Overview of Descriptive Markup and the TEI

Julia Flanders

2007-06-18

  1. Motives for text encoding
  2. What is Descriptive Markup? Why is it Important?
  3. Descriptive versus procedural markup
  4. Additional assumptions
  5. Advantages of descriptive markup
  6. Some complications
  7. Text Encoding is Never Simple
  8. What is the TEI?
  9. The TEI Guidelines
  10. Similar to a human language
  11. Areas of Usage
  12. Diagram of TEI Usage
  13. International Use of the TEI
  14. Translation of the TEI Guidelines
  15. The TEI needs your participation!
  16. P4 and P5
  17. P4 or P5?
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