SIG:Libraries

Convenors: Perry Willett and Michelle Dalmau (2007)

The goal of the TEI Special Interest Group on Libraries is to discuss topics regarding the use of TEI in libraries, including the creation of guidelines and best practices that encourage the consistent and predictable encoding of TEI documents. Greater consistency and predictability will facilitate the interchange of documents, interoperability of systems, and the creation of standard tools for libraries to use in the creation and publication of TEI documents.

It will do this by:
 * Updating and improving the current TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices, available at http://www.diglib.org/standards/tei.htm.
 * Creation of standard XSL style sheets for use.
 * Exploring the use of other metadata standards commonly in use in libraries, such as METS, MODS, EAD, MARC, in conjunction with TEI documents
 * Guides to implementing TEI collections that follow the best practices guidelines, using open source digital library software such as Greenstone.
 * Other items as they occur to us.

(from TEI in Libraries SIG web page)

Meetings

 * conference call of members of the April 2008 group
 * Agenda for September 30, 2008
 * Minutes from September 30, 2008
 * TEI in Libraries Joint Meeting with DLF and SIG, April 28, 2008
 * Registration
 * Invitation and Agenda
 * Minutes from April 28, 2008
 * TEI Members' Meeting, Libraires SIG, November 3, 2007
 * Agenda for November 3, 2007
 * Minutes from November 3, 2007

Working Groups

 * Best Practices Revision
 * Level 1 (Lisa McAulay)
 * Level 2 (Lisa McAulay)
 * Level 3 (Michelle Dalmau)
 * Level 4 (Natasha Smith)
 * Level 5 (Natasha Smith)
 * TEI Header (Kevin Hawkins and Melanie Schlosser)
 * Issues with Conformance

Documentation

 * TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices (Currently a DLF Working Group Effort)
 * Syd Bauman's comments on Guidelines (from Mar. 22 2006)
 * TEI Header (Work in progress)
 * Review of Levels for Best Practices
 * TEI Tite (Issues under investigation)