TEI Libraries SIG Manifesto - Revision history

Kshawkin: /* Suggestions */ typo

2015-04-13T13:32:02Z

‎Suggestions: typo

Kshawkin: link to TEI-C homepage

2014-11-19T15:13:20Z

link to TEI-C homepage

Kshawkin: link to SIG:Libraries

2014-11-19T15:04:01Z

link to SIG:Libraries

Kshawkin: /* Draft */ some editing to take into account Lisa's addition to the outline

2013-07-22T01:23:10Z

‎Draft: some editing to take into account Lisa's addition to the outline

Emcaulay: /* Outline */

2013-07-05T19:13:40Z

‎Outline

Stuartyeates: /* Suggestions */

2013-02-14T22:05:34Z

‎Suggestions

Kshawkin: /* Draft */ copyedits from Stephen Yearl

2013-02-12T16:11:49Z

‎Draft: copyedits from Stephen Yearl

Kshawkin: /* Draft */ copyediting

2013-02-12T03:50:08Z

‎Draft: copyediting

Kshawkin: /* Draft */ typo

2013-01-19T15:40:08Z

‎Draft: typo

Kshawkin: Harriett's suggestions, plus some further rewording

2013-01-10T03:35:02Z

Harriett's suggestions, plus some further rewording

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 #You may want to also include argument some library administrators make that TEI work is best left to digital humanities departments, not libraries. We hired a new library director two years ago, who has made this argument. Our TEI work and instruction in the library has since been suspended (R. Wisneski, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH)
 #: Yes, good point.  Need to discuss how the most successful DH centers have institutional ties to libraries and how DH people have long praised the early involvement of librarians in projects. ([[User:Kshawkin|Kshawkin]] 22:08, 29 December 2012 (EST))
-#A list of libraries that already use TEI, with pointers to the sites they use it for and/od documentation of why they picked TEI. [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] 17:05, 14 February 2013 (EST)
+#A list of libraries that already use TEI, with pointers to the sites they use it for and/or documentation of why they picked TEI. [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] 17:05, 14 February 2013 (EST)
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−	Here is our draft of a "manifesto" that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. The [[SIG:Libraries\|SIG on Libraries]] welcomes all comments, edits, and suggested changes!	+	Here is our draft of a "manifesto" that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting [http://www.tei-c.org/ TEI]. The [[SIG:Libraries\|SIG on Libraries]] welcomes all comments, edits, and suggested changes!

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−	Here is our draft of a "manifesto" that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. ~~We welcome~~ all comments, edits, and suggested changes!	+	Here is our draft of a "manifesto" that states rationales that library administration leaders should consider for supporting TEI. The [[SIG:Libraries\|SIG on Libraries]] welcomes all comments, edits, and suggested changes!

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 For such documents, there is still value for preservation and for support of scholarly research in transcription and analytic encoding of the text of a document. Such work need not be done manually or even in house at all; instead, this work is often outsourced to vendors, who encode to a specification,<ref>TEI member institutions have access to a discount rate on encoding through the [http://www.tei-c.org/accesstei/ AccessTEI] program.</ref> while quality assurance and sometimes more detailed encoding are done in a library or institution under the direction of a scholar.
-The standard format used by scholars and supported by funding agencies is TEI. While the TEI Guidelines are exhaustive in coverage, users are meant to choose a subset of features for a particular need. The <cite>[http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]</cite> has provided an indispensable and concise guide for common library applications of TEI. The <cite>Best Practices</cite> offers a clear path for libraries to transcribe and apply TEI encoding to documents held by the library, and the TEI's SIG on Libraries provides a venue for sharing initiatives, methodologies, and workflows in order to strengthen the use of TEI in libraries, and to help promote libraries' support of TEI at their institution.
+The standard format used by scholars and supported by funding agencies is TEI. While the TEI Guidelines are exhaustive in coverage, users are meant to choose a subset of features for a particular need. The <cite>[http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]</cite> provides an indispensable and concise guide for common library applications of TEI, offering a clear path for libraries to create extensible, repurposable digital surrogates of items in a library's collections, transcribed and tagged to an appropriate level of detail. The TEI's SIG on Libraries provides a venue for sharing initiatives, methodologies, and workflows in order to strengthen the use of TEI in libraries, and to help promote libraries' support of TEI at their institution.
 TEI text encoding is often carried out in digital humanities centers, though the leading DH centers have strong ties to libraries, and DH practitioners have long proclaimed the importance of having librarians involved in their projects.

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 * For textual content (but not data sets or purely tabular data published in print), 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.
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 #: Yes, good point.  Need to discuss how the most successful DH centers have institutional ties to libraries and how DH people have long praised the early involvement of librarians in projects. ([[User:Kshawkin|Kshawkin]] 22:08, 29 December 2012 (EST))
 #A list of libraries that already use TEI, with pointers to the sites they use it for and/od documentation of why they picked TEI. [[User:Stuartyeates|Stuartyeates]] 17:05, 14 February 2013 (EST)
 [[Category:SIG:Libraries]]

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-Libraries have long digitized analog materials in order to provide greater access to the content<ref>http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract//reports/pub80-smith</ref> and increasingly also to preserve and enrich these materials. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) <cite>Guidelines</cite>,<ref>http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/</ref> developed by scholars and libraries and first published in 1994, have long provided a standard, non-proprietary format for digitizing textual documents that promotes preservation of these documents and their reuse in the future. Libraries have used the TEI <cite>Guidelines</cite> from its earliest incarnation, yet advances in digital technologies have made scanning and the application of optical character recognition (OCR) on page images the preferred means of mass digitization.
+Libraries have long digitized analog materials in order to provide greater access to the content<ref>http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract//reports/pub80-smith</ref> and increasingly also to preserve and enrich these materials. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) <cite>Guidelines</cite>,<ref>http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/</ref> developed by scholars and libraries and first published in 1994, provides a standard, non-proprietary format for enhancing digitized textual documents that promotes preservation and future reuse. Libraries have used the TEI <cite>Guidelines</cite> from its earliest incarnation, yet advances in digital technologies have made scanning and the application of optical character recognition (OCR) on page images the preferred means of mass digitization.
-Still, scanning and OCR are not the right tools for all types of documents and for all scholarly uses of the content. For example:
+Scanning and OCR are not the right tools for all types of documents, nor for all scholarly uses of the content. For example:
-* Some source documents are too fragile for even overhead (planetary) scanners.
+* Some source documents are too fragile even for overhead (planetary) scanners.
-* OCR technology works best on modern printed documents but is not yet capable of deciphering documents illegible because of faded ink, typeface bleeding, obscure fonts, and nearly all handwriting.
+* OCR technology works best on modern printed documents but is not yet capable of deciphering documents rendered illegible because of faded ink, typeface bleeding, obscure fonts, and nearly all handwriting.
-* Full-text searching of OCR text and even n-gram browsers are insufficient for searching reference works by headword, for navigating canonical works by chapter and verse, for searching for phrases in multi-column documents, and for supporting fine-grained searching, analysis, and visualization of texts.
+* Full-text searching of OCR text and even n-gram browsers are insufficient for searching reference works by headword, for navigating canonical works by chapter and verse, for phrasal searching in multi-column documents, and for supporting fine-grained searching, analysis, and visualization of texts.
-For such documents, there is still value for preservation and for support of scholarly research in transcription and encoding of the text of a document. Such work need not be done manually or even in house at all; instead, this work is often outsourced to vendors, who encode to a specification,<ref>TEI member institutions have access to a discount rate on encoding through the [http://www.tei-c.org/accesstei/ AccessTEI] program.</ref> while quality assurance and sometimes more detailed encoding are done in a library or institution or under the direction of a scholar.
+For such documents, there is still value for preservation and for support of scholarly research in transcription and analytic encoding of the text of a document. Such work need not be done manually or even in house at all; instead, this work is often outsourced to vendors, who encode to a specification,<ref>TEI member institutions have access to a discount rate on encoding through the [http://www.tei-c.org/accesstei/ AccessTEI] program.</ref> while quality assurance and sometimes more detailed encoding are done in a library or institution under the direction of a scholar.
-The standard format used by scholars and supported by funding agencies is TEI. While the TEI Guidelines are exhaustive in coverage, users are meant to choose a subset of features for a particular need. As such, the <cite>[http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]</cite> has provided an indispensable and concise guide for common library applications of TEI. The <cite>Best Practices</cite> offers a clear path for libraries to transcribe and apply TEI encoding to documents held by the library, and the TEI's SIG on Libraries provides a venue for sharing initiatives, methodologies, and workflows in order to strengthen the use of TEI in libraries and libraries' support of TEI at their institution.
+The standard format used by scholars and supported by funding agencies is TEI. While the TEI Guidelines are exhaustive in coverage, users are meant to choose a subset of features for a particular need. The <cite>[http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]</cite> has provided an indispensable and concise guide for common library applications of TEI. The <cite>Best Practices</cite> offers a clear path for libraries to transcribe and apply TEI encoding to documents held by the library, and the TEI's SIG on Libraries provides a venue for sharing initiatives, methodologies, and workflows in order to strengthen the use of TEI in libraries, and to help promote libraries' support of TEI at their institution.
 TEI text encoding is often carried out in digital humanities centers, though the leading DH centers have strong ties to libraries, and DH practitioners have long proclaimed the importance of having librarians involved in their projects.

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-Libraries have long digitized analog content in order to provide greater access to the content<ref>http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract//reports/pub80-smith</ref> and increasingly also to preserve it. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines,<ref>http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/</ref> developed by scholars and libraries and first published in 1994, have long provided a standard, non-proprietary format for digitizing textual documents that promotes long-term reuse and preservation of content. Libraries have used the TEI Guidelines from the start, yet advances in computing have led to scanning and OCR of page images becoming the preferred means of mass digitization.
+Libraries have long digitized analog materials in order to provide greater access to the content<ref>http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract//reports/pub80-smith</ref> and increasingly also to preserve and enrich these materials. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines,<ref>http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/</ref> developed by scholars and libraries and first published in 1994, have long provided a standard, non-proprietary format for digitizing textual documents that promotes preservation of these documents and their reuse in the future. Libraries have used the TEI Guidelines from its earliest incarnation, yet advances in digital technologies have made scanning and the application of optical character recognition (OCR) on page images the preferred means of mass digitization.
 Still, scanning and OCR are not the right tools for all types of documents and for all scholarly uses of the content. For example:
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 * Full-text searching of OCR text and even n-gram browsers are insufficient for searching reference works by headword, for navigating canonical works by chapter and verse, for searching for phrases in multi-column documents, and for supporting fine-grained searching, analysis, and visualization of texts.
-For such documents, there is still value for preservation and use in a transcription and encoding of the text of a document. Such work is rarely done manually or even in house at all; instead, this work is outsourced to vendors, who encode to a specification,<ref>TEI member institutions have access to a discount rate on encoding through the [http://www.tei-c.org/accesstei/ AccessTEI] program.</ref> with quality assurance and sometimes more detailed encoding done at an institution or by scholars.
+For such documents, there is still value for preservation and for support of scholarly research in transcription and encoding of the text of a document. Such work need not be done manually or even in house at all; instead, this work is often outsourced to vendors, who encode to a specification,<ref>TEI member institutions have access to a discount rate on encoding through the [http://www.tei-c.org/accesstei/ AccessTEI] program.</ref>, while quality assurance and sometimes more detailed encoding are done in a library or institution or under the direction of a scholar.
-The standard format used by scholars and supported by funding agencies is TEI. While the TEI Guidelines are exhaustive in coverage, users are meant to choose a subset of features for a particular need; the <cite>[http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]</cite> has done just this for common library applications.
+The standard format used by scholars and supported by funding agencies is TEI. While the TEI Guidelines are exhaustive in coverage, users are meant to choose a subset of features for a particular need. As such, the <cite>[http://purl.oclc.org/NET/teiinlibraries Best Practices for TEI in Libraries]</cite> has provided an indispensable and concise guide for common library applications of TEI. The <cite>Best Practices</cite> offers a clear path for libraries to transcribe and apply TEI encoding to documents held by the library, and the TEI's SIG on Libraries provides a venue for sharing initiatives, methodologies, and workflows in order to strengthen the use of TEI in libraries and libraries' support of TEI at their institution.
 TEI text encoding is often carried out in digital humanities centers, though the leading DH centers have strong ties to libraries, and DH practitioners have long proclaimed the importance of having librarians involved in their projects.
 ===References===