TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices Working Group
Background
In April 2008, a joint meeting between the Digital Library Federation (DLF) TEI Task Force and TEI in Libraries SIG was held as part of the DLF Spring Forum in Minneapolis. One of the main points of discussion was the necessary revision of the TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices (GBP) to reflect general conformance and any changes brought about by the TEI P5 release.
The Guidelines were originally authored by members of the DLF TEI Task Force, but they will fall under the TEI in Libraries SIG purview moving forward. One of our many goals in revising the guidelines is to have official bodies of the TEI-C review and approve the Guidelines for linking to the TEI-C web site for greater exposure.
To further the revision work, a working group has been established to address the various the main components of the GBP: TEI Header and levels 1-5. The revision work entails:
- updating the narrative
- finding TEI P5 examples for each level.
If you are interested, please contact Matt Gibson, Kevin Hawkins or Michelle Dalmau for additional information and to get you signed up!
Working Group Members
- Editors: Matt Gibson
- Consultant for all levels: Syd Bauman
- Level 1: Fully Automated Conversion and Encoding (Lisa McAulay)
- Level 2: Minimal Encoding (Lisa McAulay and Richard Wisneski)
- Level 3: Simple Analysis (Michelle Dalmau)
- Level 4: Basic Content Analysis (Natasha Smith and Linda Cantara)
- Level 5: Scholarly Encoding (Natasha Smith and Linda Cantara)
- TEI Header (Kevin Hawkins and Melanie Schlosser)
Working Documents
- TEI in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Practices (Under revision)
