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At 09:09 AM 6/26/2003 -0400, you wrote:<br><br>
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Related to both of these issues is that of the documentation
available<br>
to educate people & help potential users understand what TEI is,
does,<br>
& is good for. A research assistant & I have recently been poring
over a<br><br>
couple chapters of the TEI guidelines, looking for guidelines &
relevant<br>
examples to add some markup to our already (mostly) TEI-conformant<br>
corpus<br>
markup scheme. Although the documentation is extensive, it is
inadequate<br><br>
in many ways, missing examples, not very good at giving a larger
picture<br>
to people who aren't sure if they need/want the TEI at all or who
just<br>
need<br>
some pointers to a few relevant sections. If the only people who
can<br>
read the documentation and make use of it are information/library<br>
science<br>
people who are specifically trained in that area, then it's no wonder
<br>
linguists & others who are in the business of building corpora are
not <br>
using it or promoting it. <br>
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Besides the various guides/tutorials linked off the "Teach Yourself
TEI" page at
<a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Tutorials/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.tei-c.org/Tutorials/index.html</a>
(although the best single introduction in my opinion is still "TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange" at <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/">http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/ </a>) I notice "TEI for Text Corpora", a comprehensive set of presentations given by Lou Burnard at the ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication 2001, these are available at <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Talks/ESS2001/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.tei-c.org/Talks/ESS2001/index.html</a> <br><br>
Indeed everything TEI-wise is available somewhere on the TEI site at <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.tei-c.org/</a> and what is not there is easily to be found with an email to the TEI-L list. I must also add that the TEI community is one of the most helpful I have ever met and emails are answered both rapidly and in depth. There is a considerable pool of expertise out there which can be easily accessed.<br>
Stephen Miller<br><br>
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