[Corpora-List] Is the TEI a waste of time?

[Burnard Towers]

That, at least, is a very easy question to answer: CES and XCES are *not*
competitors of TEI -- they are applications of the TEI!
It is a common mistake to think that the TEI is just one monolithic scheme.
On the contrary, it is an environment designed to support the development of
many schemes, with enough in common to facilitate interchange, and enough
flexibility to facilitate growth.

CES/XCES were developed by selecting from the TEI "menu" and making a few
modifications considered appropriate by their authors. A similar exercise
was carried out for the Parole standards a few years previously. CES was
also very strongly influenced by the BNC scheme which was developed even
earlier, and in parallel with the TEI. The most recent version of the BNC
documentation contains a chapter spelling out in gruesome detail how a TEI
conformant DTD can be used to process the BNC, and similar documentation is
available from the CES.

Lou Burnard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]On
> Behalf Of Oliver Christ
> Sent: 01 July 2003 11:27
> To: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: RE: [Corpora-List] Is the TEI a waste of time?
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> Hi,
>
> I find this discussion very interesting, but would like to learn
> more about
> what those who are more familiar with the topic than I am have to
> say about
> TEI's "competitors", e.g. CES/XCES (http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/ and
> http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES/).
>
> Cheers, Oli
>

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