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TEI Libraries SIG Manifesto

2012-11-09T18:10:29Z

Harriett Green: /* Outline */

Here is our initial outline of a manifesto that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. We welcome all comments, edits, and suggested changes!

==Outline==

* Preamble
* Rationale for digitizing (in one sentence): why we make things digital … first principles. Reference CLIR docs.
* For different intended uses of content, different types of access mechanisms are needed.
* While mass digitization meets many common needs, it’s insufficient for certain purposes, such as:
** Things that don’t OCR (especially manuscripts and early printed works) and/or are illegible or hard to read in the page image
** Source documents that can’t be scanned because they’re too fragile
** Reference works where you want to be able to search on a headword
** ????

* For such things, we still need a non-proprietary format for representing a digital surrogate of the item that is designed for:
** long-term preservation
** data curation
** interchange

* And which will enable:
** visualization
** analysis

* For textual content, the obvious choice is TEI.
* TEI encoding can be scoped: you don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) use all of its features.
* Encoding is often outsourced, including through [http://www.tei-c.org/AccessTEI/ AccessTEI]. If your project calls for richer encoding, can enrich the outsourced data by doing the higher-level encoding in house.

TEI Libraries SIG Manifesto

2012-11-09T18:08:32Z

Harriett Green: /* Outline */

Here is our initial outline of a manifesto that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. We welcome all comments, edits, and suggested changes!

==Outline==

Preamble
* Rationale for digitizing (in one sentence): why we make things digital … first principles. Reference CLIR docs.
* For different intended uses of content, different types of access mechanisms are needed.
* While mass digitization meets many common needs, it’s insufficient for certain purposes, such as:
** Things that don’t OCR (especially manuscripts and early printed works) and/or are illegible or hard to read in the page image
** Source documents that can’t be scanned because they’re too fragile
** Reference works where you want to be able to search on a headword
** ????

* For such things, we still need a non-proprietary format for representing a digital surrogate of the item that is designed for:
** long-term preservation
** data curation
** interchange

and which will enable
** visualization
** analysis

* For textual content, the obvious choice is TEI.
* TEI encoding can be scoped: you don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) use all of its features.
* Encoding is often outsourced, including through AccessTEI. If your project calls for richer encoding, can enrich the outsourced data by doing the higher-level encoding in house.

TEI Libraries SIG Manifesto

2012-11-09T18:05:27Z

Harriett Green: /* Outline */

Here is our initial outline of a manifesto that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. We welcome all comments, edits, and suggested changes!

==Outline==

Preamble
Rationale for digitizing (in one sentence): why we make things digital … first principles. Reference CLIR docs.
For different intended uses of content, different types of access mechanisms are needed.
While mass digitization meets many common needs, it’s insufficient for certain purposes, such as:
Things that don’t OCR (especially manuscripts and early printed works) and/or are illegible or hard to read in the page image
Source documents that can’t be scanned because they’re too fragile
Reference works where you want to be able to search on a headword
????

For such things, we still need a non-proprietary format for representing a digital surrogate of the item that is designed for long-term preservation
data curation
interchange

and which will enable
::visualization
::analysis

For textual content, the obvious choice is TEI.
TEI encoding can be scoped: you don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) use all of its features.
Encoding is often outsourced, including through AccessTEI. If your project calls for richer encoding, can enrich the outsourced data by doing the higher-level encoding in house.

TEI Libraries SIG Manifesto

2012-11-09T18:01:39Z

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Here is our initial outline of a manifesto that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. We welcome all comments, edits, and suggested changes!

==Outline==

Preamble
Rationale for digitizing (in one sentence): why we make things digital … first principles. Reference CLIR docs.
For different intended uses of content, different types of access mechanisms are needed.
While mass digitization meets many common needs, it’s insufficient for certain purposes, such as:
Things that don’t OCR (especially manuscripts and early printed works) and/or are illegible or hard to read in the page image
Source documents that can’t be scanned because they’re too fragile
Reference works where you want to be able to search on a headword
????
For such things, we still need a non-proprietary format for representing a digital surrogate of the item that is designed for
long-term preservation
data curation
interchange

and which will enable

visualization
analysis

For textual content, the obvious choice is TEI.
TEI encoding can be scoped: you don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) use all of its features.
Encoding is often outsourced, including through AccessTEI. If your project calls for richer encoding, can enrich the outsourced data by doing the higher-level encoding in house.

SIG:Libraries

2012-11-09T17:58:44Z

Harriett Green: /* Documentation */

Convenors: Michelle Dalmau and Kevin Hawkins

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 [http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries].
* 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 [http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Libraries/index.xml TEI SIG on Libraries web page])

==Join the List==
* [https://iulist.indiana.edu/sympa/info/teilib-l Join the TEILIB-L] list to participate in discussions, post questions or just to stay informed.

==Meetings==
* [[Agendas and Meeting Minutes]]

==Working Groups==
* [[TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices Working Group]]

==Conference Events==
* [[DLF Spring 2009 Forum BoF Session]]
** [[DLF Spring 2009 Forum BoF Session Minutes]]

==Documentation==
* [[TEI Libraries SIG Manifesto]]
* [http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries] ("BP")
** [[Feedback on the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries ODD Documentation and Schemas]] (no longer active)
** [[Best Practices for TEI in Libraries|wiki page]] (no longer active)
** [[Talk:Best Practices for TEI in Libraries|notes on remaining development for BP]] (no longer active)
** [[BPG Feedback on Complete Draft]] (no longer active)
** [[BPG Revision 3 for Public Comment]] (no longer active)
** [[BPG Revision 3 Public Comment Feedback]] (no longer active)
** [[List of elements in P5 header module modified in ODDs for Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]] (no longer active)
** [[List of attributes suggested to include in BPG, and those excluded]] (no longer active)
** [[Future changes to Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]]
* [[Review of Tite Scheme]] (no longer active)

==Tools==
* [[Thutmose]]: development of this tool for converting from MARCXML to TEI has been sponsored by a grant from the SIG.

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