforge TEI page TEI P5 feature requests on Sourceforge