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The Preparation of Text Encoding Guidelines
Document Number: TEI PCP1
13 November 1987
CLOSING STATEMENT OF THE VASSAR PLANNING CONFERENCE
1. The guidelines are intended to provide a standard format for data
interchange in humanities research.
2. The guidelines are also intended to suggest principles for the
encoding of texts in the same format.
3. The guidelines should
a. define a recommended syntax for the format,
b. define a metalanguage for the description of text-encoding
schemes,
c. describe the new format and representative existing schemes
both in that metalanguage and in prose.
4. The guidelines should propose sets of coding conventions suited
for various applications.
5. The guidelines should include a minimal set of conventions for
encoding new texts in the format.
6. The guidelines are to be drafted by committees on
a. text documentation
b. text representation
c. text interpretation and analysis
d. metalanguage definition and description of existing and pro-
posed schemes,
coordinated by a steering committee of representatives of the
principal sponsoring organizations.
7. Compatibility with existing standards will be maintained as far as
possible.
8. A number of large text archives have agreed in principle to sup-
port the guidelines in their function as an interchange format.
We encourage funding agencies to support development of tools to
facilitate this interchange.
9. Conversion of existing machine-readable texts to the new format
involves the translation of their conventions into the syntax of
the new format. No requirements will be made for the addition of
information not already coded in the texts.
PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE
NOTE (15 Feb. 1991): some affiliations listed below are out of
date, as are many of the network addresses.
* Helen Aguera, National Endowment for the Humanities
* Robert A. Amsler, Bell Communications Research,
AMSLER@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM
* David T. Barnard, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario,
BARNARD@QUCIS
* Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Service,
LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
* Roy Byrd, IBM Research, BYRD@YKTVMH
* Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale C.N.R.,
GLOTTOLO@ICNUCEVM
* David Chesnutt, University of South Carolina, N330004@UNIVSCVM
(Association for Documentary Editing, American Historical Associa-
tion)
* Yaacov Choueka, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel,
CHOUEKA@BIMACS
* Jacques Dendien, Institut National de la Langue Francaise,
DENDIEN@FRCIIL71
* Paul A. Fortier, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
FORTIER@UOFMCC
* Thomas Hickey, Consulting Research Scientist, OCLC Online Computer
Library Center, TH@OCLCRSUN
* Susan Hockey, Oxford University Computing Service,
SUSAN@OX.VAX.AC.UK (Association for Literary and Linguistic Comput-
ing)
* Nancy M. Ide, Vassar College, IDE@VASSAR (Association for Computers
and the Humanities)
* Stig Johansson, University of Oslo,
H_JOHANSSON%USE.UIO.UNINETT@CERNVAX
* Randall Jones, Brigham Young University, JONES@BYUADMIN (Modern Lan-
guage Association)
* Robert Kraft, University of Pennsylvania, KRAFT@PENNDRLN
* Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto, IAN@UTOREPAS
* D. Terence Langendoen, City University of New York, TERGC@CUNYVM
(Linguistic Society of America)
* Charles (Jack) Meyers, National Endowment for the Humanities,
* Junichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan,
NAKAMURA%NAGAO4.KUEE.KYOTO-U.JUNET%UTOKYO-RELAY.CSNET@RELAY.CS.NET
* Wilhelm Ott, Universitaet Tuebingen, ZRSZOT1@DTUZDV2
* Eugenio Picchi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale C.N.R.,
GLOTTOLO@ICNUCEVM
* Carol Risher, Association of American Publishers, Inc., (Association
of American Publishers)
* Jane Rosenberg, National Endowment for the Humanities,
* Jean Schumacher, CETEDOC
* J. Penny Small, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Ameri-
can Philological Association)
* C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago,
U35395@UICVM
* Paul Tombeur, Director, CETEDOC, THOMDOC@BUCLLN11
* Frank Tompa (New OED Project, Waterloo), Bell Communications
Research, TOMPA@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM
* Donald E. Walker, Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jer-
sey 07960-1961, USA, WALKER@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Association for Com-
putational Linguistics)
* Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale C.N.R.,
GLOTTOLO@ICNUCEVM