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{\large TEI Syntax and Metalanguage Committee\\
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Statement of Work}\\
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Document Number: TEI MLW11\\
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February 1990
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This Committee has responsibilities in two areas.
 
The first is the establishment of guidelines for the other committees with
respect to the formalism to be used in generating and specifying the encoding
scheme that will be the result of the Text Encoding Initiative. The default
assumption as the Committee begins its task is that the formalism to be used
will be the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The expected results
of this part of the work are:
\begin{itemize}
\item an endorsement of SGML as the basis for the TEI,
\item an indication of how SGML is to be used and what features are to be
avoided, and
\item an indication of whatever extensions or conventions are necessary to
encode aspects of the TEI that are not explicitly handled by SGML; it is hoped
that these will be few and minor.
\end{itemize}
 
The second area of responsibility is the development of examples of
translations between the scheme developed by the TEI and existing ``important''
text encoding schemes. Schemes to be dealt with will be chosen on the basis of
their importance to language industries or to research and scholarship (as
indicated by breadth of use) and the diversity of the techniques needed to
accomplish the translation. The expected results of this part of the work are:
\begin{itemize}
\item a categorization of existing encoding schemes, with an indication of
those representative schemes to be used as examples,
\item an identification of a descriptive technique (or descriptive techniques)
to be used in specifying the translations,
\item for each of the examples, a description of the translation from the TEI
scheme to the target scheme, and a description of the translation from the
target scheme to the TEI scheme, and
\item for at least some of the most important examples, a working
implementation of the translations.
\end{itemize}
 
The mappings between the TEI scheme and other schemes should have the following
properties.
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\item Mappings from some other scheme to the TEI scheme should be accomplished
without loss of information from the encoding, for all features in the source
for which a corresponding feature exists in the TEI scheme.
\item Mappings from the TEI scheme to other schemes are expected, in general,
to lose information because we expect the TEI scheme to be a rich one that
includes features not present in the target scheme. These mappings will be
restrictions or filterings.
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